Hello. We design websites.

We are a location independent web design studio currently based out of Haarlem in the Netherlands, and run by designer Duncan McKean.

We focus on what makes your website important: good clean presentation, fantastic usability and solid technologies to help your website grow with your business.

Because we are small (yet perfectly formed!) we take a personal interest in every web design project we do, often working with our clients long after their website goes live.

It is because of our attention-to-detail and our passion that we get all manner of returning clients from all over the world.

Some things we do

  • Website Design
  • HTML and CSS
  • Content Management
  • E-Commerce
  • User Interaction
  • Training and Consulting
  • WordPress Development
  • Community Building
  • Search Engine Optimisation
  • Maintenance and Upgrades

This is how we work

We listen, research and plan your website to suit your organisation's specific needs.

Listen, research and plan your website to suit your organisation's specific needs.

Design for simplicity when it comes to the look, the interaction and the architecture of your site.

We design for simplicity when it comes to the look, the interaction and the architecture of your site.

Build and test your site for maximum accessibility and search engine optimisation.

Build and test your site for maximum accessibility and search engine optimisation.

Continue to analyse, manage and refine your online presence.

Continue to analyse, manage and refine your online presence.

We love what we do and so do our clients.

Gethin, from Still Small Voice, asked us to help him out with the launch of the first album off his new record label. Together we created a 'house style' for all future album launches, developed simple and clear branding, and set up a content-managed website for Gethin to update and promote the artists himself.
Working together with one of the producers of DLF-TV we were contacted to consult on the effectiveness of WordPress as a way of promoting the Foundation's producer weblogs, and successfully connecting with their audience.

Resume Heaven is a monthly newsletter that reaches people all over the globe and runs entirely on open source software.

This means it is more stable, inexpensive (compared to proprietary software), and is an excellent way to help promote your organisation's image.

In the case of Resume Heaven we used the WordPress blogging platform to run the newsletter, Twitter to create a community to help promote it, and FeedBurner to ensure it arrives in people's email inbox as soon as it is published.

Get in touch with us.

Sparkwood and 21

Haarlem web design


+316 25 35 70 21

skype: sparkwoodand21

info@sparkwoodand21.com