Hand-coded websites at fixed prices for Smith Street venues, the shops and studios along Johnston and Wellington Streets, and the offices filling Collingwood's old factory blocks. We're an Adelaide team, so you work with us by phone and email, at the same prices we charge everywhere.
Collingwood fits a nightlife strip, design studios, an arts precinct, company head offices and rows of workers' cottages into about 1.3 square kilometres. Many of the people who find you aren't locals: they've come in on the 86 tram, or they're weighing you against a business on the Fitzroy side of Smith Street.
A bar, restaurant or venue gets judged on the menu, what's on this week and whether it's open past midnight. We put those first on a phone, and because your $30 monthly hosting covers text and image changes on existing pages, a new menu or set list is an email to us rather than a login you have to remember.
Architects, interior and graphic designers, furniture makers and photographers sell on the work itself. We build project pages that give your images room, with your own descriptions arranged around them, and a contact form that asks for the project type and budget so enquiries arrive with the details you need.
A boutique, record shop or homewares store can sell beyond its opening hours. $799 gets a hand-coded store with up to 25 products, one payment gateway and basic order management; $1,999 lifts the product limit and adds multiple payment options, customer accounts and advanced shipping. There's no platform subscription, only your payment provider's fee per sale.
Hairdressers, tattoo studios, yoga and pilates rooms and allied health practices all run on appointments. We can build booking and payments into your site, quoted per job, or link the system you already use, whether that's Fresha, Cliniko, Calendly or OpenTable for a restaurant.
Consultancies, agencies and not-for-profits that have moved into the new Gipps, Wellington and Langridge Street buildings need a site that says what they do, who for and how to get in touch, without filler. We lay out services, team, past work and contact details from the material you supply.
If your site runs on a monthly plan, looks dated next to the businesses around you or is slow on a phone, we'll rebuild it in code at the same prices as a new site: $399 for one page, $899 for up to three, $1,499 for up to eight. The current site stays live until you sign off the new one.
Collingwood is an inner suburb about 3 km north-east of the Melbourne CBD, in the City of Yarra, postcode 3066. It had 9,179 residents at the 2021 Census. Its edges are main roads: Smith Street to the west, with Fitzroy on the other side, Hoddle Street to the east, Victoria Parade to the south and Alexandra Parade to the north. Route 86 trams run along Smith Street and routes 109 and 12 along Victoria Parade, while the nearest train stations, Victoria Park and Collingwood, are just over Hoddle Street in Abbotsford. For the wider city, including Melbourne industry pages, see our Melbourne web design page; this page is about what's particular to Collingwood.
It was an industrial suburb for most of its history. Victorian Places records footwear, hats and garments made locally in large quantities, and the area was a major brewing centre: Fosters started in Rokeby Street in 1888, and the brick tower of the Yorkshire Brewery still stands in Wellington Street. Foy and Gibson's factories and the Gibsonia woollen mills spread east of Smith Street, and part of that huge red-brick complex is on the Victorian Heritage Register. Smith Street was a major shopping street by the 1870s, and G.J. Coles opened its first variety store there in 1912. Many of the old warehouses and factories have since been turned into apartments.
Smith Street is still the suburb's main commercial strip and one of Melbourne's major nightlife streets. In June 2021 Time Out named it the coolest street in the world, in a list it said was decided by 27,000 city residents from around the world alongside its editors and experts, and it described Scandinavian-style furniture shops, bakeries, pubs, gay bars and live music venues along its length. Collingwood is also one of Melbourne's gay villages, and The Tote is regarded as an icon of the city's rock and roll scene.
The southern, formerly industrial part of the suburb has become an office district. The Property Tribune reported in June 2023 that more than 39,000 square metres of office space had been leased in Collingwood since the second half of 2021, naming Acciona at 71 Gipps Street, Live Nation and Ticketmaster at 111 Cambridge Street, Bank Australia, and Swisse and Aesop at 88 Langridge Street among the tenants. On Johnston Street, Collingwood Yards, a not-for-profit arts precinct on the site of the former Collingwood Technical School, took its first tenants in 2020 and officially opened in 2021. It is now full, with more than 350 creative workers from 50 resident organisations, and the Keith Haring mural on its wall is on the Victorian Heritage Register.
