How much does a website cost?

There’s so much that goes into a website that it’s hard to say without a brief, as a general rule, websites start at $15,000

Do you build in Shopify?

We don’t build in Shopify.We can design websites for Shopify, but suggest all development in Shopify is handled by our Shopify partner agency Dot Dev.We specialise in custom WordPress websites.

How long does a website take from start to finish?

Always best to allow 3 months for a website.Can it be completed quicker? Yes, if the stars are aligned.Can websites take longer? Yes, if it’s a large website.

Do you handle SEO migration?

Being an SEO First agency we take SEO migration very seriously. This is something that we manage in house and ensure there is a smooth SEO migration from your current website to your new website.

Do you write copy for websites?

Based on our SEO methodology of E-E-A-T we advise that content is handled internally by the expert (client). How this works is our SEO team will generate page content briefs that are tailored towards SEO and demonstrating E-E-A-T. The client or subject matter expert will write the content and our SEO team will review and ensure it has the right SEO juice to help it become discoverable.That being said, we do have copywriters that can help write website content, but want to stress, whilst the copy won’t be wrong, it won’t meet or pass E-E-A-T which is a big ranking factor for Google. If being discoverable on Google is not required, then using our in-house copywriter is totally fine.

Are there any ongoing website costs?

Yes.If we are hosting the website, and we recommend we do, hosting starts from $99 ex GST per domain, per month.If a website care plan is needed to support ongoing website updates (needed for larger websites), 10 hour website care plan packs are sold at $1,600 ex GST.If ad hoc ongoing support is needed, a cost of $180 ex GST per hour is quoted.

Web Development Services

High quality website development

We love to design and build top-notch websites!

We specialise in:

Heavy content websites
We love doing; .org | .edu | .gov websites

Services:

Website development
Website tracking
Website hosting
Website support

Get in touch

Our methodolgy

With over 400+ website builds over the span of 10 years, we have grown and adapted our development process to ensure a streamlined and efficient workflow that meets best practice with current web technical standards.

Whilst it’s important for a web project to look great and be seamlessly responsive across multiple devices, other technical considerations like SEO, accessibility and performance are equally important within the scope of any build. As we step through a project, these are all factors that are considered and implemented into a build to ensure we deliver your product to world-class standards.

What we do

Custom WordPress development
Complex API integrations
Optimised for speed and performance through Core Web Vitals metrics
Technical applications for A, AA, or AAA level Accessibility standards
Optimisation for technical SEO, including structured data and 301 re-direct strategy
GA4 tracking technical implementation
High security dedicated WordPress hosting
Ongoing technical support

What we don’t do

Offshore or outsource your work to another agency
Over-promise or underdeliver
Use dodge/poor code techniques
Build something that is not scalable and flexible
Don’t miss deadlines

Let’s dive into the website development process

WordPress website development specialists

We specialise in Custom WordPress builds and our flexible content approach is built using WordPress Gutenberg.

Our WordPress framework utilises ACF (Advanced Custom Fields) and the Gutenberg editor. Each website’s editing experience is tailor made to each project.

Development environment setup and process

Our development process involves working locally and deploying changes to a development server for review prior to pushing up to a staging server for your review.

All code is version controlled and committed regularly to test before delivering this to you for review.

Website development testing

Testing is constantly being done throughout the development process and also as a larger testing task (QAT) for the entire site.

The main areas of our testing involve performance, optimisation, cross-browser compatibility, security and front-end design.

Hosting on Kinsta

We host all of our clients websites through a managed WordPress host called Kinsta. The Kinsta platform utilises Google Cloud Platform (GCP) as the underlying server infrastructure.

Overview of the Kinsta and Google Cloud Platform infrastructure and features.

Website tracking

Being data nerds, we believe that tracking is a crucial step for a successful website launch. Before we launch the site we will regroup with the client and confirm what we are tracking + what the event/goal names are.

From there we will set up GA4 and GTM to ensure the website is pulling in the right data to help make data-led decisions in the future.

SEO checks pre & post live

Pre Live

Head of SEO will do a final sweep to ensure the site doesn’t have any major development or content updates that have been missed before we push your site live.

This process includes the below:

URL review which includes 401, 304s and redirects
Meta title and description reviews (if applicable)
Sitemap review
XML file review

Post Live

Our Head of SEO will now ensure the website has been pushed live correctly from an SEO standpoint and complete the following;

SEO tech audit
SEO speed test

SEO First, what does that mean

SEO matters as if you’re not discoverable it’s harder for new people to find out about you

Throughout our website process, our Head of SEO will be part of the project. SEO comes in at the start to help with structure + content and at the end to ensure it passes SEO Tech tests.

Before a website goes live, we will do a final sweep to ensure the site doesn’t have any major dev or content updates that have been missed before we push your site live.
This process includes the below:

URL review which includes 401, 304s and redirects
Meta title and description reviews (if applicable)
Sitemap review
XML file review
SEO technical audit
SEO speed test

This allows us to pick up on anything that has slipped through the cracks, to ensure once your site is launched, search engines can crawl your website.

Check out some of work we’re super proud of

- Website
Together, we make life-saving discoveries
The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute
- Website
Improving wellbeing through healthy eating
Healthy Eating Advisory Service

Website FAQs

: There’s so much that goes into a website that it’s hard to say without a brief, as a general rule, websites start at $15,000
: We don’t build in Shopify.

We can design websites for Shopify, but suggest all development in Shopify is handled by our Shopify partner agency Dot Dev.

We specialise in custom WordPress websites.
: Always best to allow 3 months for a website.

Can it be completed quicker? Yes, if the stars are aligned.

Can websites take longer? Yes, if it’s a large website.
: Being an SEO First agency we take SEO migration very seriously. This is something that we manage in house and ensure there is a smooth SEO migration from your current website to your new website.
: Based on our SEO methodology of E-E-A-T we advise that content is handled internally by the expert (client). How this works is our SEO team will generate page content briefs that are tailored towards SEO and demonstrating E-E-A-T. The client or subject matter expert will write the content and our SEO team will review and ensure it has the right SEO juice to help it become discoverable.

That being said, we do have copywriters that can help write website content, but want to stress, whilst the copy won’t be wrong, it won’t meet or pass E-E-A-T which is a big ranking factor for Google. If being discoverable on Google is not required, then using our in-house copywriter is totally fine.
: Yes.

If we are hosting the website, and we recommend we do, hosting starts from $99 ex GST per domain, per month.

If a website care plan is needed to support ongoing website updates (needed for larger websites), 10 hour website care plan packs are sold at $1,600 ex GST.

If ad hoc ongoing support is needed, a cost of $180 ex GST per hour is quoted.