Custom websites for South African businesses
Fast, conversion-focused websites built around your brand and your customers. From R5,500. Live in 3–4 weeks.
Website Design in South Africa
WeMakeSites builds custom websites for South African businesses from R5,500. Every site is designed mobile-first, hand-coded for performance (sub-2.5s LCP, sub-200ms INP), structured with on-page SEO and schema markup, and delivered with 30 days of post-launch support. A standard 5–8 page custom website goes live in 3–4 weeks from kick-off; landing pages from R3,500 ship in under two weeks. Sites are built on modern frameworks (Next.js, Tailwind, headless CMSes where needed) and are fully responsive across phones, tablets and desktops. Hosting is included in the optional care plan from R449/month, which also covers security updates, daily backups, uptime monitoring and content edits. Pricing is the same nationwide — Sandton, Cape Town, Polokwane or Mahikeng.
Why this matters
Most small business websites in South Africa are built on cheap drag-and-drop templates with bloated page weights, no SEO foundation, and Lighthouse scores under 50. They look acceptable, but they don't rank, don't convert, and don't load fast enough on mobile to keep visitors. We build differently. Every site we deliver is hand-coded on a modern framework — usually Next.js — with images served as next-gen formats, fonts subset and self-hosted, page weight kept under 1MB on most templates, and a Lighthouse score above 90 across all categories.
This matters because Google rewards it. Core Web Vitals (LCP, CLS, INP) are confirmed ranking factors, and poor scores actively suppress your organic search visibility. A site that meets the threshold can outrank competitors who've been around for years on legacy WordPress builds.
It also matters because South African mobile traffic is dominant — over 70% of small business website visits in SA are on mobile, often on patchy 4G or slower connections. A 3MB homepage that takes 8 seconds to load on mobile loses you customers before they ever see your offering. We tune for the real-world conditions your visitors actually have.
Design-wise, we work in your brand. You give us logos, colours, the feel you want, and we draft a custom design (no templates) that fits. Two rounds of revisions are included — most clients only need one.
What's included
How we work
Brief & quote
Free 30-minute consultation to scope your needs. We send a fixed-price quote within 24 hours covering deliverables, timeline and payment terms.
Design
We draft your homepage and one inner page in Figma. You give feedback, we iterate. Two rounds of revisions included.
Build
Approved design becomes a real website on a staging URL. Built mobile-first, performance-tuned, accessible.
Content & SEO
Final copy, images, meta tags, structured data, sitemap. Search Console and Analytics connected.
Launch
Final QA, you sign off, we go live. Domain and email setup handled. 30 days of post-launch support starts.
Landing pages from R3,500. Larger sites with custom features quoted on consultation.
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Website Design in your city
Detailed pages with city-specific context, pricing and FAQs. Same scope, same pricing as nationwide.
Where we serve
We deliver this service to clients across all 9 South African provinces. Same scope, same pricing, same turnaround nationwide.
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Tell us what you're building
Free 30-minute call to scope your project. We'll come back with a fixed-price quote and a real timeline — usually within a day.