Headland Studio
Taking 2 new projects in November
Web design · Tweed Heads to Burleigh Heads

Websites for the businesses that keep this coast running.

I'm Rylan. I design and build fast, clear websites for local shops, tradies and cafés. You see a free mock-up of your homepage before you pay anything.

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2Live sites built
1,563Bikes in my database
30 daysFree fixes after launch
Tweed HeadsLocal, not overseas
02 / Process

How it works.

You never pay for anything you haven't already seen.

Day 0 · free

I design your homepage

Before any money changes hands, I build a real mock-up of your homepage using your business, your words and your photos. You open it on your own phone. If you don't like it, you walk away and owe nothing.

Day 1 · in writing

We agree the whole thing

Which pages, the fixed price, the deadline, how many rounds of changes, and who owns the site at the end. Every argument between a business and a designer comes from something nobody wrote down.

Day 2 to 7 · building

I build it properly

Phone layout first, because that's where your customers are. Around day seven you get a link to the work in progress so you can steer it while steering is still cheap.

Day 8 to 14 · polish

Your changes, then checks

Two rounds of changes are included. Then I go through it on a real phone, a tablet and a desktop, check every link, every button, and how fast it loads on mobile data rather than wifi.

Launch day

It goes live

The new site replaces the old one with no gap, your old page addresses are pointed at the right new pages so Google doesn't lose you, and I watch it for the first few days.

The 30 days after

Anything breaks, I fix it

Free. No arguments about whether it counts. After that you can take monthly care, or just email me when something needs changing.

03 / Why it matters

Most local sites leak customers.

Not because they look bad. Because of three small things nobody fixed.

3s

How long most people wait before giving up on a slow page. On mobile data that's easy to blow.

Fix: light pages, sized images
60%

Roughly how much local business web traffic arrives on a phone, often one-handed, outdoors.

Fix: built for phones first
1 tap

How far your phone number should ever be from a customer who's ready to ring you.

Fix: tap-to-call on every page
A website's job isn't to look clever. It's to get someone to pick up the phone.The rule I build to
Free homepage mock-up

Let's see what yours could look like.