Fixed-price, hand-coded websites for small businesses across Greater Darwin, from Nightcliff, Parap and Casuarina to Palmerston, Howard Springs and Humpty Doo. Our Adelaide team builds new sites, redesigns old ones and adds stores or bookings, all by phone and email, and you pay only after you approve the draft.
Darwin is a small capital with a big government, hospital and Defence workforce, a dry-season tourist rush and a lot of people who arrived recently. These are the searches we hear about most, with our actual answer to each.
Our prices are published, and they don't go up for the Territory: $399 for one page, $899 for up to three pages, $1,499 for up to eight. We're not registered for GST, so nothing is added on top, and there's no deposit. A mobile aircon technician in Palmerston might need one page; a Stuart Park café with a menu and a functions page, three; a firm with separate commercial and residential divisions, eight.
We don't start from a Wix layout or a WordPress theme. Each site is designed for one business and written by hand, so a Fannie Bay physio can open with appointment times while a Winnellie fabricator opens with its equipment list and a quote form. Custom work is our normal method, so it costs no more than our listed prices.
Plenty of Darwin sites still show last wet season's hours, a staff page full of people who have moved south, or a layout that breaks on a phone. We rebuild them at the same prices as a new site, keep the words and photos you want, leave the old site live until you sign off, and redirect the old page addresses so links already shared still work.
If you've been searching for a web developer in Darwin, the people who design your pages also write the code: quote forms, multi-step enquiry forms, galleries, a page for each area you cover and a tap-to-call button. You deal with us by phone and email, with no account manager in between. After launch, $30 a month covers hosting and unlimited text and image changes to existing pages; new pages or features are quoted first.
Selling past the market stall or the shop counter? Our $799 store takes up to 25 products with one payment gateway and basic order management. The $1,999 store removes the product limit and adds multiple payment options, customer accounts and advanced shipping, which matters when some orders stay in Palmerston and others go interstate. We build both ourselves, with no store platform fee each month.
Health practices, salons, fitness studios and tour operators all run on time slots. We build booking and payment systems into the site and quote each one per job, because a tour with seasonal departures works differently from a clinic diary. If you already use HotDoc, Cliniko, Fresha or Calendly, we can link it from every page instead.
The ABS estimates Greater Darwin had 159,284 residents at 30 June 2025, up 1.7% in a year, with net overseas migration adding 2,847 people while 1,430 more people moved to other parts of Australia than arrived from them. The urban area spreads across three councils. The City of Darwin takes in the older suburbs near the centre, such as Larrakeyah, Stuart Park, Parap and Fannie Bay, and the northern suburbs around Nightcliff, Casuarina and Tiwi. Palmerston, about 20 km from the CBD, was established as a satellite city in 1981, and newer estates such as Zuccoli and Johnston sit on its edge, beside the Yarrawonga industrial area. Litchfield, created in 1985, covers 2,903 km² of mostly rural and rural-residential land, with Howard Springs, Humpty Doo, Coolalinga, Virginia, Girraween, Berry Springs and Noonamah among its localities. Customers search by those names, so a service page that lists the ones you really drive to is worth more than a vague promise to cover the Top End.
Public employers dominate local work. At the 2021 Census, the top industries of employment for Greater Darwin residents were state government administration (7.9%), hospitals (5.0%) and Defence (4.7%), followed by primary education and social assistance services. Royal Darwin Hospital in Tiwi, a 360-bed teaching hospital, is the only tertiary referral hospital in the Territory, and Palmerston Regional Hospital opened in 2018 to ease the load. Robertson Barracks at Holtze, about 15 km east of the city centre, is home to the Army's 1st Brigade and the 1st Aviation Regiment, RAAF Base Darwin shares its runway with Darwin International Airport, and Larrakeyah Barracks, on a headland beside the inner suburb of Larrakeyah, hosts the Navy's HMAS Coonawarra. Since 2012, US Marines have also come through on rotations of about six months, with up to 2,500 a year stationed in Darwin as of 2024. Charles Darwin University, Australia's first dual-sector university, has its main campus at Casuarina and opened its Danala campus in central Darwin in 2024.
Energy and tourism bring in the rest. An 889 km subsea pipeline carries gas from the Ichthys field to INPEX's onshore LNG plant at Bladin Point, which shipped its first cargo in 2018, and East Arm Wharf handles the port's deepwater traffic. Darwin is the usual base for trips to Litchfield National Park, about 100 km south-west, which drew more than 329,000 visitors in 2017, and to Kakadu and Katherine Gorge. Visitors come mostly in the dry season, roughly May to September, when the Mindil Beach Sunset Market runs on Thursday and Sunday nights with around 200 stalls. The wet, from about December to March, brings monsoon rain and cyclone risk, and the build-up before it brings heat and humidity.
