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Web Design & Development — the half nobody sees | Sublyme Digital
Web design & development  ·  Fifty‑plus builds since 2020

Most of a website is the part nobody sees.

The part of a build everybody talks about is the part you can see — the layout, the type, the photography. Just as much of the work sits under the waterline: how fast it loads, whether a machine can read it, and whether the structure survives the second year. We do not launch without that half, because a site nobody can find is a brochure in a drawer.

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What you are paying for

Four things above the line. Seven below it.

Above the waterline is everything you can see and sign off on. Below it is what decides whether the site is ever found, ever quoted, and still cheap to work on in three years. Take any point.

An iceberg. A small peak above the waterline, two thirds of it below. Above the line · what you can see Below it · what decides whether it works
How it usually goes

Pages first, or journeys first.

The difference is not craft or budget. It is what gets decided before anything is designed, and it is the reason a site can look expensive and still generate nothing.

The usual approach

A template, then content

A theme is chosen, pages are filled to match the demo, and the structure is whatever the template shipped with. Search is a plugin installed at the end, speed is whatever the theme does, and the copy describes the company rather than answering the visitor. It looks finished. Nobody can find the thing they came for.

How we build

Journeys, then pages

We start from what somebody needs to do — compare, price, book, enquire — and build the structure around that. The foundation goes in during the build rather than after it, because retrofitting schema, speed and heading structure onto a finished site costs more than doing it once. The design serves the path rather than the other way round.

Built, not mocked up

Three that were difficult.

Every one of these is live and you can click through it. Screenshots prove somebody owns Photoshop; a working configurator proves somebody built a configurator.

If you would rather read first

Ten on design, build and speed.

Written before you asked, and none of it is gated. If something here is the question you actually have, the answer is already on the site.

Start with what you have

See how much of yours is under the line.

Give us any page on your site — your homepage, a service page, a product, your contact page. We run Google Lighthouse against it, read it the way a search engine and an assistant do, and send back what we found in plain English: four scores, what is working, what is not, and the three fixes worth doing first. Most of what comes back is the invisible half.

No call, no pitch, no credit card. The report is yours either way.

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Real data from the page you give us. Answered the same day if you ask a question with it.

Asked before

The questions that come up.