Hand-coded websites for better digital experiences

Web design & development for local businesses

About

Everyone prefers a good experience on a website. Our hand-coded approach helps make the visit to a website into an enjoyable trip, through better performance.

Recent work

Sargs Santehniki

A small family-owned plumbing service in our hometown - Riga. Their goal is to have the best service possible.

Design

Animation

Hand-coding

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£125 Per Month,
4-Month Contract
After 4 Months:
It's Yours

For a 5 page website. If you need more than that then we have to do custom pricing based on the scope of work, number of additional pages, and time involved.

You own your domain, content, and profiles. Cancel anytime with no fees or hassle.

Faster

Improved code takes less time to load. Making a higher appearance in Google search results more likely because they prioritize user experience. You can check your website speed here.

Unlimited Edits

Change what you want.

Hosting Fees Included

Hosting fees are built right into the monthly payment.

Our approach

A study by Google showed that 53% of visits are likely to be abandoned if pages take longer than 3 seconds to load.

Their Mobile First Indexing update favors mobile site load speed. The faster the website is on mobile, the better the chance of ranking higher.

Static hand-coded websites usually perform better than dynamic page builder websites like WordPress because they are faster.

When loading a static site, the browser reads and compiles the code and assets for the website and loads it. Every user loads the same content and there are no databases.

A dynamic site's code and assets are stored on a database. When loading a dynamic site, instead of the browsers compiling the code and assets, it’s a server that compiles it for the browser and sends it off, and instead of every user being served the exact same content they are all served different content individually.

A lot of people use WordPress, Wix, Squarespace, GoDaddy, etc. and there are many embedded scripts and plugins to support all their different needs. This produces heavy code making the process of putting the website together and sending it off take longer.

But even though hand-coded websites usually perform better because their code is lighter because they support the needs of one business, they usually cost more. We've tried to remedy this with our price model because it's hard to pay 50% upfront if you are not 100% convinced.

What happens after 4 months?

After the contract is up, I'll hand you over all the code and the design and we go our separate ways. The website will still be hosted. If you cancel before that I keep my code and design. After the 4 months you own the code and design.

What are the stages?

1. Talk - discussing the relevance of the website in more detail;
2. Contract - I send a contract to get signed electronically so we’re both protected;
3. Specification - we talk the appearance of the new website with the client and how we can make the client's visitors journey enjoyable;
4. Draft – we make a draft of the website before sending it for review;
5. Modification - Corrections are made;
6. Development - We code the site to be functional;
7. Lift off - Client receives a functional website.

What services do you offer exactly?

The main focus is making a new website and then maintenance.

How long does a project take?

After the specification with the client, we submit the draft within 5 work days. After we have an approved design it takes up to 10 work days to code, depending on the size of it.

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