A small studio, doing this properly

Why this exists

There is a particular kind of business we keep running into. It has been going fifteen years. The work is good, the reviews are good, the phone still rings. And the website was built in 2009 by someone's nephew, sits on http, and comes up as an unreadable postage stamp on a phone.

Nobody tells them. Customers do not phone to say "your site looked broken so we called someone else." The owner just notices things are a bit quieter than they used to be and puts it down to the economy.

The agencies quote them thirty thousand rand and six weeks of meetings, which is not a serious proposition for a four-person plumbing business. So nothing happens, and the site sits there for another five years quietly turning people away.

MyBizWeb exists for that gap. A proper site, built quickly, for a price that makes obvious sense against what one extra job a month is worth to you.

How we work

We build sites by hand, in plain HTML and CSS, on a server we run ourselves. No WordPress, no page builder, no theme bought off a marketplace and bent into shape. That is why the sites load in under a second and do not need patching every fortnight to stop them being hacked.

We use AI tooling heavily, and we would rather say that plainly than pretend otherwise. It handles the repetitive work: laying out pages, tidying your rough notes into readable paragraphs, compressing photos. What it does not do is decide anything about your business. Every fact on your site comes from you, and every sentence gets your approval before it goes anywhere near the public.

The saving from that tooling is the reason the price is what it is. We have passed it on rather than pocketed it, because the market we want is the one that cannot afford an agency.

What we are not

We are not a marketing agency. We will not manage your Google Ads, run your social media, or sell you an SEO retainer with a chart that goes up and to the right. We will build you a fast, honest website that is set up correctly for search, tell you truthfully what that achieves, and leave the rest alone.

We are also not the cheapest. There are people who will do it for R1 500. They are using a template, they will not answer the phone in six months, and the site will be broken within a year. That is a false economy and we are not going to compete with it.

Where we are

Cape Town, working with businesses anywhere in South Africa. Everything is done over email, phone and WhatsApp, so where you are does not really matter, though we do like knowing the area a business serves when we are writing about it.