Bern, Switzerland
A publishing house that also builds its own presses.
We design, publish and maintain websites. Our own first, our clients’ next. Same workshop either way, and the same standard: pages that open at once, follow nobody, and will still stand in ten years.
Trades
Three trades, one workshop
Publishing
We write and publish our own titles: a mountain magazine, history files, a listening guide, a set of calculators. They live off their readers rather than a communications budget, which is why they sound the way they do.
Building
We build sites for others: associations, freelancers, small firms. The client owns everything, from the domain name down to the code. Nothing is rented, nothing gets taken back.
Maintaining
A site is never delivered once and for all. Hosting, updates, backups, fixes, certificates: the invisible part, the lasting one, and the one that decides whether the site is still standing in five years.
Method
How we work
Five rules we apply everywhere, including when they cost us a job.
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Pages, not applications
A site that presents an activity has nothing to recompute on every visit. Our pages are written once, then served as they are. That is why they appear before you have let go of the mouse.
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No trackers
No ad network, no measurement pixel, no consent banner to dismiss, for the simple reason that there is nothing to consent to. This site sets no cookies at all.
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The client stays the owner
Domain, content, source code: all of it stands in the client’s name and is handed over on request, with no haggling and no exit fee. A site you cannot take with you is not a site, it is a rental.
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One person answerable
No sales team, no account manager, no subcontracting. Whoever writes the quote is the one who writes the code, and the one who answers the message three years later.
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We say what we cannot do
No high-volume shop, no line-of-business software, no search rankings sold as a promise. When a request falls outside what we do, we say so instead of learning at the client’s expense.
Catalogue
What we publish
Independent titles, with nothing in common but the house that keeps them.
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Historiata
History historiata.com
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Tescols
Outdoors tescols.ch
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Anne-Marie Python
Interiors annemariepython.ch
Bank statement
Looking for a charge?
If your bank statement reads SCHEIDEGGER WEB and the name means nothing to you, a whole page is devoted to it. It sets out what was billed, by which site, and how to stop a subscription in two clicks.