Hand-coded websites at fixed prices for businesses in Armidale and across the Armidale Regional Council area, from Guyra and Ben Lomond to Hillgrove, Wollomombi and Ebor. Our Adelaide team builds them with you by phone and email, and being far from a capital city doesn't change the price.
In a single week an Armidale business might hear from a lecturer who has just moved for a job at UNE, a Sydney family weighing up a boarding school, a grazier out past Guyra and a contractor working on a renewable energy project. Plenty of them have never been inside your shop or office, so the website is their first look. Here's how our fixed offer covers what businesses on the Tablelands ask us for.
Our prices are $399 for one page, $899 for up to three and $1,499 for up to eight. We aren't registered for GST, so nothing is added on top. There's no deposit either: you approve the finished draft before you pay anything. A shearing contractor in Guyra pays the same as a practice in the middle of Armidale, or a business in Sydney.
The council area alone covers more than 7,800 square kilometres, and many local businesses also work in Uralla, Walcha and further out. We can give each town you service its own page or section, plus a quote form that asks for the property name and nearest road, so a job out towards Ebor can be scoped in one message instead of three calls.
Every layout is coded by hand, so a guesthouse can lead with rooms near UNE and the schools while a tutor or music teacher leads with subjects, ages and available times. You're not locked into a page builder or a theme, there's no builder subscription, and the finished design belongs to you.
Visitors driving Waterfall Way and parents coming up for school events often book well ahead. We build online booking and payment systems into sites, priced per job in your quote, or link the service you already use, whether that's Fresha, Calendly, OpenTable or an accommodation system.
Redesigns cost the same as new sites. If yours still shows a phone number you no longer answer, or it looks broken on a mobile, we rebuild it beside the old one, carry over whatever still works and switch over only once you've signed off. The domain stays in your name the whole time.
The $799 store handles up to 25 products, one payment gateway and basic order management, enough for meat boxes, honey or a small range of knitwear. The $1,999 store has unlimited products, multiple payment options, customer accounts and advanced shipping for posting orders interstate. Both are hand-coded, so there's no store platform subscription on top of the $30 monthly hosting.
One team designs, codes and hosts your site and makes the changes afterwards: quote forms, multi-step forms, galleries, service-area pages and tap-to-call. Hosting at $30 a month includes unlimited text and image changes to existing pages, which helps when the season or the university calendar changes what you're selling.
Armidale sits at about 980 metres on the Northern Tablelands, where the New England Highway meets Waterfall Way, roughly 485 km north of Sydney and 467 km south of Brisbane, with Tamworth 105 km to the south-west and Coffs Harbour 190 km east. The Anaiwan people lived here before British settlement. Armidale was proclaimed a city in 1885, and its two cathedrals and many heritage-listed buildings still shape the centre. Armidale Regional Council was created in 2016 by merging Armidale Dumaresq with Guyra Shire. It covers the city, the town of Guyra and the villages of Ben Lomond, Black Mountain, Dangarsleigh, Ebor, Hillgrove, Kellys Plains, Llangothlin and Wollomombi; Uralla and Walcha are separate councils to the south.
Education is what sets Armidale apart. Education and training is the council area's largest employer, and the NSW Government's 2023 regional economic development strategy for Armidale, Uralla and Walcha calls it the region's "unique and defining specialisation", counting 2,983 jobs in the sector in 2021. The University of New England began in 1938 as a college of the University of Sydney, the first Australian university set up outside a state capital, and became independent in 1954. In 2023 it had 21,962 students, but 82.8% of them studied online, so many of the people connected to UNE live elsewhere. The city also has long-established independent schools, among them PLC Armidale (1887), The Armidale School (1894) and New England Girls' School (1895), and the strategy points to several major boarding schools. People arriving from elsewhere search for accommodation, cafes, tutors, doctors and tradespeople they don't know yet.
Farming is the other foundation. The same strategy counts 2,324 agriculture jobs across the three councils in 2021 and $336 million of value added in 2020, most of it from sheep, beef and grain farming. Guyra, 38 km north and 1,330 metres up, is known for fine wool, prime lambs, beef cattle and potatoes, and the town also has a 20-hectare tomato glasshouse. The strategy credits tourism-related sectors with 2,670 jobs and puts visitor spending at $325 million in 2021, drawn by Oxley Wild Rivers National Park, Wollomombi and Ebor Falls, Cathedral Rock and Armidale's autumn colours, and $6.5 million has been committed to upgrades at Wollomombi Falls, Cathedral Rock and Ebor Falls.
