Services

Web Design

WordPress design using your preferred platform and plugins.

We find that WordPress classic with the Elements and the WooCommerce plugins cover most design needs with lowest overhead and maintenance. Sometimes we use WIX.

Marketing and SEO

You need to market your site so that your site can promote your products and services. SEO has to be a true reflection of site content else you can get hammered in rankings and really do you really want to promise more than you can deliver ?

It’s said that leaders should ‘walk the talk’. With SEO and Google Search especially, you need to ‘talk the walk’.

Who are these web designers, anyway?

There are many designers out there. Many are amateurs; not that good at design really, disinterested in profiling your business or market to capture what distincts your business and to have that flow through your site. Some are good desgners but poor communicators, or poor administrators.

Some are red-hot, fantastic, effective and have a waiting list.

Most designers fall between the two. The rest, well haha, you should know better. Caveat Emptor and all that!

The Web Designer is a Dodo really …

Things were simpler back when I was knocking out sites in the 90’s and teaching Web Design in the 00’s. Tech was crude compared to now. Websites were the NEXT BIG THING ALREADY IN and were the place to be on the web. The only place.

Then came Facebook, the Social Media boom, blogs, Instagram, TikTok and, and, and…. Websites are no longer the only avenue for online business promotion but they do have their place.

If you want a place in thst space, contact us for a chat about your needs and dreans and keys see if we can make them a reality.

Why us?

What distincts us from most design consultancies nowadays is that we’ve been consulting since 1980, were members of the SIAD in 1981 and the DIA in 1983 and have been on a path of continuous improvement since.

For us, it’s not about our ego or what we assume is best for you. It’s not even about you! It’s about your business and your customers.

What you bring to the table enriches the project and the final result. Good things happen when web design projects are a close partnership project between client and designer.

Now, prices. There are lots of them and they vary. With the budget offerings, well you can find out why they are cheap in a bad way. It’s simple economics. If something is cheap in a competitive marketplace then something is likely missing. If you know what it is and you don’t need it then you have a great match.

If you don’t, well. Maybe you get hacked, and not only no protection or insurance, but no backup either. Or maybe that discounted hosting service price is only for the first year?

I’m not suggesting you don’t hunt for bargains, but whilst in this industry one all too often does not get what is paid for, for the goid stuff, yeah, you do get what you pay for. So go no further in considering a web site unless you are willing to slap at least a few thousand dollars down and continue paying from $100 to $10,000 a month for maintenance and presence on the web.

OurxFees

We generally charge $5,000 for a 5 page website, plus $500 pdr extra page. This covers building a site to suit your needs, and setting within it copy and media content you suppiy. If we need to pick brains and pull teeth to write content for you, we charge $135ph.

We pass on extra hosting requirements, plugin fees, and so forth. We are not interested in exploiting this and mark8ng it up as we would, say, a product sale. Our mantra is to provide quality work at a fair price. We cover our costs in admin and management with a bit on top for profit. We make decent money on the inital design job and we’re happy with that.

Every customer is different. Every site design unique. Prices vary.

We’re not out to bind you forevermore and milk you for all you’re worth. neither do we barter nor bargain and put at risk those that work with us. It’s ‘Fair Price, Fair Go’.

Our mantra is to provide quality work at a fair price.

It also includes registering a domain for you if you don’t already have one, initial hosting of the website, supplying some plugins to give your site punch and purpose. and website security. For a year. After that, any recurring costs are bundled and billed.

You should also consider a customer engagement strategy, search engine optimisation (SEO) and marketing (including social media).

Oh, there’s a bonus, we charge AUD, not USD!