A small studio in Brisbane that paints with code.
Canvas & Byte is a two-person studio run from Brisbane's south-west. It grew out of years of designing and documenting technical systems that have to work first time; we bring the same discipline to websites, and the same insistence that you see it working before you pay.
The name is the whole idea.
Canvas
The painted side. A brushstroke, a colour, a feeling you can't get from a template. Words written for your customers, type and layout chosen for your business and nobody else's.
Byte
The built side. Clean code, measured speed, four screen widths checked, redirects that keep your rankings. The craft only counts if it works on a phone in a car park.
What we believe about good work.
Show, don't pitch
We'd rather build the thing and let you judge it than write a proposal about it. It's why websites are built before they're bought.
Real words, real pictures
No lorem ipsum, no stock photos pretending to be your shop. If a page has nothing true to say, it doesn't get built.
Phones first
Most of your customers will meet you on a phone screen. Everything is designed there first and checked at four widths.
Engineered, not assembled
Hand-coded pages, measured load times, redirects that keep your search ranking, forms that are tested before launch.
Honest about Google
No ranking guarantees, no secret tricks. The work that's in your control, done properly, and reported every month.
Always in your name
Your domain, your content and your accounts are registered to you, never to us.