Two things follow for a Darwin website. First, many customers are new to town: at the 2021 Census only 63.8% of Greater Darwin residents were born in Australia, with the Philippines, India, England, Nepal and New Zealand the most common other birthplaces, and Defence and government postings keep households arriving and leaving. People without a local friend to ask lean on clear prices, real reviews and plain photos of the work. Second, demand moves with the seasons, so hours, tour dates, wet-season service notes and cyclone-season availability should be easy to change on the site, which our hosting covers.
We work from Ste 3/110 Hutt St in Adelaide, and a Darwin project runs entirely by phone and email. Our current clients are in SA, NSW, VIC and QLD; we haven't built for a Territory business yet. Darwin doesn't use daylight saving, so from the first Sunday in April to the first Sunday in October we're on the same clock as you, and for the rest of the year Adelaide is an hour ahead. For trades and professions, see our Darwin pages for tradies, electricians, NDIS providers and accountants.
None of these clients is in the Northern Territory. We picked them because a tour operator, an appointment-based practice and a trade business cover much of what Darwin's small businesses do.
Full-day fishing charters from Cape Jervis in South Australia. One page carries booking requests, gift voucher requests, a catch gallery, reviews, an FAQ and a map, the same shape a Darwin Harbour fishing charter or a Litchfield day tour could use.
Visit the Cape Fishing Charters site (opens in a new tab) See it in our portfolio
A Sydney family dispute resolution practice with six service pages, FAQs and priced packages that lead into online booking and a five-step intake form: a pattern a Darwin allied health clinic or counselling practice could follow with its own booking tool.
Visit the Resolve Forward site (opens in a new tab) See it in our portfolio
A Queensland plumber and gas fitter. A single page with six services, a 13-photo project gallery that swipes on a phone, testimonials, a protected contact form and tap-to-call, which suits a Palmerston or Litchfield tradie who works from the ute.
Visit the M.J. Debney site (opens in a new tab) See it in our portfolio
“Rebuilt two websites for our businesses and saved us a fortune on hosting etc.”
★ 5.0 from 33 Google reviews (opens in a new tab)
See all 14 recent client sites in our portfolio.
$399
One scrolling page: what you do, the suburbs and rural areas you cover, hours, reviews, an enquiry form and a call button. Good for a sole trader, a market stallholder or a new business still finding its feet.
Where most businesses start
$899
Usually home, services and contact, or swap one for a menu, a tour schedule or a booking page. Enough for most cafés, clinics and trades across Darwin and Palmerston.
$1,499
For a business with several divisions, a team to introduce or customers in both town and the rural area: separate service, about, team, FAQ and contact pages. Allow 2–3 weeks at this size.
$399 for one page, $899 for up to three and $1,499 for up to eight, with online stores at $799 or $1,999. There's no GST on top because we're not registered for it, and the prices are the same in Darwin as anywhere else. After launch, hosting is $30 a month with no contract, and we register your domain in your name for about $20 a year.
Yes. We work with businesses Australia-wide by phone and email, and reply within 24 hours. You send your words, photos and the areas you cover, plus a logo, or we'll help you with one at no charge. We send a draft link you can check on your phone and change as often as you like, and you pay once you approve it. If you decide not to go ahead, you owe nothing.
Yes, at the same prices as a new build. Tell us what's wrong with the current site and we'll keep what's worth keeping, build the new version as a draft while the old one stays online, then switch over and redirect the old page addresses. 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.
Yes. We build booking and payment systems into websites and quote them per job, or link the booking tool you already use from every page. For products, the $799 store covers up to 25 items with one payment gateway, and the $1,999 store adds unlimited products, several payment options, customer accounts and advanced shipping. See booking website design and online stores for detail.
Yes. Hosting at $30 a month includes unlimited text and image changes to your existing pages, so new tour dates, wet-season hours, a closure notice or updated prices are an email away. New pages or features are quoted before we start.
Tell us what your business does, which parts of Darwin, Palmerston and Litchfield you cover, and whether you need a store or bookings. We'll reply with questions or a fixed quote, then send a draft to check before you pay anything.
We reply within 24 hours. Prefer email? info@webcraftstudio.com.au