A website design portfolio you can open and check yourself.
Most agency portfolios are screenshots. A screenshot proves nothing: not that the site is live, not that it is fast, not that anybody found it. Everything in this website design portfolio is loading in this page as the real site, right now, and you can open each one in a tab and search for the services it sells.
Live sites from our website design portfolio
These are real websites we built and still maintain, from our own group of companies, which means we can name them rather than hiding behind an anonymous case study. Open either one and judge it properly: check the speed, search for the services it sells, see where it lands.
Intelligence Protection Services
A national security brand covering VIP and close protection, armed guarding and investigations. Built as a hub and spoke architecture so each service has its own authority page, with ranked location pages across ten cities feeding into them and schema markup injected sitewide.
TLD Private Investigators
A value-positioned investigations brand competing across Gauteng, Limpopo and KwaZulu-Natal. The same underlying system as the page beside it, on a fraction of the budget, led by Google Business Profile and chat rather than by paid traffic. Useful proof that the method scales down as well as up.
Both are WordPress. Both are owned outright by the client, domain, files and database. Both can be moved to another developer tomorrow without asking us, which is the standard every build in this website design portfolio is held to.
The work we cannot name
Most client work sits under confidentiality, so these are described without the brand. We will walk you through any of them on a screen share with the live account open, which is a harder thing to fabricate than a logo wall.
Consumer electronics store
A full WooCommerce build for a South African phone and device retailer. Catalogue, local payment gateway, courier delivery rules by area, live stock and staff training. No platform fee and no commission on sales, which on a store doing real volume is the difference between a margin and a hobby.
- WooCommerce, client-owned
- Local gateway plus instant EFT
- Courier rules by region
- Live and selling
Professional services firm
A dated brochure site rebuilt without losing a single ranking. Full crawl and position snapshot before anything was touched, a 301 redirect map from every old URL, ranking pages rebuilt rather than replaced, and Search Console watched for a month after launch.
- Every old URL mapped
- Rankings held through launch
- Load time cut substantially
- Reported in writing after 30 days
Services business, after hours problem
Losing enquiries between roughly 21:00 and 08:00 to whichever competitor answered first. An assistant on the website and WhatsApp, trained on real prices and service areas, qualifying and routing to the owner's phone with the history attached.
- Replies in seconds, any hour
- Quotes standard work instantly
- Escalates complaints to a person
- Answers in more than one language
None of the projects on this page ran over their written scope. That is the claim we will stand behind, and it is deliberately narrower than the ones you will read elsewhere in this industry.
Four things we will open on a call
Any agency can write a case study. These are the four artefacts that cannot be written, and we will screen share every one of them from a live account. Ask any agency you are comparing us against to do the same.
Search Console, live
Clicks, impressions and position history on a real client property, across the launch date. This is the graph that exposes a bad migration inside a fortnight, and it is the first thing we would put on screen.
The redirect map
Every old URL and its new destination, in one spreadsheet, from a real rebuild. Ask a competing agency to show you theirs. Most cannot, because they never built one, which is exactly why traffic collapses after their rebuilds.
Speed scores you generate yourself
We give you the address of a site in this website design portfolio and you run it through PageSpeed Insights yourself, measured against the published Core Web Vitals thresholds. Not our screenshot. Your result.
The handover pack
What a client actually receives at launch: domain in their name at the registrar, hosting account, database, every login, and a short training session. Ask to see a real one before you pay anyone a deposit.
What every build in this website design portfolio has in common
Different industries, different budgets, one system. These six decisions are made the same way on every project, which is why the results are repeatable rather than lucky.
Architecture before design
Page structure, URL plan and search silo mapped before anybody picks a colour. A beautiful site on a broken structure cannot be rescued later without a rebuild.
One page per intent
No two pages competing for the same search. Cannibalisation is the quiet reason most business sites plateau, and it is invisible unless someone maps it deliberately.
Schema at build time
Organisation, service, breadcrumb and FAQ markup written in rather than sold back later. It is also what makes a site quotable by AI assistants.
Mobile first, genuinely
Designed on the phone layout before the desktop one, because that is where most South African traffic is and where most agency work quietly falls apart.
The client owns everything
Domain at the registrar in their name, standard WordPress, no proprietary framework. Every site here can be taken elsewhere tomorrow. That is deliberate.
Somebody maintains it after
Hosting, patching, backups and monitoring on a care plan. An unmaintained site breaks or gets compromised within a year, and rebuilding costs far more than maintaining.
The full method is on website design company in South Africa, the packages behind these builds on website design packages, and the rebuild process on website redesign.
Sectors and places in this website design portfolio
We build for security and investigations, legal, medical, construction, logistics, retail and e-commerce, manufacturing and professional services, across Johannesburg, Sandton, Midrand, Centurion, Pretoria, Cape Town, Durban, Gqeberha, Bloemfontein and Polokwane, and remotely anywhere in the country.
Website design portfolio questions
Why are some clients named and others not?
The two sites embedded above are from our own group of companies, so we can show them without asking permission. Most client work sits under confidentiality agreements, which is normal in security, legal and medical. We would rather describe that work honestly without the name than break an agreement to decorate a website design portfolio.
Can I see the results behind these, not just the designs?
Yes, and this is the part worth asking for. On a call we will open Search Console on a live client property and show clicks, impressions and position history across the launch date. We will also show you the 301 redirect map from a real rebuild. Both are things that cannot be faked in a slide.
How much did the sites in this website design portfolio cost?
They span the full ladder. A five page build is R7,500, an eight to twelve page business site R15,000, a WooCommerce store R25,000, and a rebuild of an existing site from R9,500. Every one was fixed in writing before work started. The full list is on website design packages.
Do your clients own their websites?
Completely, every one of them. Domain registered in the client's name at the registrar, standard WordPress with no proprietary framework, database and files exportable, every login handed over at launch. Any site in this website design portfolio could move to another developer tomorrow without our cooperation.
Can you show me a site in my industry?
Usually. Tell us what you do and we will point you at the closest match, or tell you honestly that we have not built in your sector before. We would rather say that than stretch a security case study into a claim about your industry.
How fast are these sites really?
Run them yourself. Take either address above, put it through PageSpeed Insights, and you have a number we did not generate. That is a deliberately uncomfortable invitation and it is the point of embedding live sites rather than screenshots.
Why is the work not spread across more logos?
Because we are selective and we are honest about volume. A wall of two hundred logos usually means template work at speed. We would rather show three builds we can explain in detail, open the data behind them, and let you judge the standard.
What happened to these sites after launch?
They are on care plans, which is why they are still fast and still ranking. Hosting, patching, backups, uptime monitoring and content updates. A site nobody maintains drifts out of date and eventually breaks, and that is the least glamorous and most decisive part of the whole business. Detail on website maintenance packages.
Want a site that belongs in this portfolio?
Tell us what the business does and roughly how many pages you need. You get a written scope and a fixed price back within 24 hours, and if we are not the right fit we will say so rather than quote you anyway.