Web Design for Bowral and Mittagong Businesses

Hand-coded websites at fixed prices for businesses in Bowral, Mittagong and the rest of the Southern Highlands, from Welby, Braemar and Hill Top to Burradoo, Moss Vale, Berrima, Robertson and Bundanoon. Our Adelaide team builds each one with you by phone and email.

What Southern Highlands businesses need from a website

Businesses in Wingecarribee Shire sell to two markets at once. About 70% of working residents have jobs inside the shire, which gives a steady local base, and Tourism Research Australia counted around 1.1 million domestic day trips and almost 1.5 million domestic visitor nights there in 2025/26. A site has to work for the neighbour who needs a builder and for the couple from Sydney choosing where to have lunch on Saturday. Here's how our offer covers both.

  • Affordable prices, fixed in writing

    One page costs $399. Up to three pages costs $899 and up to eight costs $1,499. We aren't registered for GST, so nothing is added, and there's no deposit: you look over the finished draft, ask for changes and pay once you approve it. A farm-gate stall near Robertson pays the same as a boutique in the middle of Bowral.

  • Bookings for cellar doors, stays and tables

    Council counts 18 cellar doors and four breweries in the shire, alongside the guesthouses, restaurants and cafés. We can link the booking tool you already use, such as OpenTable or Fresha, or build booking and payments into your site, quoted per job, so a visitor can secure a tasting, a room or a table before leaving home.

  • Custom design instead of a template

    Every site is hand-coded rather than started from Wix or a WordPress theme. An antiques dealer in Bowral can open with this week's arrivals, a Mittagong café with its hours and menu, and a builder with finished homes from around the shire. Once the site is paid for, the design is yours, and there's no page-builder plan to keep paying.

  • Online stores and gift vouchers

    Plenty of visitors buy something to take home or to give later. The $799 store handles up to 25 products with one payment gateway and basic order management, enough for a cellar door's list, a gallery's prints or a set of vouchers. The $1,999 store adds unlimited products, several payment options, customer accounts and advanced shipping for a producer posting orders interstate.

  • Trades quoting across a 2,700 km² shire

    Construction is the shire's largest employer and its biggest group of registered businesses. A quote form that asks for the town or village, the job and a few photos, a list of the places you cover from Hill Top to Bundanoon, and tap-to-call on every screen save a long drive just to price an enquiry.

  • Redesigns at the same prices as a new site

    If your site is slow, awkward on a phone or still advertises last season's events, we rebuild it at our normal prices. The existing site stays live until you approve its replacement, we keep the words and photos that still earn their place, and the domain stays in your name.

  • Web developer work from the same people

    Whoever designs your site also codes, hosts and maintains it. That covers the practical extras Highlands businesses ask for: an events page for a venue, an enquiry form for weddings and functions, or a page for each room or cottage with its own photos and inclusions.

Bowral, Mittagong and Wingecarribee Shire

Bowral and Mittagong are two of the three main towns in Wingecarribee Shire, which council describes as the Southern Highlands: about 2,700 km² of mostly rural land, much of it at or above 640 m, around 110 km south-west of Sydney, 70 km from Wollongong and 160 km from Canberra. Mittagong, with 6,090 people at the 2021 Census, is the gateway to the Highlands for anyone coming from Sydney. Bowral, with 10,764, is about 5 km further on and is the shire's main business and entertainment precinct, known for boutiques, antique shops, restaurants and cafés. Moss Vale is the third main town, and Berrima, Robertson and Bundanoon are villages with their own main streets. Mittagong's Highlands Marketplace complex, opened in 2007, takes in the site of the Fitzroy Iron Works, where smelting began in 1848.

Figures from economy.id put the shire's population at 53,840 and its gross regional product at $4.06 billion, with 25,610 local jobs and 6,641 registered businesses in 2025. Construction and health care are level as the largest employers, each with about 15.3% of local jobs, but construction's share is far above the 9.7% for NSW. Accommodation and food services (8.4% against 6.4% statewide), manufacturing (8.1%) and agriculture (3.7%, about double the state figure) also stand out. By business count, construction leads with 1,211, professional, scientific and technical services follow with 1,006, and 570 agricultural businesses make up 8.6% of the total.

Visitors shape the calendar. Tulip Time fills Corbett Gardens in Bowral each spring, the Bradman Museum and International Cricket Hall of Fame sit beside Bradman Oval, the Ngununnggula Regional Gallery is in Bowral, and wineries have operated around Mittagong since the 1980s. The Hume Highway has bypassed Mittagong since 1992 and the Southern Highlands Line stops at both towns, so people arrive by car or train, many just for the day. For a visitor who doesn't know the area, opening hours that are current, a map link and a menu or price list count for more than a long welcome.

Underneath the visitor trade is a settled local economy. At the 2021 Census, 70.2% of employed residents worked inside the shire and only 4% travelled to the City of Sydney for work. Bowral and District Hospital, founded in 1889, is the only hospital South Western Sydney Local Health District runs outside metropolitan Sydney, a private Ramsay hospital also operates in Bowral, and council lists a TAFE campus at Moss Vale and a University of Wollongong campus. Health care added 877 jobs between 2019/20 and 2024/25, more than any other industry, and construction added 766.

