Pages
What counts as a page, what makes one cost more than another, and how anything you add connects back to the main one. Everything beyond the base page lives in the same navigation, as a real destination a visitor can click to.
- The page itself
- One page, six to eight sections, one continuous scroll. There is a navigation bar, and its links are anchors that move you down the same page rather than off to separate destinations. A section is a self-contained band of that page: the hero, what this is, the offering, the proof, the human behind it, how to get in touch. Which ones you get depends on what your business actually needs, ordered the way a stranger needs them rather than the way you'd explain it to someone who already knows.
- Simple page
- A page that is mostly words. About, FAQ, privacy, terms. One layout, read top to bottom, nothing in it that reacts to you.
- Standard page
- A page with repeating structure. A services list, a menu, a portfolio grid, a team page. Every item needs its own treatment, and all of them have to hold together as a set once they're side by side.
- Interactive page
- A page that does something rather than shows something. A booking system embedded in it, a form that runs across several steps, filtering across a set of items, a live map. There's logic behind it and not just layout, and logic has to be built and then tested against the ways people actually use it.
- How many you can add
- Four beyond the base page, maximum. Past that it stops being a landing page and turns into a website, which is a different project with a different shape and a different price.That ceiling isn't a policy we bend, because the promise of this tier only holds at this size. It's also not a dead end. The build sits on the same foundation as our larger work, so growing later is an extension of what you already own rather than starting over.
Content and imagery
What you bring, what we make, and what happens when you have neither.
- What you supply
- Copy, or the points you want the copy to make. Your logo and whatever brand assets exist. Photography. The practical facts of hours, location, and how to reach you. Access to wherever your domain is registered. When all of that is sitting ready on day one, the timeline holds. When it isn't, that is almost always the thing that moves it.
- Copy written for you
- If you'd rather not write it, we interview you, draft it, and revise it with you until it sounds like you rather than like a website. Add about a week to the schedule.
- Direction, if you don't have one
- Plenty of businesses arrive with no settled type, color, or feel. We work one out with you and put it in front of you as a style tile before a single section gets built. You approve that direction while it's still a small thing to change, which is how the look gets settled early instead of argued about the week before launch.
- Imagery
- If you don't have photography, we can generate imagery for the page, or tell you what kind of shots would work if you'd rather take your own. Generated imagery gets treated as real production work: art-directed, iterated, and matched to the type and color around it. It is not prompted once and dropped in.Both routes take real studio time, which is why the working allowance below matters.
- The working allowance
- Discovery, direction, imagery, and copy all draw from one fixed block of studio time, set in your brief before anything starts. It's a specific number and you'll know what it is. If something you ask for would run past it, you hear that before the work happens rather than in an invoice afterward.
Motion and video
Where ordinary motion ends and a video build begins. That line is what changes the shape of the project.
- The motion pass
- Included in every build. How things enter, how the page answers a scroll, how one section hands off to the next. Motion that carries meaning and walks the eye down the page instead of decorating it. It gets designed once, for the page as a whole, rather than bolted onto each section as an afterthought.
- Scroll-driven video
- An entirely different thing: video or a frame sequence that scrubs forward and back under your thumb as you scroll, the way a product reveal does. It needs frame extraction, re-encoding, separate variants for phone and desktop, and a still fallback below a certain screen size. That's its own build, not a bigger motion pass.If you've seen it on a car or phone launch page and want that, this is the thing you're describing.
- Why video changes things
- Video is heavy, and what comes out of a camera or a generator is never what should be sent to a browser. It's routinely five to ten times larger than it needs to be. Compacting it is real work: cutting frame rate, re-encoding, serving something smaller to a phone on a train than to a laptop on office wifi. Even done well, a page carrying real video moves far more data on every single visit, and that is what lands it in a different hosting tier.
Hosting and your domain
Where the page lives, who owns what, and how you leave if you ever want to.
- What hosting covers
- We host on our own infrastructure rather than handing you an account and a password to look after. That covers deployment, uptime, and keeping the page live and loading securely. Security is handled the moment your domain is connected properly, so it isn't a task sitting on anyone's list. The first year comes with the build.
- Standard hosting
- For a normal page: text, photography, the motion pass. The overwhelming majority of builds sit here and never move off it.
- Media-heavy hosting
- For pages doing real work with images, or carrying one well-optimized scroll sequence. A gallery, a reel, a portfolio with actual weight to it. A single sequence, properly compressed, still serves fine from standard infrastructure. It simply moves more data month after month, which is why it sits one tier up from Standard hosting.
- Cinematic hosting
- For pages built around several scroll sequences, or footage too dense to compress down without wrecking it. Past a certain weight the page stops being servable from standard infrastructure at all. The heavy assets move to storage built for exactly that job while the page itself stays where it is. Different architecture, not a bigger allowance.
- Connecting your domain
- Wherever your domain is registered, whether that's Squarespace, GoDaddy, or somewhere you set up years ago and haven't logged into since, we'll need access to its settings so we can point it at our hosting and get your site live there. You keep ownership of the domain and the registrar account the entire time. We never register it in our name and we don't hold it.Buying and renewing the domain stays yours. It's a few dollars a year and it should stay in your name.
- Leaving
- If you want to move, you take the code and the domain records with you, on request, at no charge. There's no lock-in and nothing to unwind.
Editing it yourself, after handoff
Two genuinely different levels of control, depending on how much you expect to change.
- Self-serve editing
- Log in, change the text, swap an image on a section that already exists. This is what keeps your hours, your prices, and your copy current without anyone having to call us. What it won't do is add new kinds of pages or rearrange the structure. The page keeps the shape it was designed as.Set up at handoff rather than during the build, for technical reasons on our end.
- Content Engine
- For when the site is genuinely going to keep growing. New items added over time, several people editing, a proper media library, things scheduled to publish while you're asleep. That's a real system rather than an edit button, and it gets scoped on a call, because what it needs to hold varies enormously from one business to the next.
Being found
What we build in, and the point where a specialist takes over.
- The search foundation
- Included in every build, never a line item. Page titles and descriptions. The preview image that appears when someone drops your link into a group chat. Proper heading structure, alt text, a sitemap, structured data that search engines and AI assistants can both read, fast loading, and analytics wired up so you can see what's actually happening. This is the work that makes you findable and describes you correctly once someone goes looking.
- Search strategy
- Not included, and deliberately so. Keyword research, local search and your Google Business listing, getting cited by an AI assistant when someone asks it a question in your category, earning links from other sites, publishing on a schedule. Almost none of that happens on your page. It's about what the rest of the internet says about you, which is a different job with its own practitioners. We bring in a specialist for it as a separate conversation when you're ready for one.The foundation makes you findable. Strategy makes you found first. They're different jobs.
After launch
What happens when you need something changed six months from now.
- Care blocks
- Blocks of studio hours you buy when you actually need them. No subscription, no card sitting on file, nothing quietly charging you in a month where nothing needed doing. Work starts within three business days of you asking, and hours you don't use stay good for a year.
- If it becomes regular
- If you find you're changing things often enough that buying blocks one at a time stops making sense, that's an ongoing arrangement and we'll scope it together.