Your website is older than your phone.

We're Mediamail, a small web studio. We build new websites, rebuild the ones that have quietly gone out of date, and set up the automations that save your team from copying data between tabs.

fornobianchi.it
The bakery's old website from 2013: brown gradient header, a broken Flash banner, a visitor counter and a cramped table of products.
The rebuilt bakery website: a large headline saying the first loaves come out at 6:40, an order-for-pickup button, opening hours and a photo of the café.
2013 Rebuilt
Concept study: a family bakery in Parma. Same business, same photos, same opening hours. The new version tells you what's fresh today and lets you order for pickup. Read the study

Proof, not promises

We're a young studio, so instead of a wall of logos we'd rather show you how we think. These are concept rebuilds of the kind of businesses we work with. The businesses are fictional. The design and code are ours, and every screen here was built by us.

Old winery website: dark red background, gold small-caps title, a price table and a note asking customers to email their order.
Before
Rebuilt winery website: full-width photo of grapes, a headline about visiting the vineyard, buttons to book a tasting or shop, and wine cards with add-to-cart.
After

Vigna Alta, a family winery

The old site asked people to read a price table, email an order and wait for an IBAN. Most didn't bother. The rebuild puts tastings and a proper shop on the first screen, with card payment and tracked shipping.

Old way to buy
Email, wait, bank transfer
New way to buy
Three taps and a card
Read the study

Studio Conti, an accounting office

Sixty invoices a day arrived by email as PDFs, phone photos and the odd HEIC file. Two people typed them into a spreadsheet. Now a workflow reads each one, files it in the right client folder, adds it to the ledger and asks the client for a better copy when a photo is unreadable.

Typed by hand
0 invoices a day
Duplicates
Caught before filing
Read the study
Workflow canvas: new email trigger, extract invoice fields, completeness check, save to client folder, add ledger row, daily digest. A side panel shows 61 invoices filed today and 0 typed by hand.
Physio clinic site on a phone: headline about seeing a physio this week and a booking widget with days and time slots. Bakery site on a phone: headline, order-for-pickup button, opening status and a photo. Winery site on a phone: headline over a vineyard photo, a book-a-tasting button and the start of the wine shop.

Built for the phone first

Most visits to a local business website happen on a phone, usually with one thumb, often in a hurry. So that's where we design first: big tap targets, the phone number and opening hours where you'd expect them, booking in one screen.

See all four studies

Automation without the buzzwords

An automation is just a set of steps a computer does instead of a person. Here's the invoice workflow from the study above. Press the button and watch one invoice go through it, step by step, the way it does on the real thing.

We build these with tools like n8n, Make and Zapier, or with plain code when that's more reliable. Where AI helps, for example reading a blurry invoice, we use it. Where it doesn't, we don't.

invoice-intakeWaiting
  1. Email arrivesFrom Edilmar Srl, with fattura_0413.pdf attached
  2. Document readInvoice 0413, 3 March, €1,240.00, VAT IT01987650321
  3. CheckedAll fields present. Replaces 0412, which had the wrong amount
  4. Filed/Clients/2025/Edilmar/2025-03-03_0413.pdf
  5. Ledger updatedNew row in the client sheet, old row marked as replaced
  6. Team toldAdded to the 18:00 digest in #accounts

Done in 6.4 seconds. Nobody typed anything.

How a project goes

No mystery phases, no surprise invoices. This is the order things happen in.

  1. 1

    A 30-minute call

    You tell us what's not working. We look at your current site or process beforehand, so the call is about you, not about us. Free, and you'll get honest advice even if we're not the right fit.

    Day 1
  2. 2

    A written plan and a fixed price

    What we'll build, what we won't, how long it takes and what it costs. One page you can actually read. If the scope changes later, the price only changes after you agree to it.

    Within 3 working days
  3. 3

    Design and build, in the open

    You get a private preview link on day one of the build and see progress every week. Comment on the real thing, not on a PDF of the real thing.

    2 to 8 weeks
  4. 4

    Launch, then we stay

    We handle the move, the redirects so you don't lose Google rankings, and the boring checks. Then 30 days of fixes included, and ongoing care if you want it.

    Launch day and after

A few things we'll put in writing

  • You own everything. Domain, code, content, accounts. If you leave, you take it all with you, no ransom.
  • You talk to the people doing the work. No account managers relaying messages.
  • Fixed quotes. The number we agree on is the number on the invoice.
  • Fast by default. Every site we ship loads quickly on a mid-range phone on 4G. We test it before launch, not after complaints.
  • Plain answers. If something doesn't need building, we'll tell you, even when it costs us the job.

Questions people ask us

How much does a website cost?

It depends on what it has to do, which is why we quote after the first call rather than before. A clear, fast site for a local business is a very different job from an online shop with 400 products. You'll get a fixed price in writing before anything starts.

Can you keep my current domain and email?

Yes. We move the website, not your identity. Email keeps working during the switch, and we set up the redirects so links to your old pages still land somewhere sensible.

Will I be able to edit the site myself?

If you want to, yes. We'll set you up with an editor for the parts you change often, like menus, prices, news or opening hours, and show you how it works in a short call. If you'd rather not touch it, send us an email and we'll do it.

What kind of tasks can actually be automated?

Anything repetitive that follows rules: copying form entries into a CRM, filing invoices, sending reminders, building a weekly report, syncing orders with stock. A good test: if you could write the steps on a sticky note, it can probably be automated.

Do you only work with local businesses?

No. We work remotely in English and run projects over calls, a shared preview link and email. Time zones are fine as long as there's a couple of hours of overlap.

What happens after launch?

The first 30 days of fixes are included. After that you can choose a monthly care plan (hosting, updates, backups, small changes) or simply call us when you need something. No lock-in either way.

Tell us what's bugging you about your website.

Send a few lines and a link. We'll reply within one working day with honest first thoughts, even if the answer is that you don't need us.

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