Web design — Sydney, NSW
Web design Sydney businesses actually own.
Sydney has more web agencies than good coffee shops, and most of them will sell you the same WordPress theme at five figures. We hand-code every page — one fee, nothing upfront, and you own the result outright.
Your industry slot in Sydney: OPEN
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The Sydney reality
Australia’s most competitive digital market, and the most overcharged. Three things worth knowing before you sign anything.
Agency maths doesn’t add up
A typical Sydney agency quotes $10,000–$50,000 for a marketing site, then adds a monthly retainer to keep it alive. The product is often a page-builder theme your competitor bought last month. You pay harbour-side prices for offshore-grade output.
Speed is a ranking factor
Google measures what your customers feel. A hand-coded page loads in under a second on a phone between Town Hall and Central. A bloated theme takes six seconds. That gap decides who gets the phone call.
Suburb by suburb, not by luck
Sydney isn’t one market. A buyer in Parramatta doesn’t search like a buyer in Bondi. We build area pages and local schema for the suburbs you actually serve, so each search lands on a page written for it.
Pricing
What web design costs in Sydney
Sydney is the most expensive web design market in the country — and the price rarely buys what it should. Here is the honest comparison, then our full rate card.
The big agencies carry harbour-view offices, account managers and layers of subcontracting, and the invoice reflects the rent more than the work. Quotes of $10,000 to $50,000 for a standard business website are routine — and that is before the monthly “care plan” that keeps the plugins updated. Over five years, a mid-range Sydney agency relationship commonly costs $20,000 or more.
The work itself is often less impressive than the proposal. Many Sydney agencies deliver WordPress or page-builder sites assembled from the same handful of premium themes. They load slowly, they score poorly on Core Web Vitals, and they all look vaguely alike — because they are alike. When you leave, you usually leave with nothing: the theme licence and the hosting account were never yours.
HEKAWEB is one studio with no account managers and no office rent baked into your quote. Every site is designed from a blank canvas and hand-coded, priced once at $2,400, $4,800 or $9,600 depending on size. You see the design before you pay anything, and at the end you own every line. The comparison below is the whole story.
Typical Sydney agency
- $10,000–$50,000 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 Sydney 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 Sydney and surrounds
These are the areas we build for most often across Greater Sydney. Yours not listed? We still build there — this is a starting point, not a border. From the beaches to the mountains, if your customers are there, your pages will be too.
What you get
What Sydney businesses get
Performance that survives the commute
Under-one-second loads on 4G, Core Web Vitals in the green, images sized to the device. Sydney customers browse on trains and footpaths; the site is built for exactly that.
Lighthouse 95+SEO written for Sydney searches
Structured data, semantic HTML and suburb-level service pages. We target the phrases people actually type — “electrician Inner West”, “accountant North Sydney” — not vanity keywords nobody converts on.
Local schemaCopy that sounds like you
Signature builds include copy polish. We take your rough notes and turn them into sharp, plain-English pages that answer the questions customers ask before they call.
Copy polishA build you own, not rent
You get the full source code, a private Git repository and a signed IP transfer deed. Move hosts, hire another developer, print it out and frame it. It is yours.
IP deed includedFAQ
Sydney 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 typically quote $10,000–$50,000 for comparable work — and keep charging monthly after that.
Yes. A Launch or Signature build gives a startup a fast, credible presence without burning runway. If the product itself needs a real web application, that is an Empire build — scoping the difference is free and honest.
All of Greater Sydney — the CBD, Eastern Suburbs, Inner West, North Shore, Northern Beaches, Parramatta and the greater west, the Shire and the south-west. The suburb list above is a starting point, not a border.
If we build for a dentist in the City of Ryde, we will not build for another dentist in that council area. “Area” means the council area (LGA) — City of Sydney, Northern Beaches, Inner West and so on. Once you engage us, your industry slot is reserved for good.
Usually, yes, and for boring reasons. Template sites carry code bloat that drags Core Web Vitals into the red. A hand-coded site starts fast, stays fast, and ships with clean structured data — the technical half of SEO is done on day one.
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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