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Web design & development studio
Good design sticks.
Gumstick is a one-person studio building websites that look sharp, load fast, and actually get results - for small businesses and solo brands who want to stand out without the agency overhead.
What I do
Services
01
Web Design
Custom layouts built around your brand and your users - not a template with your logo dropped in.
02
Development
Clean, fast, responsive code. Every site is built to load quickly and hold up on any screen.
03
Brand & Identity
Logo, colour, type - a visual system that makes your business instantly recognisable.
04
Care & Growth
Ongoing updates, tweaks, and improvements after launch, so your site keeps working as hard as you do.
Selected work
Two recent sites, live right now.
Not mockups - real sites for real clients, built solo from first sketch to launch.
How it works
Four steps, start to finish.
01
Chew it over
Discovery
A conversation about your goals, your audience, and what your current site is getting wrong.
02
Taste the flavour
Design
Working out what looks best for your business and your customers, refined until it feels right.
03
Blow the bubble
Build
The design becomes a real, working site - built, bursting with content, and made to impress.
04
Pop!
Launch
Your website launches. I hand off everything you need to keep it running.
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I build the kind of site I'd want to hire - no bloated retainer, no cookie-cutter template. Just a site that fits the business it's for.
About
Hi, I'm James.
I started Gumstick because small businesses shouldn't have to choose between a template that looks like everyone else's and an agency retainer built for a business ten times their size.
I build every site myself, start to finish, so you're talking directly to the person doing the work - no account managers, no scope creep, no handing your project off to whoever's free. Just direct access and a site built with real care.
Get in touch
Let's build something that sticks.
Tell me about your project - what you're building, who it's for, and what's not working with what you have now. I read every message myself.
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