A professionally built website, done In a Week.
No months of back-and-forth. No DIY rabbit hole. No agency price tag.
(In other words: we design and build your website for you, start to finish, in one focused day.)
Are you proud of your current website?
Or maybe you don’t have one yet – and you know you should. Because right now, you’re missing out on what should be your business’s hardest-working asset. And your potential clients are missing out on the business that could serve them best.
Here’s the problem: you’re a small or growing business, and web design agencies (in Cape Town and everywhere else) can cost a fortune. Most website projects drag on for weeks, sometimes months, of emails and revisions back and forth.
You don’t have the time, budget or headspace for that. You need something faster, simpler and more transparent.
So what if your new website could be designed, built and ready to launch in a single week?
No project delays. No scope creep. Just a professional, functional website, built with intention, on a day you choose.
If you want a faster, more affordable way to invest in web design – and you’re comfortable with a fast-paced, one week collaboration – this is for you.
Website In a Week
Get a full week of our design and development team’s attention, and walk away with the website your business actually deserves.
Website In a Week is Big Web Media’s single-week web design service. It gives service-based businesses across Cape Town, Johannesburg, Durban and South Africa a complete, professionally designed and built WordPress website in one dedicated week.
Up to five pages, fully mobile-responsive, fast-loading, with your contact form, booking integration and on-page SEO set up from the start. No months of back-and-forth. No DIY guesswork.
One week — and you launch with a website you’re genuinely proud of.
With a Website In a Week, you’ll be able to:
- Invest in custom design that attracts your ideal clients, without the agency price tag
- Skip the trial and error of DIY builders or long project timelines
- Send prospects to your website with full confidence
Why our clients choose it:
- A collaborative, hands-on process working directly with our design team
- An instant credibility boost, so your website finally matches the quality of your work
- A site built to fill your pipeline with the right kind of enquiries
We used Charl and the team for our new website design for our business Bespoke Tours. Our experience was amazing. Big Web Media delivered the website we wanted, very efficiently and at a great price point. We look forward to continuing to work with them to grow our business. Great work team!
Jessica Kleinhans – Bespoke Tours Africa
What We Can Deliver (and How Fast)
With over 185 years designing and building websites, we’ve refined a process that gets us to a clear understanding of your business, goals and brand quickly. That means we can translate that understanding into a working website faster than most agencies — without cutting corners.
The 1-Week Website Sprint
INVESTMENT: [PRICE — e.g. R5,000]
Built for established service providers who need a professional, strategic website — fast.
What’s included:
- 5 core pages: Custom-built Home, About, Services and Contact pages, tailored to your brand and fully responsive
- Booking and contact integrations: A properly configured contact form, plus a booking button linked to your preferred system – whether that’s Calendly, a booking plugin, or a simple email link
- The Build-Ready Roadmap: Our one-week website framework, including an AI content prompt tool so writing your copy doesn’t hold up the day
- On-page SEO foundations: Meta titles, descriptions and clean URL structures set up from launch, so Google can actually find you
- Website manual and training access: A knowledge base to help you get comfortable making basic updates yourself, so you’re not calling a developer every time you want to change your opening hours
- 30 days of post-launch support: Email support for questions or small tweaks after go-live
The 10-Day Deep Dive
INVESTMENT: [PRICE — e.g. R10,000]
Built for coaches, consultants and businesses expanding into courses, resources or multiple service lines.
Everything from the 1-Week Sprint, with double the scope for businesses that need more digital real estate.
What’s included:
- Everything in the 1-Day Sprint: All core pages, integrations and SEO foundations
- 2–4 additional pages: For dedicated sales pages, individual service deep-dives, or a course overview hub
- A fully styled blog: Including a custom blog archive page and a clean, readable single-post template
Need more? Add an extra build day
A note on how this works: when you book a Website In a Week, you’re booking our team’s time for the day — not a fixed set of deliverables. Because we’ve refined this process over 18 years, we have a clear, efficient path to getting as much done as possible in the time available.
Bonus: one month of managed hosting and a care plan, available when you sign up to our ongoing support subscription. Clients on a care plan get access to premium themes and plugin licences that improve site speed, SEO and design flexibility, along with security updates, support and backups.
If you’d rather not take a care plan, that’s fine too — we’ll send through your website’s manual so you can keep track of the important details. You’ll just need to set up your own hosting, buy your theme and plugin licences, and stay on top of updates and backups yourself.
