Website design

Website design for South African small businesses

We design and build your business website for you on one of our six templates, in your colours and with your logo, as part of a monthly plan from R299 instead of a once-off design fee.

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What your website includes

Website creation is done for you. You tell us about your business, and we build every page from it:

  • A home page, a page for every service you offer, an About page and a Contact page with an enquiry form.
  • A POPIA privacy page, and your own documents, such as terms or a PAIA manual, as pages linked from the footer.
  • Call and WhatsApp buttons on every page, with WhatsApp wherever your business uses it.
  • Your online booking link as the main button, if you take bookings through an online diary.
  • A gallery of your own photos, resized so they load quickly on a phone.

Town pages are built only when you give us real local detail for each town: at least 250 words that are not repeated from another town's page. Pages that only swap the town name are what Google calls doorway pages, and they break its spam policies, so we do not make them.

Six templates, each with its own design

Every site starts from one of our templates, so it is proven to work before your details go in. Each one has its own header, buttons, photo shapes and section layouts, and each is a complete live demo you can open on your phone.

  • Harbour. Organic: soft blob shapes, rounded photos and floating dots. Friendly and established.
  • Ember. Angled: diagonal cuts, offset photo frames and condensed type. Industrial and strong.
  • Meadow. Curve: a full-colour hero with a curved edge, sun discs and icon cards. Bright and cheerful.
  • Horizon. Aurora: soft gradient light, photos rising out of their frames, gradient numbers. Calm and premium.
  • Concept. Swoosh: heavy capitals, a bold colour swoosh and edge-cut photos. Bold and urgent.
  • Lumen. White hero with your portrait on a colour panel, a large statement and numbered service cards. Practices, clinics and any business fronted by a person.

You choose the template and your colours when you sign up, and we set it up with your logo. We do not build one-off custom designs: keeping to the templates is what lets us keep every page fast and every site up to date for one monthly price. See the templates in different trades.

Written from your real details

We write your pages from what you tell us, your current website and your public records, in plain South African English. We never invent reviews, registration numbers, years in business or claims. If something is missing, the page leaves it out until you send it.

You see everything on a preview link first. Nothing goes live until you approve it.

Built to load fast on phones

Every page must score at least 95 on Google's Lighthouse mobile performance test, run on a simulated slow connection, before the site first goes live. The pages are pre-built, so there is no database to wait on, and your photos are resized and sent as AVIF and WebP.

Ready for search from the first day

Each page gets its own title and description, and each service page is titled with the service and your town. Structured data describes your trade, hours, address and the towns you serve, a sitemap lists every page, and each page has its own preview image for when it is shared on WhatsApp or social media.

We also set up Google Search Console for your domain and connect your Google Business Profile. Google Analytics is set up if you want it, and it loads only for visitors who accept it.

How the web design and build works

  1. Sign up onlineFive short steps: your business, your web address, a look and colours, your logo and photos, and your plan.
  2. Get your previewWe usually send your preview link within a few days of receiving your details, logo and photos.
  3. Approve every wordAsk for changes or approve it. Nothing goes live until you are happy.
  4. Go liveMost websites go live within a week of us receiving everything we need, on your own domain or a temporary address.

What it costs

Included in both plans.

No fixed contract, and your first payment is refunded in full if you cancel within 7 days. Compare everything on the pricing page.

Questions about website design

Do I pay for the design separately?

No. There is no separate design or set-up fee. Designing and building your website is part of the monthly plan, from R299 per month, which also covers hosting, a free .co.za and one website change per month.

Do I need to hire a web designer as well?

No. We design and build the website for you, so there is no separate website designer to brief or pay, and the same monthly plan covers hosting and keeping the site up to date.

Can you build a custom design for my business?

No. Every site is built on one of our six templates, set up in your colours and with your logo. The templates are what keep every page fast and let us improve every site at once.

Who writes the words on my website?

We draft them from your details, your current website and your public records, and you approve every word before anything goes live. We never invent reviews, registrations or claims.

Do I own my website?

Your business name, logo, photos, text and domain stay yours. The templates and software we build and run your site with stay ours, and you use them while you are subscribed. If you leave, we send you your text and photos on request within 30 days.

Get your business online, from R299 per month

Sign up online in five short steps. We usually send your preview link within a few days, and nothing goes live until you approve it.

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