Website design · Melbourne, VIC

Website design in Melbourne

Sites built for a city that looks at good design every day. Australian team, Australian hosting.

The short answer

We design and build websites for businesses across Melbourne, from brochure sites through to Shopify stores and custom applications. Every site is built by our in house team of 32, hosted in Australia, and handed over with the domain and files in your name. No lock in contract, and we're rated 4.9 from 96 reviews.

Melbourne's professional core has already seen every website trick

The top end of Collins Street is law firms, corporate advisory practices and funds management, in buildings trading on reputation built over a century. Ten minutes away it changes completely. Bourke Street Mall runs on foot traffic, and the Federation Square corner pulls tourists. Queen Victoria Market has stallholders whose parents held the same site, now selling online too.

Then there's the ring around it. Cremorne holds more technology companies per hectare than anywhere else in Melbourne, squeezed into a few blocks off Church Street. Collingwood and Fitzroy filled their old factories with small agencies and independent brands. Richmond has three retail strips that behave like separate suburbs, Swan Street being nothing like Bridge Road. South Melbourne runs on design studios circling the market. Docklands stacks head offices above ground floor retail, and Carlton runs on the university and the health services beside it.

Here's what that does to a brief. Your buyer looks at considered design all day. A Melbourne accountant pitching a Cremorne software company is being compared, quietly, against that company's own product design. A Collins Street practice gets judged next to the international firm two floors up. Nobody here is moved by a homepage slider and a stock photo of a handshake, because they have scrolled past several hundred. Credibility does more work in this market than traffic volume, which changes what the site has to prove first.

One more Melbourne quirk. Plenty of CBD and inner ring businesses sell nationally while carrying a Victorian address, so the same homepage has to satisfy a buyer in Perth and a referral who already knows the street. The answer is usually clearer service structure, not more front page copy.

What we build for Melbourne businesses

Most Melbourne briefs are one of three things. A professional services site where the case studies and people pages carry the sale. A product site where the homepage has to explain something abstract in six seconds. Or a rebuild of a site that was fine in 2019 and now takes nine seconds to load on a phone.

Underneath, the work is the same. Real page structure, so each service earns a page that can rank on its own. Core Web Vitals handled during the build, not patched afterwards. Forms wired into your CRM. Accessibility done properly, which matters if you sell to government or large corporates, because procurement teams check. Australian hosting in a Sydney data centre, and the files in your name from day one.

How search works when your office is in Melbourne and ours isn't

Worth saying plainly, because it comes up on most first calls. Map pack rankings radiate out from your own verified Google Business Profile pin, not your agency's. A business at 500 Collins Street competes on its address, its primary category, its review count and how close the searcher is standing. Where we sit contributes nothing to that calculation, which is why an agency's postcode matters far less than people assume. Organic results carry no supplier proximity element either.

What our location changes is meetings. Ours run over video and screen share, with your account manager on an Australian number and Managed Support answering in one to three hours. If sitting in a room with your agency every fortnight is how you want to work, hire someone in Richmond. Better raised now than in month three.

Other parts of Melbourne we build for

Most of our Victorian work sits in the inner ring and eastern centres.

Website design in Richmond, Cremorne, South Melbourne, Docklands, Collingwood, Fitzroy and Box Hill, plus Southbank and Carlton businesses trading into the CBD daily. Search sits on SEO in Melbourne and digital marketing in Melbourne.

Send us your URL and we'll say whether it needs rebuilding or just fixing.

How a build runs

  1. We pull your current site apart

    Speed, structure, content and what converts. You get the honest read, including the parts already working.

  2. We fix the scope and the number

    Page count, functionality, dates and a price in writing. No variations halfway through.

  3. We design and build on staging

    You watch it happen on a link you can share internally, not in a status email.

  4. We launch and stay on it

    Hosting, updates and changes carry on, same account manager.

What a cheaper quote usually leaves out

Real developers, not template assemblers.

We build in WordPress, Shopify, Webflow and custom code, and the people who build the software also run the servers under it. We're AWS certified, which most web designers can't claim.

One account manager, permanently.

Same person, same number, and they'll know your site without you re explaining it.

No lock in contract.

Projects are fixed scope and fixed price. Hosting and support run month to month.

"We already have a website."

Then the question is whether the site is the problem or the traffic is. Sometimes it's neither, and the issue is what happens after the form arrives. We'll say which.

FAQs

Frequently asked questions

Still wondering about something? Call 07 3067 8910 or 0425 879 379, mon to fri, 8:30am to 5:30pm.

  • No. One office, at 1 Cheshire Street, Pallara in Brisbane, and no Melbourne address. We work with Melbourne clients over calls and screen shares, and we won't pretend otherwise.

Show us the site you've got

Book a discovery call. Twenty minutes, no pitch deck, and you'll come off it knowing what the build involves and roughly what it costs.

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Ready for a website that brings in work?

Tell us what you need and we'll show you how we'd approach it. No pressure, just a straight answer about what will work for your business.