Website Design & Development · Johannesburg

Websites That
Earn Their Keep.

A website is not a brochure you tick off a list. It is the thing that has to turn a stranger into an enquiry while you sleep. We have built 32 of them you can open right now — and every one was built around a commercial job, not a design trend.

The platform follows the job, not the other way round.

Most agencies build everything on the one platform they know. That is convenient for them and expensive for you. We pick per brief, and we will tell you plainly when the cheaper option is the right one.

Across our live builds the split is roughly 13 WooCommerce, 11 WordPress, 4 fully custom, 2 Shopify and 1 Next.js. That spread is not indecision — it is what happens when the commercial goal picks the stack.

A wholesale toy supplier with complex bulk pricing needed a custom storefront. A boutique guest house needed WordPress and a booking action one tap away. A supplement brand selling subscriptions needed Shopify. Same agency, three different right answers.

01

WordPress & WooCommerce

The workhorse. Right when you need content control, a large catalogue, or a team that will update it themselves without calling us.

02

Shopify

Right for straightforward retail and subscription commerce where you want the payment and logistics plumbing handled for you.

03

Next.js & custom

Right when the brief outgrows a CMS — bespoke pricing logic, unusual data, or a front end that has to do something no template does.

04

Immersive & 3D

Scroll-driven and interactive builds for products that are hard to explain or expensive to buy. See the three live examples.

What you actually get.

Every build ships with the technical groundwork that most quotes quietly leave out: server-rendered content, full structured data, correct canonicals, a valid sitemap, compressed modern image formats and a real performance budget.

That matters more than it used to. Search is no longer only Google — AI answer engines like ChatGPT and Perplexity generally do not execute JavaScript, so a site that renders its content in the browser is invisible to them. We build the content layer as real HTML so you are findable everywhere, not just where it is easy.

Open them. They're all live.

Three of the 32, picked because they solved three different problems.

Techtres website designed and built by FUTR Agency
WooCommerce · Showroom

Techtres

Twenty-two years of bespoke kitchens, built in their own factory. Aspirational showroom imagery paired with a hard commercial hook — book a design appointment.

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Toys & Beyond website designed and built by FUTR Agency
Custom Build · Wholesale

Toys & Beyond

Bulk toy supply to businesses nationwide. A custom storefront handling wholesale pricing logic and high SKU volume while still reading like retail.

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Afrifocus Securities website designed and built by FUTR Agency
WordPress · Finance

Afrifocus Securities

Private client wealth management and stockbroking. Restrained and credibility-first, where trust signals and regulatory clarity carry more weight than decoration.

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The questions we actually get asked.

How much does a website cost in South Africa?

It depends on scope, and any agency quoting before understanding the brief is guessing. A brochure site, a 500-product e-commerce build and a custom platform are three different projects with three different numbers. We give you a firm quote after a short discovery conversation — not a range designed to get a foot in the door.

How long does a website take to build?

A focused brochure or service site is usually a matter of weeks. E-commerce takes longer because of product data, payment and shipping setup. Custom platforms are scoped individually. The honest variable is rarely our build time — it is how quickly content, images and approvals come back.

Who owns the website when it is finished?

You do. The domain, the hosting account, the code and the content are yours. We will hand over every credential on request, without friction. An agency that holds your site hostage is not an agency, it is a hostage situation.

Do you host and maintain the site afterwards?

We can, and many clients prefer it. It is optional, not bundled in to lock you in. If you would rather host elsewhere or hand it to an internal team, we will set that up and document it properly.

Is SEO included in the build?

The technical foundation is — server-rendered content, structured data, sitemap, canonicals, image optimisation, performance. That is not an upsell, it is just building it correctly. Ongoing SEO, content and link work is a separate engagement.

Can you redesign our existing site instead of starting over?

Often, yes. If the platform is sound and the content is decent, a redesign is faster and cheaper than a rebuild. We will tell you honestly which one your situation calls for after looking at it.

Do you work with businesses outside Johannesburg?

Yes. We are based in Johannesburg and work across South Africa — Cape Town, Durban, Pretoria — as well as internationally. Several of our live builds serve clients operating outside the country.

Tell us what the site has to achieve.

Not what it should look like — what it has to do commercially. We will come back with an approach and a firm number.