Web design — Canberra, ACT
Web design for the nation’s capital, minus the capital prices.
Canberra is the country’s most educated market — and its most sceptical. Broken layouts, slow loads and vague copy get noticed here. We build hand-coded sites that stand up to a discerning reader, at prices that don’t need a budget committee.
Your industry slot in Canberra: OPEN
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The Canberra reality
A sophisticated, high-income market that is oddly underserved by web design. Three things that shape it. It rewards precision and punishes sloppiness — we like that.
An audience that reads the fine print
Canberra has the country’s highest rate of degree-holders. Your visitors notice typos, slow pages and template tells — consciously or not. Craft is not a luxury here; it’s the entry ticket.
Credibility for government-adjacent work
Many Canberra businesses serve departments, NGOs or policy areas. Their sites need professionalism, accessibility and visible security hygiene — not creative whimsy and pop-ups.
Sydney agencies, Sydney invoices
The local choice has been overpriced Sydney agencies or flaky offshore freelancers, with little in between. We sit in that gap: senior, hand-coded work for one fixed fee. You get senior work without the Sydney markup; that is the entire pitch, and it lands well in this town.
Pricing
What web design costs in Canberra
Canberra businesses are routinely quoted Sydney rates by Sydney agencies. Here is the honest comparison, then our full rate card.
Typical Canberra agency
- $8,000–$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 Canberra 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 Canberra and surrounds
These are the areas we build for most often across the ACT and surrounds. Yours not listed? We still build there — this is a starting point, not a border. Across the border in Queanbeyan? That counts too — we build for the whole region.
What you get
What Canberra businesses get
Accessible by default
Semantic HTML, real contrast, keyboard navigation — builds that respect accessibility standards rather than bolting them on later. Government-adjacent audiences expect it.
WCAG-mindedSecurity you can show
No plugin stack, no admin login to brute-force, no theme vulnerabilities. In a city where cyber security is a dinner-table topic, a hardened static site is a selling point.
Hardened by designBuilt to last years, not months
Canberra businesses think in multi-year cycles. Hand-coded pages with no dependencies don’t rot — the site you launch in 2027 still works, unchanged, in 2032.
Zero rotYours, provably
Full source code, private Git repository and a signed IP transfer deed. Procurement-friendly: you can prove ownership of every line.
IP deed includedFAQ
Canberra 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. Sydney agencies serving Canberra typically quote $8,000–$20,000 for comparable work.
Yes. Semantic structure, WCAG-conscious contrast and focus states, clean document outlines and no third-party scripts calling home. We can also prepare accessibility documentation for procurement processes.
The whole ACT — Civic and the inner north, Belconnen, Gungahlin, Woden, Weston Creek, Tuggeranong and Molonglo — plus Queanbeyan and the surrounding NSW region. The list above is a starting point, not a border.
If we build for a law firm in Civic, we will not build for another law firm in that council area. “Area” means the council area (LGA) — in the ACT, the territory’s districts play that role, with Queanbeyan-Palerang across the border. Once you engage us, your industry slot is reserved for good.
Yes. Hand-coded static sites have a minimal attack surface, no third-party scripts calling home, and semantic, WCAG-conscious markup throughout. If your organisation has specific requirements, raise them at quote — we will tell you plainly what is covered.
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.
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