Hand-coded websites at fixed prices for businesses across the City of Maitland: The Levee and Lorn, East Maitland, Thornton and Rutherford, Morpeth on the river, and the newer streets of Chisholm, Lochinvar and Gillieston Heights. Our Adelaide team builds each one with you by phone and email.
Maitland City Council puts the city at more than 98,000 people and over 35,200 local jobs, with health care, retail and construction the three biggest employers. Most of those businesses serve people who live here, and new households keep arriving in the estates without knowing who to call. These are the jobs Maitland owners most often want a website to do, and how our fixed offer handles each one.
A single-page site is $399. Up to three pages is $899 and up to eight pages is $1,499. We aren't registered for GST, so the price you're quoted is the price you pay, and there's no deposit: you see the finished draft, ask for changes and pay once you approve it. A sole trader in Tenambit pays the same as a practice in Central Maitland.
We write each site in code rather than dragging it together in Wix or on a WordPress theme, so the layout follows how your customers make up their minds. A Morpeth gift shop can lead with its opening days and a map; a fabricator at Rutherford can lead with machines, capacity and certifications. You own the finished design once it's paid for, and nobody bills you monthly for a page builder.
If your site still quotes old prices, breaks on a phone or was built by someone who has stopped answering emails, we rebuild it at our standard prices. The current version stays online while we work, we carry over the words and photos worth keeping, and your domain remains registered in your name.
One in five Maitland jobs is in health care and social assistance. For a physio, psychologist, GP or NDIS provider we can build online booking and payments into the site, quoted per job, or link Cliniko, HotDoc or whichever system already runs your diary, with practitioner profiles and fees laid out plainly.
The $799 store takes up to 25 products with one payment gateway and basic order management. The $1,999 store adds unlimited products, multiple payment options, customer accounts and advanced shipping. A boutique in The Levee or a producer selling across the Hunter can take orders without a monthly store platform fee on top of hosting; your payment provider keeps its own small cut of each sale.
The people who design your site also build it, host it and change it later. For a freight operator, engineering shop or materials supplier in the Thornton or Rutherford industrial areas, that can mean a multi-step quote form, an upload field for drawings and specifications, and a page for each capability so a buyer lands on the right one.
Customers type a suburb into their phone, not the council's name. A service-area section listing the places you really cover, from Woodberry and Thornton in the east through Bolwarra and Telarah to Aberglasslyn, Rutherford and Lochinvar in the west, plus tap-to-call on every screen, matches the way people here search.
Maitland sits on the Hunter River about 35 km north-west of Newcastle and 166 km north of Sydney by road. The City of Maitland covers 392 km², and council acknowledges the Wonnarua people as the traditional owners. The old riverside centre behind its levee is only one of several hubs: East Maitland, home to Stockland Green Hills; Thornton and Metford along the rail line; Telarah and Rutherford to the west; Morpeth on its bend of the river; and the growth areas at Chisholm, Gillieston Heights, Farley and Lochinvar. Those are the names people search, so a site that uses them reads as local. Our Newcastle page looks at the wider Lower Hunter.
Council's investment figures give the city an annual economic output of $15.5 billion. About 20% of local jobs are in health care and social assistance, 13% in retail and 12% in construction, and the workforce leans practical: 16% are technicians and trades workers and 15% community and personal service workers, alongside 19% professionals. The new $470 million Maitland Hospital stands on Metford Road at Metford, providing emergency, maternity and surgical care around the clock. Because so many residents work in industries that serve the local population, council's Economic Development Strategy 2025–2035 sets out to grow more jobs and better career options inside the city itself.
Where you trade shapes what your site needs. The Levee in Central Maitland has close to 300 traders across professional services, retail and dining. Stockland Green Hills more than doubled in size after a $372 million redevelopment and now holds more than 225 speciality shops. Thornton Industrial Estate houses material suppliers, automotive services, construction and freight firms; the Racecourse Business Park at Rutherford stretches over 140 hectares of fabricators, distributors and bulky goods retail; and Anambah Business Park attracts mining support and engineering businesses. In Morpeth, most shops and cafés open Thursday to Sunday, so hours that are right on the website spare a visitor a wasted drive.
