When you're choosing a website design company in Johor Bahru, the portfolio tells you more than the pitch does. Not just whether the work looks good — whether the sites are still live, whether businesses like yours are in there, and whether the company will explain the parts that need explaining.

So here's ours, including the part most agencies would quietly leave out.

The business websites

Most of our web design work is for Johor SMEs and Malaysian companies that need a site that looks credible and brings in enquiries. Twenty-eight of them are in our portfolio, and they're all live — you can click through and check.

  • Food & beverage. Strangers at 47 (a JB café with event catering and Maps integration), Dona Bakehouse (pastry collections with an interactive 3D flipbook menu across two branches), WonderLicious Kopi.
  • Interiors & architecture. Ausea Interior Architecture & Design, SFS Architecture, Rooftop Interior Design, 12 Design — visual portfolios where image handling and load speed matter more than page count.
  • Construction & industrial. Raiden M&E (mechanical and electrical services, working process, client logos), CA Construction, Idaman Construction, JB Factory Land, Expogaya.
  • Professional & property. Tay Chambers, Renzo Realty, Damai Suites, Malaysia Golden Home, Eco Asia Capital Advisory.
  • Listed companies. Meta Bright Group Berhad (hospitality, property, leasing and energy) and Sarawak Consolidated Industries Berhad.
  • Retail & e-commerce. Allstate Oxy, SNG Telecentre, Skinhouse, Airsteril, Zenzure.

If your business is roughly one of those shapes, that's the useful signal — not whether we've built something enormous for someone else.

Every one of those was built on WordPress. Here's why that's in this article.

We've published several articles arguing against WordPress — on page speed, on three-year cost, and on how cluttered its backend is for the person who has to use it. Then our portfolio shows twenty-eight WordPress sites, several built with Elementor.

We'd rather explain that than have you find it.

We built on WordPress for years, at volume. That's not a contradiction of what we've written — it's where it came from. You don't learn where a platform's ceiling is by reading about it. You learn it by shipping thirty sites on it and then maintaining them: watching a plugin update break a client's layout on a Friday, watching page speed degrade as a site grows, watching owners stop logging in because the dashboard scared them.

Two things are worth being straight about:

  • WordPress was the right call for a lot of that work, and still is. Our own position has always been that for a five-page brochure site with no transactions, WordPress is faster to stand up and cheap to run. Several of those twenty-eight are exactly that, and they serve their owners perfectly well.
  • What changed is what happens when a client needs more. A catalogue that grows, a form with real routing logic, listings that publish to social, a backend a non-technical owner will actually open each week. That's where we kept hitting the same wall, and where stacking plugins stopped being an answer.

So we built our own CMS. Not because WordPress is bad at what it does, but because we'd run out of ways to make it do what our clients were asking for next. New builds go on our own stack — the property listing platform is a good example of the kind of project that made the case.

An agency that has only ever used one platform can't tell you where it breaks. We can, because we did.

The other half: platforms, not websites

The same team builds systems at a different scale, which is what makes the CMS possible in the first place.

  • iCARES — Malaysia's leading smart community platform, handling visitor access, billing and facility management for 500,000+ residents across 200+ communities. The full story is here.
  • TA Securities Holdings Berhad — enterprise trading infrastructure for a major Malaysian financial institution, where compliance and uptime requirements are non-negotiable.
  • PropertyGenie — a national property listing platform connecting 350+ agents with 100,000+ monthly visitors.
  • Eventure Group, Muar Ban Lee Group Berhad, SkyWorld Development Bhd, Asia Pacific University — CRM, workflow, tenant management and smart metering systems.

You don't need any of that for a company website. It matters for one reason: the people who built those systems are the same people who build the websites, in the same office. That's why we can put logic directly into a site instead of reaching for a plugin.

Want to see your own site before you decide?

Every project in this portfolio started the same way — we design a custom mockup of your homepage first, free and with no deposit. You approve the look, then decide whether to go ahead.

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The part you can verify in person

Plenty of agencies claim a local presence. Ours is testable: our office is in Taman Mount Austin, Johor Bahru, and you can walk in.

More usefully, so is a good part of the portfolio. Strangers at 47 is a real café you can sit in. Dona Bakehouse has two branches you can visit. These aren't stock mockups of imaginary brands — they're businesses down the road whose owners can tell you what working with us was actually like. That's a level of checking you can't do with an agency whose portfolio is all out-of-state logos.

The practical side matters too: same timezone, same working hours, and familiarity with what Malaysian customers expect — FPX and DuitNow at checkout, WhatsApp as the primary contact channel rather than a form nobody fills in, and the trust signals that actually convert local traffic. We've made the fuller argument for keeping a team local in why we don't outsource a single line of code.

How to judge any portfolio, including ours

Since this whole article asks you to look at a portfolio, here's how to actually read one. It works on any agency you're considering.

  1. Click through to the live sites. Not screenshots — the real URLs. If a portfolio piece is offline or has been replaced, that tells you something about how long the work lasted.
  2. Open two of them on your phone. Most of your customers will. If a site is awkward on mobile, you've learned more than any case study will tell you.
  3. Run one through PageSpeed Insights. Free, thirty seconds, and it can't be spun.
  4. Look for a business shaped like yours. A spectacular enterprise platform doesn't prove anyone can build a good café website, and the reverse is just as true.
  5. Ask which ones they still maintain. Building is the easy half. Ask who they'd still pick up the phone for.

Run that on us. Our full portfolio has the live links, and the WordPress builds are in there alongside everything else.

The bottom line

Twenty-eight business websites, enterprise platforms in fintech and proptech, a physical office you can visit, and an honest account of a platform change rather than a portfolio quietly curated to match the marketing.

If you'd like to see what your own site could look like — free, before you commit anything — that's how every project above started. See how our website design service works →