Hand-coded websites for shops, clinics, trades and resource-sector suppliers across the Mackay region, from Bucasia and Slade Point to Walkerston, Sarina and up the valley to Mirani. Our Adelaide team builds them by phone and email at fixed, published prices, and you pay only once you've approved the finished draft.
The questions we get from Mackay are the same ones people type into a search box: what a site costs, whether it's built from scratch, and whether it can take bookings or sell online. Here are the short answers, with prices where we have them.
Our prices are published and fixed: $399 for one page, $899 for up to 3 pages and $1,499 for up to 8 pages, with no GST on top. A mobile mechanic working the northern beaches or a hairdresser in Mount Pleasant can usually manage with one page or three. A firm with separate mining, civil and residential divisions, or one covering both Mackay and the Whitsundays, tends to need eight.
Every site starts as a blank file, not a Wix or WordPress layout. We write the HTML, CSS and JavaScript ourselves and order each page around what your customers look for first: opening hours, parking and stock for a shop; capability, equipment and crew tickets for a mine-site supplier; licence details and the towns you'll travel to for a trade.
If your current site is slow on a phone, still lists people who left years ago, or depends on plugins nobody maintains, a rebuild costs exactly what a new site would. The domain remains in your name, every old address points to its new page, and visitors keep seeing the current site until you sign off the new one.
There's no account manager in the middle: you talk by phone or email to the people writing your site's code. Each draft comes as a link you can open on your phone, whether you're behind the counter or on a day off from a roster, and you send back as many rounds of changes as you need.
The $799 store holds 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. Customers in Sarina, Moranbah or Proserpine can order without driving into town, and hosting stays at $30 a month with no store platform fee on top; the payment provider charges its own transaction fees.
Booking and payment systems can be built into the site itself, priced as a quote for your job after we've seen how your sessions, payments and cancellations work. A tour operator taking guests out to Cape Hillsborough or up to Eungella might want that, and so might a physio near the Mater. If you already take bookings through Fresha, Cliniko, HotDoc or Calendly, a button on each page can open it instead.
Procurement staff and site supervisors often look a supplier up before they ring. A capability page sets out what you do, the plant and equipment you run, the accreditations and inductions you hold and the projects you're allowed to name, with your capability statement as a download and an enquiry form that asks for site, scope and timing. The words and documents come from you; we arrange them so they're quick to scan.
Mackay Regional Council was created on 15 March 2008 from the City of Mackay and the Mirani and Sarina shires, and it covers 7,622 km². The 2021 census counted 121,691 people across it, about 84,000 of them in the urban area. Customers describe where they are by suburb or town, not by the council name: East, North, South and West Mackay around the city centre; Bucasia, Blacks Beach, Eimeo and Shoal Point along the northern beaches; Andergrove, Mount Pleasant and Glenella north of the river; Ooralea and the town of Walkerston inland; Marian and Mirani up the Pioneer Valley; and Sarina, Koumala and Hay Point to the south. Plenty of businesses here also serve the wider Mackay, Isaac and Whitsunday region, which the Resource Industry Network puts at about 173,000 residents over 90,000 square kilometres, so a site should name the outlying towns it really covers, such as Moranbah or Airlie Beach, and leave out the ones it doesn't.
Council describes the local economy as led by resources and engineering, with agribusiness picking up again and growth in construction, education, logistics and tourism. The coal is dug out west in the Bowen Basin, but Mackay, in the words of the investment site council links to, hosts much of the engineering, manufacturing and mining services industries. The Resource Industry Network, a not-for-profit group for the sector, works out of the Resources Centre of Excellence at 65 Crichtons Road, Paget, and lists engineering, project management, advanced manufacturing and maintenance among the region's strengths. Sugar is the older industry: the same site calls Mackay one of the leading sugar-producing regions in Australia and home to one of the country's largest producers of ethanol products. Buyers in both industries often want to see what a supplier can do in writing before they pick up the phone, which is why we suggest a capability page for any firm that sells to them.
The city centre was nearly destroyed by the 1918 cyclone and rebuilt mainly in Art Deco and Spanish Mission styles; Taylors Hotel (1936) and the former Main Post Office (1940), with its clock tower, are among the buildings from the decades that followed. The largest shopping centre is Caneland Central beside the Pioneer River, with Myer, Big W, Target and JB Hi-Fi among its tenants, and Mount Pleasant Shopping Centre is the second major centre. An independent shop or café up against those centres needs a website that says plainly what you offer that the chains don't, where to park, when you're open and whether you deliver.
