// Web design in Johannesburg
Neighbourhood Digital is a one person web design studio in Illovo. That one person is Oliver, and he is who you deal with from the first WhatsApp to the day your site goes live. We build websites for small Joburg businesses: practices, consultancies, makers and shops that need a site that works properly, without paying agency prices. Builds start at R3,500 and most are live in one to two weeks.
Joburg is a big, spread out city, and most people find a local business on their phone, often on mobile data. So the site has to load fast, say plainly where you are and who you help, and make it one tap to call or WhatsApp you. We work out what your business needs from it first, and build around that.
// Where we work
Mostly the northern suburbs, because that is where we are, and up the highway to Centurion. These are the areas we work in most, and we are happy to come and meet you at your business.
Illovo
where we are
Birnam
The Healing Company
Sandton
Rosebank
Melrose
Randburg
Bryanston
Centurion
MTKP Designs
// A Joburg example: The Healing Company, Birnam
Dr Steven Smilkstein, a chiropractor, and Cayla Urdang, a biokineticist, run two separate practices under one roof in Birnam. Before, there was no shared brand: nothing that showed patients the two practices belonged together.
We created a unified brand that keeps each practice its own but brings both under one umbrella, The Healing Company. Then we built the site around it from scratch, with a blog and enquiry forms.
“It has been a pleasure dealing with Neighbourhood Digital. Their service and delivery has been outstanding.”
// What it costs
The same prices as on our homepage, for every client. A 2026 survey put the average five page website in Johannesburg at around R7,000. Ours start at half that, mostly because a one person studio has no office rent, sales team or account managers to pay for. Our guide to website costs in South Africa explains where the numbers come from.
- CUSTOM WEBSITE
- from R3,500
- Up to five pages, designed and built from scratch. Live in one to two weeks, and the files are yours.
- HOSTING
- R150/month
- Keeps the site live and secure, with the SSL padlock included.
- HOSTING & CARE
- R350/month
- Hosting plus monitoring, same-day fixes, small tweaks after launch and monthly speed checks.
- EXTRA PAGES
- R750 to R1,000
- Per page, in the same design, depending on what is on it.
- YOUR DOMAIN
- at cost
- The .co.za address, bought in your name with no markup.
// Working with someone down the road
- 01
A CHAT FIRST
Ideally in person. Sitting down together is the quickest way to understand a business: who your customers are, where they find you, and what is not working. If meeting is hard to fit in, a WhatsApp chat or a call works too.
- 02
A MOCK-UP QUICKLY
You see the direction early, before anything is final. MTKP Designs had a live mock-up within hours of their first chat.
- 03
LIVE IN ONE TO TWO WEEKS
The building is rarely what slows a site down. Waiting for photos and text usually is, so we tell you exactly what we need on day one.
- 04
SAME CITY, SAME HOURS
When something needs fixing, you are messaging someone a few kilometres away who is awake when you are. On Hosting & Care, fixes happen the same day.
// Questions from Joburg businesses
Do you only work with Johannesburg businesses?
No. We are based in Illovo and most of our clients are in Gauteng, but MTKP Designs is in Centurion and Doncaster Personnel is in the United Kingdom. Everything works over WhatsApp, email and video calls, so distance is not a problem.
Can we meet in person?
Yes, and we would rather. An hour around a table tells us more about your business than a week of messages. If you are anywhere from Centurion to the northern suburbs, we are happy to come to you. If meeting is hard to fit in, WhatsApp and calls work fine.
Will my website show up when people in Johannesburg search on Google?
A new site does not rank overnight, and anyone who promises you page one is guessing. What we do is build it fast, tell Google clearly what you do and which part of Joburg you serve, and get the technical basics right. For local searches your Google Business Profile, the listing that shows on Google Maps, matters at least as much as the website, and we can talk you through setting it up.
Is it more expensive if my business is in Sandton?
No. The price depends on what the site needs to do, not on your postcode. Our prices are the same for every client and are published on the homepage.
Running a Joburg business that needs a website?
Send us a WhatsApp and tell us what you do and where. We will give you a straight answer on what it would cost, or tell you honestly if we are not the right fit.
[ WHATSAPP US → ]061 382 9267