You will not run out of studios here. You will run out of patience comparing them.
The hard part is not finding somebody. It is telling two quotes apart when both sound reasonable.
Who this is for
A shop, a studio or a practice with somewhere between one and 20 people, selling to a part of the city rather than to the country. Not a brand with a marketing department, who should hire an agency and will.
What you are choosing between
A template filled in cheaply, an agency that will sell you a process, a freelancer who may be excellent and may vanish, or somebody who builds the thing and hands you the keys.
All 4 produce a website. They differ in what you hold afterwards, which is the part nobody asks about until it matters.
The work happens at a distance
We are in Durres and the job reaches Milan over WhatsApp, email and a screen we both look at. Nobody is coming to photograph the shop, and if that is what the job needs, it is the wrong job for us.
What travels perfectly is the building. Every site we have made ships in Italian alongside Albanian and English, so writing for an Italian reader is what we do rather than a translation bolted on at the end.
What we would build first
The page that answers the question somebody typed, a way to reach you that works on a phone in one thumb, and a Google profile that agrees with both. In that order, because the third one often brings the first customers.
Everything decorative waits until something is arriving to decorate.
When to hire somebody in the city
If you want a person in the room, if the work needs photography of your own premises, or if you would simply rather buy from a neighbour. All 3 are good reasons and none of them is about the code.
Questions worth asking
Are you based in Milan?
No. The studio sits in Albania and the whole job is done at a distance. We would rather put that in the first line of the answer than let you discover it three emails in.
Is it cheaper because you are not here?
Usually. We would rather say that plainly than pretend the price comes from something mysterious, and it is also why we will not compete on being the cheapest quote you get.
Who writes the Italian?
We do, and it is written rather than translated. A page turned into Italian from something else reads like one, and an Italian reader notices in about a sentence.
What do I own at the end?
The domain, the hosting account and the code, all registered to your business from the first day. Nothing is held on your behalf and there is no handover to negotiate.
Send us the address and we will tell you what we would change first, whoever ends up doing it. Get a free audit.
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