Fast before pretty
Speed is a feature. Every visitor you keep waiting is a customer walking next door. If a design choice slows the site, the design loses.
About
A web studio for people who actually run businesses.
Matrix Designs is an independent studio. Direct contact, no middle layer. The sites stay lean because we do.
Most local service businesses don't need a "digital experience." They need a clean, fast website that makes the phone ring.
Somewhere along the way, web design turned into a racket. Agencies charging $5,000 for a templated WordPress site with a dozen plugins. DIY builders producing identical landing pages that load in four seconds on a good day. Neither actually helps a roofer get more roofing jobs.
Matrix Designs exists to fix that — at an honest price, with modern code, from people who'll pick up the phone.
How we work
Four principles.
If any of these ever fall over, the work falls over with them. So they don't.
Honest timelines
If something will take two weeks, we'll say two weeks. If we're running late, you'll hear it from us before you notice.
Fixed scope, fixed price
We agree on what's being built and what it costs before we start. Surprises on invoices are for cable companies, not us.
Direct contact
You talk directly to the people building your site. No account manager, no ticketing system. A text message works.
Process
From hello to launched.
Four steps, one to two weeks depending on package. You always know what's next.
01
Discovery call
Fifteen minutes, no hard sell. We talk through what your business does, who your customers are, and what the new site needs to accomplish. If we're a fit, we'll send a fixed quote within a day.
02
Rapid Prototype
We quickly build a functional first version so you can see and interact with the real thing early. Feedback starts immediately.
03
Build
Fully written code, deployed to a private staging link you can share with whoever you like. You test on real devices, leave comments, and we sweep through fixes.
04
Launch
We help with the domain, DNS, SSL, and form wiring. The site goes live in one clean switch. 30 days of tweaks after launch are on us.
The stack
Modern, boring tech.
We pick tools your site will still run on five years from now. Not whatever's trending on Hacker News this week.
Hand-written HTML, CSS, and JavaScript where it's the right tool. Light frameworks when they save you time. No page builder dependencies you'll be stuck with forever.
// your site, by the numbers
const stack = {
html: "semantic, accessible",
css: "hand-written, custom properties",
js: "vanilla + targeted libs",
hosting: "Cloudflare / Netlify / Vercel",
forms: "direct to your email",
weight: "< 200kb initial load",
};
// what you won't find:
const absent = [
"bloated page builders",
"40 unused plugins",
"vendor lock-in",
];
1:1
You talk to the builders, not an account rep.
0d
Of post-launch tweaks, included.
0–0w
Typical project timeline.
100%
Fixed quotes. No hourly surprises.
Start something
Let's have a conversation.
Fifteen minutes, no pitch, no pressure. We'll tell you honestly whether we can help — and if we can't, we'll point you to someone who can.
Book a discovery call