Service · Web Design
Web design for Torquay
& Geelong businesses.
Custom-coded, mobile-first websites built from scratch — fast to load, easy to use, and designed to turn visitors into enquiries.
A small business website has one job: convince someone who has never heard of you that you're worth calling, in the ten seconds before they go back to Google and click somebody else. Everything else is decoration.
That's the standard every build is held to. The design work matters — a site that looks cheap costs you credibility before anyone reads a word — but it serves the goal rather than replacing it.
Custom-coded, not assembled
Sites are built by hand rather than dragged together in a page builder. The reason is practical: builders ship enormous amounts of code you never asked for, which is the single most common cause of slow small-business websites. Slow sites lose visitors before the page finishes loading, and page speed is a confirmed Google ranking signal on top of that.
A hand-built site loads faster, scores better on Core Web Vitals, and has a far smaller surface area for security problems because there are no third-party plugins to keep patched.
Mobile-first, genuinely
For most local trades and service businesses, more than half of all traffic arrives on a phone — often someone standing in their kitchen with a problem, looking for a number to call. So the phone layout gets designed first and the desktop version follows, rather than a desktop design being squashed down and hoped for the best.
Built to be found
Every build ships with the technical groundwork search engines need: a clean heading hierarchy, descriptive page titles and meta descriptions, structured data, a valid XML sitemap, canonical URLs and fast Core Web Vitals. That's the on-page half of SEO handled as standard, not sold back to you as an upgrade.
Competing for genuinely contested local searches also takes reviews, a strong Google Business Profile and time — which is what local SEO covers as a separate ongoing service.
What's included
- Copywriting for every page, written from an interview with you
- Custom design — no template another business in town is also using
- Mobile, tablet and desktop layouts
- Contact forms wired up and tested
- Domain and hosting set up and managed for you
- Technical SEO foundations and structured data
- Google Search Console and analytics configured
- A walkthrough when it goes live, so you know what you have
The technical side is handled. Domain registration, DNS, hosting, SSL and renewals are all managed for you — so there's no control panel to log into, no renewal notice to miss, and nothing to configure. You focus on the business; I keep the site running.
Typical build
- 1–3 weeks start to finish
- Fixed price, quoted in writing
- 5–10 pages for most businesses
- Copywriting included
- Two rounds of revisions
- Support after launch
FAQ
Web design questions
Neither — sites are custom-coded. Page builders add a lot of code you never asked for, which is the single most common reason small business sites load slowly. A hand-built site loads faster, scores better on Core Web Vitals, and has a much smaller surface area for security problems. The trade-off is that you can't drag blocks around yourself, so if self-editing matters to you, tell me upfront and I'll build it on a CMS instead.
By default, changes come through me — that's how the speed and security benefits are kept. If self-editing is important, I can wire in a lightweight CMS for the sections you'll actually change, like a blog or a gallery, while keeping the rest hand-built.
Yes, and it's designed mobile-first rather than desktop-first-then-squashed. For most local trades and service businesses, over half of all traffic is a phone, often someone standing in their kitchen looking for a number to call. The mobile layout gets designed first for that reason.
Yes — I take care of both. Domain registration, DNS, hosting, SSL certificates and renewals are all managed as part of the service, so there's no control panel to log into and no renewal notice to miss. If you already have a domain you want to keep using, that's no problem either.
A conversation about the business, any photos or logos you have, and your service details. That's genuinely it. I write the copy, source or optimise imagery, and come back with a design to react to.
Let's build something that works
Tell me about your business and I'll come back with a plan and a fixed price — no obligation.