From business idea to a website people can use.
A practical guide to planning, building and launching a South African small business website, including content, photos, pricing, contact details and SEO basics.
Read the guideA LITTLE KNOW-HOW GOES A LONG WAY.
Make your first website a useful one.
Plain-language guides for South African small businesses. Learn what to prepare, what to put on your pages and how to keep your website useful after it goes live.
Build on desktop or phoneSEO foundations includedHosting & HTTPS included
Your first website can start on your phone.
Build a business website from your phone with Portaly: prepare photos, choose a template, edit sections, add pages, preview and publish.
Read the guideSEO starts with explaining your business well.
Understand page titles, useful business content, images, sitemaps and search verification. A practical SEO guide for your South African business website.
Read the guideStart with the customer's questions
What do you offer? Where do you work? What should someone do next? You do not need a long website to answer these well. A clear first page can be a better starting point than lots of unfinished pages.
Build at your own pace
Prepare the basics, choose a starting point and make one section useful at a time. These guides explain the process without assuming you know web design or SEO.
MAKE SOMETHING OF YOUR OWN.
Your business deserves more than a social post.
Give customers one address for your work, services and next conversation. Build on desktop or phone. Refine at your own pace.
Create your site