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Ownly

What we build

Website design and development

A website is usually the cheapest thing we build and the first thing anyone judges you on. The difference between one that works and one that does not is rarely how it looks. It is whether it says what you do, in the words somebody would use to look for it.

What it is

A marketing site has one job: turn somebody who has heard of you, or found you, into an enquiry. Everything on it either helps that or is in the way.

The part most sites get wrong is structure rather than design. One page describing eight services will not be found by anybody searching for one of them, and a site the owner cannot edit becomes out of date the first week something changes.

When a business needs one

  • The site was built years ago and nobody can change it without paying somebody
  • You do a thing that is not on the website, or is one line on a page about six things
  • Search sends you almost nothing, and what it sends is people typing your name
  • The site looks fine on a laptop and fights you on a phone
  • Every page ends in a different call to action, or in none at all

What we can build

Capability, not a claim about work already delivered. What we have actually built and run is further down the page.

  • A page for each service you sell, and for each area you actually work in
  • Content you can edit yourself, without a developer and without breaking the layout
  • A preview of a change before the public sees it
  • Pages built to be found: titles, structure, metadata and schema that match what is visible
  • Consent that is asked before anything measures anybody
  • Enquiry forms that reach a person, resist bots, and file themselves where the work happens
  • Performance and accessibility treated as requirements rather than as a later fix

How we approach it

Structure first, which is the part that decides whether the site is ever found. Then the writing, then the design. A beautiful page about the wrong thing is still the wrong page.

We hand over something you can run. If the only way to change a price is to email us, we have built you a liability.

See it working

A short film of one of our own demonstrations, recorded from the running software. Every company in it is invented, and the link opens the real thing.

Tell us what you are trying to fix

Describe the job in your own words and we will tell you what we would build, roughly what it would cost, and whether something you can already buy would do it cheaper.