Web design — Brisbane, QLD
Web design for a Brisbane that’s outgrowing its websites.
Brisbane is growing faster than its websites. Between the 2032 Olympics and a property boom, customers are searching harder than ever — and finding too many sites built in 2012. We fix that, one hand-coded build at a time.
Your industry slot in Brisbane: OPEN
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The Brisbane reality
A boom town with a digital hangover. Three things shaping the Brisbane market right now. The window to get ahead of it is open right now.
The 2032 effect is starting now
Tourism, hospitality and events businesses are about to face international traffic on international expectations. Sites that wobble under a school-holiday spike will not survive an Olympic one. Hand-coded pages scale; templates stall. The businesses that sort their digital presence before the decade turns will own the search results when the world arrives.
Tradie town, phone-first
Brisbane has one of the country’s highest concentrations of trade businesses. Their customers search on phones from driveways and job sites. The winning site is the one with a quote form that works one-thumb, not the prettiest portfolio.
Sprawl needs real local SEO
From Logan to Moreton Bay, Ipswich to Redlands — greater Brisbane is enormous. If your site doesn’t tell Google exactly where you serve, you are invisible in most of it. We build service-area structure into every build.
Pricing
What web design costs in Brisbane
Brisbane agencies have noticed the boom and priced for it. Here is the honest comparison, then our full rate card.
Typical Brisbane agency
- $5,000–$20,000 for a theme-based build
- Monthly retainers to keep it running
- You rarely own the code at the end
$5,000 + $250/mo $20,000 over 5 years
HEKAWEB
- $2,400–$9,600, once — hand-coded
- Hosting free for most sites
- Signed IP transfer deed — you own everything
Signature $4,800, once $15,200 saved
Launch
$2,400one-time build fee · ex GST
Up to 5 pages — a sharp presence, done properly.
- Up to 5 hand-coded pages
- Mobile-first, loads in under a second
- Quote or contact form
- Local SEO foundation
- 30 days of free fixes
The Standard
Signature
$4,800one-time build fee · ex GST
12 pages, CMS, copy polish — the full build most Brisbane businesses need.
- Up to 12 pages
- CMS — edit it yourself
- Copy polish included
- Custom animations
- 60 days of free fixes
Empire
$9,600one-time build fee · ex GST
Site plus web app or PWA — for builds that are software, not just pages.
- Site plus web app or PWA
- Priority build queue
- 12 months managed hosting included
- 90 days of free fixes
Nothing upfront. You see the design first. On approval, a 50% deposit begins the build; the balance is due at launch — the site goes live when the final payment lands. Walk away before approval owing nothing.
Hosting is free for most sites on our edge network. Large builds — e-commerce, web apps, 12+ pages — move to managed hosting from $49/mo. Cancel anytime; you own everything either way.
Private Git repository, cloud archive, and a signed IP transfer deed. The code is legally, provably yours.
All prices AUD, ex GST.
Service area
Serving Brisbane and surrounds
These are the areas we build for most often across Greater Brisbane. Yours not listed? We still build there — this is a starting point, not a border. From the bay to the ranges, we build where your customers are.
What you get
What Brisbane businesses get
Quote forms that get used
Short, thumb-friendly quote and booking flows built for how Brisbane customers actually behave — quick decision, quick enquiry, straight to your phone.
Conversion-firstBuilt for the boom
Lean, static-fast pages that handle traffic spikes without a flinch. No plugin stack to fall over the week the world shows up.
Lighthouse 95+Sprawl-proof local SEO
Service-area pages and local schema covering the suburbs you work in, so “near me” searches from Chermside to Springfield find you — not a directory.
Local schemaYours, provably
Full source code, private Git repository and a signed IP transfer deed. No retainer, no lock-in, no ransom note when you want to leave.
IP deed includedFAQ
Brisbane web design questions
Our pricing is fixed and public: Launch $2,400 (up to 5 pages), Signature $4,800 (up to 12 pages, CMS and copy polish included), Empire $9,600 (site plus web app, 12 months managed hosting included). All prices AUD, ex GST. Brisbane agencies typically quote $5,000–$20,000 for comparable work.
Yes. Hand-coded static pages are effectively unkillable under load — there is no database or plugin stack to fall over. The same build that shrugs off a school-holiday spike will shrug off 2032.
All of Greater Brisbane — the CBD and inner suburbs, the bayside, Logan, Ipswich, Redcliffe, Moreton Bay and the western corridor. The suburb list above is a starting point, not a border.
If we build for an electrician in Logan, we will not build for another electrician in that council area. “Area” means the council area (LGA) — Brisbane, Logan, Ipswich, Moreton Bay and so on. Once you engage us, your industry slot is reserved for good.
Yes, and it is most of what we do. We keep your domain, your content’s bones and your search history, and replace the theme stack with a hand-coded build. Same business, same address — a radically faster site that you finally own.
No pressure
Tell us what you’re building.
A quote costs nothing and commits you to less. You approve the finished design before you pay a cent. If you don’t love it, you don’t pay — and you owe nothing.
Answered personally, same business day.