Web Design Townsville

Why Townsville businesses choose me over an agency

Most Townsville web design agencies will quote between $4000 and $9000 for a small business website, hand the project to a junior designer plus an offshore developer, then run the build through two weeks of meetings and four weeks of slow back and forth. The site ends up overbuilt for what a Townsville plumber, accountant or trades business actually needs. You then spend another $200 a month forever on hosting that should cost a tenth of that.

My pitch is the opposite. One specialist who knows WordPress, knows Elementor, knows local SEO and knows what a Townsville small business needs the site to do. A landing page is live in 2 to 3 weeks. A complete small business site is live in 4 to 6 weeks. I will tell you upfront if your idea is overbuilt for the budget, and what to drop to keep the quote reasonable.

The full Townsville build is in one place

Strategy call, copy, layout, design, mobile responsiveness, on page SEO, contact form, Google Analytics, Google Search Console, Google Business Profile review, launch and a one hour training call. Every line item is included in the fixed quote. There are no separate fees for SSL, for forms, for analytics, for the launch checklist or for the first 30 days of post launch tweaks.

Built on WordPress so you own everything

Sites built on Wix, Squarespace, Shopify or Webflow live inside someone else's platform. If they raise prices, change the editor or shut you out, the website goes with them. A WordPress site lives on hosting in your name, with login details you control and a database you can take to any developer in the world. That portability is the single best reason a Townsville business should pick WordPress, even if Wix looks easier to start.

Pricing

Three fixed quotes, three clear scopes. Pick the one that matches the size of your Townsville business and the work the website needs to do. Custom builds outside these tiers are quoted separately, usually at $3,300 plus.

What is included in every Townsville web design build

The Townsville web design process

1. Discovery call

Either 30 minutes on the phone or 45 minutes over a coffee at one of the cafes on The Strand or in North Ward. We go through what your Townsville business does, who your customers are, what the website needs to do and what competitors in your space currently look like.

2. Fixed quote and scope

Within 48 hours of the discovery call you get a written quote that lists the pages, the timeline, the deposit, the payment terms, the included copywriting and the post launch support window. The quote is fixed unless you ask for something extra mid build.

3. Build

I work on a staging URL you can preview at any time. You see the homepage first, sign off on the look and feel, then I build out the rest of the pages off that approved style. You provide photos and feedback as we go. I write the copy unless you would rather supply your own.

4. Launch and training

Once you sign off, I push the staging site to your live domain, set up redirects from the old URLs, submit the new sitemap to Google and run a one hour video call walking you through how to update content, add blog posts and replace images yourself.

5. 30 day support window

For 30 days after launch any tweaks, fixes or small additions are free. After that you can either stay on a WordPress maintenance plan from $19 a month, come back for ad hoc updates, or run the site yourself with the training from step 4.

Frequently asked questions