WEB DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT

Websites built to last, whatever you're building.

Business sites, online shops, magazines, portfolios — we've almost certainly built it before, and built it well.

Whatever you need to put online — a business site, an online shop, a magazine, a portfolio — we've almost certainly built it before, and built it well.

Cubexic has been designing and developing websites since 2009. In that time we've delivered work for universities, cultural institutions, independent media, and small businesses across four continents. We've built simple sites that do one job perfectly and complex ones that publish thousands of articles a month.

We're a senior-led studio, which means the person shaping your project is the person building it — no brief lost in translation. And because our foundation is as much fine art as engineering, we care about how a site feels, not just whether it functions. Both matter. We do both.

WHAT WE BUILD

From five-page sites to full editorial platforms.

Business and small-business websites

For a shop, a practice, a studio, a café, a foundation, or any small organisation, your website is often the first thing a customer sees and the deciding factor in whether they get in touch.

We build sites that are fast, clear, findable, and genuinely represent you — not a template with your logo dropped in. That means clean design tailored to your business, copy and structure that guide visitors toward getting in touch or buying, proper mobile performance, and search-engine foundations built in from the start. Small doesn't mean generic. A five-page site can be exceptional.

Online shops and e-commerce

Selling online well is harder than it looks — the difference between a shop that converts and one that doesn't is in the details most builders skip.

We build online shops that are quick to browse, effortless to buy from, and reliable to run, whether you're selling ten products or ten thousand. Product catalogues that stay organised as you grow, checkout people actually complete, integration with your stock and shipping tools, and a back-end you can manage yourself. We'll advise honestly on the right platform for your size — a small maker and a growing brand need different things.

Online magazines and editorial sites

This is something we do that most web studios simply can't. We have a long history of building online magazines and editorial platforms — publications that put content first and publish continuously.

An editorial site is a different discipline from a business website. It has to make writing a pleasure to read and easy to publish, organise large archives, load quickly under real volume, and support a real editorial team — drafts, roles, scheduling, revisions. We understand publishing from the inside, including in more than one language and across scripts and reading directions that trip up studios who've never done it.

Portfolios and personal sites

Sometimes the most important website is the one representing a single person — an artist, a photographer, a writer, a consultant, a founder.

These deserve as much care as any commercial project, often more, because they are the person. We build portfolios and personal sites that are elegant, distinctive, and unmistakably yours, without the bloat or templated sameness that makes so many creative sites blur together.

Redesigns, rebuilds, and rescues

Not every project starts from nothing. Often a site exists but has aged badly, become slow, stopped ranking, or grown impossible to update.

We take on redesigns and rebuilds, including migrating away from platforms that have become a burden — carefully, without losing your content, your search ranking, or your history. If your current site is a source of quiet dread, that's exactly the kind of work we like.

THE RIGHT TOOL

Not our favourite tool — yours.

Some studios build everything in WordPress because it's all they know. Others push every client toward an expensive custom build because that's what pays. We do neither.

We choose the technology that fits your project — a straightforward content-managed site where that's the sensible choice, a fast modern build where performance and polish matter most, a proven e-commerce platform where you need to sell reliably. The goal is always the same: something you can live with, that performs, and that won't trap you. We'll explain the choice in plain language and tell you honestly what each option costs you now and later.

BUILT FOR THE LONG TERM

Fast, secure, and maintainable.

A website is not a one-time purchase that looks after itself. We build sites that are fast, secure, accessible, and maintainable — and we can look after hosting, updates, and improvements for you afterwards, or hand you something clean enough to manage yourself.

No lock-in, no deliberately tangled code. We also build with multiple languages and audiences in mind when you need it — genuinely, not as an afterthought bolted on with a translation plugin. For organisations serving communities across languages, borders, and scripts, that's the difference between a site that works everywhere and one that only really works at home.

HOW WE WORK

Four steps, no shortcuts.

Every project follows the same deliberate order — from understanding what the site is actually for to launching it without losing what you've built.

STEP 1

Understand the goal

Before we design anything, we work out what the site is actually for — more sales, more enquiries, a credible face, a working publication. Everything else follows from that.

STEP 2

Design and build properly

We design for your real content and your real visitors, then build it to be fast, accessible, and search-ready from the ground up — not decorated first and fixed later.

STEP 3

Launch with care

Especially for redesigns and migrations, launching is where things go wrong for careless builders. We protect your content, your rankings, and your history through the transition.

STEP 4

Support or hand over

We can maintain and evolve the site as an ongoing service, or hand you the keys with everything you need to run it yourself. Your choice.

WHY CUBEXIC

Sixteen years. A hundred projects. Senior-led, worldwide.

Sixteen years and more than a hundred projects, for clients from the Netherlands to the Middle East to Southeast Asia to the Americas — including universities and cultural institutions whose standards left no room for sloppy work.

A senior-led studio, so you deal directly with the people doing the work. A rare depth in editorial and multilingual sites. A designer's eye and an engineer's discipline, because the two are not the same thing and both matter. And sensible pricing — Netherlands-based, senior-level work without a big-agency markup, with reduced rates for nonprofits and cultural organisations we believe in.

FAQ

Common questions

How much does a website cost?+

It depends entirely on what you need — a focused small-business site is a very different project from a full online shop or an editorial platform. We scope every project honestly up front so you know the cost before you commit, and we'll tell you if a smaller build would serve you just as well.

How long does it take?+

A straightforward site can be a matter of weeks; a larger shop or publication takes longer. We give you a realistic timeline at the start and keep to it — and we'd rather quote honestly than promise a date we'll miss.

Can you redesign my existing site instead of starting over?+

Often, yes — and sometimes that's the better call. We'll look at what you have and tell you honestly whether it's worth building on or worth replacing.

Will I be able to update it myself?+

Yes, if you want to. We build sites you can manage without us and explain how. If you'd rather we handle updates, we offer that too. Either way, no lock-in.

Can you build a site in more than one language?+

Yes, and properly — this is one of our strengths, including across different languages, scripts, and reading directions.

Do you handle hosting and maintenance?+

We can. We offer ongoing hosting and maintenance, or we can hand the finished site over for you to host wherever you like.

Will the site show up on Google?+

We build strong search foundations into every site. Ranking also depends on your content and market, and we'll be straight with you about what the site alone can and can't do — no false promises about page-one guarantees.

NEXT STEP

Tell us what you want to build.

A new website, a shop, a magazine, a portfolio, or a rescue of something that's stopped working — tell us what you have in mind. We'll tell you honestly what it would take and what it would cost, with no pitch and no obligation.

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