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bits&bytes

Web design & development studio

We design
& build
websites

bits&bytes is a web studio. We turn an idea into a considered, fast, well-built site — from the first pixel through to the production deploy.

build --watchlive
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  • Web Design
  • Frontend Engineering
  • UX / UI
  • Design Systems
  • Performance
  • Accessibility
  • Deployment
  • Maintenance
01About

A small studio
that ships

Every project starts the same way: understand the problem, draw the system, write the code.

No templates, no page-builders, no filler sections padding out a page that had nothing more to say. We design the thing the site actually needs and then build it properly — semantic markup, typed components, a real performance budget.

Because the same people design and build, nothing gets lost in a handoff. The layout that gets drawn is the layout that ships, and whoever drew it is the one answering for how fast it loads.

We take a site from the first sketch through to the production deploy — and then keep it running.

studio.cfgread-only
studio
bits&bytes
does
design + build
output
websites, digital experiences
stack
next.js, typescript, css
handoff
none — we ship it ourselves
templates
0

$cat studio.cfg

02Capabilities

What we do

Six things, done properly, by the same people from start to finish.

  • design.psd01

    Web Design

    Layout, type, colour and motion designed as one system, not a set of screens. Every project gets its own visual language.

    • Art direction
    • Design systems
    • Prototyping
  • build.tsx02

    Web Development

    Modern front-end engineering. Component architecture, typed code, and markup that means what it says.

    • Next.js / React
    • TypeScript
    • Semantic HTML
  • layout.css03

    Responsive Design

    Every breakpoint is designed, not squeezed. Phones get an intentional layout, not a narrower desktop.

    • Fluid type scales
    • Touch targets
    • No layout debt
  • flows.map04

    UX / UI

    Structure before surface. We map what people came to do, then design the shortest honest route to it.

    • Information architecture
    • Interaction design
    • Accessibility
  • budget.json05

    Performance

    Speed is a design decision. We set a budget at the start and hold the build to it — payload, fonts, images, the lot.

    • Core Web Vitals
    • Asset budgets
    • Render strategy
  • deploy.yml06

    Deployment & Maintenance

    Containerised builds, automated pipelines and a site that keeps working after launch day.

    • Docker
    • CI/CD
    • Monitoring & updates
  • Web Design
  • Frontend Engineering
  • UX / UI
  • Design Systems
  • Performance
  • Accessibility
  • Deployment
  • Maintenance
03Selected work

Recent builds

A cross-section of the kind of work we take on. Open a project for the detail.

6 projects listed

04Process

How a project runs

Five stages, in order. You see working software from stage three onward, not a big reveal at the end.

  1. 01

    Discover

    read --brief

    We learn the business, the audience and the constraints before anything gets drawn. Scope, budget and the one thing the site actually has to achieve.

    • Project brief
    • Sitemap
    • Success criteria
  2. 02

    Design

    draw --system

    Structure first, then surface. Wireframes settle the hierarchy; the visual system settles type, colour, grid and component behaviour.

    • Wireframes
    • Visual system
    • Prototype
  3. 03

    Build

    npm run build

    Semantic, accessible front-end code, written component by component and reviewed as we go. You see it running on a staging URL the whole way.

    • Component library
    • Staging build
    • Content integration
  4. 04

    Ship

    git push origin main

    Containerised builds and an automated pipeline, so releasing is a push rather than an event. Performance and accessibility are checked before it goes live.

    • CI/CD pipeline
    • Production deploy
    • Analytics & SEO
  5. 05

    Maintain

    watch --uptime

    Dependencies patched, uptime watched, and a standing line to us for the changes every live site eventually needs.

    • Monitoring
    • Updates
    • Iteration
05Contact

Got something
to build?

Tell us what you have in mind — a new site, a rebuild, or a rough idea that needs shaping. We answer every message ourselves.

new-project — bash
you@web:~$ ./start-project
> a new site, a rebuild, or something
> in between?
> send it over.
you@web:~$
hello@bitsnbytes.cloud
studio
bits&bytes
email
hello@bitsnbytes.cloud
code
github.com/MichaelByteX