About teialoom
We don't hand websites off. We run them.
teialoom is a web studio in Liverpool, UK, building websites for small businesses in the UK and Portugal, and now in the US. We build them, then maintain them every month: changes, updates, backups and the work of keeping the site current as the business changes. In the US we work remotely, by video.
Who you deal with
Daniel Leite
I started teialoom to build websites for small businesses and to stay with them afterwards, which is not how most of the industry is set up. Portugal and England are both home to me, so working across the two was never a market we entered. It is where we already were, and it is where our clients are today.
The US is new for us, and I'd rather say so than leave you to guess. I work from Liverpool, five hours ahead of New York for most of the year and eight ahead of California, so we talk by video, at a time the scheduler shows in your own time zone, and every message gets a reply within 24 hours.
I lead every project and I'm the person you'll deal with when you have a question. Nothing gets retold secondhand, and nothing sits waiting for someone else to be free.
Why we started
Most websites are abandoned the day they launch.
After years of building websites at agencies, in-house and freelance, the same problem kept coming up. A website would go live, the invoice would be paid, and then nothing would happen to it for months or years.
By the time anyone looked at it again, the contact form might be broken, the prices out of date and the content no longer describing the business.
So we built it the other way around: the website goes live, and that is where the work begins. Small, regular changes that keep the site in step with the business as it grows.
How we work
One point of contact, start to finish.
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A direct line
No sales team, no account manager passing messages along. You talk to the person who designs and builds your site.
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Changes without a queue
Send a change and it is usually live within one working day. A new price, a new photo, new hours: no ticket queue.
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Booked, not squeezed in
We take on a set number of builds at a time and give you the dates before we start, so your project gets the attention it needs.
On the name
Where the name comes from.
Loom is the machine. Teia is Portuguese for the warp: the threads held taut on it, carrying everything else. Half the name in each language, because the work is in two. Together they say the same thing: a website is not something you hand off, it is something you keep weaving, week by week, as the business changes.
See your homepage designed before you decide anything.
Fifteen minutes on a video call, then we design your homepage. If you don't like it, we leave it there and you owe nothing.