The short answer
We design and build websites for Woolloongabba businesses, from a single page for a subcontractor to booking systems and online stores. Builds are fixed scope and fixed price, hosted in Sydney, and handed over with every login in your name. AR Digital Solutions has 32 in house staff and no lock in contracts.
The suburb is a building site, and that has become the local industry
Stand at the Stanley Street end and count the hoardings. The Cross River Rail station box, works feeding the Princess Alexandra Hospital precinct, towers going up towards Kangaroo Point and East Brisbane, and a stadium whose future has been announced, revised and announced again. The suburb has been under construction for years and will be through the 2032 Games works.
The businesses that come with that are not head offices. Formwork, scaffolding, plant hire, traffic control, surveying and fitout, working out of the brick warehouses off Logan Road and Ipswich Road, or based south in Coorparoo and here every day anyway.
Then the trade that follows the builders in. Medical fitout crews around the PA, shopfitters on the Logan Road strip, maintenance contractors on apartment stock through Dutton Park and South Brisbane. Same problem across all of them: the work arrives through people, and the site has to hold up when those people check.
For a subcontractor, the site is not a lead generator, and pretending otherwise wastes the budget
Nobody wins a six figure package because their homepage ranked. The work comes off a tender list, from a head contractor who has used you before, or from someone who passed on your number. Selling you a site on the promise of inbound commercial leads would be selling you something that is not going to happen.
The site still decides whether you get the job. It does it at a different moment.
An estimator adding subbies to a list opens your website with four questions: are you licensed, are you insured today, have you done work at this scale, and are you going to be a problem on site. Put the licence number, insurance currency, safety record and capability statement on a page, not behind a PDF download form nobody fills in.
The person you want to hire reads the same site. If hiring is harder than selling right now, and for most trade businesses we speak to it is, a careers page with pay ranges and a photo of your crew is worth more than a fifth service page.
The client who does search is the smaller commercial job and the homeowner, typing a service and a suburb, so those pages still earn their place.
So the build order flips. Credentials first, then projects with the client, the scale and the constraint you solved, careers in the main navigation, and a header phone number that dials on the first tap. The site gets opened one handed on a dusty screen. Six seconds and you are gone.
What a build actually includes
Most sites here run on WordPress, which your office manager can update without ringing us. Webflow suits the showroom end of Logan Road, and single job landing pages suit chasing one type of work. Every build includes the credential and project structure above, Australian hosting in a Sydney data centre, local search setup, and training. See trade and construction and website design.
Nearby areas we build for
The same team builds for South Brisbane, East Brisbane, Kangaroo Point, Dutton Park and Coorparoo, citywide from Brisbane website design, the showroom end in Newstead, and the Coast from Southport. Full list on service areas.
How a build runs
Discovery call
Twenty minutes on what you do, who checks you, and what the current site fails at.
Fixed scope, fixed price
Pages, features and dates in writing before anyone starts. Variations get quoted.
Build on a staging link
You comment as it goes rather than waiting for a reveal.
Launch and hand over
Logins in your name, training recorded, hosting running from day one.
Why trade businesses here work with us
A development team, not a template shop.
AWS Certified, and the people who build the site run the servers under it. A job board or a form that pushes into your scheduling system gets built, not bolted on.
Fixed scope and fixed price.
You get the number before work starts. Nobody on a construction site needs a supplier who reprices mid job.
One account manager.
One name, one mobile, and they know your build without you re explaining it.
"Our site just looks dated."
Sometimes the site is fine and the enquiry is landing in an inbox nobody opens until seven at night. We will tell you which it is before quoting.