Digital, media & content businesses · 6 live sites

Web design for digital & media

Six of the businesses CREATE builds for produce content, video or digital products. They are the hardest clients to build for, because they know exactly what good looks like.

What we build for these businesses

Content studios, video producers, course businesses and digital agencies. The bar is higher here for an obvious reason: the client sells the same kind of craft you are selling them. What they usually need is not more design; it is a site fast enough to survive a portfolio full of video, and a structure that makes a broad offer legible.

The recurring problem in this sector is weight. A portfolio of showreels will destroy a page’s load time if nobody plans for it, and slow is the one thing a creative business cannot afford to look.

Live sites in the sector

Every one of these is a live site for a real business. No stock screenshots, no “representative examples”: click through and check.

The VIDEOGROWN website home page, a split-screen entry page offering two routes, ‘I’m a DTC brand’ over Formula 1 brand-film footage and ‘I’m a personal brand’ over founder content.

VIDEOGROWN

Brand films & short-form content, Dubai

A content studio selling short-form vertical video, so the site has to play the work without becoming slow.

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The WEBGROWN website home page, Web design & optimisation, Dubai.

WEBGROWN

Web design & optimisation, Dubai

A digital business whose own site is its argument.

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The Video Launch Pad website home page, Video course, Dubai.

Video Launch Pad

Video course, Dubai

A course product, built around getting someone from interested to enrolled without friction.

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The The Digital Model Agency website home page, Hyper-real AI models for brands.

The Digital Model Agency

Hyper-real AI models for brands

A new category of business, which means the site has to explain the idea before it can sell it.

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The Ellvitz website home page, Content production.

Ellvitz

Content production

Production work where the portfolio is the pitch.

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The STRATA website home page, the headline ‘Engineered for those who want returns, not screen time’ beside a wireframe globe on a black background.

STRATA

Algorithmic Forex trading

A technical product sold to a sceptical buyer. The site has to explain how an automated system works, and what controls sit around it, before it can ask anyone to trust it.

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And six we built for ourselves

Everything above is client work. These are not; they are CREATE’s own products. We designed them, we built them, and we run them.

They are on this page because they are the honest answer to “can you actually build a product, not just a website?”: accounts, payments, image pipelines and APIs, kept running by the same people who wrote them. When we tell a digital business we understand shipping software, this is what we are standing on.

The Card1 website: the headline ‘One card. Everything you are.’ beside a phone showing a digital business card.

Card1

A CREATE product · Digital business cards

Design a card in minutes and share it by tap, QR or email signature: the person you met keeps your details with nothing to install. Live designer, a free tier that stays free, and an engraved metal card if you still want something to hand over.

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The CREATE Tables website: the headline ‘Your venue. Your customers. Our platform.’ over restaurant food photography.

CREATE Tables

A CREATE product · Hospitality

One system to run a restaurant, bar, café, pub or takeaway: website, ordering, bookings, payments, gift vouchers and reviews in one place. One flat monthly fee, no commission on takings.

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The CREATE Displays website: the headline ‘Run your screens from anywhere’ beside a café menu board on a wall-mounted screen.

CREATE Displays

A CREATE product · Digital signage

Run screens from anywhere, one URL, any TV or streaming stick. Upload images, video and text from your phone, schedule by date or time of day, and the screen keeps playing if the Wi-Fi drops.

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The CREATE Landing Pages website: the headline ‘A landing page that actually wins you customers’ in bold type on a bright gradient, beside a browser mock-up.

CREATE Landing Pages

A CREATE product · Landing pages

Productised landing pages at a fixed price, built in seven days. Four tiers, priced openly on the page and paid for in-page by card, so the cost and the turnaround are settled before anyone gets on a call.

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The AI Basics website home page, the headline ‘Everyone tells you to use AI. Nobody tells you how.’ over a photograph of someone working behind a bar.

AI Basics

A CREATE product · Plain-English AI guides

Guides for people running a business who have been told to use AI and never told which job to point it at. £10 each, instant download, nothing to subscribe to. Every page is listed before you buy, so you pick the problem you actually have.

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The CREATE Reviews website home page, the headline ‘Boost your online presence with CREATE Reviews’ beside floating review cards on a dark green background.

