Hand-built websites for businesses across the Illawarra and well beyond it.

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Shellharbour · The Illawarra · Sydney

Beautiful is easy. Beautiful and fast is the hard part.

Any decent designer can make a website look good. We build sites that still feel good three clicks in, on a phone, on regional data — that's where visitors actually decide whether to stay.

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Since 1998

Building for the web

Under 2s

Page load, every build

Zero Themes

or page builders

Built on

Approach

Cheap sites are assembled. Ours are engineered.

We start with nothing and add only what earns its place. Here's what that actually buys you, one goal at a time.

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01 Speed

02 Does its job

03 All included

How long someone waits before your page appears

Past two seconds, people start leaving.

They go before the page appears — and you never find out they were there.

This page

209 KB 0.90s

Pre-built theme

2,054 KB 3.6s

Wix template

5,683 KB 4.6s

Green line marks the 2-second target we build under. Scale ends at 6 seconds.

Phones make it worse

Most of your visitors are on a phone, often on mobile data. All that extra weight comes down the slowest connection they have.

Google is counting

Page speed is one of the signals Google uses to rank you. A heavy site is harder to find as well as slower to use.

This page's payload is measured live in your browser, on this load. Comparison figures were measured 20 August 2026 — homepages, empty cache. Wix figure is from an official Wix template. Theme figure reflects a typical content-loaded build; the most content-heavy Avada demo measured 3.79s.

0 things asking to be clicked

What we leave out is what gets them there.

Most people scan a page, they don't read it. Anything that isn't helping someone get where they're going is standing in their way — so we start with nothing and put back only what earns its place.

One page, one job

Every page is built around a single action and the shortest honest route to it. If something doesn't help someone take that action, it doesn't go on the page.

Watched, not guessed

Nearly 30 years of watching how people actually use websites — including finance work in the UK and US, where a small change to a form was worth real money.

what usually costs extra

The extras aren't extra.

A lot of quotes put half of that list underneath the total as optional line items. Here it's simply what a website is — every site gets all of it, because a site without it isn't finished.

No surprises later

The price you're quoted is the price for a finished site. Nothing on that list turns into an invoice once the build is underway.

Yours to take

The site is yours — the files, the content and the design. Hosting with us is optional rather than a condition of the build, and if you ever move it you get a copy of everything to take with you.

Projects

A few we've launched lately.

Every one built from scratch, tuned to load fast, and handed over with the keys so you can edit it yourself.

Illustrator

Sketch By Chris

A bold, high-contrast portfolio built to let the artwork do the shouting — and to hold its shape whether there are six pieces or sixty.

Oxygen · Portfolio · SEO

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Music education

Little Maestros

Warm and parent-friendly, with class information structured so a busy family can find what they need and book in without a phone call.

Bookings · Local SEO · Oxygen

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Inclusions

Six things every site gets.

None of it is an extra on a quote — including the words, which most quotes hand back to you as homework.

Built on first principles

Started from nothing and added only what earns its place. No theme, no page builder, and no code your site will never call — which is most of why it loads the way it does.

Under two seconds

Fully loaded, not just the first paint — and measured on your own browser as you opened this page, on whatever connection you're using right now.

Designed for the phone first

We start at the small screen and scale up, so the version most of your visitors actually see is the one that got designed first rather than squeezed down afterwards.

Words written for you

Copy written around what you want people to do, so you're never handed an empty site and a deadline. You'll get a draft to react to rather than a blank page.

Set up to be found

Titles, descriptions, a sitemap and the rich snippets Google reads — on every page, not just the home page. Set up at launch, not sold back to you later.

Ready to be shared

Post your link anywhere and the proper image, headline and description come with it, every time. No blank grey box where the preview should be.

Built on WordPress. Not built like one.

WordPress runs more than 40% of the web, and we use it deliberately: it keeps your content easy to change, it connects to almost any booking, payment or listing system you might need, and being the most scrutinised platform there is means security problems get found and fixed fast.

What we don't use is its templating — instead of a stock theme carrying code your site will never call, the design is built as its own lightweight layer over the top. On our side of it that means SSL on every page from launch day, malware scanning and a firewall running at the server itself, and a backup taken every day. You get the flexibility and the safety of the world's most-used content system, without the weight that normally comes with it.

How we work

Five stages, and you always know which one we're in.

Nothing here is a surprise, and nothing gets built before you've seen where it's heading.

Planning

We work out what the site actually has to do before anyone talks about how it looks.

Questionnaire Meeting Quote

You get

A fixed quote and a booked slot

3 steps

01 · 1

A detailed brief to gather the key insights — your business, your audience, and what you actually want the site to achieve.

01 · 2

We go deeper on the project, preferably at your own premises. Seeing how you work is worth more than an hour of describing it.

01 · 3

A tailored quote for the work we've just scoped together — a fixed figure, not an hourly estimate that drifts.

A 50% deposit secures your slot in the build schedule and starts the concept. It's non-refundable, so we both know the project is real before design work begins.

Concept

You see the direction on your own home page before the full build starts.