How Your Website In a Week Works
- Book it in Use our calendar to find a day that works for you. Not sure how much time you’ll need? Check the guide above, send us an email, or book a free 15-minute call and we’ll work it out together.
- Prework and prep We start with a strategy call to get clear on your objectives, vision and aesthetic. Before your build day, you gather your content — the words, photos and information that go on your site. We’ll send you a checklist of exactly what we need, plus access to our AI content prompt tool so a blank page doesn’t slow you down.
- Build Day This is a focused, high-speed session where we build your entire website in one sitting. You get our full attention for 6–7 hours of real-time collaboration, on top of the prep and finishing work we do behind the scenes.
- Handover You finish the day with your new website live on screen, along with full documentation, so you can launch straight away. If you want to sleep on a few final tweaks, you’ve got a bonus hour of development time, plus 30 days of email support.
The next morning
You wake up knowing your website actually reflects your business and what you offer. It’s built to bring in the right clients, support them through their decision, and help you grow.
After your 30-day support period ends, our optional Website Care Plan keeps your site secure, updated and backed up every month, so you can focus on your clients instead of your tech.
Not Your Average Intensive Week
“Design intensives” are common now, but we approach it differently. We don’t re-skin templates to save time. Here’s why this is more strategic, more custom, and less of a gamble:
- Built from scratch Your website is custom-built, not templated, so it reflects your brand and doesn’t look like everyone else in your industry.
- Strategy, not just aesthetics (SEO-ready) We build with SEO built in from day one. From mobile-responsive structure to clean meta-tagging, your site is technically sound and ready to rank the moment we hit publish.
- The Build-Ready Roadmap A structured process, refined over 15 years, that includes an interactive AI copy prompt tool to help you turn your ideas into website copy quickly.
The Roadmap to Your Launch
The Build-Ready Roadmap
This isn’t a to-do list. It’s a proven process built to remove the “content bottleneck” so you can launch with confidence, without the usual overwhelm.
Every Website In a Week client gets full access to the Build-Ready Roadmap — a step-by-step guide that takes the guesswork out of preparing for your build day.
It helps you get clear on strategy, organise your content, and have everything ready in advance, so on the day itself, we can focus on building, refining and launching.
The Build-Ready Roadmap includes:
- The Blueprint: Before we build anything, we get clear on your business, your pages, your brand and everything you’ll need to gather beforehand. This is the step that makes sure your website actually works, not just looks good.
- The AI Content Prompt Tool: An interactive tool that helps you generate website copy prompts that sound like you, based on your brand voice and your audience.
- The Website Build: This is where your vision comes to life.
- The Finish Line: Every build wraps up with our launch checklist, so your site is mobile-responsive, SEO-ready and technically sound the moment it goes live.
Working with Big Web Media has been a happy experience for us. The website building day was great fun, and we felt empowered in being part of the build and able to edit the site when necessary. Minor post-build adjustments were handled quickly and courteously by the staff, and the end product has been complimented by many of our customers.
Carla Fritty – Eco Insulation
Bring Your Website to Life In a Week
Every Website In a Week includes:
- Inspiration challenge – a fun way to gather visual direction before we start
- Build-Ready Roadmap course – so you’re clear on your content and strategy going in, plus the AI prompt tool to help you write it
- Pre-build strategy call – where we talk through your vision and priorities and set expectations for the day
- 1 day pre-build setup – where we prepare everything so we can hit the ground running
- Website Build Day – the day the site comes together (3–4 pages in one day, or 5–8 pages over two)
- Real-time feedback and review – we collaborate live to get the result you actually want
- Handover – everything you need to review and sign off
- Final tweaks -one bonus hour, so you leave fully satisfied
- 30 days of post-build support – email support for any questions after launch
- Website training access — a client-only knowledge base to help you get comfortable in WordPress
I worked with Big Web Media on the creation of Luggage Warehouse’s new website and I was thrilled with the outcome! Thank you for the fantastic design work, great customer service and your strategic perspectives. We would highly recommend you to anyone needing help with their marketing.
Chris Wancke – Luggage Warehouse
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Website In a Week? It’s our signature web design service: a single dedicated day where our team designs and builds your complete WordPress website from start to finish. By the end of the day, you have a fully designed, mobile-responsive, live-ready site with your pages, contact form, booking integration and basic SEO in place. It’s built for service-based businesses who want a professional website without months of back-and-forth or a traditional agency price tag.
