We write websites, web shops and booking systems from scratch. No templates, no system that falls apart the moment you need something it did not anticipate.
Strigy Studio works with sole traders, small and mid-sized companies and clients in tourism, hospitality, real estate, healthcare and media. Behind us is more than a decade of work on websites, booking systems and mobile apps. We are based in Dalmatia; our clients run from Dubrovnik to Imotski and beyond.
A bought theme arrives with code for a hundred situations when you need three. The other ninety-seven travel with you on every page load: they slow the site down, they make edits harder, and one day they pick a fight with the plugin you actually need. So we write from scratch. When the code is ours, a change is a change, not a hunt for the place where the theme's author expected it.
That does not mean starting from an empty file every time. It means each project gets exactly what it needs and nothing beyond it. A tavern in Trogir needed a table reservation in four taps, not a system with user accounts. A shop in Imotski needed a search engine that knows „štap" and „stap" are the same word, because Croatian shoppers do not type diacritics. Those two have nothing in common except that both have to work.
Every agency writes that it builds fast sites. Very few give you a number you can check. This page paints its main content on a phone in about a second, and its layout shift during load is effectively zero, open PageSpeed Insights and type in our address before you take our word for it.
The same goes for every project in the portfolio. No case study ends in a screenshot: each one links to the client's live site. Open it, try to book a slot, put something in the cart, see how it behaves on a phone on a moving bus. That is the only test that means anything.
A portfolio you cannot open and use is a picture gallery, not evidence.
The numbers below are what clients reported after launch. Each one sits next to its case study, with an explanation of what was actually built.
We start with a conversation about the business, not the design. We want to know where your customers come from today, where you lose them, and what would have to change for that to stop. Only once we know that does drawing make sense.
Then comes structure: which pages exist, how you reach them and what each one is for. Design goes onto that skeleton, not the other way round. Code is written while the design takes shape, so there is no stage where a beautiful mock-up turns out to be unbuildable. Before launch everything is checked on real devices, not in a simulator. After launch we stay available: edits, new pages and upgrades are agreed as needed, with no mandatory monthly package if you do not need one. The full flow is on the process section.
Tourism and hospitality are the biggest part of the work: boat tours, transfers, taverns, rentals. Alongside that, real estate, healthcare, media and ordinary trades. What they share is that a customer books, buys or calls, so the site has to make that path short.
If you sell online, look at web shops. If nobody can find you, that is SEO optimisation. If you need the site itself, start with web development.
Tools are picked per project, not out of habit. Smaller sites ship as static files served from a CDN, with nothing to break. Larger projects with a catalogue, checkout and user accounts are built on Next.js and PostgreSQL. Card payments go through Stripe or WSPay, depending on whether the client needs a Croatian bank. Mobile apps are written natively for iOS.
What does not change is the foundation: the site has to be fast on a weak mobile signal, readable to a search engine without tricks, and secure by default.
Strix is a genus of owls. An owl sees in the dark what others miss and hears a mouse under snow. That is roughly the job: finding the thing that quietly does not work, before it is found by a customer who wanted to book and gave up.
Want to see it in practice? Open any case study, each one links to the client's live site.
From scratch. A template carries code for a hundred cases when you need three, so the site ends up slower than it has to be and harder to change. When the code is ours, a change is just a change.
No. We are based in Dalmatia and happily meet clients from Split, Trogir, Kaštela and Zadar in person, but we work across Croatia and abroad. Several projects ran without a single meeting in person.
We stay available. Maintenance, edits, new pages and upgrades are agreed as needed; there is no mandatory monthly package if you do not need one.
Every case study links to the client's live site. Open any of them and check the speed, the mobile layout and the checkout yourself.
A simpler site usually two to four weeks. A web shop or booking system takes longer, depending on how many systems have to be connected. We agree the deadline before we start and we keep it.
Describe the project in a few sentences and we will come back within 24 hours with a concrete proposal.
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