Think of us as the web development arm of your Agency or Studio's team. Your designers create the vision — we build it.
Get in touchIf you're a creative studio looking for someone to handle your web development while you focus on design, look no further!
We believe great websites are designed and built with care.
We can work across template heavy platforms like Squarespace to fully custom built and hosted solutions. However, the numbers are in and most of our projects fall in one of three buckets that we specialise in.
And if the list above don’t-make-a-whole-lotta-sense, we’ll help you choose the right tool for your job.
We encourage use of the best hosting solutions for a given development stack. In some cases you may pay a little more, but your site will be fast, secure and if trouble comes, you will get the support you need.
And we want you to keep the keys - being in control of your hosting and domain names gives you flexibility, security and overall website sovereignty!
Ongoing site maintenance is critical for continued site performance and security and we can help as much or as little as you like. Once your site is out in the wild the requirements for our continued input and assistance will change and we will work with you to dial it up or down depending how the winds blow.
If you don’t have a CMS boss in the wheelhouse we will help your team confidently take the controls of your new site and get fully comfortable with its ongoing management.
Hands-down, the best way for your team to get comfortable with managing your site fast is to access a library of short videos floating in the cloud covering all user features, specifically recorded for your project. Can’t remember how to edit a profile … just watch the vid … no scratching through notes or email trails or harassing Bill because he seemed to be listening in the presentation.
And if you are still sweating on what-do-I-click-to-make-that-happen, we’re not far away.
We're flexible. We're not here to swoop in and take over your project. We just want to help you build it.
From consulting on design development, to building , testing, launching, hosting, maintenance and support — we're as involved in each step of the project as you want us to be.
If you'd rather handle all client communication and have us just bashing away at code, great!
It really is up to you. After all, you know your client and their project better than anyone!
If you're a purely creative studio, there's every chance you've run into situations where you may have needed guidance from some dev nerds on tech related issues.
Is this layout possible when going from desktop to mobile? Can we build this functionality and stay within budget? How many moons does Jupiter have?
We can be those nerds for you!
Whatever the bottleneck or ceiling, having a team that you can rely on to guide you and make things happen will liberate your designers from coding hell, and deliver them to their creative utopia.
Sound like paradise? Sure it does!
(By the way, Jupiter has 79 moons at the time of writing this.)
“... It has been a pleasure working with Smokee over the past year or so on a variety of projects. Both Marty & Ismail are a delight to deal with, they are always extremely thorough, clear communicators and very technically capable. Their designer’s eye and attention to detail means we don’t need to compromise our designs, as Smokee are able to bring them to life as we had intended...”
Natalia PullenWe were designers and creatives — that's our difference as developers.
In previous lives we have been professional web designers, graphic designers, architects and 3d visualisation artists. Now we are a couple of dev nerds — and loving it!
We understand the language and the intricacies of design. We get why near enough is not good enough and why a pixel can make all the difference. Branding, UI, UX, art directed imagery, typography — we hear you! Let's get it right, together!
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We first worked together in a digital studio here in Brisbane over ten years ago. Many moons later, we joined forces to create Smokee — a melting pot for our diverse range of skills.
Both of us come from backgrounds as creatives, but have made the switch to the dark side — now focussing on the more technical side of things through web development.
We like to think of ourselves as friendly, open, and honest as the day is long!
Let’s talk about your project!
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