How do you get an entire website built In a Week? When you book a Website In a Week, you’re booking our team’s time for the day, not a fixed list of deliverables. We’ve refined a process – including prep work, discovery and structured feedback – over 18 years and hundreds of website projects. That said, how much we complete depends on your site’s size, complexity and how quickly you respond on the day. If your site needs more than four pages or extra revisions, we can book a follow-up day or half-day to get it over the line.
What kinds of businesses do you build for? We build websites for service-based businesses of all kinds, including consultants, coaches, professional services and small businesses across South Africa. If your website isn’t working as hard as you are, this service was built for you.
What platform do you build on? We build all Website In a Week projects on WordPress. It’s the world’s most widely used website platform: flexible, scalable, well-supported, and it gives you full ownership of your site, so you’re not locked into anyone’s proprietary system.
Do you write the copy for me? We don’t offer copywriting as a standalone service. However, we’ve built the AI Content Prompt Tool specifically to help you write strategic, brand-aligned copy quickly. If you’d rather have your copy professionally written, we can point you to copywriters we trust.
Can you integrate my booking system? Yes. We can set up your booking or contact integrations, whether that’s Calendly, a booking plugin, or a simple contact form linked to your email.
Can you guarantee exactly what I’ll get at the end of the day? Not a fixed list, no – because that would mean we couldn’t respond properly to your feedback and changes on the day. What we can guarantee is that the prep work is structured so everything we need is ready to go before the day starts. The more complete your prep and the faster you respond, the more we’ll get done.
Do you work with clients outside Cape Town? Yes. We’re based in Cape Town, but we work with clients across South Africa and internationally. The process runs entirely remotely and works just as well online as it would in person. It’s real-time collaboration, but not a video call — you’ll see the site come together as we go.
How do I get the most out of the week? Complete your prep work in advance. Your Build-Ready Roadmap includes the planners and content prompts you need to have ready before the build day starts. Before the day, make sure you have:
- All your text (the AI Content Prompt Tool can help if you’re stuck)
- All your images, whether professional photography or curated stock
- Branding assets: logo, hex codes and font files
- Your domain and hosting login details
- Your active social media links
- Any booking system or contact form details you want included
How available do I need to be in the week? This is a real-time process, so you’ll need to be reachable and ready to make quick decisions as we send drafts through. The faster you respond, the more we’re able to build.
What if I need time to think about a decision? That’s what the bonus hour after the build day is for. You can sleep on it and come back with any changes you’d like made.
What if something comes up on the day? Life happens. As a one-time courtesy, you can reschedule your build day with at least 7 days’ written notice. The new date needs to fall within 90 days of your original booking. Rescheduling within 7 days, or a second reschedule, comes with a 25% fee. If a new date isn’t set within a week of cancelling, the project is cancelled and you’d need to rebook at full price. No refunds are available once a booking is made.
How can the work be good quality if it’s done so fast? Because the speed comes from preparation, not from cutting corners. We do the strategic groundwork in the pre-build call, then give the day our full attention. Solid prep, an experienced team and your quick feedback are what make the pace possible.
Will it feel overwhelming? We won’t sugarcoat it: this is a fast-paced day. If that dynamic doesn’t suit you, we’re happy to work in a more traditional project format instead. Let’s talk about what fits.
Can I update the website myself afterwards? Yes. Once the project is complete, the website is yours. You’ll also get access to our library of how-to guides in the client area, covering everything from editing content to adding pages and posts.
Will you be available for support once the site is live? Yes, in three ways: a client-only area with a manual and how-to guides, 30 days of post-build email support, and an optional monthly care plan that covers licences, updates and daily backups.
Do I have to commit to ongoing maintenance? No, but it’s worth considering. A care plan means your site stays online, secure and up to date without you having to think about it. If you’d rather not take one, we’ll send you the manuals so you can manage hosting, licences and updates yourself.
Do you host email? No, we recommend hosting email separately from your website for security reasons. We can help set this up through platforms like Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Zoho or Rackspace.
Will my site work on all screen sizes? Yes, every site is built to work across devices. We’ll also submit your new site to Google and other search engines for indexing. During your 30 days of post-launch support, we’ll monitor the site and fix any bugs you flag.
Will I lose my SEO rankings? We take care to minimise disruption to your existing rankings and links. If you need deeper SEO support, we offer that as a separate service — get in touch and we’ll talk through what’s needed.
Book Your Website In a Week
We only take on a limited number of build days each month and are typically booked 2–4 weeks out. Check our availability and secure your spot.