CREATE Reviews

A CREATE product · Review management

Gather, respond to and showcase reviews across 40+ platforms from one dashboard: Google, Trustpilot, Booking.com, Yelp. Built around a rating funnel that sends happy customers to your public listings and unhappy ones to a private form that reaches you first.

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What a creative business site has to do differently

Selling creative work to people who buy creative work is a harder brief than it sounds. The audience is professionally critical, they will judge the craft of the site itself as a work sample, and they have seen every template going. A studio site that looks like a template has already lost the argument before anybody reads the copy.

At the same time it has to stay a working website. We have seen plenty of beautiful agency sites where the work is impossible to browse, the case studies never say what the outcome was, and the contact route is a single email address in a footer. The craft has to serve the enquiry rather than compete with it.

Video and media businesses add a technical layer on top. Showreels have to load fast and not autoplay audio, large media has to be encoded properly rather than dumped in at source resolution, and the whole thing still has to work on a phone. Getting that wrong is the most common reason a creative site feels slow, and it is usually fixable in an afternoon.

Getting found in digital and media

Creative businesses are usually the worst at this, because the instinct is to build something beautiful and assume the work will speak for itself. It will not, unless somebody finds it.

The buying searches are service plus qualifier. Corporate video production, animation studio, brand identity design, product photography, each often with a city attached. Those are the phrases with budget behind them, and a site organised purely as a portfolio grid will not rank for any of them.

Case studies are the asset. A properly written case study naming the client, the problem, the work and the result does three jobs at once: it ranks, it convinces, and it gets quoted by AI assistants. Most creative sites publish galleries instead, which do none of the three.

There is no geographic ceiling on most creative work, which makes this one of the sectors where a small studio can genuinely compete with a large one on search. The constraint is almost never talent. It is that nobody has written down what the studio does in words a search engine or an assistant can use.

What it costs and how long it takes

Landing pages start from £500. Brochure sites, e-commerce and bespoke platforms are quoted to scope, because pretending otherwise produces a number that changes the moment we understand the job. You get a fixed price before anything starts, and it does not move unless you ask for something new.

On timescales: a simple page can be turned around in 24 to 48 hours, most brochure sites go live in three to six weeks, and e-commerce or custom builds run six to twelve weeks. The variable is almost never us. It is how quickly copy, photography and technical detail come back, and we will tell you at the start which of those sits on your side of the line.

We are founder-led, so the person who quotes the job is the person who builds it. Nothing is subcontracted, and you are not paying for an account manager to relay messages between you and the person doing the work.

Questions we get asked

Why would a digital business hire another one?

Usually capacity or objectivity. Plenty of studios are excellent at their craft and would rather not spend six weeks on their own site, or want someone outside the business to argue with them about it.

Can you handle heavy video without wrecking the load time?

That is the main technical job in this sector. Proper encoding, lazy loading, poster frames and a CDN, so the showreel plays and the page still scores well.

Do you build course and membership platforms?

Yes, including payments, drip content and member areas. Usually simpler and cheaper than the platforms people are quoted.

How long does it take?

Landing pages in 24 to 48 hours. Brochure and portfolio sites three to six weeks. Course platforms six to twelve.

Who does the work?

Dom does. Founder-led, so you are talking to the person building it.

What clients say

Reviews from Google and Trustpilot, quoted as written. There are more on our reviews page.

“Exceptional service - dedicated & responsive to brief It’s taken me years to find someone that understand my business to be able to do a website justice. Thank you Dom !…”
Jo Storrvia Google
“Excellent from start to finish. The website was done before I even knew about it. All the info processed onto the site was seamless, any little tweaks got done straight away. Dom is helpful, friendly and very professional from start to finish.”
Mark Stantonvia Google
“Well what can I say, in 24 hours Create Agency rebuilt my website, sorted the SEO, fixed my emails. Pretty much did everything that my current provider wasn’t doing but was happy to take my money. Brilliant service, can’t recommend enough, thanks again for such a fantastic service. Steve”
Steven Leggettvia Trustpilot
“Create Web Design did an outstanding job on our website. Professional, responsive, and genuinely creative. Dom understood exactly what we needed and delivered ahead of schedule. Communication was excellent throughout. Highly recommend if you want a team that actually cares about the result, great work.”
Ian Prattvia Google

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