Hoş geldiniz — Welcome Independent studio · Est. 2026

Websites,
hand-built
for independent
businesses.

The Studio

Lokma is a small, independent design & development studio. We make considered, fast, custom websites for restaurants, retailers, and founder-led brands.

The Work

Every site we ship is hand-coded — no templates, no page builders. Just clean craft, measurable speed, and a design that actually fits your brand.

The Promise

A site you'll be proud to share, that your customers actually enjoy using. Delivered on time, no corporate runaround.

Design Development Identity Hosting
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Small studio.
Big care for small details.

Lokma — a small, sweet, hand-rolled thing, made with care and shared generously. It's the spirit we bring to every project.

We're an independent web studio working with founders who want a site that actually reflects their brand — not a template, not a WordPress kit, not a thousand plugins. Every Lokma site is designed and hand-coded by us, tuned for speed, and built to last.

We work best with restaurants, hospitality, retail, and founder-led service businesses that value craft. We're small on purpose: you talk to the person doing the work, not an account manager.

I've got a lot of love for my Turkish/Kurdish people — I just want to help you turn your website into something that actually works for you.

— Eren Ay, Founder

Founded 2026
Discipline Design & Code
Clients Independent brands
Availability Booking Q3 2026

Our work.

Projects · 2024 — 2026
Rennas Brasserie dining room interior

Rennas Brasserie

A single-page brochure site for a contemporary all-day restaurant in Chelmsford. Hand-coded, image-led, with a considered splash reveal, an ARIA tabs menu, and full social-preview wiring.

Sector Hospitality
Services Design & Build
Year 2025
Stack Static · Netlify
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What we make.

01 / Web design

Editorial, brand-led layouts that feel like you, not a template. Tuned for every screen, accessible, and crafted pixel by pixel.

UIArt direction
02 / Web development

Hand-coded, fast, maintainable. We build with the right tools for the job — usually clean static HTML, sometimes React or a headless CMS when it earns its place.

HTML · CSS · JSNetlifyStatic & JAMstack
03 / Branding & identity

Logos, typography, colour systems, photography direction. A small, coherent kit that makes every touchpoint feel like the same brand.

LogoTypographyColour
04 / Hosting & maintenance

We keep the site live, fast, and current. DNS, deploys, content updates, small design tweaks. A monthly retainer so nothing goes stale.

DNSDeploysContent updates

How it goes.

01 / Discover
Talk, listen, scope.
A 30–45 minute call to understand the business, the audience, the goals, and what success looks like. We write a short brief and fixed price before a single pixel is pushed.
02 / Design
Show, don't tell.
We move straight to high-fidelity design in the browser so you see the real thing, not a Figma mock-up. Two rounds of feedback included — we iterate until it feels right.
03 / Build
Hand-built, not assembled.
Clean, semantic HTML/CSS/JS. Optimised images. Accessibility checks. Open Graph previews. Proper meta. All the small things that compound into a site that actually performs.
04 / Launch
Ship, hand over, look after.
Deploy to Netlify, point the domain, hand you the keys. We stick around with an optional monthly plan so the site stays sharp long after launch day.

Asked & answered.

How long does a project take?

A brochure site like Rennas runs 3–5 weeks from brief to launch. More involved builds (bookings, menu systems, light e-commerce) run 6–10 weeks. You'll get a realistic, fixed timeline in the kickoff brief before any work begins.

What does it cost?

Hand-built single-page sites start from £500. Multi-page and more involved builds are quoted per project after the first call. The price is fixed in writing before a single line of code is written — no surprise invoices, no scope-creep charges.

Can I edit the site myself after launch?

Yes. We can wire in a lightweight content layer so you can update text, menus, and images without touching code. Prefer to hand that off? Our monthly retainer covers content updates, small design tweaks, and keeping everything live.

Who owns the site and the code?

You do. Every line of code, the domain, the hosting account, the design files. We hand over full access at launch. No lock-in, no walled garden, nothing you can't walk away with.

Do you only work with restaurants?

No — hospitality is a sweet spot, but we also work with independent retailers, studios, and founder-led service businesses. If you care about craft and want a site that reflects it, we'd love to talk.

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