Web Design Melbourne — Website Design Built to Bring You Work
Quick answer
Web design in Melbourne costs $499 for a professional five-page site with us, around $1,499 for an eight-to-ten page business website, and around $2,999 for a twelve-to-twenty page site built to rank. Most Australian agencies charge $3,000–$8,000 for equivalent work, and Melbourne specialist agencies bill $200–$300 per hour. Our prices are published because you should know before you call.
Whether you're comparing web design Melbourne, website design Melbourne, web development Melbourne or custom web design, the question that decides it isn't who's cheapest. It's whether the site will actually generate enquiries once it's live. Here's exactly what we include, what we charge, and what we'd tell you not to buy.
What's included in every website we build
- Custom design — not a theme you'll see on three other Melbourne businesses
- Mobile-first build; most of your enquiries will arrive on a phone
- Fast Core Web Vitals — compressed images, lean code, no plugin bloat
- SSL certificate and hardened security
- Enquiry form with spam protection, wired to your inbox
- Basic on-page SEO — page titles, meta descriptions, heading structure, internal links
- Schema markup so Google understands what your business is
- Submission to Google for indexing
- Google Analytics and Search Console set up and connected
- A content editor you can actually use, plus a training session
- Full ownership — domain, hosting account, files and design, all in your name
- Mobile-responsive design as standard. It is never charged as an extra.
Website design packages for Melbourne businesses
Starter
Getting online properly, fast
- Pages5
- DesignProfessional, mobile-first
- Service pagesOne combined
- Suburb pages—
- CopywritingYou supply
Business
Service businesses wanting enquiries
- Pages8–10
- DesignCustom to your brand
- Service pagesOne per service
- Suburb pages—
- CopywritingWe structure and edit yours
Growth
Businesses that intend to rank
- Pages12–20
- DesignFully custom, section by section
- Service pagesOne per service + sub-services
- Suburb pagesYes, for your service area
- CopywritingWe write it
What actually changes between $499, $1,499 and $2,999
| Starter $499 | Business $1,499 | Growth $2,999 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pages | 5 | 8–10 | 12–20 |
| Design | Professional, mobile-first | Custom to your brand | Fully custom, section by section |
| Service pages | One combined | One per service | One per service + sub-services |
| Suburb pages | — | — | Yes, for your service area |
| Copywriting | You supply | We structure and edit yours | We write it |
| SEO | Titles, meta, headings, indexing | Above + local SEO structure + GBP setup | Above + schema, speed, internal links |
| Revisions | 2 rounds | 3 rounds | Until approved |
| Timeline | ~10 business days | 3 weeks | 4–5 weeks |
The honest summary: $499 gets you online properly. $1,499 gets you online in a way that generates enquiries. $2,999 gets you online in a way that can compete for rankings. If you're in a competitive Melbourne market, the Starter package will not out-rank an established competitor on its own, and we'd rather tell you that now.
Types of websites we build
WordPress Websites
Our most common Melbourne build. Flexible, easy to edit, cost-effective to maintain.
Shopify Stores
Ecommerce built on Shopify's Online Store 2.0 architecture, configured for Australian retail.
Website Redesign
An outdated site rebuilt without losing the rankings you already have.
Web Applications & Portals
Booking systems, client portals and dashboards in React or Laravel.
7 red flags when buying a website in Melbourne
- Mobile-responsive design charged as an add-on. It is 2026. This is not optional and it is not an extra.
- A CMS charged additionally, leaving you unable to edit your own site without paying.
- No ownership of your domain, hosting account or admin login.
- “Unlimited pages” that turn out to be duplicated content, which Google will not rank.
- Page builders so heavy the site takes six seconds to load on mobile.
- No tracking installed, so you never learn which pages bring enquiries.
- A vague handover with no training and no documentation.
When you should not buy our $499 website
We'd rather lose the sale than sell you the wrong thing. Choose a larger package if you need ecommerce or online payments, online bookings, a members area, a page for each suburb you service, or if you're entering a market where you'll need to out-rank established competitors from day one. Five pages with basic SEO setup will not do that, and anyone telling you otherwise is taking your money.
Recent Melbourne web design projects
Australian clients, each with a full case study.
Why choose a Melbourne web design company
- A real office at 12 Dimboola Rd, Broadmeadows. You can come in and meet the people building your site. Several competitors are remote-only and say so.
- No offshoring. The people you brief are the people who build it.
- Same timezone. When your site breaks on a Tuesday morning you're not waiting overnight.
- We know Melbourne search — which suburbs your customers actually search from, because we've built for businesses in them since 2016.
