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Honestly, it can be anywhere between R1,500 and R50,000, depending on the complexity and what you're trying to achieve. A one-page site for a small local service business costs a lot less than a multi-page site with custom animation, a booking flow or an online store. Every project is quoted individually once I know what you actually need — get in touch and I'll give you a straight number.

No. Every site is hand-coded from a blank page — no WordPress, no theme, no drag-and-drop builder and no plugin stack. That's what keeps sites fast and free of the compatibility problems that come with someone else's template.

It depends on scope, but the process runs through four stages: a brief call about the business, full design of every page, a hand-coded build tested on real devices, and launch with redirects, metadata and analytics already in place. A small site can move through that in a couple of weeks; a larger one takes longer. Timelines are confirmed once the scope is set.

Hosting is a flat R99/month — managed hosting, HTTPS and security patching, uptime monitoring and backups. No tiers, no exceptions.

Hosting alone keeps the site online, secure and backed up. A care plan adds ongoing updates, monitoring and a set amount of support or content-edit time each month, starting at R250/month for Foundation Care. It's worth it if you expect to need changes or want someone actively watching the site rather than just keeping the lights on — see the Services page for the full breakdown.

That depends on how the site is built and what you're comfortable with. Small content changes are usually handled as part of a care plan rather than you editing code directly, since there's no CMS dashboard bolted on — that's part of what keeps a hand-coded site fast and free of bloat. If frequent self-editing is important to you, mention it up front and it can be planned into the build.

I'm based in Richards Bay, KZN, and that's where most current clients are, but the work itself is remote-friendly — briefs, design reviews and launches all happen over calls and screen shares. If you're elsewhere in South Africa, get in touch.

Yes. Send me your current site and what isn't working about it — slow load times, an outdated design, a WordPress site that's become a maintenance headache — and I'll tell you straight whether a rebuild makes sense and roughly what it would take.

No one can guarantee a ranking, and I won't pretend otherwise. What I can do is build the technical foundation properly from day one: fast pages, clean semantic structure, correct metadata, and content written to actually answer what your customers are searching for. Combined with a properly filled-in Google Business Profile, that's what gives a site a real chance — see the blog for more on what actually moves the needle.