Website design
Custom design, not a theme with your logo dropped in. Layout, typography, motion and art direction built around what your business actually needs to say.
Web design studio · Taking projects
We build websites.
That is the entire company.
Parallax is a premium design and engineering studio for the web. We take businesses that have outgrown a template and give them a site that looks deliberate, reads clearly and loads before anyone thinks about leaving.
- Design & buildone studio, one team
- <1sload target on 4G
- Fixed scopequoted before we start
Brand & art direction
Web design
Front-end engineering
Copywriting
Ecommerce
Performance
Ongoing care
Our first clients were our own companies.
- Art & Jake's Sports Grill
- Perkly
- AJS Operations
Services
One studio, from the first sketch to the live site.
Most agencies hand you off — design to one team, build to another, and the intent gets lost somewhere in between. We do both. The people who draw it are the people who ship it.
Brand for the web
Logo refinement, colour, type and a small system your site and socials can share — enough identity to look established, not a hundred-page brand bible.
Front-end engineering
Hand-built, standards-first front ends. Semantic markup, real accessibility, and no plugin stack that breaks the week a subscription lapses.
Copy & content
We write the words. Most sites fail on sentences, not pixels, so we draft the pages, shape the story and tell you exactly which photography to get.
Ecommerce & booking
Storefronts, reservations, quote requests and payments wired into tools you already run — a checkout that feels like the rest of the site, not a rented pop-up.
Performance & search
Sub-second loads on the edge, structured data, Core Web Vitals and the technical detail that decides whether you appear when someone searches.
Work
Built to be used, not just looked at.
Every project gets the same foundation: a bespoke design, static-first delivery on a global edge network, and no dependency that can quietly break in six months.
Menu-first restaurant sites
The menu is the homepage. Sections collapse cleanly on a phone, prices update in one place, and directions, calls and reservations are one tap from anywhere on the page.
Credibility-first marketing sites
For firms whose next client is reading the site before the first call: clear positioning, real proof, and a contact flow that asks only what you need to quote.
Rebuilds and rescues
Inherited a site nobody can edit, or one that takes eight seconds to open? We rebuild it properly, keep the URLs that already rank, and hand you the keys.
“The old site took nine seconds to load. People were calling to ask what we actually did.”
— the reason most of our projects start
Portfolio
The sites we run our own businesses on.
We built our own companies' sites before we sold a single one — a seven-location restaurant group, a loyalty platform, an operations hub and the page you are reading. Same team, same standard, same care your project gets.
Art & Jake's Sports Grill
A sports bar group with seven locations across Michigan and Georgia. The menu is the homepage — every item, price and sauce in one place — with each location's hours, directions and calls one tap away.
- 7locations, one site
- 150+menu items, updated in one place
Perkly
A customer-loyalty platform for local businesses, designed and engineered here — brand, marketing site and the product itself, running serverless on a global edge network.
- 0servers to maintain
- Edgedeployed worldwide
AJS Operations
The private operations hub behind the restaurant group — documents, assets and internal tools for seven stores and the corporate office, built to be fast and boring in the best way.
- 7stores served daily
- 1place for everything
Parallax
The page you are on, held to the standard we sell: hand-written HTML and CSS, no framework, no build step and nothing to load before the words appear. If we cannot do it here, we do not claim it above.
- 0 kbof JavaScript shipped
- Staticno CMS, no build step
Yours would be the next one here. Start a project and see the same process from the inside.
Process
Deliberate, but never slow.
A premium result does not require a six-month discovery phase. It requires knowing what you are making before you make it.
-
01
Positioning
We start with what the business does, who it is for and what the site has to accomplish. You leave the first conversation with a fixed scope, a price and a date.
-
02
Design
Art direction and full page designs, presented in the browser rather than as flat pictures — so you approve the real thing, on the device it will be read on.
-
03
Build
Hand-coded and deployed to a live preview link you can share. Copy, photography and content go in as we build, so there is no gap between approval and launch.
-
04
Launch & care
We point the domain, verify search listings and walk you through updates. Then we stay on — or hand it over entirely. The site is yours either way.
Pricing
Fixed quotes. No retainer you can't leave.
Below is where projects start. Your exact number is confirmed in writing after the first conversation, before any work begins — and it does not move afterwards.
Statement page
$3,500 from · about 2 weeks
One page, done exceptionally.
- Custom design and art direction
- Written copy and photo direction
- Enquiry, booking or click-to-call
- Search and analytics setup
Full site
$9,500 from · 4 to 6 weeks
The complete build, design through launch.
- Brand refresh for the web
- Five to ten bespoke page designs
- Copywriting and content build
- Enquiry and lead capture
- Performance, structured data and SEO
- Launch, training and handover
Ecommerce & booking
$18,000 from · 6 to 10 weeks
When the site has to take money or reservations.
- Everything in the full site
- Storefront, reservations or quoting
- Payments wired into your tools
- Stock, menu or availability sync
- Checkout built to convert
Every project includes
- Mobile-first, accessible markup
- Sub-second loads on a global edge network
- Analytics, search listings and structured data
- Written handover, so nothing depends on us
After launch, if you want us to stay.
Care plan
$195 per month · cancel anytime
Keeps the site fast, current and online.
- Hosting, backups and updates
- Uptime and performance monitoring
- Small content edits each month
- Priority on anything urgent
Studio partner
$1,500 per month · cancel anytime
For sites that keep moving after launch.
- Everything in the care plan
- New pages, campaigns and seasonal work
- Ongoing design and copy support
- Same-week turnaround
Quoted separately
- Photography, video and illustration
- Licensed fonts and stock imagery
- Third-party subscriptions you keep in your own name
Prices in USD. A care plan is optional — you can host the site yourself and owe us nothing after launch. Anything quoted separately is listed above so you can see exactly what you are paying for. No hourly billing, no change-order games.
FAQ
The questions we get first.
What makes this premium rather than cheap?
Nothing is templated. The design is drawn for your business, the words are written for it, and the site is built by hand rather than assembled from page-builder blocks. You are buying judgement and craft, not hours in a theme editor.
Do I own the site?
Yes. The domain, the hosting account and the files are in your name. If you ever want to move on or hand it to another studio, nothing is locked up.
Can I make changes myself?
Yes — the content you change often is set up so you can edit it without touching design or code. If you would rather not, send the change and it goes live the same week on a retainer.
What if I already have a website?
We rebuild it and migrate your content, keeping the URLs that already rank so you do not lose search traffic. Your existing site stays up until the new one is ready.
How much does it cost?
A statement page starts at $3,500, a full site at $9,500, and an ecommerce or booking build at $18,000 — see pricing for what each includes. You get a fixed quote after one conversation, before any work starts. No hourly billing, no change-order games, no surprise line items at the end.
How long does it take?
A statement page runs about two weeks; a full site, four to six. The slowest part is usually photography and final content, so we start that on day one.
Tell us what you're building.
Send a note with what your business does and where it is going. You'll get a reply with a plan, a fixed price and a launch date — usually within a day.
Email the studioNo forms, no sales sequence. Just an email that gets read.