Concept design Your approval

You get

A preview of your own home page

2 steps

02 · 1

A preview of your home page — theme, colours, typography, layout. Sometimes with placeholder text and images, because at this point you're judging the direction, not the wording.

02 · 2

Nothing else gets built until you've signed off on that direction. It's far cheaper to change your mind here than three pages in.

Build

Your content, your photography, and the whole technical setup handled in one pass.

Content gathering Website build Draft preview

You get

The finished site on a private link

3 steps

03 · 1

We ask for whatever's left — copy, logos, images. If the photography you need doesn't exist yet, we arrange a time to shoot it.

03 · 2

The site gets designed and built for real, hand-coded rather than assembled. Hosting, domains and mailboxes are set up along the way, as you need them.

03 · 3

A complete draft on a private link, so you can go through the whole thing in your own time rather than over someone's shoulder.

Revise

A full round of changes, included in the price rather than billed afterwards.

Your revisions Final edits Final payment

You get

Your changes made, at no extra cost

3 steps

04 · 1

You work through the private link and send us a list. Take your time over it — this is the round that's meant to catch everything.

04 · 2

We make the changes and send the final version back to you for final approval.

04 · 3

The remaining balance falls due on approval, before we take the site live.

One full round of revisions is part of the quoted price, not an extra invoice after the fact.

Launch

We go live, check it on real devices, then show you how to run it yourself.

SEO & speed Launch Debrief & training

You get

A live site you can edit yourself

3 steps

05 · 1

The essential SEO work and the final speed pass, so the site is genuinely ready rather than merely finished.

05 · 2

Tested on real devices, on real connections, then live.

05 · 3

A session walking you through what's been built and how to edit your own content, so you're not paying someone to change a phone number.

Pricing

Two starting points.

Every site is quoted properly once we've talked, but here's where things start. Whichever one you land on, none of the six things above is an optional extra.

One page

One page, done properly

From $1,650

An all-in-one design built around a single goal — everything someone needs in one scroll, with a menu that jumps them straight to it.

Everything you offer on one long-scrolling page
Its own menu, jumping straight to the section someone wants
Contact form, map and click-to-call, all included
Room to grow into a full site whenever you need it

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Full siteMost common

Room to say more

From $2,950

For established businesses with services or locations that each deserve their own space.

Up to five pages of your own — typically home, about, services, contact and one more
Terms and privacy pages on top, not counted in the five
Each page with its own address, title and description
Room to add more pages later if you outgrow it

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Bigger builds

Quoted on the outcome

Some things change the shape of a build enough that a fixed price would only be a guess. These are quoted on scope rather than sold at a set figure, so tell us what you need and we'll price the whole thing properly. You're probably here if you need:

An online shop, or payments gateway
Bookings, memberships or logins
Connecting to software you already use
Listings or content fed in from elsewhere
Well beyond a handful of pages
Anything the two above don't quite cover

Every build gets the same foundations whatever it costs — the speed work, mobile-first design, SEO setup, security and Cloudflare are in all of them, not bolted on afterwards. We hold to the listed price wherever we can: it only moves if the scope does, which means more pages than the package covers, or anything from the Bigger builds list — hooking a site up to a third-party platform is the usual one, and it adds real setup work. A 50% deposit books your slot, with the balance due on approval to launch.

Hosting

A fast site starts with where it lives.

Every website sits on a server somewhere, and plenty of Australian sites quietly sit in America because it's cheaper. Yours would sit in Sydney, close to the people you're selling to, behind a handful of layers that each do one job — stop attacks, keep your pages ready to go, and hand them over the moment someone asks.

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Visitor

Edge cache

Firewall

TLS · static

Page cache

Your website

Every layer has a job

None of it is there by default — each piece was chosen, and each one exists to get your page in front of someone sooner. Most of the work happens in memory rather than off a disk, which is why the page tends to arrive before anyone has thought about waiting for it.

What it costs to keep it here.

Hosting

$29 / month

The stack above, running your site.

Australian server, close to your customers
Cloudflare in front of it, and SSL
Daily backups, held off the server
A mailbox on your own domain

Managed Hosting

Highly recommended

$59 / month

Peace of mind. We keep it current.

Everything in Hosting
WordPress and plugin updates, tested before they go live
Rolled back automatically if an update breaks something
Security patching kept up to date
One small change a month — a price, a photo, a paragraph

If your site ever outgrows shared resources, we can move it to a dedicated server of its own — priced at cost plus management. We'll tell you when that's worth doing, and not before.

Extra mailboxes are $7 a month each. Anything beyond the monthly change is quoted before we start, so nothing arrives as a surprise.

Got a project in mind? Let's have a chat about it.

Start with the questionnaire and we'll take it from there — no obligation, and no pressure at the end of it. If we're not the right fit, we'll say so.

Start the questionnaire Call 0421 175 396

A note on the speed figures on this page: they're measured on a 5G or better mobile connection, and a standard broadband connection on desktop. Network congestion can occasionally affect real-world load times, so our figures reflect normal conditions rather than a guarantee.