Web design in Johannesburg
A person you can actually meet in Gauteng, and a studio that hand-codes the site rather than assembling it from a template. Both halves matter.
Who you'd actually be dealing with
Most agencies bidding for Johannesburg work are either a national outfit where you'll be handed to an account manager, or a studio somewhere else hoping you won't ask where. We'd rather be straight about it: Dylan Herwill is our consultant in Johannesburg. He'll meet you, work out what the site actually has to do, and stay your point of contact through the project. The design and build happen at our studio in Durban.
That's a real arrangement rather than a virtual office and a Gauteng phone number. You get someone local for the conversations that are better had in person, and a small team doing the work rather than a queue.
Why hand-coded matters on Gauteng mobile data
A page builder loads its own runtime, a theme layer and a stack of plugins before it reaches a word of your content. Hand-coded sites skip all of it. Fewer things to download, fewer things to break, and a codebase another developer can pick up later without starting again.
Your site is hosted on Cloudflare's network, which has points of presence in Johannesburg, so being built in Durban makes no difference at all to how fast it loads for someone in Rosebank. Here’s the full architecture argument ↗.
What we build
Brochure sites, online stores, content sites with an admin panel you can run yourself, and installable web apps. Also the less glamorous work, such as joining systems you already pay for so nobody retypes the same information twice. The full list of services is here, what each one costs is here, and the process and build times are laid out step by step .
Being straight about our track record
Our client work so far is KwaZulu-Natal based. Johannesburg is newer ground for us and we'd rather you heard that from us than found it out. What you can judge is the work itself: three live sites, and what those clients wrote about working with us, unedited.
Common questions
Are you actually in Johannesburg, or just claiming to be?
Dylan Herwill is our consultant in Johannesburg. He'll meet you, work out what you need and stay your point of contact. The design and build happen at our studio in Durban. We'd rather say that plainly than pretend to an office in Sandton we don't have.
Does being built in Durban make any difference to me?
Not to the site. It's built in code and hosted on a network with points of presence in Johannesburg, so it loads the same wherever your visitors are. The only practical difference is that most of the working conversation happens over email, WhatsApp and a private preview link rather than across a desk.
How much does a website cost in Johannesburg?
The same as anywhere else we work. We price the job, not the postcode. A brochure site of four to six pages is R6,000 to R9,000, a site you can edit yourself is R12,000 to R20,000, and online stores are quoted on what they actually need. You get a fixed quote after a free half-hour conversation, and our what a website costs page sets out everything that moves those numbers.
Can we meet before committing to anything?
Yes, and you should. Dylan is in Johannesburg and the first conversation is free with no obligation. If we're not the right fit for what you need, we'll say so then rather than three weeks in.
Do you have Johannesburg clients we can talk to?
Our client work so far is KZN-based: a signage manufacturer, a church and a community hub, all live and all happy to be named. Johannesburg is newer ground for us, which is worth knowing. What you can judge us on is the work itself and what those clients wrote about working with us.
Start a project in Johannesburg
Tell us briefly what you need. Dylan will come back to you directly.