Websites coded by hand at fixed prices for Ballarat businesses, from the CBD and Wendouree out to Sebastopol, Alfredton, Buninyong and Creswick. We make new sites, rebuild dated ones and add online stores or booking, working with you from Adelaide by phone and email.
In a single week a Ballarat business might hear from a nurse finishing a night shift at the Base Hospital, a student up at Mount Helen, a family down from Melbourne for Sovereign Hill and an engineer who has just moved to town for a job at one of the factories. The site has to answer all of them quickly, and it costs the same as anywhere else we work.
Three sizes, three prices: $399 for a single page, $899 for a site of up to three pages and $1,499 for up to eight. We don't charge GST or take a deposit; the invoice comes after you've signed off the draft. The figure is identical in Ballarat, Brisbane or Adelaide, and it doesn't grow with the hours we spend.
Each site is written line by line, with no Wix, Squarespace or WordPress theme underneath. That's what lets a CBD bar put tonight's hours above everything else while a Sebastopol electrician opens with emergency call-outs and a quote form. It's our standard way of working, so a custom design costs no more than the price list.
Owners usually come to us for a redesign because the site breaks on a phone, nobody remembers the login, or a monthly builder fee has crept up for years. A rebuild is priced like a new site, from $399. Your current site keeps running while we work, and the domain never leaves your name.
Searching for a web developer rather than a designer? We're both. Quote forms that run over several steps, photo uploads, galleries, a page for each area you serve and call buttons are built by the same people who lay out the pages, and those people make your changes after launch.
The starter store is $799: up to 25 products, a single payment gateway, and basic order management. The $1,999 store has no product limit and adds a choice of payment methods, customer logins and advanced shipping. In a UNESCO City of Crafts and Folk Art, that lets a potter, weaver or furniture maker sell well beyond the weekend market.
Nearly a quarter of the jobs in Ballarat are in health care, and the physios, dentists, counsellors, hairdressers and trainers around it all take appointments. Booking and payment can be built into the site itself, quoted separately for each job, or we can link HotDoc, Cliniko, Fresha, Calendly or whatever you already use from every page.
Day-trippers and weekend visitors plan on their phones. For a cafe, guesthouse, tour or gallery shop near the heritage streets or Sovereign Hill, we put opening hours, a map, prices and a booking or enquiry link at the top of the screen, where they're found without scrolling.
The City of Ballarat had an estimated 122,661 residents and 10,151 businesses in 2025, according to its economic profile, and the city lies about 110 km north-west of Melbourne. Customers seldom search by council name. They use suburbs: Bakery Hill, Ballarat East, Soldiers Hill, Black Hill, Redan, Mount Pleasant and Sebastopol in the older city laid out around the gold workings, and Lucas, Alfredton, Delacombe, Wendouree and Miners Rest to the west and north-west, where the city has grown since. Wendouree is the only suburban centre with a large indoor shopping centre, and it has a retail strip along Howitt Street as well. A site that lists the suburbs you really cover tells a customer at the far end of your area that you'll come to them.
Health care dominates the job market. The economic profile counts 14,819 local jobs in health care and social assistance in 2024/25, which is 23.1% of all local jobs against 15.6% across Victoria, and 3,757 more than five years earlier. Grampians Health, which runs Ballarat Base Hospital, says it employs more than 7,000 staff across the region, and the state's health building authority says the hospital's redevelopment, including a new hospital tower and a main entrance on Sturt Street, is on track for completion in 2027. Education and training comes next with 7,381 jobs, led by Federation University, which grew out of the School of Mines Ballarat, founded in 1870, and has its largest campus at Mount Helen, south of the city. Retail follows with 6,208.
Manufacturing still provides 4,635 jobs. Mars has made confectionery at its Ballarat site since 1979, McCain has made frozen fries in the city since 1974, and Alstom builds X'Trapolis 2.0 trains for Melbourne at the Ballarat North Workshops. Construction, at 6,047 jobs, is close behind retail, which matters to the many trades working on new estates and old houses alike. Tourism leans on the gold-rush past: Sovereign Hill, an open-air museum of an 1850s goldfields town that opened in 1970, is the city's biggest tourism drawcard. In 2019 Ballarat joined the UNESCO Creative Cities Network as a City of Crafts and Folk Art.
