Web Design

All of our sites are custom built and designed specifically for you. While there are countless free and paid for WordPress themes available, there’s nothing worse than seeing some other company using the same theme as you. With our unique web design built from scratch, you can be confident that your site doesn’t have dozens of clones around the internet.

We will work closely with you to determine what it is you need for your website. We don’t believe in cookie-cutter solutions, but would rather adapt what we offer to best suit your specific needs. We will assess your existing online presence if there is one. We can also look at the opportunities and the competition in your specific field and area so as to best optimise your site for relevant search queries to drive traffic to your site.

For more details, please see our content production page.

We build our sites on the popular WordPress content management system. Using WordPress, it is easy to update content yourself with just basic computer skills.  Importantly, we don’t restrict your access to the site and we will show you how to access the back end easily yourself. This way you can easily stay up to date with prices and other information that may change on a regular basis, without having to incur further costs from asking us to do it for you. If at a later stage you’d like to change the look of your site using someone else, we will also provide them with all the necessary access to make changes to the site.

With more than 95% internet users in South Africa now on mobile devices such as phones and tablets, it’s essential that your site looks good and is fully functional when viewed on the smallest to the largest of screens. If you’re on a phone now, go ahead and rotate your screen and you’ll see how the content adjusts to the width so that there is no text or images running over the sides of your screen. If you’re on a computer, just adjust the size of the browser window. As it gets smaller you’ll see elements like the menu and the logo at the top of the page will change and adapt to the different widths. Many older sites were built before mobile was such a big consideration. If you have an older site, let us take a look and we can rebuild it so that you aren’t losing out on a big chunk of potential traffic.

SEO is important. All our sites have at least some of the basics to get you ranked on search engines, with our larger packages having more to boost your rankings. There’s only so much one can do with the build alone. For best results one needs a well thought out content marketing strategy, to produce regular and relevant content. Check out our search engine optimisation (SEO) and content production services for more information on how we can get your website found on Google.

We’re 100% transparent about all our pricing. We also supply you full access to your site so that you are able to make basic changes yourself – we don’t believe we should make you pay just because a price or a time has changed. Our basic entry-level packages are all once-off builds without maintenance, while the higher end packages that come with ongoing security, maintenance or content updates have upfront prices without any hidden surprises.

We have our own servers that we are able to host your website on, with several hosting packages available, depending on your needs. If you already have web hosting, that’s not a problem at all and we can happily build your site on that hosting set up.

What if I already have hosting?

That’s no problem at all! We are able to build the site on our own servers and will transfer it to your own hosts once it is ready. We’ll need access to the hosting set up, which your provider will be able to supply us with. We may face limitations depending on your hosting setup, but almost all hosting providers will provide what is needed for our website builds.

Please note all our hosting and domain registration services are bundled together with our other offerings. We are not a standalone web hosting company, but rather include it as added value for clients.

Ultimately we’d prefer to chat with you and give you a custom solution to suite your specific needs, but we have a few premade website design packages available to choose from.

We’ve also put together packages that include our other digital marketing services such as SEO, social media, content marketing, online advertising and direct mail. Whether you want one of these packages, more information or a custom solution, please contact us.

• Ecommerce websites
• Ecommerce websites & content updates

Together we have extensive experience in marketing, writing (for everything from search engines to students to leaders of industry), editing, photography and graphic design. We also understand people and we’re equally comfortable working as part of a larger team on large corporate jobs as we are working with individual small business owners.

When choosing someone to build your website you want to be confident they will think about your customer’s journey through your website and make it as effortless as possible. We’ll present your content clearly and directly, giving your visitors what they want and driving your website’s goals.

The functionality and appearance of your site can make or break your business. Sleek and seamless, personalised web design services will make you stand out from the crowd and allow you to showcase your product in the best light.

By not making use of professional web design services and instead, using pre-made templates you run the risk your site will look cheap and because these templates have limited room for improvement, your website will end up looking just like everyone else’s. At Veldfire Digital we create tailor-made designs that will display your business’s unique identity down to every detail, so you can be assured that your website will look as good as you always imagined. Sure, you could build your own site for free, but rather spend your time working on your business and leave the technical worries to us.

List of businesses that should definitely have a website

Can’t decide if your business needs a website or not? Here’s a list of businesses that definitely need a website.

• Art sellers
• Accommodation services
• Bloggers
• Bookkeeping services
• Consulting services
• Corporations
• Course sellers
• DTP services
• Education services
• Editing services
• Event and project planning
• Graphic design services
• Online training services
• Personal or virtual assistants
• Personal services such as personal training or chef work
• Photography services
• Repair services
• Small businesses
• Travel services

Why small businesses should have a website

Building a website when you are starting your small business might seem like a huge expense, but at the end of the day, many of your potential customers are looking for you online. Almost everyone uses the internet to get information – even local information. Potential customers are using their smartphones and tablets to decide where to go and what to buy. So your small business has to come up in a local search at the very least. Essentially people expect businesses to have their own websites.