Websites for businesses along the bay from Point Vernon to Urangan, inland at Urraween and Eli Waters, and out to Toogoom, Burrum Heads and Maryborough. Our Adelaide team codes each site by hand and works with you by phone and email, at the same published prices everyone pays, and you see the finished draft before any money changes hands.
On the Fraser Coast, one café or clinic might serve a Torquay local of twenty years in the morning and a family fresh off a Melbourne flight in the afternoon. A good site works for both without making either of them hunt for anything.
Hervey Bay's population is older than most, so we set body text larger than a typical template does, keep strong contrast between words and background, and turn your phone number into a big button that rings with one tap. Nothing important sits behind a pop-up or a hidden menu.
Whale watching's prime season runs from July to October. A boat, holiday let or café near the marina can use its site to show season dates, departure times and what changes off-peak, and sending us new dates or prices is covered by the $30 monthly hosting, which includes unlimited text and image changes on your existing pages.
We build online booking and payments into websites and quote each one after hearing how your departures, sessions or tables run. If you already take bookings through Fresha, Cliniko, HotDoc or OpenTable, we can link that system from every page instead, so a family planning from Sydney can reserve a whale trip before they pack.
It's $399 for one page, $899 for up to 3 pages and $1,499 for up to 8 pages, exactly what we charge in Adelaide or Sydney. No GST is added and there's no deposit; you pay once you've approved the draft. For a sole trader starting out in Nikenbah or Dundowran, the one-page site is often plenty.
If your current site went up years ago and is now slow on a phone, awkward to update or still lists old hours, we rebuild it at the same prices as a new one. Your domain stays in your name, old page addresses are pointed at the new pages, and the existing site keeps running until you sign off its replacement.
Makers, food producers and local shops can take orders from anywhere in Australia. Our $799 store suits up to 25 products with one payment gateway and basic order management; the $1,999 store has no product limit and adds multiple payment options, customer accounts and advanced shipping.
Each site is written in HTML, CSS and JavaScript for the business it belongs to, with no Wix or WordPress theme underneath, which keeps pages light on a weak mobile signal. When you ring or email, you're dealing with the web developers who wrote the code, and we reply within 24 hours.
Hervey Bay grew out of a line of small townships along the bay, among them Point Vernon, Pialba, Scarness, Torquay and Urangan, which merged into suburbs as the area grew; Pialba is the oldest, dating from 1863. Behind the beachfront sit Urraween, Kawungan, Eli Waters, Wondunna and Nikenbah, while Dundowran, Craignish and Toogoom stretch the urban area west along the coast. Hervey Bay was proclaimed a city on 18 February 1984 and joined Maryborough, about half an hour's drive to the south, in the Fraser Coast Region on 15 March 2008. Council's July 2026 economic update estimated the region's population at 124,280. Brisbane is roughly 290 km and three and a half hours away by road, so a local site should name the suburbs and towns it covers rather than lean on "Fraser Coast" alone.
That update valued the region's output at $7.17 billion for the year to March 2026, with almost 50,000 people in work and more than 3,200 jobs added over the year. The strongest employment growth was in health care and social assistance, construction, education and training, and retail, and more than $1 billion of building approvals were issued. Council's investment page counts 10,707 people working in health care and social assistance, out of a workforce of 49,487. UnitingCare's private St Stephen's Hospital is in Urraween, as is Stockland Hervey Bay, the largest shopping centre on the Fraser Coast. The University of the Sunshine Coast took over the Fraser Coast campus on Old Maryborough Road from the University of Southern Queensland in 2016, and the University of Queensland teaches third-year medical students at a regional clinical campus in the city.
For clinics, allied health practices, NDIS providers and in-home care services, that means a lot of capable competitors and a readership that skews older: at the 2016 census, the median age in Hervey Bay was 48, ten years above the national figure. Some readers may be arranging care for a parent from another city. Either way, the page should say plainly who does the work, which services you offer, how referrals and funding work, where to park and how to ring you, in type nobody has to squint at.
Tourism is the region's other big earner. Australia's first commercial whale watching boat tours started from Hervey Bay in 1987, the prime season runs from July to October, and the World Cetacean Alliance named the bay a Whale Heritage Site in 2019. Passenger and vehicle ferries cross from the city to K'gari, and council counted almost 921,000 overnight visitors in the year to March 2026. Plenty of them fly: council lists scheduled flights from Hervey Bay Airport to Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne, and flights to Lady Elliot Island leave from there too. A visitor choosing a tour or a room from interstate has no way to pop in and ask, so the site has to give dates, prices, the meeting point and a way to book.
We're an Adelaide team at Ste 3/110 Hutt St and work with Fraser Coast businesses entirely by phone and email; we don't travel to the region or hold meetings in person. You send your words, photos and the places you cover, the draft arrives as a link, and changes go back as a reply or a quick call. Trades will find Queensland licence details on our pages for Hervey Bay tradies, plumbers, electricians and builders.
None of these three is on the Fraser Coast. Two are in South Australia and one is a Queensland plumber; we chose them for features a Hervey Bay business would use: booking requests for a boat, readable pages for older clients and a trade's job gallery.
Full-day fishing charters out of Cape Jervis, South Australia, seven days a week. Its one page takes booking requests and gift voucher requests and carries a catch gallery, an FAQ, customer reviews and an embedded map, which is most of what a whale watching or fishing operator at Urangan would ask a site to do.
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In-home support for older people across Northern Adelaide. The six pages use large, readable text, explain nine services on a single page and offer an enquiry form with a referral option for aged care providers, with tap-to-call on every page: a layout that suits a Fraser Coast care or allied health business.
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A licensed Queensland plumber and gas fitter. One page holds a six-service overview, a 13-photo project gallery that swipes on a phone, client testimonials, a protected contact form and tap-to-call.
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$399
One page with your services, the suburbs or towns you cover, photos, reviews, opening hours and a large call button.
Suits most clinics and tour operators
$899
Home, services and a page for bookings or enquiries, with season dates, the departure point or parking, and a map.
$1,499
A page for each tour, treatment or practitioner, plus room for Maryborough or the outlying towns if you work there.
No. We're an Adelaide (South Australia) team at Ste 3/110 Hutt St, and Fraser Coast businesses work with us by phone and email. Drafts come as a link you can open on a phone, tablet or computer, and we reply within 24 hours. Our current clients are in South Australia, New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland.
The same as anywhere else: $399 for one page, $899 for up to 3 pages and $1,499 for up to 8 pages, and redesigning an existing site costs the same. Online stores are $799 or $1,999. No GST is added and there's no deposit; you pay once you approve the draft, and hosting is then $30 a month with no contract.
Yes. We build booking and payment systems into websites and quote them per job, because a boat with set departures works very differently from a clinic with several practitioners' diaries. If you already use Fresha, Cliniko, HotDoc, Calendly or OpenTable, we can link it from every page instead. See booking website design.
Use larger text, strong contrast, plain headings and a phone number that's easy to find and tap. Keep forms short and say what happens after someone sends one. We build these in from the first draft rather than bolting them on later.
Yes, if you serve it. Name Maryborough and any other towns you cover in the body of the page, not only the footer, and say if you only get there on certain days. On the 8-page site, Maryborough can have a page of its own.
No. You supply your own words and photos, and we arrange them into pages that read well on a phone. If you don't have a logo yet, we help with one at no charge.
Tell us what you do, where on the Fraser Coast you work and anything particular, such as bookings for whale season or products to post. A fixed price comes back first, then a draft to look over, and you pay only once you've approved it.
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