Why davisweb exists, how we work and what we answer for. Not values and not promises — everything written here can be checked.
Businesses in Latvia are run by people who know their own work — plumbers and joiners, restaurant and shop owners, small manufacturers, dentists. Their days go into the work they know, and the internet side has to be sorted out alongside it.
The internet side is not one thing. It is visibility in search, the company profile on the map, the site, e-mail, bookings, an advertising account, reviews. Every one of those is a separate piece with its own account and its own password, and hardly anyone sets them all up at once. One goes up when it becomes necessary, the next a year later, and each of them usually by someone different — a developer, an agency, an acquaintance, or the owner himself. That is how it goes almost everywhere, and there is nothing wrong with it.
Everyone who has set up one of those pieces has done their part, and usually done it well. But each of them answers for their own piece only: the developer for the site, the agency for the advertising, the acquaintance or the owner himself for whatever he set up. It is nobody's job to see that the chain holds together from one end to the other. And that is where customers tend to be lost — between the pieces, in places the owner rarely hears about.
Nobody made a mistake. There is still no result.
davisweb was built for that reason. We do not take one piece and pass the rest along. We take on the whole chain and answer for what comes out of the end of it.
The goal is not to build you a site. The goal is a state in which the only thing you have to think about online is the part worth thinking about — what you offer, to whom, and at what price. Whether the site works, who updates it, what is happening with the advertising and where the passwords are kept is not your job.
The usual order is a meeting, an estimate, a contract — and only then something to look at. The road from an idea to the first picture on a screen tends to take weeks, and that is exactly where most projects stop.
Here the order is turned round. First a demo version is built — a real, openable sample carrying your name, made from what you send and what is publicly available. It is the first piece of your internet side, and you see it before a single conversation has taken place.
It is not a finished site. It has the main sections rather than all the content, and it runs on a temporary address rather than on your domain. Its job is to show how it will look and how it will work, before anyone has to talk about it. The demo is free of charge and carries no obligation, and it can be remade several times until the direction is clear.
The sample first. Then the conversation. Not the other way round.
That is not a favour but a calculation: something real you can open and walk through says more about the work than any description or advert. A client list and a number of years tell you about what has been; a sample built for your own business tells you about what is coming. If the sample does not convince you, nothing further happens — it costs you nothing and puts you under no obligation.
Most small-business websites in Latvia are built on WordPress, using a page builder — most often Elementor. It is not a bad tool, and for some jobs it is the right one. But every feature added there means another plugin, and every plugin brings its own code, its own updates and often a licence fee of its own. Once there are twenty of them, the site carries all twenty — including the parts that are never used.
Here the tool is chosen to fit the task, not the other way round. The right foundation for a simple site, for a booking system and for an online shop with thousands of products is not the same one, and that is decided before the work starts. The frameworks used are the industry standard — the same ones large systems all over the world run on, maintained and tested by thousands of developers.
On that foundation exactly what makes your site your site is built — the design, the sections and the features — and nothing more. The question is not how much code is written by hand, but how much needless code ends up on the site. So there are no foreign plugins on it, no monthly updates that break the design, and no features that were paid for but are not used.
The same goes for everything connected to it: booking, automatic replies and reminders are built on that same foundation and work together with the site rather than beside it. Where an outside service is used — the company profile, the advertising account, the payment system — it is registered in your company's name, not in ours. The access is yours from the first day.
Not values, not promises. Each of these can either be measured or checked in the contract.
Speed is taken into account during the build, so the finished site loads fast by industry standards. You do not have to take that on trust: the site is handed over together with a measurement, and the test is public and free, so you can run the same check yourself at any time.
Twenty products or twenty thousand — the structure is chosen for the size at the outset, so that the site works just as well once there is more data.
The contract states the sum and the deadline. They do not change while the work is under way, unless something extra is asked for.
The domain, the accounts, the profiles and the data are registered to your company. The code and the logins are yours. Moving to another developer happens free of charge and with no argument.
Money set aside for advertising goes to advertising — we take no percentage of it. The account belongs to you, so you can log in at any moment and see how much has been spent and on what. While the maintenance plan is running, a report arrives once a month: how many people came, and at what cost.
The site has an admin area of its own, which you can enter at any time to see how many people opened the site, which pages are read most and where they came from. There is nothing to wait for and nothing to ask for.
Between you and the person who writes the code there is no project manager, no sales department and no agency mark-up. Your e-mail is answered by the same person who builds it — after launch as well, and a year later too.
We work with businesses in Latvia, in Latvian, English and Russian. An e-mail is answered within one working day. If something has broken, you are not writing to a general address and waiting in a queue behind bigger clients.
If you want to see what this looks like for your own business, write to us. The first sample is built free of charge and with no obligation, and only after that is it worth talking about the rest. What it looks like in practice can be seen in the demos.