# Nova Site

> Nova Site is a founder-led web design studio, founded in September 2025 by Ryno Kahl and based in Pretoria, South Africa. It designs and builds custom websites and web apps, with SEO included as standard, for a limited number of businesses at a time in the United States, the United Kingdom and Europe. All work is done remotely. Its South African site is https://novasite.co.za/.

- Website: https://novasitestudio.com/
- Email: info@novasite.co.za
- WhatsApp: +27 75 947 9549
- Clients: United States, United Kingdom and Europe, worked with remotely; calls scheduled in the client's time zone
- Based in: Pretoria, South Africa (GMT+2)
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/nova-site/
- Currencies: US dollars, British pounds and euros

## Pricing

Prices are set separately for each currency (not exchange-rate conversions). The site shows the visitor's currency automatically, based on their browser time zone.

- Launch website (up to 5 pages, SEO included): from $2,500 / £1,950 / €2,300, one-off. Typically live in 2 to 3 weeks.
- Growth website (up to 12 pages, blog, analytics and conversion tracking, Google Business Profile and local SEO): from $4,500 / £3,500 / €4,100, one-off. Typically live in 3 to 5 weeks.
- Custom builds and web apps: from $8,000 / £6,300 / €7,400, fixed quote. Typically 4 to 8 weeks.
- Care plan (hosting, SSL, backups, monthly SEO checks, maintenance and up to 2 hours of changes or support a month): $200 / £160 / €185 per month, optional.
- Google Ads management is quoted separately; ad spend is paid directly to Google.

## Services

- [Custom website design](https://novasitestudio.com/services.html#web-design): designed and written from scratch (no templates or page builders), mobile-first, with enquiry forms, booking links and click-to-call. Launched with domain, hosting, SSL and business email set up.
- [SEO](https://novasitestudio.com/services.html#seo): included as standard on every site: titles and descriptions, structured data, sitemap, Search Console, fast loading and mobile optimisation. Ongoing SEO work is quoted separately.
- [Custom web apps](https://novasitestudio.com/services.html#web-apps): booking systems, internal dashboards and client portals built from scratch, with secure sign-in and roles.
- [Google Ads management](https://novasitestudio.com/services.html#google-ads): conversion tracking before spend, city, radius and region targeting, and ongoing management.
- [Care plan](https://novasitestudio.com/services.html#hosting): hosting and SSL, domains registered in the client's name, content changes and business email.

## How Nova Site works

- Small on purpose: only a few projects at a time, led by the founder, Ryno Kahl, from first call to launch.
- A free 20-minute discovery call, then a fixed, itemised quote within two business days. No hourly surprises.
- Process: discovery, design, build on a private preview link, launch. Review rounds are included.
- Clients own their website and domain and can move them at any time.

## Work

- More than 20 websites and web apps built so far.
- [Portfolio](https://novasitestudio.com/work.html): Maseko Prime Holdings (Pretoria; mine operations support, https://masekoprimeholdings.co.za/; Nova Site is their branding partner under a branding partnership agreement, and founder & CEO Tshepang Maseko left a Google review: "Splendid work, Love their work. I personally would recommend Nova site to anyone"), GreyX IT & Network Solutions (Sandton), Brick and Motta Projects (Pretoria West), Fluorescence Supply (Johannesburg; B-BBEE Level 1 industrial supplier, live on its own domain at https://fluorescencesupplyptyltd.com/; founder Mahlatse Mathebula left a 5-star Google review: "Ryno is very professional, patient and quick, he's done an excellent job building the fluorescence website. Im so happy with Novasite, highly recommend."), Extra Green Garden Services (Erasmuskloof, Pretoria East), Mindz of Marketing (Gauteng & KwaZulu-Natal), Rozelle Embroidery and Crafts (Elardus Park), PRIME Medical Training (Elardus Park), Print Joy (Elardus Park), Keystride (https://keystride.novasite.co.za/, a free typing speed test and trainer built in-house by Nova Site), Plainpage (https://novasitestudio.com/plainpage/, a free PDF toolkit with 25 tools, including merge, compress, OCR, sign, edit existing text, protect and redact, that runs entirely in the browser so files are never uploaded, built in-house by Nova Site), Input Embroidery (Pretoria East), Vikings Race Club (Waverley), Shadreck Tree Felling, and the S1000RR Archive showcase (https://bmws1k.novasite.co.za/), a personal project on BMW's S 1000 RR and M 1000 RR superbikes.
- GO Charging Stations (Bryanston, Sandton; EV charger supply, installation and charging, live at https://gochargingstations.co.za/): founder & CEO Tsholofelo Somazembe left a 5-star Google review: "We are extremely happy with the work delivered on the GO Charging Stations website! The team was professional, efficient, and attentive to our vision. They did an excellent job bringing our brand and business to life online. We appreciate their dedication and highly recommend their services to anyone looking for quality website development. Thank you for the excellent work!"
- [Web apps](https://novasitestudio.com/work.html#web-apps): KasiDB Bookings (https://kasidb.novasite.co.za/), a booking system for engineering maintenance teams that KasiDB sells to its clients, and Nova Site Admin, Nova Site's own business dashboard for clients, projects, quotes, invoices, time tracking, renewals and tax, with a live demo using a made-up agency and 200 fictional clients (https://demoadmin.novasite.co.za/).

## Pages

- [Home](https://novasitestudio.com/)
- [Services and pricing](https://novasitestudio.com/services.html)
- [Work](https://novasitestudio.com/work.html)
- [About](https://novasitestudio.com/about.html)
- [Team](https://novasitestudio.com/team.html): Ryno Kahl, co-founder, who leads design, development and launch on every project. The other co-founder is no longer involved.
- [Plainpage](https://novasitestudio.com/plainpage/): free PDF toolkit with 25 tools that run in the browser, built by Nova Site. It has its own summary at https://novasitestudio.com/plainpage/llms.txt.
- [Contact](https://novasitestudio.com/contact.html): book a discovery call or send a brief. Replies within one business day.