About
A small studio,
on purpose.
Sitefold is an independent web design studio. We design and build websites for businesses that either do not have one, or have one that is quietly costing them work.
No account managers
No hand-offs · No jargon
Small businesses deserve websites that feel as considered as those of much larger companies.
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The whole argument,
in one sentence.
The gap between what a large company's website looks like and what a small one's looks like has almost nothing to do with budget any more. It is a gap in attention.
A café with one room and a good eye should be able to have a website as carefully made as a chain with forty. That is the entire idea, and everything else here is a consequence of it.
Principles
Six things we
will not trade away.
Each one is demonstrated rather than described. Hover, click, or use the keyboard.
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Clarity
Say the thing. A visitor should know what you do, where you are and how to reach you before they have decided to concentrate.
Bespoke solutions tailored to your unique requirements, delivering excellence across a range of verticals.
Keys cut while you wait. Paint mixed to any colour. Cross Street, Manchester, since 1934.
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02
Your choices, not ours
The typefaces and the colours are yours to pick. We are not going to hand you a house style and call it bespoke. Our job is to take the direction you want and make it hold together on every page.
Your business belongs online.
The same words, three directions. Yours would be whichever one sounds like you.
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03
Speed
Pages that load on a bad connection in a car park, because that is where people look you up. No frameworks shipped to the visitor for our convenience.
Measured on this page, in your browser, just now
- Ready to use in
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- Everything downloaded
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- Third-party scripts
- None
No framework, no tracker, no cookie banner. There is nothing here that you did not ask for.
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04
Accessibility
Keyboard navigation, visible focus, real contrast and sensible headings. Not a compliance exercise — just how a website should be built.
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Responsiveness
Layouts drawn again for each screen. Most people meet you on a phone, so the phone is where the design starts.
1200 px
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Attention to detail
The things nobody is supposed to notice: optical alignment, the way a line breaks, what happens between one state and the next.
Your business belongs online.
Set with the quotation marks hung outside the measure, the apostrophe curled the right way, and the last line kept from stranding a single word.
How we work
Directly, and in plain English.
Sitefold is run by Arjun, its founder, and you deal with the person doing the work. There is no account manager between you and the design, and no stage where a project is handed to somebody who has not read the brief.
Everything is quoted before it starts. Nothing renews without you asking. If a project is not right for us, we will say so early and suggest somewhere better rather than take it on badly.
- We do notlock work behind a monthly subscription
- We do notuse page builders and call it custom
- We do notpublish other people's work as if it were ours
- We do notinvent numbers to look bigger than we are
On portfolios
Sitefold is new, so we are not going to fill a portfolio page with work we have not done. This website is the example: every page, layout, interaction and line of code on it is ours. Judge us on it. As real client work goes live, it will appear here with their name on it and their permission behind it.
Look at the exampleTell us about
your business.
Not a brief. Just what you do, who comes in, and what is not working at the moment. We will take it from there.
Start a project