Clients only see the peak.

We build the mountain underneath it.

Premium web design for service businesses

Your best clientsjudge you beforethey ever call.

Most established firms lose work they never hear about, to a website that looks smaller than the business behind it. Lodevant rebuilds that first impression.

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Signature rebuilds from $2,500 · 3-week delivery

The cost of an outdated site

It is not a design problem. It is a revenue problem.

A dated website does not simply look old. It quietly changes what people are willing to pay you, and whether they call at all.

It undermines trust before you speak

A prospect forms a judgement about your competence in seconds, and they form it on your website. When the site looks neglected, the assumption is that the work might be too.

It leaks the leads you already paid for

Referrals, ads and search all end at the same page. If it is slow, unclear on mobile, or buries the way to contact you, the spend that got them there is wasted.

It makes you look smaller than your competitors

The firm with the sharper site wins the comparison, regardless of who does better work. Being second-best online is expensive in a high-ticket market.

Selected work

The work is the argument.

A small number of projects each month, built to a standard we would put in front of an awards jury.

Every project is inside the mountain.

Personal portfolio2026

Ruduan Joubert

Our founder's own portfolio, built around graphics made for this site alone.

The brief was a portfolio people remember after the tab is closed. It leads with its graphics: a folded-paper portrait in a crimson light that moves as you scroll, then the story behind it, from engineering and cybersecurity to the companies he founded.

A folded-paper portrait that animates frame by frame as you scroll
A pinned hero in a crimson light beam, with its own layout on phones
Story, companies, timeline and projects on one smooth-scrolling page
A still portrait for visitors who prefer reduced motion

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3D printing & ecommerce2026

RU3D

A South African 3D-printing store, SEO-optimised from the product names down, selling its own designs alongside a custom-print service.

RU3D prints and sells its own products. The brief was real photography of real products, a catalogue that is easy to browse on a phone and easy for search engines to read, and a custom-print enquiry path for the jobs that are not on the shelf.

SEO across the catalogue: search-friendly product names, image filenames and descriptions
Shopify store: catalogue, cart, checkout and local shipping rules
Photography of the actual prints, no renders and no stock imagery
Custom 3D-printing enquiry route alongside the ready-made range

products live on Shopify: 225; products live on Shopify

Live and selling.

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The full collection

There is more inside the mountain.

Every site we have built and are building, frozen in the ice along one tunnel. The last alcove is kept for your business.

Interactive 3D · 5 sites inside

What we build

One flagship rebuild. Everything else supports it.

Pricing is in US dollars. Where a build lands in its range depends on page count, integrations like booking or a shop, and whether we write the copy. You get one fixed price in the proposal before we start: no hourly billing, no surprise line items.

Most chosen

Signature rebuild

$2,500 – $4,500

The full website rebuild for an established business that has outgrown its site. Strategy first, then design, build and launch.

Delivered in 3 weeks

Positioning and site strategy
Copy structure written for conversion
Premium custom design, no templates
Built on the modern stack, fast on mobile
Lead capture, SEO foundations, analytics
Launch, handover and training

Essential rebuild

$1,500 – $2,400

The leaner version for a smaller footprint: the same craft, fewer sections, faster to launch.

Focused single-page or 3-page build
Custom design on your brand
Lead capture and analytics
Launch and handover

Delivered in 2 weeks

Cinematic build

$5,000 – $9,000

For brands whose website has to be the proof. Scroll storytelling, video, motion carried through every section.

Multi-page, art-directed build
Video hero and scroll-driven sequences
Bespoke motion system
Everything in the Signature rebuild

Delivered in 4–6 weeks

After launch

Build it. Run it. Grow it.

The rebuild gets you a site worth sending people to. The monthly plans keep it fast and keep it found.

Run

Care Plan

$300 / month

Launch is the start, not the finish. We keep the site fast, current and backed up, and handle the edits so you never chase a developer again.

Monthly updates and content edits
Backups, uptime and security monitoring
Speed and performance checks
Priority support, direct to us

Grow

Growth Plan

$600 / month

A site nobody finds earns nothing. Each month we work the things that bring the calls in: your Google listing, your reviews, local search and fresh content. Then we report what moved.

Google Business Profile management
Reviews requested and answered
Monthly local SEO work
One new content page a month
A monthly performance report

How it runs

You will always know exactly where the project stands.

Premium is punctual. The process below is the same for every client, with review dates set in the calendar before we start.

Days 1–2
Strategy
A kickoff call and a short form. We agree the goal of every page, the action it drives, and the section map, in writing, before a pixel is drawn.
Days 3–8
Design
The homepage first, desktop and mobile, designed to the standard we would submit to an awards jury. You review, we refine, then the rest follows the approved direction.
Days 9–16
Build
Built on the modern stack: fast, responsive, accessible. Lead capture wired up, analytics installed, every page tested on real devices.
Days 17–21
Launch and care
We handle DNS, launch and handover, and walk you through the site. From there the Care Plan keeps it fast, current and off your desk.

Why Lodevant

A lodestar is the star you steer by.

The name is two halves. Lode: the guiding star, and the vein of value beneath the surface. Vant: vantage, the high ground, the better position.

That is the whole job description. We are not a volume shop shipping templates with a new logo dropped in. We take a small number of clients each month and build each site as if it were the only thing our reputation rests on, because it is.

Lodevant is a web design studio in Johannesburg. You work directly with its founder on strategy and delivery, with one point of accountability from the first conversation to handover.

What you can hold us to.

A fixed price, agreed before we start
A named delivery date, held to
Clear review dates and response expectations
You own everything: code, domain, accounts

Before you ask

The questions that come up every time.

Do you work with businesses in the United States?

Yes. We are based in Johannesburg, South Africa, and build for clients abroad. Calls are scheduled in your timezone, and our working day overlaps with US mornings, so work you approve in the evening has moved on by the time you open your laptop.

How long does a rebuild take?

A Signature rebuild is three weeks from deposit to launch, and we hold that date. The only thing that moves it is feedback. We ask for responses within 48 hours at each review, and the timeline holds.

Who writes the copy?

We structure it (the headline, the order of the argument, the calls to action), and you approve or adjust the specifics only you can know. You are never handed a blank page.

What if I already have a site I do not hate?

Then a rebuild may not be what you need. Book the site review and we will tell you plainly whether the site is the constraint. If it is not, we will say so.

What happens after launch?

You own everything: the code, the domain, every account. You can keep us on a monthly plan to run the site and grow it, but nothing is locked to us. That is deliberate.

How does payment work?

Fifty percent to book the slot and start, the balance on launch. The price is fixed in the proposal, so the invoice always matches the number you agreed to.