Independent web design studio
of Calvin Thurman
Websites with a pulse. Whipped up fast.
What this is
Sitewhip is a studio for people and small businesses who are done blending in. Every site starts on a blank page, gets built by hand, loads before you blink, and makes the right people reach out.
The craft
Four things I obsess over, so you don't have to.
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01
Type that talks
Fonts get cast like a lead actor. Your words set big, confident and impossible to skim past, because the way it reads is half of what it says.
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02
Motion with manners
Movement that guides the eye and makes people linger. Silky on a phone, and calm for anyone whose device asks for less motion.
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03
Speed you can feel
Lean, hand-written code with no bloated builder underneath. Pages show up instantly on a spotty connection and stay that way.
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Built to be found
Clean structure, real metadata and plainly written answers, so search engines and AI assistants can find you and quote you correctly.
Range
No two alike.
Every Sitewhip site starts from a blank canvas and your personality, never a theme marketplace. Same care every time, wildly different results.
Concept gallery
Looks I can whip up.
Seven live previews across six kinds of site, each running in code right here on the page with its own motion. Scroll to browse.
Concept pieces, not client work. Yours gets a look all its own.
Why the look matters
People decide fast. Design is how they decide.
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50 milliseconds
is how long visitors take to judge a site’s design.
First impressions are visual, so every Sitewhip site starts from a blank page and is designed to land in a glance.
Source: Lindgaard et al., Behaviour & Information Technology; confirmed by Google Research.
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75 percent
of people judge a business’s credibility by its website design.
Your site is your handshake. Custom type, color and detail make you look as established as you really are.
Source: Stanford Web Credibility Research.
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38 percent
of people stop engaging with a site if its layout is unattractive.
Layout is the difference between staying and leaving. Clear hierarchy keeps people reading toward one obvious next step.
Source: Adobe, State of Content 2015.
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53 percent
of mobile visits are abandoned if a page takes over 3 seconds to load.
Speed is part of the look. Lean, hand-written code with no page builder underneath means pages show up fast on a phone.
Source: Google/SOASTA, The Need for Mobile Speed.
How it goes
From hello to live, in four moves.
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Step 01
Brief
We talk for half an hour. You tell me what you do, who it's for and what isn't working yet. I listen for the thing that makes you different, then send a fixed quote.
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Step 02
Direction
I come back with a visual direction: type, color, motion and a homepage concept. You react honestly, and we sharpen it until it feels unmistakably yours.
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Step 03
Build
Hand-built, mobile first, tuned for speed and search. You get a private preview link and watch the whole thing come together, page by page.
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Step 04
Launch
Domain, hosting, analytics, the full checklist. Your site goes live and it's yours outright: code, content and accounts in your name.
Try it
Whip up your brief.
Tap a vibe and a type. The preview rebuilds itself to match. When it feels right, send it over and we start from there.