For a small business website, that mix points to a few practical choices. Hospital and care staff work shifts, so opening hours and a booking link belong near the top rather than on a back page. People who have moved for a job at the university, the hospital or a factory don't yet have anyone to ask, so a plain services page and genuine reviews stand in for a recommendation. V/Line's VLocity trains run from Ballarat and Wendouree stations to Melbourne, and visitors arrive the same way or along the Western Freeway; either way, the first look at your business is likely to be on a small screen.
We work from Ste 3/110 Hutt St in Adelaide, so a Ballarat project happens over the phone and by email. You supply the text, photos and a list of the places you work; we reply with a link to a working draft; payment comes only once you're happy with it. None of our current clients is in Ballarat, and our Victorian client is in Melbourne. Trades will find Victorian registration rules, heritage streets and the western growth area covered on our Ballarat tradies page, and anyone starting out will find the council's business concierge on our page for new Ballarat businesses.
None of these clients is in Ballarat. Dr Tabara Dione Coaching is in Melbourne and the other two are in South Australia. We chose them because health and care providers, and businesses that serve visitors, ask us for the same things.
A Melbourne specialist anaesthetist's coaching practice for doctors. A link to book a discovery call sits on every page, the same set-up a Ballarat physio or psychologist could use with their own booking system.
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Support at home for older people around northern Adelaide. Six pages, nine services set out together in big, easy-to-read type, an enquiry form that aged care providers can use for referrals, and a call button on every page.
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A Cape Jervis charter business in South Australia. Its single page handles booking requests and gift vouchers and carries a gallery of catches, reviews, questions and answers and a map, roughly what a Ballarat tour operator or attraction would want.
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“Rebuilt two websites for our businesses and saved us a fortune on hosting etc. Nothing is ever a problem, will email back on a Saturday night if need be.”
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See all 14 recent client sites in our portfolio.
$399
Everything on one scrolling page: your services, the places you go, hours, reviews and a form, with a call button. Right for a sole trader, a mobile business or a new venture.
Our suggestion for most businesses
$899
Usually a home page, a services page and a contact page, or trade one of them for bookings or a menu. A clinic can list treatments next to its booking link; a cafe can show its menu with hours and a map.
$1,499
For a larger practice or a business working across many Ballarat suburbs: separate pages for services, team or sites, plus about, FAQs and contact. Allow 2–3 weeks at this size.
A one-page site is $399; up to three pages is $899; up to eight is $1,499. Stores cost $799 or $1,999. Because we aren't registered for GST, those are the final figures, wherever in Australia you are. Once the site is live, hosting runs at $30 a month and you can cancel whenever you like.
We do, and they cost the same as a new build. Your existing site stays online while we make the replacement, anything worth keeping from it can be carried over, and the switch happens only after you've signed off. Walk away at the draft stage and there's nothing to pay.
They can. We either build booking and payments into the site, with the cost worked out per job and shown in your quote, or connect the service you use now, whether that's HotDoc, Cliniko, Fresha or Calendly. On the site we built for Dr Tabara Dione Coaching in Melbourne, a discovery call can be booked from every page.
Not in practice. The whole job is handled by phone and email: you send material, we send back a draft you can open on a phone or laptop, and you request changes until it's right, with no limit on rounds. We don't hold face-to-face meetings, and we reply within 24 hours.
Yes. Up to 25 products and one payment gateway fit the $799 store. Past that, the $1,999 store removes the product cap and adds several payment methods, customer accounts and advanced shipping. Neither carries a platform subscription, because we code the store ourselves; the payment provider takes its usual fee on each sale.
No one can honestly say yes to that, so we don't. Our part is a quick, well-built site with sensible page titles and descriptions and the suburbs you serve named in plain text. SEO retainers and paid ads aren't something we sell. For the free listing on Google Maps, see our Google Business Profile guide.
Send us a few lines on what you do, the parts of Ballarat and district you cover, and whether you need bookings or an online shop. You'll get questions or a fixed quote back, then a draft to look over before any payment.
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