The single biggest thing that speeds up a website project isn't a bigger budget — it's having your basic material ready before the first conversation. Projects that stall almost always stall on the same five things. Sort these out in advance and your build moves noticeably faster.

1. Your content — even in rough form

You don't need polished copy. A voice note, a messy Word document, or even bullet points describing what you do, who it's for, and what makes you different is enough to start. What slows a project down isn't imperfect content — it's no content, because then every decision waits on you.

2. Photos or images, if you have them

Real photos of your work, your space, or your product almost always beat stock imagery for trust. If you don't have any yet, say so upfront — we can work with stock photography or suggest a quick, low-cost shoot before the build starts, rather than discovering the gap halfway through.

3. Your domain situation

Know whether you already own a domain, or whether you'll need help buying one. If you own one, know where it's registered (Namecheap, GoDaddy, Hostinger, etc.) and have login access ready — this alone saves a full back-and-forth email thread later.

4. A couple of examples you like

You don't need design vocabulary. "I like how clean this one feels" or "I want something more colourful than this" is genuinely useful. Two or three reference links — competitors, sites you admire, even something in a completely different industry — help us understand your taste far faster than a written brief alone.

5. A real deadline

"Whenever it's ready" tends to produce the slowest timelines, not the fastest — without a target date, revisions and replies naturally drift. If there's a launch, an event, or simply a date you'd like to be live by, say so at the start. We'll build the schedule around it.

None of this needs to be perfect. It just needs to exist before we start, instead of appearing piece by piece during the build.

What happens once you're ready

With those five things in hand, a short intake conversation is usually enough for us to start on a real draft — not a template preview, an actual working page built around your content. From there it's just revisions and a launch check.

Ready to start? Head to the Contact page and send us what you've got.