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A website written for your business, not adapted from a theme.

Custom website development means your site is built specifically for your business rather than adapted from a theme. Haryes writes the code, controls the performance budget, and hands you a site you fully own with no licence locks or builder subscriptions.

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  • No theme, no page builder
  • Performance budget in the contract
  • Code in your name

A theme decides what your site can be. Custom code does not.

A marketplace theme is built to suit thousands of businesses, so it ships with layouts, scripts and options most of them never use. Adapting it gets a site live quickly.

The cost shows up once the site has to grow.

  • Load times of five to ten seconds on a mid-tier Android phone.
  • Layouts that break when the theme or a plugin updates.
  • Licence and plugin renewals that never stop.

Five stages, each with something you can hold us to

The process is fixed and written down before any work starts.

  1. Discovery and scope

    A working session on the business, the audience and the goal.

    A written scope, fixed price and fixed dates.

  2. Structure and design

    Pages, URLs and reusable templates, designed in Figma and reviewed with you.

    Design signed off before code is written.

  3. Development

    Hand-coded front end on a staging server you can watch.

    Every template inside the 800KB budget.

  4. Content and QA

    A pre-publish checklist and testing on a real mid-tier Android phone.

    Core Web Vitals checked before launch.

  5. Launch and handover

    Old URLs redirected in a single hop, training recorded.

    A site and a repository you own.

Numbers written into the contract

Measured on a mid-tier Android over a Kenyan mobile connection, before launch and after.

Largest Contentful Paint
<2s

The main content is on screen in under two seconds.

Page weight
<800KB

Everything the page downloads, images included.

JavaScript
<150KB

Script shipped to the browser, per page.

Budget commitments on every Haryes custom build

  • Designed as a system

    Typography, colour and components applied to every template, not one-off page designs.

    New pages stay consistent without a designer.

  • Hand-written front end

    Semantic HTML and CSS, with JavaScript on a strict budget.

    Nothing loads that the page does not use.

  • Search built in

    Clean URLs, structured data and XML sitemaps from day one.

    The site is legible to search and AI systems at launch.

  • Accessible by default

    Keyboard operation, contrast and focus states checked to WCAG 2.2 AA.

    Checked before launch, not after complaints.

Custom build, or something else?

We tell you which fits before you commit.

Custom website

You will keep the site four or more years and speed and search visibility matter to the business.

Scope my custom website

WordPress

Your team publishes news, listings or events often and needs to edit without a developer.

See WordPress builds

Custom web application

You need logins, workflows or dashboards, which is software rather than a website.

See web applications

What lands in your hands at launch

Four things on every custom build. See what a build costs.

  • A custom design system

    Reusable templates, not one-off pages.

    • Typography, colour and components
    • Templates for every page type
    • Figma files handed over

  • Hand-coded site

    Built to the performance budget.

    • LCP under 2 seconds
    • Page weight under 800KB
    • Tested on a real mid-tier Android phone

  • Technical SEO foundations

    Ready to rank from launch.

    • Clean URLs and XML sitemaps
    • Structured data in a connected schema graph
    • Single-hop redirects from any old site

  • Everything in your name

    Code, hosting account and domain.

    • Source code in a repository registered to your business
    • Hosting account in your name, with billing you control
    • Domain registered to you through a KeNIC-accredited registrar

Questions clients ask before they commit

  • What does a custom website cost?

    A custom or growth website starts from KES 150,000, with a timeline of 4–5 weeks. You get a fixed price in writing after a short scoping call.

  • Can my team still edit it?

    Yes. Content is managed through fields mapped to your pages, and we record a training session at handover. If your team publishes daily, WordPress may suit you better and we will say so.

  • How long will the site last?

    A custom build is designed to last four or more years, where a theme-and-builder site commonly needs rebuilding after two or three.

Starting fresh, or replacing a theme site?

Starting fresh

You need a site that reflects the standard of your work.

Start with a scope. It is fixed before any work begins.

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Already have a site

Your theme site is slow, fragile, or both.

We rebuild it without losing your content, URLs or rankings.

See website redesign

A theme is someone else's idea of your business. We write the site around what you actually sell, and hand you every line of it.

Haryes KebeyaFounder, Haryes Web Developers