- We build the hard stuff too. Seven-plus apps live in the App Store and Google Play, and ERP systems in production.
Our website design process
Every Melbourne website design project runs through the same five stages, so you always know what happens next and what we need from you.
- Discovery call: your services, your customers, the suburbs you work in and the competitors you lose work to. We look at what already ranks for your main searches before designing anything.
- Sitemap and keyword plan: one page per service and, from the Growth tier, one per suburb or region, each mapped to a search people actually type.
- Design: a homepage concept first, then the inner pages once you are happy with the direction. You see real layouts, not a mood board.
- Build and content: a fast, mobile-first build with titles, headings, schema markup and internal links set up properly as the pages go in.
- Launch and handover: Google Search Console and Analytics connected, the sitemap submitted, redirects in place if you had an old site, and a training session so you can edit it yourself.
Web design across Melbourne
We are a Melbourne web designer based in Broadmeadows, so the northern suburbs are on our doorstep: Craigieburn, Coburg, Brunswick, Preston, Reservoir, Epping and Glenroy. We also design websites for businesses in the CBD and inner city, the western suburbs from Footscray and Sunshine out to Werribee and Point Cook, the eastern suburbs around Box Hill and Ringwood, and the south-east from Dandenong to Frankston. Customers in each of those areas search a little differently, so a site for a Werribee plumber is structured differently from one for a Richmond cafe.
Frequently asked questions
With us, $499 for a professional five-page site, around $1,499 for eight to ten pages, and around $2,999 for a larger site built to rank. Across the Melbourne market generally, small business websites typically run $3,000–$8,000, and specialist agencies bill $200–$300 per hour. Our prices are lower because we've refined a repeatable process since 2016 and our overheads in Broadmeadows are low — not because we cut corners on the fundamentals.
Ten years of refinement. We have a component library, a defined process, and a studio in Melbourne's north rather than the CBD. We're also upfront that many clients continue with a care plan or SEO afterwards, which lets us price the build fairly. It is not a template, it is not offshored, and mobile-responsive design is included.
Most five-page sites go live within 10 business days of us receiving your content and images. Eight-to-ten page sites take about three weeks, larger builds four to five. Ecommerce takes longer depending on product count. The single biggest cause of delay is waiting on content from the client, so we send you a simple checklist up front.
Completely. The domain, the hosting account, the files and the design are all in your name from the start. We don't hold logins hostage, and if you ever decide to move to another provider we'll help you transfer everything cleanly.
Hosting is separate so you own it outright. We offer Australian-hosted care plans from $49/month covering hosting, SSL, backups, updates and support, or we'll deploy to hosting you already have and hand over the keys.
Not if it's done properly. We map every existing URL to its replacement, implement 301 redirects, and preserve the pages already earning traffic. Rankings collapsing after a redesign is a preventable mistake, not an inevitability — it happens when someone launches a new site without a redirect map.
At Starter level you supply the words and we structure them. At Business level we edit and shape what you give us. At Growth level we write it, using keyword research so each page targets something people actually search. Copywriting can also be quoted separately at any tier.
Yes. Every site is handed over with an editor you can use without touching code, plus a training session and written notes. Adding a service, changing prices, swapping photos or publishing a post are all things you'll be able to do yourself.
Yes — Shopify and WooCommerce, from around $2,499. We configure Australian payments, shipping and tax, and we handle migrations from other platforms.
We'll audit it and tell you honestly whether it's worth repairing or rebuilding. Sometimes a site needs a week of speed and SEO work rather than a full rebuild, and we'll say so even though the rebuild is the bigger invoice.
Yes. Projects are milestone-based — typically 50% to start and 50% on completion, with larger builds split across more stages.
Yes. 12 Dimboola Rd, Broadmeadows VIC 3047, since 2016. We meet clients in person across Melbourne, and you're welcome to visit the studio.
Ask four things. Can you see live sites they built for businesses like yours? Will you own the domain, hosting and files? Is the price fixed and in writing? And who actually builds it, a local team or an offshore subcontractor? A good Melbourne web design company answers all four without hesitating.
Most of our clients are small businesses. Our affordable small business website design page covers the $499 and $1,499 packages in detail, including what a small business site needs to bring in enquiries.
All of it. We meet clients in person across the northern suburbs, the CBD and inner city, the west, the east and the south-east, and work remotely with businesses anywhere in Australia.
Ready to start?
Book a free thirty-minute call. We'll look at your current site and top competitors, tell you which package actually fits, and send a fixed-price quote within two business days.
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