Service 01 — Web design & development

Websites that carry their weight.

Website design and development for small businesses, studios and growing teams across the Netherlands and Europe. One Rotterdam team from first sketch to launch day.

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What you get

Design and engineering in the same room, on the same week.

01Custom web design: art direction, type and motion. A site that looks like nobody else's, not a theme with your logo on it.
02Fast front ends built on Next.js, with a performance budget we hold to and technical SEO set up from day one.
03A CMS built around your content, plus editor training, so your team changes text, images and pages without calling us.
04Hosting, domain, SSL and backups handled. Or take a care plan: design, build and hosting in one monthly fee from €100.
Who it's for

Built for businesses that outgrew their template.

01Local trades, practices and studios that need a site which brings in enquiries, not just a page that exists.
02New ventures that want one sharp page live fast, with room to grow into more.
03Teams replacing a slow WordPress, Wix or Squarespace site with something faster that they can actually edit.
04Shops and booking businesses that need a site wired into payments, stock or calendars.

How it runs

Four to six weeks
(01)FrameOne week. Goals, sitemap, tone.
(02)DesignTwo weeks. Key pages, then the system.
(03)BuildTwo weeks. Front end, CMS, QA.
(04)LaunchHandover, training, thirty days of cover.
Questions, answered

What people ask before we start.

It depends on scope: the number of pages, whether you sell or take bookings, languages and integrations. Project work is quoted after a short call. Or spread it out with a care plan from €100 per month, with design, build and hosting included and no upfront build fee.

Most sites go live in four to six weeks: one week to frame goals and sitemap, two weeks of design, two weeks of build and testing, then launch and handover. A one-page site moves faster; shops and portals take as long as they need.

Yes. Every site ships with a CMS set up around your content, plus a training session, so text, images, pages and prices are yours to change.

Yes. We rebuild existing sites, including WordPress, Wix and Squarespace, move your content over and redirect changed URLs so existing search traffic is not lost.

Technical SEO is part of every build: fast load times, page titles and descriptions, a sitemap, structured data and mobile-first layouts. Ongoing content writing and link building are not included by default.

No. We are based in Rotterdam and work with businesses across the Netherlands and Europe. Calls and design reviews happen online, so distance does not slow anything down.

They shipped in five weeks what our last agency scoped for six months.Sanne de VriesCOO, Meridian Freight