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Scope
We start with your specification — what the site has to do, who it's for and what success looks like. If you don't have one yet, we'll help you write it. You get a fixed quote off the back of it, valid for ten working days.
What we actually do
Four services, all of them development. We're not a marketing agency and we don't sell branding packages — we build and look after the technical side of your business online.
Custom-built websites that load fast, read well and hold up under real traffic. Every build starts from your business and your content — never from a theme we bent into shape.
- Custom design and front-end build
- Responsive from 320px to ultrawide
- WordPress builds your team can actually run
- Booking systems and application forms
- Landing pages built around one clear action
- Accessibility and performance built in, not bolted on
Typical build: 2–3 weeks
For the jobs no plugin solves. Learning platforms, client portals, booking engines, quoting tools — and the integrations that quietly hold them together.
- Learning management systems with student and admin portals
- Client, member and staff portals
- CRM, inventory and quoting systems
- Registration, scheduling and booking engines
- Custom APIs and third-party integrations
- Payment gateway and accounting integration
Scoped and quoted per project
Stores built to sell. Clean product architecture, a checkout that doesn't lose people, and a back-end your team can run without phoning us every week.
- WooCommerce and custom storefronts
- Local and international payment gateways
- Product, stock and order management
- Multi-currency and shipping rules
- Catalogue and request-for-quote builds
- Handover training so you own it properly
110 products loaded on your behalf
The technical groundwork that decides whether the site you paid for ever gets found. This is engineering work, not a marketing retainer.
- Technical SEO and clean site architecture
- Core Web Vitals and page speed optimisation
- Schema / structured data markup
- Sitemap submission and index monitoring
- Image, font and asset optimisation
- Redirect mapping on rebuilds and migrations
Included on every build we ship
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Web Development
Custom-built websites that load fast, read well and hold up under real traffic. Every build starts from your business and your content — never from a theme we bent into shape.
What you actually get
A site built from your content outwards. We start from what the business needs to say and who it needs to say it to, then design around that — rather than picking a theme and pouring your words into someone else's layout.
Built to be handed over
Every site we ship runs on a system your team can operate. We train you at handover and leave you with every credential. If you decide to move to another developer in two years, nothing about the build stops you.
Performance is not an add-on
Image and font optimisation, sensible caching, lazy loading and clean markup are part of the build, not a later invoice. A site that takes six seconds to load is a broken site, whatever it looks like.
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Custom Development
For the jobs no plugin solves. Learning platforms, client portals, booking engines, quoting tools — and the integrations that quietly hold them together.
When a plugin will not do it
Plenty of businesses reach a point where the off-the-shelf option almost works. That gap is where we live — a booking flow with rules nobody else supports, a portal that has to talk to accounting software, a quoting tool that has to match how you actually price.
Things we have already built
A full learning management system with student and admin portals, live classes and integrated payments. Swimmer registration with scheduling for swim schools. Request-for-quote catalogues for distributors. Product calculators for a tooling supplier. A hosting control portal.
Integrations
Payment gateways, accounting systems, courier and shipping APIs, CRMs, mailing platforms. If it has an API we can usually talk to it, and if it does not, we will tell you that before you have paid for anything.
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E-Commerce Development
Stores built to sell. Clean product architecture, a checkout that doesn't lose people, and a back-end your team can run without phoning us every week.
Structured to sell
Most underperforming stores are not ugly — they are badly organised. We spend real time on category structure, filtering and product templates, because that is what decides whether someone finds the thing they came for.
Checkout and payments
Local gateways for South African customers and international ones where you sell abroad, including multi-currency and shipping rules. We have shipped stores serving customers in the UK and further afield.
Your team runs it
Stock, orders, pricing and promotions all managed from an admin your staff can use without phoning us. We load your first products, then train you so you are not dependent on us for routine changes.
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SEO & Site Performance
The technical groundwork that decides whether the site you paid for ever gets found. This is engineering work, not a marketing retainer.
Technical, not marketing
This is engineering work: site architecture, crawlability, structured data, Core Web Vitals, redirect mapping. We are not selling you a monthly content retainer, because we are not a marketing agency.
Included on every build
Clean heading structure, meta and canonical tags, schema markup, an XML sitemap submitted to Google, and optimised images and fonts. You should not have to pay extra for a site that search engines can read.
Rebuilds and migrations
The fastest way to lose your rankings is a rebuild with no redirect plan. When we replace an existing site we map the old URLs to the new ones so the authority you have built up comes with you.
Also available
Hosting & business email
LiteSpeed hosting, free SSL, custom-domain email and one-click installs — run by us, so there's nobody to blame but us when something needs fixing.
Hosting is handled through our dedicated hosting platform rather than bundled into build quotes, so you can see exactly what you're paying for and leave whenever you like.
Email hosting from R49/month Web hosting from R69/month
How a project runs
From first call to handover
The toolkit
Platforms and tools we work in
- WordPress CMS
- WooCommerce E-Commerce
- PHP Backend
- Laravel Framework
- JavaScript Language
- React UI Library
- Vue.js Framework
- Node.js Runtime
- MySQL Database
- Tailwind CSS Styling
- Flutter Mobile
- Figma Design
- Git Version control
- Shopify E-Commerce
- Stripe Payments
- Cloudflare Edge / CDN
Start a project
Let's build something sharp
Tell us what you need. We'll come back with a clear scope, a fixed quote and a realistic timeline — usually within one working day.
info@lemonmedia.co.za