Illustrator and live event artist
Nicola Jones
A brand, a site, a shop, and a commercial strategy for an illustrator and live event artist, all built inside the twenty-one days.
Read the case studyWeb design · Hastings
Web design in Hastings.
A strategy-led website for your Hastings business, designed and built by two senior partners in twenty-one days flat.
30 minutes. You’ll know either way.
In short
Whisk Digital is a two-person design studio based in Hastings. We build strategy-led brands and bespoke websites for local businesses and talented professionals. Fixed fee, twenty-one days, both senior partners on your project from day one. No juniors, no templates, no open-ended invoices.
Key facts
- Service
- Brand and website, built together
- Timeline
- 21 days, start to live
- Fee
- Fixed, from £4,995 + VAT
- Studio
- Robertson Street, Hastings
The problem
The pattern we see on every first call.
Most Hastings businesses we meet are not short on quality. They are short on a website that shows it.
01
Pain point
Your site looks the way the town looked ten years ago
It was built quickly, on a free template, by a friend or a previous version of you. It loads slowly on a phone, the photos are tired, and the copy says what you did three years ago. You know it undersells you. You just have not had a clear run at fixing it, because the day job comes first and a rebuild always feels like a project with no end.
02
Pain point
You are invisible in local search
When someone two streets away searches for what you do, a competitor in St Leonards shows up and you do not. Your Google Business Profile is half filled in, your pages are not structured for search, and you have never had time to work out why. The result is quiet weeks that should be busy ones, and enquiries going to people whose work is no better than yours.
03
Pain point
You are losing jobs to businesses with a sharper shopfront
A potential customer compares three websites before they call anyone. If yours looks like an afterthought next to a polished competitor, you lose the job before you ever speak to them. It has nothing to do with how good you are at the actual work. It is about the few seconds someone spends deciding whether you look like the safe choice.
04
Pain point
The agencies who could fix it want six months and a big cheque
You may have had a quotes from an agency that runs to five figures and a timeline that disappears over the horizon. Discovery phases, workshops, account managers, and a slide deck before a single page gets built. For a Hastings business that needs to keep trading while this happens, that is the wrong shape of help.
How we fix it
The same method, pointed at Hastings.
Strategy first.
Then twenty-one days.
We do the opposite. The whole engagement is twenty-one days, fixed fee, with the two of us, Fliss and Greg, on it the entire time. No producers, no junior handing your project around, no clock running on hours.
It starts with a strategy day. We sit down with you, in person at our Hastings studio or at yours, and work out where the business needs to be in three years and what the site has to do to get you there. More enquiries, more bookings, higher-value jobs, whatever the real goal is. That session shapes everything that follows, so the website is built around your business rather than a template someone else filled in.
From there we design and build in a fast, modern, hand-coded stack with a proper content system attached, so you can edit pages yourself without paying a platform every month for the privilege. The site is structured for local search from the first line of code, fast on a phone, and yours to keep. On day twenty-one it goes live, and the keys are yours.
Proof
Work for businesses the size of yours.
We help people like you.
Muralist, Hastings
Melissa White
Heritage murals brought online. A brand, an identity, and a hand-coded website delivered in twenty-one days, with a first hotel commission landing soon after launch.
+312%Direct enquiries, year one
Read the case studyQuestions
Straight answers, no sales call required.
The things people ask.
01How much does a website cost in Hastings?
Our core engagement is a fixed fee from £4,995 + VAT, and that covers strategy, brand, and a hand-coded website, not just the build. You know the number before we start. Larger or e-commerce projects are quoted separately, but with the same fixed-fee discipline so the figure never drifts.
02How long does it take?
Twenty-one days from the strategy session to a live site. We hold to it because the fixed window is the product. If a project genuinely needs longer, we tell you on the first call rather than letting it sprawl.
03What is included?
A brand strategy, a visual identity, the copywriting, and a five-page hand-coded website with a content system attached, set up for local SEO and analytics.
04Do you work with small local businesses?
Almost entirely. We are a two-person studio and our best work is for owner-run businesses of one to ten people, where decisions get made quickly and we deal with the person who actually runs things.
05Can I update the website myself afterwards?
Yes. We attach a proper content system and give you a short walkthrough, so you can edit text, swap images, and add pages without coming back to us or paying a monthly platform fee. You own the site outright.
06Do you offer ongoing support after launch?
You are never locked into a maintenance package you do not need. If you want us in your corner for updates, new pages, or campaigns, we offer light-touch aftercare from £1,400 a quarter. Plenty of clients run happily on their own.
On the ground
Why being local is more than a postcode.
Hastings based.
Properly local.
We are based at Freedom Works on Robertson Street in Hastings, and most of our clients are within a short drive of the studio. Melissa White, the muralist, and Sarah at Pilates by Sarah T are both Hastings businesses we have taken from a thin online presence to a brand and site that finally match the work.
Being local matters more than it sounds. The strategy day is better in a room than on a call, we know the town and the kinds of customers you are trying to reach, and when you need to talk to us you are talking to the two people who built your site, not a support queue in another time zone.
Next step
Thirty minutes, and you'll know either way.
Your Hastings website, live in 21 days.
Book a strategy call. We will tell you in thirty minutes whether the 21-day engagement is right for you, and exactly what it would cost.