Website design studio

Websites for businesses people trust.

We design and build websites. No ads, no SEO packages, no social media management. Just a site that's clear, fast and easy to run.

See your new homepage before you pay a thing. New sites from $3,500. See pricing

01The idea

The part of a website nobody sees is the part we build hardest.

Visitors see the window. What makes it work is the code, structure and thinking behind each page, and that's what we design.

The name reads two ways on purpose. A site unseen is one nobody finds yet. Sight unseen is what you can commit to when you trust who's doing the work.

02Services

Website design. Nothing else.

Service 01

New website

Strategy, design and build for a site that's yours to keep. Launch-ready in four to six weeks.

Service 02

Redesign

A fresh structure and design for a site that has outgrown itself, keeping what already works.

Service 03

Care & updates

Small changes, new pages and a watchful eye after launch, so the site stays as good as the day it went live.

03Our process

Four to six weeks, start to launch.

01
Discovery

We learn your business, your customers and what the site has to do for them.

02
Design, before code

Structure and page designs you can review and change before anything is built.

03
Build

Fast, accessible pages that work on every screen, built in-house.

04
Launch

We go live, walk you through running it, and hand over a site that's fully yours.

04Work

The work, in place.

Three sample sites for three very different businesses, each with its own look, type and way of getting visitors where they need to go. Pick the one closest to yours, then scroll and click around inside it.

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Hearth & Crumb

Warm and playful. Tabbed daily menu, live open/closed status and order-ahead pickup.

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Don't see your kind of business? Every site we build starts from a free concept made for yours. How it works

05The offer

See it before you pay.

Most web designers ask you to commit sight unseen. We do it the other way around. Tell us about your business and we'll design your new homepage for free. If you like it, we build the rest. If not, you owe us nothing.

  1. Step 01

    Tell us about you

    A few questions about your business and your current site. It takes about two minutes.

  2. Step 02

    We design your homepage

    A real, clickable homepage made for your business, not a template with your logo dropped in.

  3. Step 03

    You decide

    Love it? We build the full site. Not for you? Keep the ideas. No invoice, no pressure.

06Pricing

Clear prices, up front.

Every project starts with a free homepage concept, so you know exactly what you're getting before you pay anything.

One page

1 page
$1,500

A single, polished page for a new business, an event or a side venture.

  • Custom design on one scrolling page
  • Contact form and map set up
  • Works on every screen, fast and accessible
  • Domain, hosting and launch handled for you
Start a one-page site

Starter

Up to 5 pages
$3,500

A custom site for most local businesses. Clear, fast and easy to run.

  • Custom design, built from your free concept
  • Two rounds of design revisions
  • Works on every screen, fast and accessible
  • Contact form and map set up
  • Built to Google's standards and submitted to Google Search
  • Domain, hosting and launch handled for you
  • 30 days of free fixes after launch
Start with a free concept

Business

6 to 12 pages
$6,000 to $8,000

For businesses with more to say and more for visitors to do.

  • Everything in Starter
  • Help writing your page content
  • Booking, menus or galleries
  • Room for several services or locations
Start with a free concept

Custom

Quoted
From $10,000

Online stores, member areas and larger sites, scoped together before we start.

  • Everything in Business
  • Features planned around how you work
  • A fixed quote, agreed up front
Tell us what you need

Four to six weeks from start to launch. Half up front, half at launch. You supply the words and photos, and we polish them.

After launch

Your site is hand-built, not a template you log into, which is a big part of why it's fast and secure. Changes go through us, so pick the level of help that suits you.

Hosting

$25 / month
  • Fast hosting and security certificate
  • Backups and uptime monitoring
  • Changes billed by the hour when you need them

Care

$99 / month
  • Everything in Hosting
  • Up to 30 minutes of small changes a month, like new hours, prices or photos

Care Plus

$199 / month
  • Everything in Care
  • Up to 2 hours of changes a month
  • Changes done within 2 business days

Changes

$100 / hour
  • For Hosting clients, or anyone outside a plan
  • 30-minute minimum per change
  • New pages quoted up front, usually $400 to $600

Also available

One-time jobs for businesses that already have a site, or just need the basics working.

Website X-ray

One time
$350

A written check-up of the site you have now, with plain-English fixes. If you hire us to build, the $350 comes off your project.

  • Speed, and how it works on phones
  • Accessibility and broken links
  • Security and Google setup
  • A clear list of what to fix first
Book an X-ray

Accessibility fixes

From $500

We check your site against the accessibility standard (WCAG) and fix what's wrong, so more people can use it.

  • A full check against WCAG 2.2 AA
  • Fixes for contrast, labels, headings and keyboard use
  • A short written summary of what we changed

Works on most custom and WordPress sites. Builders like Wix and Squarespace limit what can be fixed.

Fix my site

Rescue & move

Quoted

Stuck on a slow, broken or hacked site? We move you to a fast, hand-built one.

  • Off WordPress, Wix, Squarespace or GoDaddy
  • Your content and images carried across
  • Old page addresses redirected, so your Google rankings carry over
Tell us what's wrong

Domain & email setup

One time
$200

Your web address and business email, set up so messages arrive and stay out of spam folders.

  • Domain and DNS settings sorted out
  • Business email address set up or fixed
  • The records that keep your email out of spam
  • Up to 5 email addresses
  • A simple guide for adding email to phones and computers

The mailbox subscription is paid directly to Google or Microsoft, usually $6 to $10 per person per month. Moving old email, more than 5 addresses and hands-on device setup are quoted separately.

Get it sorted
Free homepage concept

Most of a website is never seen. Yours, you'll see first.

Tell us about your business and what you need. We'll reply within one business day.

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