Visitors add a second market. Hunter Valley Steamfest, first held in 1986, draws tens of thousands of people each year according to council, Luminous lights up the winter solstice, and New Year's Eve on the riverbank attracts crowds of more than 15,000. The river also sets the limits: the 1955 flood reached 12.5 m, and floods came back in 2007, 2015 and 2022, when Gillieston Heights was cut off from the rest of Maitland. A business that keeps trading when roads close can say so on its site, and our Maitland builders page covers council's flood information for anyone who builds or repairs here.
We're an Adelaide team, so a Maitland project runs by phone and email. Our nearest client is Phoenix Housekeeping, a family cleaning business based at Morisset that works across Lake Macquarie and Cessnock, including Greta and Kurri Kurri; we haven't yet built a site for a business inside the City of Maitland. For local contacts, council publishes a monthly Business Matters e-bulletin and the Maitland Business Chamber holds monthly networking events. Industry detail is on our pages for Maitland tradies and NDIS providers in Maitland, and costs are compared in what a website costs around Newcastle.
None of these clients is in the City of Maitland. Phoenix Housekeeping works next door in Lake Macquarie and Cessnock, and the other two are in Adelaide. We picked them for requests Maitland businesses make again and again: area pages for a mobile service, a care provider older clients can read with ease, and a trade site that lets customers check coverage before they call.
A family-run cleaner based at Morisset, with published prices, a page for each area it covers, from Greta and Kurri Kurri to Lake Macquarie and the northern Central Coast, and a discreet call-back option for sensitive jobs. A Maitland cleaner, gardener or handyman working the new estates would want the same structure.
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In-home support for older people in northern Adelaide: six pages, nine services set out on one page, large text, a referral option for aged care providers and the phone number on every screen. Health care and social assistance is Maitland's largest employer, and many providers here serve clients who would rather ring than fill in a form.
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An Adelaide painting company with 12 service pages, region pages and a suburb and postcode search, so a customer can confirm coverage before picking up the phone. A Maitland trade that works on Lorn's older cottages one week and new homes at Chisholm the next could use the same approach.
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$399
One page with your services, the suburbs you travel to, reviews, hours and tap-to-call. Enough for a mobile trade, a cleaner or a new business in one of the growth estates.
Fits most Maitland services
$899
A home page plus two more, such as services and bookings, or a menu and a gallery. Suits a shop in The Levee, a café in Morpeth, a clinic or a salon with one location.
$1,499
Room for a page per service, practitioner profiles, FAQs and area pages running from Thornton to Lochinvar. Sites this size take 2–3 weeks.
$399 for one page, $899 for up to three and $1,499 for up to eight. Online stores are $799 or $1,999. Nothing is added for GST and nothing is paid up front. After launch, hosting is $30 a month and includes changes to the text and images on your existing pages, with no contract.
It costs the same either way, so choose whichever suits your content. We build the new site while the old one stays up, bring across anything you want to keep, and point your domain at the new version once you approve the draft. 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 online booking and payment systems into sites, priced per job, with the cost written into your quote before any work begins. If you already use Fresha, Cliniko, HotDoc, OpenTable or Calendly, we can link it from every page instead.
Yes. The $799 store suits up to 25 products with one payment gateway and basic order management. The $1,999 store adds unlimited products, several payment options, customer accounts and advanced shipping, and pickup from the shop can sit alongside postage.
No. We're based on Hutt Street in Adelaide and run every project outside Adelaide by phone and email. You send your words and photos when it suits you, open the draft link on your phone and reply with changes. We reply within 24 hours.
No. You supply your own text and photos, and we arrange them into clear pages, tidying headings and layout along the way. If you need better photos, a local photographer is worth booking, and we'll fit their shots in. If you don't have a logo yet, we'll help with one at no charge.
Tell us what your business does, which suburbs you cover and what the site has to handle, whether that's appointments, a product range or a quote form that takes drawings. We'll send a fixed quote, then a draft to check and change, and you pay only once you approve it.
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