We're an Adelaide team and run Highlands projects by phone and email; we haven't yet built a site for a business in the shire. Trades will find detail on heritage areas, the drinking water catchment and bush fire mapping on our pages for Southern Highlands tradies and Highlands builders. Businesses that also work in Macarthur or the Illawarra can see our Campbelltown and Wollongong pages.

Sites we'd point a Highlands business to

None of these clients is in the Southern Highlands. Tomi's Bobcat and Excavation works in the Bega Valley on the NSW far south coast, and the other two are in South Australia. We chose them for jobs Highlands businesses face: taking visitor booking requests and gift vouchers, showing renovation work across several towns, and presenting rural earthworks with plenty of photos.

Home page of the Cape Fishing Charters website

Cape Fishing Charters

Community, creative & tourism · Cape Jervis

Full-day fishing charters out of Cape Jervis in South Australia. One page holds a booking request form, gift voucher requests, a catch gallery, an FAQ, reviews, a map and tap-to-call. A cellar door, guesthouse or tour operator in the Highlands needs the same mix for people planning a weekend away.

Home page of the Bright Building & Renovations website

Bright Building & Renovations

Trades & construction · Adelaide, Adelaide Hills & Fleurieu

An Adelaide renovation builder with 30 pages: seven service pages, seven service-area pages, five planning guides, a project gallery and a seven-step quote form. A Highlands builder could use the same structure to give Bowral, Mittagong, Moss Vale and the villages a page each.

Home page of the Tomi's Bobcat and Excavation website

Tomi's Bobcat and Excavation

Trades & construction · South Pambula & Bega Valley

Bobcat and excavator work across the Bega Valley, on one page with three service sections, a 42-photo gallery that swipes on a phone, testimonials and a contact form. It suits a landscaper or earthmoving contractor working acreage blocks around the Highlands.

“He listened to my feedback and made no hesitations to revise and adjust my website until we were completely happy with it.”

Tony Bleijswijk, Google review

Bowral and Mittagong website prices

One page

$399

One page with your services, the towns and villages you cover, reviews, hours and tap-to-call. Enough for a mobile trade, a gardener or a business just starting out.

Suits most Highlands businesses

Up to 3 pages

$899

A home page and two more, such as a menu and bookings, or rooms and a gallery. Fits a café, cellar door, B&B, salon or clinic in one location.

Up to 8 pages

$1,499

Room for a page per service, room type or event, staff profiles, FAQs and a page for each town you work in. Sites this size take 2–3 weeks.

  • Payment. No deposit. We build your draft first, you ask for as many changes as you like, and you pay once you approve it. If you don't go ahead, you owe nothing.
  • GST. WebCraft Studio isn't registered for GST, so no GST is added.
  • Timing. 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.
  • Hosting. After launch, hosting is $30 a month: hosting, security monitoring, backups, email support and unlimited text and image changes on your existing pages. New pages or features are quoted first. No contract, cancel anytime.
  • Domain and email. We register your domain in your name (about $20 a year), connect it to your site and set up your business email.

See full pricing and what each package includes

Questions from Bowral and Mittagong businesses

What does a website cost in Bowral or Mittagong?

$399 for one page, $899 for up to three and $1,499 for up to eight, the same as we charge in Sydney or Adelaide. Online stores are $799 or $1,999. There's no GST and no deposit. After launch, hosting is $30 a month with no contract, and changes to the text and images on your existing pages are included.

Can guests book a room, a tasting or a table on our site?

Yes. We can link the booking system you already run, such as OpenTable or Fresha, from every page, or build booking and payments into the site, priced per job and set out in your quote before work starts.

Can we sell wine, produce or gift vouchers online?

Yes. The $799 store covers up to 25 products with one payment gateway and basic order management, which suits a short list of wines, hampers or vouchers. The $1,999 store adds unlimited products, several payment options, customer accounts and advanced shipping rules.

We're busy in spring and quiet in winter. Can the site change with the seasons?

Yes, and you don't have to make the edits yourself. Hosting at $30 a month includes unlimited text and image changes on your existing pages, so you email us new hours, prices or events and we update them. New pages or features are quoted first.

Our current site looks dated. Can you redesign it?

Yes, at the same prices as a new site. We build the new version while your current site stays up, and switch over only once you approve it. 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.

Can we meet you in the Highlands?

No. We're an Adelaide team on Hutt Street, and every project outside Adelaide runs by phone and email. You send your words and photos, look over a draft link on your phone and reply with changes. We reply within 24 hours.

Industry pages for Bowral-Mittagong

Ready to start your Highlands website?

Tell us about your business, the towns you serve and anything the site has to handle, such as room or table bookings, an online shop or a quote form for trade work. You'll get a fixed quote, then a draft to check and change, and you pay only once you approve it.

We reply within 24 hours. Prefer email? info@webcraftstudio.com.au