Web design — Melbourne, VIC
Web design Melbourne can’t mistake for a template.
Melbourne buyers are design-literate. They can spot a template before the page finishes loading — and they judge the business by it. We hand-code sites that hold up to that scrutiny, for one fixed fee.
Your industry slot in Melbourne: OPEN
Local read
The Melbourne reality
From Collins Street firms to Fitzroy studios, everyone here is competing on taste. Three realities of the Melbourne market.
Template fatigue is real
Agencies charge Melbourne prices — $8,000 and up — for theme installs an offshore freelancer would deliver for $500. In a city this design-literate, a generic site quietly tells customers the business is generic too.
Every suburb is its own contest
Richmond, Brunswick, South Yarra, Footscray — customers search “[service] near me” and pick from the first few results. Winning that moment takes fast pages and suburb-level local SEO, not just a pretty homepage.
Tram-speed attention spans
Half your traffic is on a phone, on a tram, on 4G. If the site takes five seconds to load, that customer is gone before Collins Street. Our pages load in under one second.
Pricing
What web design costs in Melbourne
Melbourne agencies are good at proposals. The builds behind them are often less impressive. Here is the honest comparison, then our full rate card.
Typical Melbourne agency
- $8,000–$25,000 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 Melbourne 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 Melbourne and surrounds
These are the areas we build for most often across metropolitan Melbourne. Yours not listed? We still build there — this is a starting point, not a border. From the bay to the foothills, if your customers are there, your pages will be too.
What you get
What Melbourne businesses get
Design that survives scrutiny
Every build starts from a blank canvas — no themes, no page builders. In a city that notices kerning, the difference between custom and template is not subtle.
Blank-canvas designSuburb-level local SEO
Structured data and service pages for the areas you actually cover, from the CBD to the growth corridors. Google learns exactly where you work — and shows you there.
Local schemaMobile-first, tram-tested
Designed thumb-first for the commute: fast on 4G, readable in glare, tappable with one hand. Most of your Melbourne traffic will never see the desktop version.
Lighthouse 95+Yours, provably
Full source code, private Git repository, cloud archive and a signed IP transfer deed. If we disappeared tomorrow, nothing about your site would change.
IP deed includedFAQ
Melbourne 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. Melbourne agencies typically quote $8,000–$25,000 for comparable work.
Yes — cafés, restaurants and bars are some of the best fits for hand-coded builds. Menus, bookings and Google Maps integration, loading in under a second on a phone in a laneway. That speed is what converts a searcher into a booking.
All of metropolitan Melbourne — inner north, inner east, bayside, the west, and the outer growth corridors from Craigieburn to Cranbourne. The suburb list above is a starting point, not a border.
If we build for a physio in the City of Yarra, we will not build for another physio in that council area. “Area” means the council area (LGA) — Melbourne, Yarra, Stonnington, Brimbank and so on. Once you engage us, your industry slot is reserved for good.
Yes. Our commerce engine is a $2,900 add-on — Stripe-powered, hand-coded, and owned by you outright. No platform rent, no app subscription pile-up. It pairs with a Signature build for a full retail presence.
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.