Energy is the newest change. The New England Renewable Energy Zone, declared in December 2021, is centred on Armidale and designed for an initial network capacity of 6 gigawatts, and EnergyCo expects up to $24 billion in private investment. The environmental impact statement for its network infrastructure project went on public exhibition in October 2026. Projects on that scale bring engineers, contractors and crews who need accommodation, equipment hire, meals, vehicle servicing and trades, and they find them by searching on a phone. Armidale Airport, the highest licensed airport in NSW at 1,084 metres, has QantasLink flights to Sydney and Link Airways services to Brisbane, and there's a daily passenger train to Sydney.
We're an Adelaide team and work with New England businesses entirely by phone and email. We haven't built a site for an Armidale business yet; our regional NSW clients include Tomi's Bobcat and Excavation in the Bega Valley and Phoenix Housekeeping around Lake Macquarie. For the coast, see our Coffs Harbour page, and for trades down the highway, our page on websites for Tamworth tradies.
None of these clients is in New England. We picked them because they do jobs Armidale businesses often need done: a rural contractor covering a wide district, an education business with programs, timetables and enrolments, and a visitor business taking booking requests.
Bobcat and excavator operators doing structural landscaping, licensed pool building and earthworks across the Bega Valley in regional NSW. One page carries three service sections, a swipeable 42-photo gallery, testimonials and a contact form, the kind of site that suits an earthmoving, fencing or farm contractor around Armidale and Guyra.
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A dance school on Brisbane's bayside with a page for each program and its full-time diploma, a weekly timetable, a filterable gallery, FAQs and an online enrolment form. A music school, tutoring service or sports academy in a university town needs much the same structure.
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Full-day fishing charters from Cape Jervis in South Australia. A single page holds a booking request form, gift voucher requests, a catch gallery, reviews, an FAQ and a map: the same parts a tour operator, farm stay or guesthouse near the gorges would want.
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$399
A single page with your services, the towns you cover, reviews and tap-to-call. Plenty for a rural contractor, a mobile trade or a new business testing demand.
Our usual suggestion
$899
Home plus two pages, such as rooms and rates with a gallery, or services with a booking page. Suits accommodation, a cafe, a clinic or a tutoring business.
$1,499
Space for a page per service or program, staff profiles, FAQs and a page for each town you work in, from Guyra to Walcha. Sites this size take 2–3 weeks.
Exactly what it costs anywhere else we work: $399 for one page, $899 for up to three pages and $1,499 for up to eight. Online stores are $799 or $1,999. No GST is added and you don't pay a deposit. Hosting after launch is $30 a month with no contract, including text and image changes to your existing pages.
Everything runs by phone and email, as it does for all our interstate clients. You send your words and photos, we send a draft link you can check on any device, and you reply with changes. Armidale is half an hour ahead of Adelaide all year, so our hours of 7am to 8pm Adelaide time, seven days, are 7:30am to 8:30pm for you. We reply within 24 hours.
Yes. We build online booking and payment systems into sites, priced per job and listed in your quote before anything starts. If you already take bookings through another system, we can link it from every page instead. Either way, rates, photos and directions sit on the same site so guests don't have to go hunting.
Yes. The $799 store suits up to 25 products, such as a few cuts or box sizes, with one payment gateway. The $1,999 store adds unlimited products, more payment options, customer accounts and advanced shipping rules, which helps if you post to the coast and capital cities as well as delivering locally.
Yes, for the same price as a new site. Your current site stays live while we build the replacement, you keep your domain, and we switch over only after you approve the new version. Most sites are live within 5–10 days of us getting your words and photos; bigger sites (up to 8 pages) take 2–3 weeks.
No. You supply the words and photos, and we arrange them into clear pages with sensible headings. Many businesses use photos they already have of their work, rooms or produce. If you don't have a logo, we'll help you with one at no charge.
Send us a few lines about your business, the towns you cover and anything the site needs to do, such as bookings, enrolments or online orders. You'll get a fixed quote, then a draft to check and change, and you pay once you approve it.
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