Website Design Townsville Flinders Street, Townsville City QLD 4810 0413 651 740
Website Design Townsville Flinders Street, Townsville City QLD 4810 0413 651 740
Web development Townsville businesses can grow with, built from a blank page
Starting a business or replacing a site that never worked? My web development Townsville service plans the structure, writes the content and builds a fast WordPress site around how your customers actually buy.
More than picking a template and adding a logo
A new website is a small project with a lot of moving parts. Someone has to decide which pages exist, what each one says, how people move from a Google search to a phone call and what happens to the enquiry once it lands. The design is the part you see. The planning underneath is what makes it earn its keep.
Website builders in Townsville range from big agencies to people using a free theme on a weekend. I sit in the middle. I am one experienced developer who builds every site on WordPress and Elementor, writes the copy and sets up the tracking, so the person who planned the site is the same person who builds and supports it.
If you are still running everything through a Facebook page, have a look at moving from Facebook to a proper website. If you already have a site that needs replacing, the website redesign page covers that path instead.
The working parts of a new small business website
Each new site is built from the same reliable foundations and then shaped around your services, your area and your customers.
One page per main service so each one can rank for its own search, plus home, about and contact pages.
Click to call buttons on mobile, a short contact form and a quote form that asks the questions you need answered.
Compressed images, caching and lean page builds so the site loads quickly on a phone with patchy reception.
Google Analytics and Search Console connected before launch so you can see where enquiries come from.
I write the words so you do not have to
Most new website projects stall because the owner is asked to write eight pages of copy on top of running a business. I take that job off your hands. A phone call and a few emailed notes give me enough to write service pages that sound like you and answer what customers ask.
The words are planned around real searches. A pool builder in Kirwan, an electrician in Kelso or a physio near the hospital in Douglas each get found through different phrases, so each page is written with the right ones in mind and without stuffing them in where they do not belong.
Fixed prices with GST included
Every new website development project fits one of three packages. Full details sit on the main web design page.
$880
One scrolling page for tradies and contractors who mostly need to be found and called. Live in about two to three weeks.
$2,200
Home, about, contact and up to five service pages with copywriting, quote form and SEO foundations. Live in about four to six weeks.
$3,300
Bookings, memberships or a shop of around fifty products with a payment gateway. Live in about six to ten weeks.
What happens between the quote and launch day
You can watch the site come together on a private preview link the whole way through.
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A simple list of pages and what each one is for, agreed before any design work starts.
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The homepage is built first on staging so the look, colours and tone are settled early.
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Service pages, forms, tracking and the about and contact pages are built and filled with your content.
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Every page is checked on phones, tablets and desktops, forms are tested and the site goes live.
SEO foundations are part of the build, not an add on
A new site has no history with Google, so the first few months matter. Every build includes clean page structure, schema markup, a sitemap and a Search Console submission. If you want to push harder, my local SEO plans start at $279 a month and the web design and SEO page explains how the two work together.
Your Google Business Profile matters just as much as the site for local searches, so I check it during the Complete and Advanced builds and point out anything holding it back.
What people ask before starting a new site
Have a question that is not covered here? Ring me or send a message and you will hear back from me within one business day.
Website Design Townsville, run by Nick Fritzkowski, builds new WordPress websites for Townsville businesses that are starting out or replacing a site that never brought in work. Nick plans the pages, writes the copy, builds the site and handles launch, so there is one person responsible for the whole job. Prices start at $880 for a single page site.
A website builder in Townsville usually means a do it yourself tool like Wix or a designer who drops content into a ready made template, while a web developer plans and builds the site around your business. The developer route costs more upfront but you get proper structure, copy written for search and a site you own and can move any time.
Website development for a small Townsville business costs $880 for a single page site, $2,200 for a complete site with up to eight pages and $3,300 for an advanced site with bookings or a shop, all GST included. Hosting adds about $15 to $25 a month. The website cost guide breaks the numbers down further.
A brand new Townsville website rarely ranks well in its first few weeks, because Google needs time to crawl it and see that real people use it. Good structure, local wording and a well kept Google Business Profile speed that up. Searches for your business name usually show the site within days while competitive service searches can take a few months.
Before getting a new website built in Townsville it helps to have your logo, a list of services, any photos of your work and access to your domain if you already own one. Nothing needs to be perfect. Website Design Townsville and Nick can work from rough notes and a phone call, then write the rest of the content for you.
A Townsville business does not need to buy a domain name before development starts, because the domain can be registered during the build in the business name. If you already own one, it simply needs to be renewed and accessible. A .com.au domain needs an ABN, which most local businesses already have. It costs very little each year.
Send a few lines about your business and I will call you back to talk through the right package.
