Fixed-price, hand-coded websites for businesses from the city centre and Hamilton out to Lake Macquarie, Maitland and Port Stephens. New sites, rebuilds of tired ones, online stores and booking, all handled by our Adelaide team by phone and email.
Newcastle stopped being a steel town a generation ago, and the businesses that ask us for a website now are a mixed lot: a physio near John Hunter Hospital, a cafe along the light rail, a supplier to the port, a cellar door out at Pokolbin. Behind each of them sits the same short list of fixed prices.
One page costs $399. Up to three pages is $899 and up to eight is $1,499. No GST is added, and nothing is paid until you approve the draft. A sole trader in Wallsend and a practice in the city centre work from the same price list, and nothing on it is billed by the hour.
Every site is written from scratch rather than dropped into a Wix or WordPress theme. That lets the layout follow the business: a Hamilton restaurant leads with its menu and hours, a Mayfield workshop with its services and a quote form. It costs nothing extra; it's simply how all our sites are made.
If your current site is slow on a phone, hard to update or tied to a builder plan you keep paying for, we rebuild it at the same three prices. Your old site stays live while we work on the draft, and you keep your domain throughout.
$799 covers up to 25 products with one payment gateway and basic order management; $1,999 adds unlimited products, multiple payment options, customer accounts and advanced shipping. That suits a Hunter maker, a surf or bike shop, or a small producer selling direct.
Health care is one of Newcastle's big employers, and many of the clinics, studios and salons around it run on appointments. We can build online booking and payments into your site, quoted per job, or link the system you already use, such as HotDoc, Cliniko, Fresha or Calendly.
The same team writes the code behind the pages: multi-step quote forms, file uploads, photo galleries, service-area pages and tap-to-call. There's no handover to a separate developer, and changes after launch come back to the people who built it.
Someone in Charlestown, Raymond Terrace or East Maitland may still type 'Newcastle' into a search. We list the suburbs and towns you actually serve, grouped by area, so customers on the edge of your patch can see that you come to them.
The NSW Government calls Greater Newcastle Australia's seventh-largest city and plans for it as five councils: Newcastle, Lake Macquarie, Maitland, Port Stephens and Cessnock. Inside the City of Newcastle, four shopping and business precincts, the City Centre, Hamilton, Mayfield and Wallsend, each have a business improvement association running local marketing, events and street improvements under an agreement with the council. Customers describe where they are by suburb or precinct far more often than by council, and a website should use the names they use.
The NSW Government describes the change as Newcastle's move from a steel city to a service economy based on health, education and tourism. BHP's steelworks closed in 1999 after 84 years, and the City of Newcastle's economic profile shows what replaced it: health care and social assistance is now the largest employer in the council area, with 33,071 local jobs in 2024/25, or 23.8% of the total against 15.7% across NSW, followed by construction and by education and training. The harbour still ships coal, and Port of Newcastle, which calls itself the largest port on the nation's east coast, puts the trade it handles at about 48 billion dollars a year while saying it is diversifying. The University of Newcastle has its main campus at Callaghan and, since 2017, a city building, NUspace, on the corner of Hunter and Auckland Streets.
North of the harbour at Williamtown, Newcastle Airport sits beside RAAF Base Williamtown, and the Astra Aerolab defence and aerospace precinct is co-located with both. About 64 km west, Pokolbin is the centre of the Lower Hunter Valley wine region. In town, light rail has run 2.7 km from Newcastle Interchange through Honeysuckle and Civic to Newcastle Beach since February 2019. The NSW Government's Hunter Regional Plan 2041 calls the Hunter the leading regional economy in Australia, with 427,000 jobs, and expects the region's 860,000 people to grow to nearly 950,000 by 2041.
Put together, that shapes what a Newcastle small business site has to do. Hospital shift workers and Callaghan students look up hours and book outside office time, so booking and opening hours belong near the top. Defence families posted to Williamtown often arrive without anyone local to ask, so a clear site is how they pick a dentist, a mechanic or a childcare centre. Buyers at the port, in energy or in defence look at a supplier's capability page before they ring. And visitors heading for the vineyards or the beaches want prices, a map and a booking link that work on a phone.
We're an Adelaide team on Hutt Street and work with Hunter businesses by phone and email rather than in person. One of our clients, Phoenix Housekeeping, works across Lake Macquarie, Cessnock and the Central Coast, and its site gives each part of that area its own suburb page. Trades will find more detail, including NSW licence details and mine subsidence, on our pages for Newcastle tradies and Newcastle builders.
Phoenix Housekeeping works around Lake Macquarie and Cessnock. The other two aren't in the Hunter; we've included them for the booking setups that Newcastle's appointment and visitor businesses ask about.
A family-run cleaning business doing Airbnb turnovers, housekeeping, NDIS and end-of-lease cleans across Lake Macquarie, Cessnock and the Central Coast. Its multi-page site publishes prices, has a page for each service and for the suburbs it covers, and offers a discreet call-back on the quote form.
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Coaching for doctors, led by a Melbourne specialist anaesthetist. Clients book a discovery call online from any page of the site, the same pattern a Newcastle clinic or consultant would use with its own booking tool.
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Full-day fishing charters from Cape Jervis in South Australia. The one-page site takes booking requests and gift voucher requests, with a catch gallery, reviews, an FAQ and a map; a charter or tour operator in Port Stephens would need much the same.
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$399
Everything on a single page: what you do, the suburbs or precincts you serve, opening hours, reviews and a contact form with tap-to-call. A good fit for a sole trader or a new business.
Our suggestion for most businesses
$899
Usually home, services and contact, or swap one for a booking or service-area page. Enough room for a Hamilton cafe's menu, or a clinic's services alongside its booking link.
$1,499
For a business with several services, staff or locations across Greater Newcastle: a page for each, plus about, FAQs and contact. 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. We aren't registered for GST, so none is added, and the prices are the same in Newcastle as in Adelaide or Sydney. After launch, hosting is $30 a month with no contract.
Yes, at the same prices as a new site. We build the new version as a draft while your current site stays live, and we can reuse the words and photos you already have. Once you approve it, we point your domain at the new site. If you decide not to go ahead, you owe nothing.
Yes. We can build online booking and payments into the site, priced per job and included in your quote, or link the system you already use, such as HotDoc, Cliniko, Fresha or Calendly. For Dr Tabara Dione Coaching, discovery-call booking is linked from every page.
Everything runs by phone and email. You send your words, photos and the areas you cover, we send a draft link you can open on any device, and you ask for as many changes as you like before paying. Adelaide is half an hour behind Newcastle all year, because both states change their clocks on the same dates, so our working days line up closely. We reply within 24 hours.
Nobody can promise that, and we won't. What we build gives search engines what they look for: fast pages, clean code, proper titles and descriptions, and your suburbs named in the text. We don't sell SEO retainers or ads. Our Google Business Profile guide covers the free listing that shows on Google Maps.
Yes. If you don't have a logo, we'll help with one at no charge. Photos need to come from you, since we don't take photos or run shoots, and so do the words: you send them and we arrange them into the pages. Phone photos of your premises, your work or your team are fine to start with.
Tell us what your business does, the suburbs or towns you cover, and whether you need bookings or an online store. We'll come back with questions or a fixed quote, then build the draft for you to check before you pay anything.
We reply within 24 hours. Prefer email? info@webcraftstudio.com.au