Build
Build it.
Start with what the business and its customers need the website to do, not a marketplace theme with the logo swapped. The platform and feature list come after that.
Small studio. Serious websites.
Web Design Melbourne
We design, build and look after high-performance websites for Melbourne businesses. One team owns the work from the first conversation to the months after launch.
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Our popular services
Build it. Find it. Run it.
Three clear responsibilities. One small team in Melbourne that owns the joins between them.
Find
Find it.
Make the business easier to find without pretending anybody can guarantee a ranking, a position or a traffic number.
- SEO
- Google Business Profile
- Apple Business Profile Coming soon
Run
Run it.
Launch is the start of the useful life of the site. Keep it watched, current and worth the space it occupies in the business.
How a project runs
From first conversation to live.
Five visible stages, one person responsible, and a private portal that shows what is happening next.
A project starts with a conversation about the business rather than about the website. What it has to do, who it is for, and what it needs to include all come out of that, and they are written into a proposal before anything is designed.
From there the shape is agreed, the pages are built, and the site goes live with the domain, the email and the analytics already handled. One person stays responsible for the whole of it, and the portal shows you which stage the work is at without anyone having to ask.
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Discovery
We learn your business, goals and customers.
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Design
We design a site that fits your brand and converts.
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Build
Fast, accessible, built on solid foundations.
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Launch
We handle domains, email and go-live.
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Support
Care plans keep your site fast, secure and current.
Your side of the project
See inside the portal Your brief, messages, stage and invoices live in a portal Devalo built for the job. On a care plan, your reports sit there too.
The engineering
Fast is built in, then measured.
Every build works from the same written rulebook for page weight, accessibility and stability. The rulebook is the standard the work has to pass before it ships. The readings beside it come from Devalo's own live reference build.
- Largest content on screen
- under 2.5s
- Response to a tap
- under 200ms
- Layout movement while loading
- under 0.1
- Touch targets
- 44 x 44px
- Contrast on body text
- 4.5:1
- Reference-build page weight
- 77-183KB
- Long tasks and layout shift
- 0
- Performance, accessibility and best-practice audits
- 100×3
The reference build is deliberately hidden from search, so its SEO audit is not presented as perfect. A Shopify store also plays by Shopify's rules. The method carries across; the exact readings do not.
A pulse is quicker to read than a report.
First-party analytics, hosted in Australia, read by a person.
Selected work
How we'd approach the brief.
Two directions. Each one is labelled for what it is, so you always know whether you are looking at a concept or a live client build.
Launch day is the least your website will ever know.
Every month you get told what it did, and what is worth doing next.
Search visibility
Search starts in the build.
Most of what decides whether a small business gets found is settled before launch: how the pages are structured, how fast they are, how clearly the site describes the business, and whether Google can read any of it. That work happens during the build, and it continues afterwards when there is something worth doing.
We won't promise a ranking, a position or a traffic number. Nobody controls a results page, and an agency that offers to is selling the one part of this it does not own. What we can do is put the controllable parts in order and tell you plainly what changed.
Technical foundations. Clean URLs, useful heading structure, metadata, sitemap and robots rules, all set correctly from the first build.
Structured data. Schema.org markup that describes the business plainly, so a search engine reads it rather than infers it.
Local search. Google Business Profile, service areas and hours set up so the business appears accurately in Maps and local results.
Performance that holds up. A static-first build hands Core Web Vitals a sound starting point, so optimisation is a habit rather than a rescue.
What does a website cost?
Every project is quoted to the job. Page count, copywriting, migration, custom functionality and whether it is a store all change the scope. You'll have the quote before work starts.
How long does a build take?
A focused landing page moves faster than a multi-page brochure site or a Shopify store. Discovery comes first, then the proposal sets out the stages and timing.
Do you write the copy?
Yes, if you need it. Copywriting, content migration and asset sourcing can all be included. If you would rather provide the words, we'll scope around that.
Can I update the site myself?
Yes. A self-editable CMS can be part of the build. If you would rather not manage one, Visibility and Growth care include regular changes done for you.
The next move
Bring the business. We'll shape the website.
Tell us what the business does, what is not working now, and what the site needs to make easier. You'll get an honest read on scope with no obligation to proceed.
Melbourne based. Working across Australia. Every build quoted to the job.