Fixed-price websites, coded by hand, for businesses in Launceston and the towns around it, from Mowbray and Kings Meadows to Legana, Prospect Vale, Longford and Lilydale. We build new sites, rework tired ones and add online stores or bookings, working with you from Adelaide by phone and email.
Launceston's hospital is the referral centre for the region, the university now sits beside the city centre at Inveresk, and visitors come in through the airport and along the Tamar, so one small business can field enquiries from Kings Meadows households, Tamar Valley growers, Inveresk students and weekend visitors on the same day. Here is how each part of our offer answers what those people go looking for.
One page is $399; up to three pages is $899 and up to eight pages is $1,499. That is the build price for a Launceston small business: no GST added, no deposit, and no invoice until you have approved the draft. Being in Tasmania doesn't change the figure, and neither does the number of rounds of changes you ask for.
We design each site around one business and write the code by hand. There is no Wix, Squarespace or WordPress theme underneath, so an Invermay café can open with its menu and hours while a Youngtown builder opens with recent jobs and a quote form. Custom work is simply how we build, so it isn't charged as an extra. Our Wix versus custom cost comparison shows how the two add up over a few years.
If your current site looks wrong on a phone, still lists last year's prices, or sits on a builder plan you keep paying for and never open, we rebuild it at the same prices as a new site. We carry across the words and photos worth keeping, leave the old site running until you sign off, and redirect its old page addresses so saved links still land somewhere useful. Redesign or rebuild? helps if you're weighing it up.
Searching for a web developer in Launceston? The people who lay out your pages also write the code behind them: quote and contact forms, forms that run over several steps, galleries, a page for each area you serve and buttons that dial your number with one tap. After launch, hosting at $30 a month covers unlimited text and image changes to your existing pages, and anything new is quoted before we start.
UNESCO counts more than 100 food and beverage manufacturers and fermenters around Launceston, and plenty of smaller makers want to sell past the cellar door or market stall. Our $799 store takes 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, for orders that cross Bass Strait. We code both ourselves, so there is no store platform subscription.
Health care and social assistance provides more than one in five local jobs, and the physios, dentists, psychologists and GPs around it, along with hairdressers, beauty therapists and trainers, all run on appointments. We can build booking and payments into the site, priced per job in your quote, or link the system you already use, such as HotDoc, Cliniko, Fresha or Calendly, from every page.
Someone planning an afternoon at Cataract Gorge or a drive up the Tamar is likely to be checking on a phone, sometimes from the car. For a café, tour, gallery or place to stay, we put hours, location, prices and a way to book or enquire on the first screen, and keep the pages light so they open quickly on mobile data.
The City of Launceston had an estimated 71,341 residents and 6,104 businesses in 2025, according to its economy.id profile, but the urban area runs past the council boundary: 90,953 people lived in it at the 2021 Census. Riverside and Legana are in West Tamar Council, Prospect Vale and Blackstone Heights are Launceston suburbs inside Meander Valley, with Hadspen just beyond them, and Perth, Longford and Evandale belong to the Northern Midlands. Within the city, people search by suburb: Mowbray, Newnham, Invermay, Newstead, Norwood, Kings Meadows, Youngtown, Ravenswood, Summerhill, Trevallyn and St Leonards, with rural localities stretching out to Lilydale, Karoola and Nunamara. Hobart is about 200 km south on the Midland Highway, and the Bass Highway heads west to Devonport and Burnie. A services page that names the towns you really travel to answers the first question a customer in Hadspen or Lilydale has.
Health care dominates local employment. The same profile estimates 48,615 jobs in the city in 2024/25, and 11,157 of them are in health care and social assistance: 22.9% of the total, against 17.4% across Tasmania, and 2,648 more than five years earlier. Launceston General Hospital describes itself as the principal referral hospital for more than a quarter of a million people and the largest employer in the region, with around 2,000 staff. Education and training adds 4,592 jobs. The University of Tasmania completed the move of its main Launceston campus from Newnham to Inveresk, beside the city centre, when The Shed, a $97 million building for its health and science schools with room for more than 1,600 students, opened in October 2024. The Australian Maritime College, part of the university, is based at Newnham, with its training vessels at Beauty Point on the Tamar.
Retail is the second-largest employer, with 5,065 jobs, or 10.4% of the total against 9.3% across Tasmania, and accommodation and food services adds another 3,542. Launceston has been a UNESCO City of Gastronomy since 2021, and UNESCO's profile of the region counts 993 farm businesses holding 44% of Tasmania's farmland, plus more than 100 food and beverage manufacturers and fermenters supporting over 1,900 jobs. Launceston Airport, 15 km south of the city, has regular non-stop flights to Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. Tourism Research Australia's figures for 2025/26 record about 1.36 million domestic visitor nights, 790,000 international visitor nights and 580,000 domestic day trips in the city. Cataract Gorge is about 1.5 km from the city centre, with a swimming pool, cafés and a chairlift at First Basin.
