A two-person studio in Ghent. We build small websites and keep them small.
Katrien writes the code, Ivo does the words and the pictures. We take
three or four projects a year, mostly for museums, small publishers and people
who run something on their own.
Every site we make starts with a weight budget, usually 150 kB for the
first page a visitor sees. That number decides most of the arguments before
anyone has them. A hero video does not fit. Four typefaces do not fit. A photo
that carries the meaning of the page fits, once it has been resized properly.
What we get in return is a site that opens on a phone with two bars of signal
and costs almost nothing to host.
Recent work
Museum Dr. Guislain, collection guide
Nine hundred objects, searchable without a database.
64 kB on the first page, 11 kB per object after that.
De Lage Landen, a small press
Catalogue, shop and twenty years of back issues.
102 kB, one typeface, no tracking of any kind.
Bram Weyts, luthier
Twelve photographs that had to look right, which took most of the budget.
148 kB, and he can add an instrument himself in about
four minutes.
Ghent Cycling Union
Route sheets and a repair calendar, built to work on an old phone in the
rain. 38 kB, and it caches so the second visit is
nothing.
How we work
Plain HTML and CSS, and JavaScript only where the page cannot do the
job without it.
System fonts. The letters on your screen are already on your
computer.
Images sized for the space they sit in, in one modern format with one
fallback.
Hosting you can leave. Everything we hand over is a folder of files.
One round of edits after launch, then we teach you to make your
own.
We charge by the project, not the hour, and we will tell you before we
start if we think you need a smaller studio than ours.
Notes
Talk to us
Write to hallo at marram dot studio, or come by the workshop on
Baudelostraat on a Thursday afternoon. Tell us what the site is for and
roughly when you need it. We answer every mail, usually within a week.