Custom website design
A site built around how your customers actually search, click and decide — not a template with your logo dropped on top. Fast, clean, and built to bring in enquiries.
/ Web design · Web apps · SEO · Google Ads
Good work needs room to breathe.
Nova Site builds websites and web apps, and runs ad campaigns for a deliberately small number of businesses at a time — local and international — so every project gets my full attention, not my leftover hours.
Based in Pretoria · clients in Centurion, Johannesburg, across South Africa and abroad
NOVA SITE / STATUS
- EnquiriesOpen — reviewing new fit
- Reply timeWithin 1 hour
- ModelSelective, by design
- Client load
I take on the projects I can give real attention to. Not more than that.
/ What I do
Four things, done properly.
Build the site, build the systems behind it, make it findable, and bring people to it. Most agencies sell all four and do one of them well.
Web apps
Booking systems, dashboards and client portals built around how your business actually works — secure sign-in, your data in your own database, and room to grow as you do.
SEO
I fix the structure, content and local listings that decide whether your business shows up when someone searches for what you do, in your area — so people find you without paying for every click.
Google Ads
Campaigns built to bring in real enquiries, not just clicks — set up properly, targeted to your area, and actually managed once they are live.
/ Local first
Web design in Pretoria, Centurion and Johannesburg.
Nova Site is based in Pretoria, so I know how local customers search: “web design Pretoria”, “plumber near me”, “best electrician in Centurion”. I build and tune your site, your Google Business Profile and your listings around those searches, so the people nearby who are ready to buy can find you.
I work with businesses across Gauteng — Pretoria, Centurion, Midrand, Sandton, Johannesburg and the East Rand — and the rest of South Africa. Everything is done remotely, with me on every project and a reply within 1 hour.
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Found on Google Maps
Google Business Profile set up and kept consistent with your website.
- 02
Found in local search
Pages written around the suburbs and services your customers search for.
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Easy to contact
WhatsApp, click-to-call and quote forms, built for people on phones.
/ Why I am smaller than most agencies
I choose who I work with. On purpose.
Most agencies grow by taking on more clients than they can properly manage. I built Nova Site the other way around. Every business that reaches out gets reviewed for fit before I say yes — fewer total projects, far more focus on each one.
If I am the right fit for your business, you get me on the account and one point of contact until it is done. If I am not, I will tell you plainly and point you somewhere better.
- 01
Tell me about your business
A short form. No sales call required to get started.
- 02
I review the fit
I look at your industry, goals and timeline before I say yes.
- 03
I build it properly
Real timelines, one contact, no disappearing for three weeks.
- 04
I stay reachable
Hosting, updates and changes handled by the person who built it.
/ A hand-picked sample
Some of the work.
I work with a limited number of clients throughout the year, by design — so this list is short on purpose.
/ Built in-house
Keystride: a typing test built to take on the biggest.
To show what a Nova Site build can do when nothing is held back, I built Keystride from scratch: a free typing speed test and trainer, designed to compete with the most popular typing sites in the world.
- Honest scoring, keyboard heatmaps, finger stats and a replay of every keystroke
- A new daily challenge every day, the same for everyone in the world, generated automatically
- No ads, no sign-up, and it works offline
- Scores 97–100 on Google Lighthouse for speed, accessibility and SEO
/ Also built in-house
Plainpage: every PDF tool, free, and your files never leave your device.
Then I took on Adobe and the big online PDF sites. Plainpage is a free PDF toolkit with 25 tools that all run inside your browser, so your documents are never uploaded anywhere. Not to me, not to anyone.
- Merge, split, compress, convert, OCR, sign, fill forms, protect and redact
- Change the words already in a PDF, in the document’s own font, a feature others charge for
- No uploads, no limits, no watermarks, no sign-up, and it works offline
- Scores 98–100 on Google Lighthouse for speed, accessibility and SEO
/ What clients say
Five stars on Google.
Real reviews from businesses I have built for, quoted exactly as they were written.
★★★★★
“Ryno was very helpful and patient and truly delivered more than my expectation. Highly recommend.”
Quraisha Moosa
Founder, Mindz of Marketing
★★★★★
“Splendid work, Love their work. I personally would recommend Nova site to anyone”
Tshepang Maseko
Founder & CEO, Maseko Prime Holdings
★★★★★
“Ryno is very professional, patient and quick, he’s done an excellent job building the fluorescence website. Im so happy with Novasite, highly recommend.”
Mahlatse Mathebula
Founder, Fluorescence Supply
★★★★★
“Reliable very good person and l Received good results from there marketing”
Sunshine Trees
Google review
★★★★★
“Great service. I was helped by a team member who was extremely attentive and quick to resolve my queries.”
Lehlogonolo Matlou
Google review
/ What you actually get
Built right, not just built.
Fast by default
Hand-written HTML and CSS, compressed images, no page-builder bloat. Pages that load before someone gives up and hits back.
Built for phones first
Most of your visitors are on a phone, often on mobile data. Every layout is checked at phone width before it is signed off.
Enquiries, not just visits
WhatsApp buttons, quote forms and click-to-call placed where people actually decide — so traffic turns into conversations.
Findable from day one
Proper page titles, descriptions, sitemap, structured data and Google Business Profile setup included in every build.
Yours to keep
The domain is registered in your name. You are never locked in to me to keep your own website running.
Hosting handled
Hosting, SSL, backups and updates taken care of, so you are not the one getting the renewal emails.
/ Who is behind it
One person. No account managers.
Nova Site was started in September 2025 by Ryno Kahl, after watching too many good small businesses get stuck with slow, templated websites and ad accounts nobody was managing.
20+Websites and web apps built
14Industries served, from mining to medical
1–2 daysTo build a small site; 4–5 for a web app
5.0★Rating on Google
Tell me about your business.
I reply within 1 hour. No sales call needed to get started.