Build it.
Hand-built for your business, starting from what your customers need to do. Not a template with your logo dropped in.
Small studio. Serious websites.
Web Design Melbourne
We design, build and look after high-performance websites for Melbourne businesses. One person on every build, working to a standard that is written down.
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Our popular services
Build it. Find it. Run it.
Three responsibilities that usually mean three different suppliers. Here they are one, in Melbourne, so nothing falls between them.
Find it.
A site nobody can find is a business card sitting in a drawer. We do the groundwork that gets it seen, which most people skip.
- SEO
- Google Business Profile
- Apple Business Profile Coming soon
Run it.
We do not disappear at launch. Ninety days of defect cover comes as standard, and a care plan after that if you want one.
How a project runs
From first conversation to live.
It starts with a conversation about your business. Your goals, your customers, and what you actually need the site to do. That goes into a written proposal before anything is designed.
Five visible stages, one person responsible, and a portal that shows what happens next.
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Discovery
What you do, and what the site has to do for it.
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Design
Agreed on screen before the build starts.
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Build
Hand-written. No page builder anywhere near it.
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Launch
Domain and email moved without your mail going down.
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Support
Somebody watching, so you are not the one who notices.
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.
Under the hood it is plain, lightweight code, not a heavy app dressed up as a website.
The next page is already loading
It starts the moment you hover over a link, before you have even clicked.
The type arrives with the text
The words show up in their proper font straight away. No flash of a stand-in while you are trying to read.
Coming back costs almost nothing
Come back tomorrow and the site barely needs to download a thing. Your browser already has it.
Nothing loads before you need it
Nothing loads until you are about to see it. The top of the page never waits for the bottom.
Confidence is engineered, not claimed. The rules came out of testing our own work, and the panel at the top of this page is this site held to them.
- 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
A pulse is quicker to read than a report.
First-party analytics, hosted in Australia, read by a person.
Selected work
A live build, and how we'd approach the brief.
One client site that is live today, and one concept direction. Each plate is labelled for what it is, so you always know which of the two you are looking at.
Advanced Commercial Cleaning
Client work A lead-generation site for a Gippsland cleaning crew. The job is quote requests and phone calls, so the page is built phone-first around both.
See the directionCoastal Cafe
Concept
Menu, story, location and a booking action that stays in reach the whole way down the page.
See the directionLaunch day is the least your website will ever know.
Every month you get told what it did, and what is worth doing next.
What does a website cost?
We price to the job, not off a menu, because no two businesses need the same site. Page count, copywriting, site migration or recovery, and whether you sell online all move the number. You get it in writing before a single thing starts.
How long does a build take?
A landing page is quicker than a multi-page site, and a store is a bigger job again. The proposal after the first conversation sets the stages and the dates, so you have real timing before you commit, not a guess made now.
Do you write the copy?
Yes, if you need it. Writing it, moving your existing words across and sourcing images can all be in scope. The thing that stalls a build is nobody deciding who writes the words, so we settle that in the first conversation.
Can I update the site myself?
Mostly no, and for the same reason the rest of the site is fast. The drag-and-drop editors that promise it are what make sites slow and heavy, so they are nowhere near the build. Changes come through us instead. A store is the exception, where products, prices and stock stay yours.
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.