That mix shapes a Launceston site in a few practical ways. Hospital and care staff work shifts, so opening hours and a booking link belong high on the page rather than tucked away. Students and staff who have just arrived at Inveresk, and people who moved for a job, have nobody local to ask, so plain prices and genuine reviews stand in for a recommendation. A producer posting to the mainland needs a store that spells out delivery, and anyone serving visitors should expect the first look to happen on a small screen.
We're an Adelaide team at Ste 3/110 Hutt St, and a Launceston project runs by phone and email: you send your words, photos and the towns you cover, we send back a link to a working draft, and you pay once you approve it. Adelaide is half an hour behind Launceston all year, because South Australia and Tasmania start and end daylight saving on the same Sundays. Our current clients are in SA, NSW, VIC and QLD, and none of them is in Tasmania yet. For particular trades and professions, see our Launceston pages for tradies, builders, NDIS providers and accountants; for the south of the state, see web design in Hobart.
We haven't built for a Tasmanian business yet. These three are in Adelaide, Sydney and Cape Jervis, chosen because care providers, appointment-based practices and businesses that serve visitors make up so much of Launceston's economy.
In-home support for older people across northern Adelaide. Six pages, nine services explained on one page in large, readable text, an enquiry form with a referral option for aged care providers, and tap-to-call on every page: much what a Launceston home care or disability support provider would need.
Visit the Golden Years Aged Care site (opens in a new tab) See it in our portfolio
A Sydney family dispute resolution practice. Six service pages, FAQs, priced packages that link straight to online booking and a five-step intake form, a set-up a Launceston psychologist, physio or allied health clinic could follow with its own booking system.
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A charter business at Cape Jervis in South Australia. One page holds booking requests, gift voucher requests, a gallery of catches, reviews, an FAQ and a map, a pattern that suits a Tamar Valley tour or a business near the Gorge.
Visit the Cape Fishing Charters site (opens in a new tab) See it in our portfolio
“He listened to my feedback and made no hesitations to revise and adjust my website until we were completely happy with it.”
★ 5.0 from 33 Google reviews (opens in a new tab)
See all 14 recent client sites in our portfolio.
$399
A single scrolling page with your services, the suburbs and towns you cover, hours, reviews, a form and a call button. Suits a sole trader, a mobile service or a venture that is just getting started.
Where most businesses start
$899
Typically home, services and contact, or swap one for a menu, price list or booking page. A clinic can set treatments beside its booking link; a café can put its menu next to hours and directions.
$1,499
For a practice with several practitioners, a business working both banks of the Tamar, or a producer with a range to explain: separate pages for services, team and locations, plus about, FAQs and contact. Allow 2–3 weeks at this size.
$399 for one page, $899 for up to three, $1,499 for up to eight, and $799 or $1,999 for an online store. Those are final prices, because we aren't registered for GST, and they're the same in Launceston as in Adelaide. After launch, hosting is $30 a month with no contract, and we register your domain in your name for about $20 a year.
For most small businesses the difference shows in speed and in what you pay over time. A hand-coded site has no page builder subscription and no plugins waiting on updates, and it's arranged around your own services rather than a theme's demo layout. Every site we build is coded this way at our listed prices, so there's no premium for it. Nobody can honestly promise a ranking, but a quick, tidy site with the towns you serve in plain text is a sound start for local searches.
Yes. A redesign is priced like a new build, from $399. Send us the address and tell us what isn't working; we reuse the text and photos you want to keep, build the new version as a draft while the old one stays online, and redirect the old page addresses at changeover. If you decide against it once you've seen the draft, you owe nothing.
Yes. The $799 store covers up to 25 products with one payment gateway and basic order management. The $1,999 store lifts the product limit and adds several payment options, customer accounts and advanced shipping, for a range that goes to the mainland as well as around the state. Your payment provider takes its usual fee on each sale. Our custom store versus Shopify guide compares the running costs.
Yes. We build booking and payment systems into websites and quote each one separately, because a clinic, a tour and a class all work differently. If you already use HotDoc, Cliniko, Fresha, Calendly or OpenTable, we can link it from every page instead. Our page on booking website design sets out the options.
Everything happens by phone and email, and we reply within 24 hours. You send your words and photos, plus a logo, or we'll help with one at no charge; we send a draft link you can open on any phone; you ask for changes until it's right. We're 30 minutes behind you, so a call at 9am your time reaches us at 8.30am. 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.
Tell us what you do, which suburbs and towns around Launceston you cover, and whether you need a store or bookings. We'll come back with questions or a fixed quote, then a draft to check before you pay anything.
We reply within 24 hours. Prefer email? info@webcraftstudio.com.au