Stratasis

Website

Websites that fill your calendar

Designed, built and launched in weeks, not months, then hosted and run by us.

Website design and development for local businesses

Your website is where most customers decide whether to call you. We design and build sites that answer their questions, show your work and make booking the obvious next step, on every phone, tablet and desktop.

We start from your customers: what they ask before they book, what makes them trust you, and what stops them. Then every page is built to answer it.

Your website, built and run

What your site looks like when we build it. Live in weeks, not months, then run by us.

Live in weeks, not months

From the first call to a live site, with a launch date agreed before we start.

  • Copy written for you
  • Your photos and work, shown properly
  • A preview link as it's built

Online booking built in

Calendar, forms and payments, set up and tested. Customers book the moment they decide.

  • Bookings straight into your calendar
  • Deposits and payments taken online
  • Every enquiry traced to where it came from

Ready for Google, built for phones

Structured for search from the first page, and designed for the phone, where most customers find you.

  • Local pages for the areas you cover
  • Business details Google can read
  • Tested on phones, tablets and desktops

Secure and maintained

Hosted, encrypted and updated by us, and built to be compliant. It keeps working while you run the business.

  • Backed up and monitored
  • Updates and security fixes included
  • One place to ask for help

Why build with us

A website built for your business, not a theme. Three things true of every site we build.

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Templates

Every page is designed for your business, never bought off a shelf.

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Team for all of it

Design, build, hosting and changes, in one place.

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Yours

The domain, the content and the code belong to you.

How a website gets built

Website design and build, in six steps. Live in weeks, not months, then run by us.

  1. What you do, who you serve and what the site has to do.

    Call
  2. Plan

    A map of every page and the copy each one needs.

  3. Pages designed for you, shown on a phone and a desktop.

    Design
  4. Build

    Built in code, page by page, then checked against the plan.

  5. A last look together, then the switch to the new site.

    Launch
  6. Run

    Looked after from here, with changes when you ask.

  1. Call

    What you do, who you serve and what the site has to do.

  2. Plan

    A map of every page and the copy each one needs.

  3. Design

    Pages designed for you, shown on a phone and a desktop.

  4. Build

    Built in code, page by page, then checked against the plan.

  5. Launch

    A last look together, then the switch to the new site.

  6. Run

    Looked after from here, with changes when you ask.

Website design, explained

What goes into a local business website. The long version, in plain English.

What a local business website has to do

A local business website has one job: turn the people who find you into calls, bookings and visits. That means answering their questions, showing your work and making the next step obvious, on a phone first.

Everything else, from the colours to the copy, serves that job.

Why we build in code, not from a template

Templates are built to suit everyone, so they suit no one in particular, and they carry the weight of features you'll never use. A site built in code carries only what your business needs.

That keeps pages light, makes them easier for Google to read, and means nothing is locked behind a theme when you want to change it.

How a website gets found on Google

Search starts with structure: a page for each service you offer and each town you cover, clear titles, and business details Google can read. We set all of that up before launch.

Then the site connects to your Google Business Profile, so your website and your listing on Maps back each other up.

  • A page for each service and town
  • Titles and descriptions for every page
  • Structured data for your business
  • Connected to your Google Business Profile

What happens after launch

A website isn't finished at launch. We host it, keep it secure, back it up and make changes when you ask, so it stays accurate as the business changes.

You always own it: the domain, the content and the code.

Questions and answers

Still have a question?

Ask us anything. We'll answer it straight, even if the answer is that we're not the right fit.

  • Most sites go live in weeks, not months. The exact time depends on the pages and on what needs building, like booking or payments, and you'll get a plan on the first call.

  • Yes. The domain, the content and the code are yours, and you can take them with you if you ever leave.

  • Yes. We look at what's working first, keep what earns its place, and rebuild the rest.

  • Every site is designed for phones first, then tablets and desktops, and tested on all of them before launch.

  • You can edit text and photos yourself, or send us the change and we'll make it.

  • Yes. We host, secure and back up every site we build, and keep it updated.

More from the studio

Each service works on its own. They work better together.

SEO

Get found on Google Search and Maps

Local SEO that puts you in front of nearby customers, tracked and reported every month.

Ads

Ads you can trace to booked jobs

Google and Meta ads built, run and tested every week, with every call and form tracked.

Brand

A brand people remember

Name, logo, colour and voice, built to hold up on a sign, a screen and an invoice.

Kind words

Hear it from the businesses we've built for. What it's like to work with us, in their own words.

“They took our whole website from idea to launch, online booking included, and never made it feel complicated.”
Elizabeth MarkowskiOwner, Virelle
“Everything was built around how we actually work, with the compliance side looked after from the first day.”
Daniel ZhaoFounder, Pelagion
“One team for the brand, the site and the ads. It finally feels like one business online.”
Mark SullivanDirector, Harbor
Contact

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Bring a project, a question or a half-formed idea. We'll take it from there.

Blogs

Practical notes on growing a business online. New posts as we write them.

WebsitesSep 24, 2026 · 5 min read

What a small business website actually needs (and what it doesn't)

The few things that earn their place on the page, and what you can skip.

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WebsitesSep 17, 2026 · 5 min read

Website redesign: when to fix it and when to start over

How to tell a site that needs a patch from one that needs a fresh start.

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SoftwareSep 9, 2026 · 3 min read

Signs you've outgrown spreadsheets

The quiet signs your business has grown past a shared sheet.

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AdsSep 2, 2026 · 4 min read

Google Ads vs Meta Ads for a local business: where to start

Where a local business should put its first ad budget, and why.

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