Health, education and travel bring customers of their own. Mackay Base Hospital is on Bridge Road in West Mackay and the Mater hospital is in the city's north; James Cook University trains health students at both. CQUniversity's main Mackay campus is at Ooralea, with a smaller one on Sydney Street in the city. Mackay Airport's own figures show 937,938 passengers in the year to 30 June 2026. Visitors head for Cape Hillsborough National Park, about 40 km from the city, and Eungella National Park at the end of the Pioneer Valley, about 80 km west, while Mackay Marina is the district's largest base for boat maintenance and refits. Clinics, tour operators and marine businesses each need something different from a site: a booking link, a clear meeting point, or a list of the vessels and jobs you take on.
We're an Adelaide team at Ste 3/110 Hutt St and work with Mackay businesses by phone and email; we don't have staff in Queensland or hold meetings there. Queensland stays on standard time all year, so Adelaide is half an hour behind Mackay from April to October and half an hour ahead while South Australia is on daylight saving. Trades will find Queensland licensing covered on our pages for Mackay tradies, electricians, plumbers and builders.
None of these clients is in Mackay. M.J. Debney is a Queensland plumber; the other two are in South Australia, chosen because an engineering firm's quote form and a charter operator's booking requests are close to what Mackay suppliers and tour operators ask us for.
A Queensland plumbing and gas business, licensed for both. Its single page lists six services and adds a 13-photo job gallery built for swiping, customer testimonials, a protected contact form, and tap-to-call.
Visit the M.J. Debney site (opens in a new tab) See it in our portfolio
Adelaide structural engineers working for homeowners and builders. The site has four service pages, 16 articles, tap-to-call and a quote form that shows fee ranges and takes file uploads, so drawings arrive with the first enquiry. The same approach suits a Paget workshop that quotes from plans.
Visit the Simple Engineers site (opens in a new tab) See it in our portfolio
Full-day fishing charters out of Cape Jervis, South Australia. One page takes booking and gift voucher requests and shows a catch gallery, reviews, an FAQ and a map, much as a Mackay charter or reef tour site would.
Visit the Cape Fishing Charters site (opens in a new tab) See it in our portfolio
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$399
One scrolling page with what you do, the suburbs and towns you cover, photos, reviews, a contact form and tap-to-call.
Suits most Mackay shops and services
$899
Home, services and contact pages, or swap one for a capability page with equipment, accreditations and past projects for site buyers.
$1,499
A page for each service or division, plus pages for Mackay, the Whitsundays and the Bowen Basin towns if your work takes you to all three.
No. Our team works from Ste 3/110 Hutt St in Adelaide, South Australia, and Mackay clients deal with us by phone and email. You'll see each draft as a link on your phone or computer. We reply within 24 hours. The businesses we currently work with are in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia.
Our prices don't change from city to city. It's $399 for one page, $899 for up to 3 pages and $1,499 for up to 8 pages. No GST is added. Redesigns are priced the same. Nothing is paid up front: you pay when you approve the draft, and after launch hosting runs at $30 a month, cancel anytime.
Yes, and it costs the same as building from scratch. Give us your current address and a note of what's worth keeping; we move your words and photos over, point each old address at its new page, and change the domain across only after you've signed off.
Yes. A booking and payment system built into the site is quoted per job, after we've learned how your appointments and payments run. Already on Fresha, Cliniko or Calendly? Then a link to that system from each page may be all you need. There's more on booking website design and, if you sell products, ecommerce website design.
Usually a clear list of services, the equipment you run, the accreditations and inductions you hold, photos of past work you're allowed to show, and a capability statement to download. We lay out what you send us. Each operator sets its own contractor requirements, so the site shows the documents and tickets you actually hold rather than claiming you meet any particular site's rules.
No one can honestly promise a ranking, so we don't. What we can do is make the pages fast, give each service its own heading and mention the Mackay suburbs and towns you serve in plain sentences, so search engines can tell what you do and where. SEO retainers and ads aren't something we sell.
Send us a few lines on what you do, the towns you cover and whether you need bookings, a store or a capability page. You'll get a fixed price, then a draft to review, and you pay only once you've approved it.
We reply within 24 hours. Prefer email? info@webcraftstudio.com.au