Since Sites

SINCE SITES

Websites for people with something to say

Hand-made websites for artists, agencies, trades and independent companies. Live within days. Yours for good.

A website should be the best-made thing you own.

Since Sites builds websites by hand: designed around one clear purpose, written properly, fast on every phone, and hosted in your own name so it stays yours. No templates, no monthly platform fee, no dependence on us afterwards.

When you need more than pages, we build that too: a shop, a box office, a members' area, a roster, a quote form that sends a text, and an admin you can run yourself without calling anyone.

Recent builds

constantfollower.com Artist site

Constant Follower

constantfollower.com

The whole home of a band on one page: music and films, live dates, a merch shop with checkout on the page, mailing list signup, press and photographs, and a members' magazine behind its own door.

Shop with checkoutMailing listMembers' areaMusic and video Visit the site
goodstuffinbetween.com Artist management and publicity

Good Stuff In Between

goodstuffinbetween.com

A roster site for a management and PR agency: a page for every artist with photographs, Spotify and YouTube, the About page and contact. Behind it, an admin the owner runs himself: add a band, upload the photos, press publish.

Live in a dayOwner adminPhoto uploadsSpotify and YouTube Visit the site
goldenhum.co.uk Bespoke ticketing platform

Golden Hum

goldenhum.co.uk

A box office built from scratch for a gig promoter: events with images and copy, card payments landing straight in the promoter's own account, QR tickets by email, a phone scanner for the door, waitlists, unlisted events for private nights, and refunds handled in one go when a show moves.

No platform feeCard paymentsQR ticketsDoor scannerWaitlists Visit the site
ourtrustedvoices.org Publication and platform

Our Trusted Voices

ourtrustedvoices.org

A cultural publication and review service for new Scottish music: a curated network of record shops and venues, a weekly barometer, a public library for artists, a review service, and a control room with roles, rotas and an audit trail. Currently in private preview.

MembersPaymentsControl roomTwo databases Visit the site
thedailyartist.com Book launch

The Daily Artist

thedailyartist.com

A launch site for a book of 366 reflections. The cover painting opens as you scroll, its figures move, the painting settles into the hardback, and a reservation form feeds straight into a database. Built to take reservations before the book is printed.

Scroll filmReservationsDatabase Visit the site
culturalvandalism.info Public data project

Cultural Vandalism

culturalvandalism.info

An independent monitoring project that compared five months of BBC Radio Scotland playlist data with the year before, and published what it found. A timeline of the coverage that followed in The Herald, The Times and The Observer, every claim linked to its source, kept online as a public record.

Data analysisTimelineSourcedNational press Visit the site
dispatch.constantfollower.com Members' magazine

The Followers' Dispatch

dispatch.constantfollower.com

A magazine for a band's inner circle, delivered as a website rather than a newsletter: a password door, issues that unlock for members, players, photographs and buy buttons. Paid membership handled with Stripe and a welcome that sends itself.

Password doorStripe membershipAutomated welcome Visit the site

For heritage brands

Since 1874·Since 1895·Since 1866

A company with a since deserves a site with the same weight as the name over the door.

Quiet, exact and beautifully made, with nothing on the page that a hundred-year-old house would be embarrassed by. The story told properly, the products shown as objects rather than listings, and the whole thing owned outright, in the company's own name.

The story, told properly

The founding, the workshop, the people, the archive. Written and edited with a journalist's care, and given the room a long story needs.

Products and stockists

Ranges presented with space around them, a stockist finder, and a shop when you want one, built in rather than bolted on.

Press and trade

A press room with photographs and copy ready to download, and private pages for buyers that you send in an email and take down when you like.

Built to be kept

Your domain, your account, your site. Fast on every phone, easy for your own people to update, and still right in ten years.

Our sister studio, Since Films, makes films for heritage brands. Commission the site and the film together and they are made as one piece of work: the same eye, the same words, one look carried across the website, the film and everything that goes out on social media.

For trades

If you build things, your website has three jobs.

  1. Be found and be believed. Your name, your area, your reviews and photographs of finished work, on a page that loads in a blink on a phone in a kitchen.
  2. Make contact effortless. A number they can tap, and a short form that lets them add a photo of the job.
  3. Reach you now. The enquiry lands on your phone as a text while they are still on your site, with their number ready to call back.

Joiners, builders, plumbers, electricians, landscapers, decorators. We build the site, set up your email at your own domain, and sort the Google listing to go with it.

Example

Ashcroft Joinery
Stirling and the Forth Valley
Call 01786 000 000
★★★★★ 4.9 from 38 reviews
Get a quote
Your name
What needs doing
back-door.jpg attached
Send
Sent. Expect a reply today.
The customer's phone
09:41
Tuesday 15 September
Ashcroft Joinery sitenow
New enquiry from Mrs Reid, Bridge of Allan: replace back door, photo attached. 07700 900 123.
Four seconds after they pressed send
Your phone

What comes with it

How it works

One

A conversation

What the site is for, who it is for, what you already have. An hour, in person or on the phone.

Two

A private link

Within days you are looking at the real thing on a private address, and we change it together until it is right.

Three

Live when you say so

Your domain, your account, your site. We stay on hand, or hand over completely. Either is fine.

A fixed price, agreed before we start. Most sites are live within a week of the first conversation.

Enquiries

Stirling · Scotland

The form reaches the studio as soon as you press send. We'll get back to you quickly.