For a website, that means competing for attention in a suburb full of design-conscious businesses and customers. Visitors decide in seconds on a phone, often between you and a neighbour across the road, so the menu, the portfolio or the booking button has to come first, and the design shouldn't look like a template. We're in Adelaide, not Collingwood: if you want to sit across a table from your designer, a local studio will suit you better. If you're happy to work by phone and email at fixed prices, we'd like to hear from you. Our one Victorian client is in Melbourne, and our guide to Melbourne's north-east covers Collingwood alongside Northcote, Preston and Heidelberg.
We don't have a Collingwood client to show you. Dr Tabara Dione Coaching is in Melbourne, Fiona Dixon works from New South Wales and Resolve Forward is in Sydney. They show the booking, portfolio and enquiry features creative and professional businesses here tend to ask about.
A coaching practice for doctors, run by a Melbourne specialist anaesthetist. Discovery calls are booked online from any page, which suits a consultant, therapist or studio that wants enquiries to turn straight into appointments.
Visit the Dr Tabara Dione site (opens in a new tab) See it in our portfolio
An Australian voiceover artist recording from a professional home studio. Her single page plays four demo reels and has a contact form with project-type options, the same idea as a designer's or photographer's portfolio with a brief-taking form.
Visit the Fiona Dixon site (opens in a new tab) See it in our portfolio
A Sydney family dispute resolution practice. Priced packages link to online booking, and a five-step intake form gathers the background before the first session, a set-up that fits any professional firm that sells fixed-price services.
Visit the Resolve Forward site (opens in a new tab) See it in our portfolio
“He was incredibly hands-on, always available to answer questions, and made every requested change promptly and without hesitation.”
★ 5.0 from 33 Google reviews (opens in a new tab)
See all 14 recent client sites in our portfolio.
$399
One page with what you do, opening hours, a map, reviews and a contact form or call button. Plenty for a new bar, a solo designer or a market maker.
The usual choice for a venue or studio
$899
A home page plus a menu, portfolio or services page and a contact page, or a page for your booking link. Fits most venues, studios and salons.
$1,499
For a firm or venue with more to show: separate pages for services, projects, team or events, plus about, FAQs and contact. Sites this size take 2–3 weeks.
No. WebCraft Studio is an Adelaide team at Ste 3/110 Hutt St, and we work with Victorian businesses entirely by phone and email. You send your words, photos and ideas, we send a draft link to review on your phone or laptop, and you ask for as many changes as you like before paying. We reply within 24 hours.
One page is $399. Up to three pages is $899 and up to eight is $1,499; no GST is added because we aren't registered for it. Online stores are $799 or $1,999. The price is the same in Collingwood as in Adelaide or Brisbane, there's no deposit, and hosting is $30 a month after launch with no contract.
Yes. Hosting covers unlimited text and image changes on your existing pages, so you email us the new menu, prices or listings and we update them. A new page or feature, such as an events calendar you didn't have before, is quoted first so you know the cost.
Yes. The $799 store takes up to 25 products with one payment gateway and basic order management, and the $1,999 store adds unlimited products, multiple payment options, customer accounts and advanced shipping. We code both ourselves, so there's no platform subscription, and you supply the product photos and descriptions.
Yes, at the same prices as a new site. We build the new version as a draft while the old one stays online, reuse whatever text and images you want to keep, and switch over only after you approve it. Your domain stays in your name, and if you don't go ahead you owe nothing.
Yes. We can build booking and payments into the site, quoted per job, or link the service you already use, such as OpenTable for tables or Fresha, Cliniko or Calendly for appointments. If you don't have a logo yet, we'll help with one at no charge.
Tell us what you run, where in Collingwood you are, and whether you need a menu, a portfolio, bookings or an online store. We'll reply with questions or a fixed quote, build the draft, and you pay only once you've approved it.
We reply within 24 hours. Prefer email? info@webcraftstudio.com.au