Only if both need to happen together. Already got a brand? Website development covers the build on its own. Need direction but not a full build? Website design covers that instead. This package is for when brand and site need to be designed together, as one system.
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What it is
Design and development, built as one system
A site should look good, work well, and be easy for you to run. Everything in this package gets built to hit all three.
A full service website starts with a short call, not a design file. That's where I find out who the site is for, what it needs to do, and what's been slowing the business down. The answers set the structure before anything gets designed. Skip that step and you get a site that looks good but works against the person running it.
Design and development follow the same plan from there, so nothing gets patched together after the fact. The CMS means you're not locked out of your own site once it's live.
A site that looks good, works well, and is easy for you to run.
One system
Brand and website, designed together
Because the brand and the site are designed together, colours, type and tone are set once and carried into both. A new social post or a new page picks them up without a redesign.
Nothing gets bolted on afterwards.
What you get
02 / Deliverables
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Concepting
Getting clear on what the site needs to do, for the business and for whoever runs it day to day, before opening a design file.
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Design
A visual direction built around your brand, not a template with your logo dropped in.
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Development
Hand-coded components, built specifically for this site, instead of assembled from an off-the-shelf page builder.
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CMS
Short for content management system: an environment where you can edit your own pages, swap images, and update text without calling me first.
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Block library
A set of blocks made specifically for your site, ready to combine into new pages or layouts as it grows.
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Launch & aftercare
The site goes live, plus 30 days of fixes included. After that, ongoing maintenance is part of the standard care, and the Gijsworks Portal shows what's been done.
The general steps
03 / Process
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Listen
Week 1A call to get clear on what the site needs to do, who it's for, and what's slowing the business down right now.
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Design
Week 2-3A working plan for structure, layout, and visual direction, signed off before development starts.
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Build
Week 4-8The site gets hand-built and tested, with regular check-ins so nothing's a surprise at the end.
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Launch
Week 9-10The site goes live, with 30 days of fixes included.
After launch
The first 30 days
The first month is when the small things show up: a link that goes nowhere, a form that needs a tweak, a line of text that wants changing. Those fixes are included, so you don't have to wait for an invoice to get them done.
After that, the Gijsworks Portal shows what's been done and how the site is doing.
Frequently asked questions
04 / Q & A
That's normal, and it's covered. Concepting and design work out the brand direction as part of this package, so you don't need one going in.
This full service website starts around 3.5k. The final number depends on scope, so it gets agreed on after the first call, once we're both clear on what the site needs to do.
Sometimes a project runs into scope changes or slow feedback and the date slips. If that happens, I'll tell you why and what it means for the schedule instead of letting you find out on your own.
Yes. The CMS lets you edit pages, swap images, and update text without touching code. And because your site has its own unique block library, adding a new page later means combining blocks that already exist, not building something new.