For salons on Beaumont Street, in the city near the light rail, inside Charlestown Square or Kotara, and out towards Maitland: a site that shows your prices and your stylists, takes enquiries for vineyard weddings, and sends new clients to the booking system you already use.
Someone might work in the city, live at Warners Bay and do their shopping at Kotara, so where you are and when you're open matter as much as the price of a cut. Get those right at the top of the page and the rest is the usual: what it costs, who does it, and a button to book.
In the city, name the nearest light rail stop and the walk from it. Inside Charlestown Square or Westfield Kotara, give the level, the closest entrance and car park, and say that your hours follow the centre's. A client circling a three-level centre looking for you is already running late.
A wedding at a Hunter Valley winery means an early start and a drive for whoever does the hair. Set out trials in the salon, styling on location, how travel to the venue is charged, the earliest start you'll take and any deposit. The enquiry form asks for the date, the venue and how many people need hair done, so you can check the calendar before you reply.
Plenty of clients want the same person every time. Show the days each stylist works, what they're good at (curls, blondes, short cuts, up-styles) and whether they're qualified or an apprentice. Where your booking system gives each stylist their own link, the profile's button opens it.
With the University of Newcastle's main campus at Callaghan and a city campus on Hunter Street, student pricing is worth showing if you offer it. Put any discount next to the full price, along with the ID you need to see and the days it applies, so nobody has to ask at the desk.
Clients may come from Merewether, Wallsend, Cardiff or Raymond Terrace. Suburb pages suit a business that travels to its customers, like a cleaner; clients travel to a salon, so a short line naming the areas you draw from, in your words, usually covers it. Separate pages earn their place when there's a separate salon behind each one.
Brow and lip waxing count as skin penetration in NSW, and in the City of Newcastle that brings a yearly council inspection. Give waxing its own heading with prices and aftercare, apart from cuts and colour, so clients can find it and you can update it on its own.
The state rules are the same here as in Sydney. Only qualified hairdressers can work for a fee under the Hairdressers Act 2003, apprentices work under a qualified person's supervision, and NSW Health says a hair business that offers waxing must register with its council as a skin penetration business. Our Sydney hair salon page sets those out with links to NSW Fair Trading and NSW Health. What follows is the Hunter part.
A council boundary runs through the middle of the local salon market. Hamilton, Cooks Hill and the city centre sit in the City of Newcastle; Charlestown, Warners Bay, Belmont and Toronto are in Lake Macquarie; Kotara straddles the two. The City of Newcastle's hair, skin and beauty page (opens in a new tab) says it inspects every premises where skin penetration procedures happen once a year, that it must be notified before those procedures start and within seven days of any change, and that salons doing hair and beauty work without skin penetration fall under the Local Government (General) Regulation 2021. The same page links the HRHEC guidelines for the construction and operation of hairdressing, beauty and skin penetration premises, a booklet to read before a fit-out. Lake Macquarie (opens in a new tab) asks skin penetration businesses to notify it before they operate and carries out routine inspections. If you're adding waxing, the right council is the one your salon's address falls in, not the one your clients live in.
Where you trade changes what the site says about getting there. Hamilton's commercial centre is Beaumont Street, where the everyday services include hairdressers; Darby Street in Cooks Hill is better known for its cafes and restaurants. Charlestown Square, in Lake Macquarie, has about 285 stores over three floors, and Westfield Kotara is one of the region's large centres. A strip salon should mention parking on nearby streets and how long it allows; a centre salon should name its level and entrance. In the city, the light rail has run since February 2019 along 2.7 km from Newcastle Interchange in Wickham to Newcastle Beach, stopping at Honeysuckle, Civic, Crown Street and Queens Wharf, so a salon in the East End can tell clients arriving by train to change at the Interchange and which stop to get off at.
Wedding work often means a drive into wine country. The Hunter Valley Wine and Tourism Association's weddings page (opens in a new tab) describes ceremonies in a winery's barrel room, receptions in restaurants inside working wineries and hilltop vows with a vineyard behind them, and bridal parties at those venues need their hair done early in the morning, often on site. If that's part of your business, it deserves its own page and enquiry form rather than a line at the bottom of the price list.
We're an Adelaide team and work with Hunter businesses by phone and email. Our nearest client is Phoenix Housekeeping in Lake Macquarie; it isn't a salon, and the next section says so.
We haven't built a hair salon site yet. Our nearest client is a Lake Macquarie cleaning business that publishes its prices, and our Sydney booking site shows services and prices leading straight into an appointment.
A family-run cleaning business based in Lake Macquarie that also covers Cessnock and the Central Coast. Its prices are on the site, each service has its own page, and suburb pages cover its area. A salon price list does the same job: clients know roughly what they'll pay before they arrive.
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A Sydney family dispute resolution practice whose priced packages each open online booking, with six service pages and FAQs and a five-step intake form. Cuts, colour and treatments could be laid out the same way.
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“He listened to my feedback and made no hesitations to revise and adjust my website until we were completely happy with it.”
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$399
Prices, the booking button, hours, directions from the light rail or the car park, and your stylists on one scrolling page. Suits a solo stylist or a small studio in Lake Macquarie or Maitland.
Our suggestion for most Newcastle salons
$899
A home page with booking, a services and prices page, and either a team page or a bridal page with an enquiry form for Hunter Valley weddings.
$1,499
Room for team and bridal pages plus extensions, colour, waxing and policies, or for two salons, say one in the city and one at Charlestown, each with its own page.
The state law is the same: qualified hairdressers only for paid work, supervised apprentices, and council registration for waxing. What differs is the council. The City of Newcastle inspects skin penetration premises every year, while Lake Macquarie describes its inspections as routine. Our Sydney salon page has the NSW rules with links to the official guidance.
Yes. A wedding enquiry form asks for the date, the venue, the number of people and whether they'd like a trial, and sends it to your email. If you'd like deposits taken online, booking and payment can be built into the site, quoted per job, or the form can link to your booking system if it already handles deposits.
Your level, the nearest entrance and car park, and the centre's trading hours, including any late nights and public holidays, matching your Google Business Profile word for word. A tap-to-call number helps clients who can't find you. If the centre changes its hours for Christmas, email us and the update is covered by the $30 monthly hosting.
No. One line naming the areas you draw from, such as Merewether, Adamstown and Lambton, does the job without thin copies of the same page. A second page only makes sense for a second salon, with its own address, hours and team.
By phone and email. We're an Adelaide (South Australia) web design team with current clients in SA, NSW, VIC and QLD, including Phoenix Housekeeping in Lake Macquarie. Send us your price list, booking link and photos of your team's work; the draft comes to you as a link, you ask for changes, and you pay once you approve it. We reply within 24 hours.
Send us your price list, your booking link, your stylists' days and a few photos of their work, plus your wedding details if you do bridal. We'll quote, build the draft, and you pay only once you approve it.
We reply within 24 hours. Prefer email? info@webcraftstudio.com.au