We design, build and maintain the websites of South African malls. We'd like to look after yours.
Squiggle has been designing for South African brands since October 2005. It's run by Craig van Straaten — graphic designer, photographer and web designer — with a trusted network of copywriters, developers, SEO and digital-marketing specialists brought in as each project needs them.
We make growing a business simpler by delivering exactly what you need, without extra expense or headaches. We love simplicity and a fantastic user experience, and that's what we've built our brand around.
Over two decades we've worked with local and international companies including Sasol, Barloworld, Unilever, Rainbow Chicken, The Planet Fitness Group, Liberty Life and Edcon. Today, a core part of our work is designing, building and maintaining websites for shopping centres across the country.
A mall website is never finished. Tenants change, trading hours shift for public holidays, and events and promotions come and go. We handle all of it, so centre managers don't have to.
Mobile-first websites that reflect each centre's own brand, character and community.
Tenant listings, categories and maps kept accurate as stores open, move and close.
Campaign banners, events, exhibitions and news published in step with the retail calendar.
Leasing enquiries, launch pages and recruitment portals — like GrandWest Mall's management search.
Updates, backups, SSL and monitoring, so every site stays fast, safe and online.
Local SEO, analytics and speed tuning, so shoppers find the centre — and its stores — first.
Our longest-running mall partnership.
For nine years we've kept Springs Mall's website current — the store directory, centre information and a steady stream of campaign banners that change with the retail calendar, from back-to-school to the festive season.
“Where community & style come together.”
A fully enclosed, double-storey regional mall serving Thohoyandou and the wider Thulamela area. The site has evolved with the centre's campaigns, pairing a bold seasonal homepage with a complete store directory, mall map and facilities guide.
A seafront centre with a lot going on.
Boardwalk Mall is a family-centric destination on Gqeberha's beachfront. Beyond the directory and mall map, its site carries events, exhibitions, news and Nu Metro cinema information — all kept current alongside trading hours.
“Wamkelekile to the Best in Mthatha.”
Built to carry the centre's new identity, the site greets shoppers in isiXhosa and introduces the mall as “Rebranded & Unstoppable” — with store listings, a mall map, exhibitions, a gallery and the Art Colab programme.
On board before the doors open.
Our newest centre. The site holds general info and works as a news portal for developments. It has since become a recruitment portal with functionality that sends applications to Google Sheets with Data Routing and CV Upload Integration. The site is set up to grow into the full centre website as the tenant mix comes together.
We audit each centre's current site, hosting, content and brand, and agree priorities with you.
Every centre keeps its own look, built on a shared, proven structure — directory, map, events, leasing.
Centre managers send one email. Stores, trading hours, events and promotions go live quickly.
Hosting, updates, backups, SSL and monitoring, handled continuously in the background.
Regular traffic and engagement reporting per centre, and across the whole portfolio.
A single, experienced partner for every centre — no handovers, no re-briefing.
The same standard of design, accuracy and care across the portfolio.
A feature built for one centre can roll out to all of them.
One partner across many sites keeps costs lower than managing each centre separately.
The same studio that runs your sites can design the campaigns that fill them. For mall marketing teams that means one partner for website banners, social content, print, brochures, signage artwork and photography — all on brand, all in one place.
Our wider portfolio spans brand identities, packaging, publications and campaigns for retail, fitness, events and FMCG.
One partner. Every centre. Looked after.
