Forge My Site

Based in Cape Town, this small studio (team of ten or fewer) builds websites for South African small businesses, with work spanning sectors such as jewellery, hospitality, legal, food and beauty. It positions itself around local search visibility, describing its output as designed to help Cape Town businesses "convert traffic into revenue" while also serving clients elsewhere in the country. Alongside the core web design offering, it runs a sister brand, Forge MyApp, for custom software such as CRM systems, workflow automation and client portals, for businesses needing development beyond a standard website. Services cover website design, managed hosting and email infrastructure, domain registration, and SEO, sold as a bundled package rather than separate retainers. Website design projects start from a stated price and a one-to-two week turnaround, with SEO foundations, schema markup and performance optimisation built in during development. Hosting is run on South African-based servers with free SSL, backups and uptime monitoring, and domains are registered across .co.za, .com and other TLDs. The agency also offers a free 24-hour website audit that reviews speed, SEO and conversion issues and reports fixes. Its process is described as a four-step methodology: a discovery workshop covering business, customers and competitors; mobile-first, accessible design review; development on a modern stack with SEO and schema built in from the start; and a launch-and-scale phase where hosting, email, analytics and SEO are managed from a single dashboard.