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Websites that make people stop, stay and get in touch.

Now booking for autumn 2026

Ella Vie is a digital studio beneath Cleeve Hill in Gloucestershire. We design and hand-build fast, striking websites for independent businesses. No templates, no page builders.

Selected work

Live sites we've built, ready-made templates you can click into and browse, and concept work from the studio. Everything here is designed and coded by hand, and built to be fast on a phone first. Open any project for the full case.

La Vie Studio

Live

Recording studio, lessons and online booking with payments

Beux Levi

Live

Artist website, releases, videos and a browser game

CBLV Community CIC

Live

Community interest company making creativity accessible

Harker Roofing

Template

Trades template: roofers, builders and plumbers

Pryce Marlowe

Template

Professional template: accountants, solicitors and brokers

Linden House

Template

Clinic template: dentists, aesthetics and physio

Wyncote Manor

Template

Venue template: weddings, restaurants and hotels

Hearth & Grain

Concept

Neighbourhood bakery with online ordering

Aster Architecture

Concept

Portfolio and journal for an architecture practice

Volt Cycles

Concept

Electric bike shop with test-ride booking

Marlowe & Finch

Concept

Regional law firm with consultation booking

Fold Coffee

Concept

Small-batch roastery with subscriptions

What we do

Most clients come for a website and stay for everything around it. All of it is done in-house by the people you talk to.

Bespoke design built around your customers, your words and what the site has to do. Not a theme with your logo dropped in.

Included

  • Discovery and strategy
  • Art direction
  • Layouts for every screen size
  • Copy and content guidance

Hand-coded, fast and built to last. No bloated page builders, no plugins stacked on plugins. Clean code that loads in a blink and scores green on every test.

Included

  • HTML, CSS and JavaScript builds
  • Content management you can actually use
  • Animation and interaction
  • Performance and accessibility

Logo, type, colour and voice. Whether you're starting from nothing or tidying up what you already have, we make the whole thing hang together.

Included

  • Logo and wordmark
  • Colour and type systems
  • Brand guidelines
  • Social and print assets

Shops that sell, from five products to five hundred. Checkout, stock, delivery and collection done properly, so you can spend your time on the products.

Included

  • Shopify and custom builds
  • Payments and checkout
  • Click and collect
  • Subscriptions and gift cards

Let the website take the bookings. Availability, deposits, reminders and confirmations run themselves while you run the business. Built on the same engine that runs our own studio.

Included

  • Online booking and calendars
  • Deposits and payments
  • Automatic reminders
  • Email and CRM integration

We don't disappear after launch. Fast UK hosting, security, backups, monthly updates and a real person on the end of the email.

Included

  • Hosting and domains
  • Security and backups
  • Monthly changes and updates
  • Analytics and reporting

How it works

From first call to launch in four to six weeks, with real pages in a real browser at every step. No PDFs of what a website might look like.

  1. 1

    Discover

    A call, a short questionnaire and a proper look at what your competitors are doing. We learn how your business actually works.

    Week one
  2. 2

    Design

    One clear direction, then every page designed to the pixel. You review it in the browser, on your own phone.

    Weeks two to three
  3. 3

    Build

    Hand-coded and tested on real devices. Your content goes in and the speed stays up.

    Weeks three to five
  4. 4

    Launch

    Domain, hosting, analytics and a handover you'll understand. Then we press the button together.

    Week six
  5. 5

    Grow

    Care plans, monthly changes and new ideas as your business changes. You keep a person, not a ticket number.

    Ongoing

We came from music.

Ella Vie grew out of La Vie Studio, a recording studio and creative education space beneath Cleeve Hill. Years of releasing records, running sessions and building our own platforms taught us two things: people decide in seconds, and craft is what makes them stay.

We bring both to every site we make. Bold ideas, obsessive detail and technology that gets out of the way. We're a small studio on purpose: you talk to the people doing the work, from the first call to the day you go live and every month after.

  • No templates.Every site starts from a blank file and your business, so it can't look like anyone else's.
  • Speed is a feature.Fast sites rank higher, convert better and feel more trustworthy. Ours load in a blink on a patchy signal.
  • Built to be found.Search, sharing, analytics and accessibility are part of the build, not an add-on.
Based
Bishop's Cleeve, Gloucestershire
Working
Across the UK, in person and remotely
Family
La Vie Studio, CBLV Community CIC and Beux Levi
Founded
2026
Availability
Booking for autumn 2026

Tell us about your business.

A few lines about what you do and what you need is plenty. We reply within one working day with first thoughts and a clear quote.

ella@ellavie.xyz

Prefer to talk it through? Ask for a 20-minute call and we'll find a time.

What do you need?