Websites

A website built on the right structure.

Most businesses come to me for a website. The good ones leave with a site that says the right thing to the right person, and keeps working long after launch, because the thinking underneath it was done first.

The home page of behnoushmalek.com: Privately represented, over an aerial view of a North Shore home at dusk
Behnoush Malek · luxury real estate, West VancouverLive
Why most sites stall

The brief was wrong before the design began.

A website is where every unresolved question about a business becomes visible. Who it is for. What it is known for. Why someone should call now rather than later. When those answers are missing, a beautiful site simply presents the confusion more expensively.

So I start where the site cannot: what the business should be known for, and what a visitor needs to see to act. Then the pages, the words and the design follow from that, in that order.

Who it's for

Right for you if

What you get

Six parts, one lead. I set the direction and hold the standard; specialists from the bench design and build where the work needs them.

01

Strategy & page structure

What the site must achieve, who it is for, and the few pages that do the work. Nothing added for the sake of it.

02

Copy

Every word on the site, written to be understood in one read and repeated by the people who read it.

03

Art direction

The look, the photography and the typography, so the site carries the calibre of the work behind it.

04

The build

Fast, accessible and easy for your team to update. Built to last beyond launch, not just to impress on it.

05

Search & AI foundations

Structure, metadata and structured data so Google, ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity describe you correctly.

06

Measurement from day one

Enquiries tracked from the first day, so you can see what the site is returning, not guess.

How it runs

Six to ten weeks, in four stages. Each one is signed off before the next begins, so nothing is built twice.

Weeks 1–2Positioning & structurewhat the site must say, to whomWeeks 3–4Copy & designthe words, then the lookWeeks 5–8The buildbuilt, tested, reviewed with youWeeks 9–10Launch & measurelive, tracked, handed over
  1. Weeks 1–2Positioning & structurewhat the site must say, to whom
  2. Weeks 3–4Copy & designthe words, then the look
  3. Weeks 5–8The buildbuilt, tested, reviewed with you
  4. Weeks 9–10Launch & measurelive, tracked, handed over

In practice

A luxury real estate practice in West Vancouver, rebuilt from a brokerage template into a brand of its own.

The Vision Review section of behnoushmalek.com: A trained eye before you list
Michelle built the brand underneath my website: the positioning, the language, and a named offer, The Vision Review, that gives sellers a real reason to call me before they list. It finally looks like the calibre of property I represent, including a $12.8 million sale. Behnoush Malek · luxury real estate, West Vancouver
BeforeA template under a large brokerage, leading with a property search.
AfterHer own name, a clear position, a named offer and three languages.
Read the dossier

What often comes next

No one has to buy the larger work. But once a site starts returning enquiries, the next constraint tends to show itself, and it is usually one of these.

Step one

The website

One system built properly, live and measured. It earns the trust, and the numbers, for what follows.

Step two

Brand & go-to-market

When the site works and the rest of the business has to catch up: the brand, the launch, the channels around it.

Step three

A seat beside you

Senior judgement over time, as the business grows into what the site now promises.

Each step stands on its own. If the website is all you need, the website is all we do. The five ways to work together are set out on Services.

Timeframe6–10 weeks
InvestmentBy conversation
AccountableOne lead, start to finish
Begin

Start with the website.

Tell me what the site needs to do and what the current one is not doing. A few sentences is enough. You will have a reply within two working days.

Start with the website