For Adelaide sole traders, home-based businesses and early-stage start-ups: a first site, a .com.au registered in your name and an email address on it, set up together by a team based on Hutt St. You see the finished draft before anything is paid.
Someone checking out a name they've never heard of wants three things settled fast: whether the business is real, whether it does what they need, and how to reach it. In South Australia a handful of state rules also decide what a first site should say, and what it should leave out.
A business run from home in SA can often count as a "home activity" under the state's planning rules, and one condition is that goods aren't put on display in a window or around the dwelling. So the website does the showing: photos of what you make or do, your suburb rather than your street, and a line on how orders reach people, whether by post, local delivery or at a market stall.
Some new businesses need a licence from Consumer and Business Services before they can trade. For plumbers and electricians, CBS guidance says the licence number goes in any advertising to the public, websites included, so we put it in the footer of every page beside your ABN. Our pages for Adelaide plumbers, electricians and tradies go into the detail, building licences included.
A food business in SA, including one run from a home kitchen, has to notify before it starts trading and is subject to food safety inspections. In the Eastern Health Authority's five council areas, a domestic kitchen is limited to food that isn't classed as potentially hazardous, so what you can make at home may be a shorter list than you planned. Until that's settled, the site can describe what's coming and collect names; the order form goes on once your range is confirmed.
Sydney and Melbourne each have a web address ending of their own. Adelaide doesn't, which makes a .com.au the natural choice. We register it in your name for about $20 a year and set up an email address on it, so your first quotes go out from your own domain rather than a free account.
Incubators, accelerators, mentors and first customers will all search for you before they reply. A short page that says what the product does, who it's for, what traction you have so far and who's building it serves every one of them, and a news page can record milestones as they happen.
We can register the domain and set up email at the very start, so the address can go on cards, a ute or a market banner while you check the draft. No logo yet? We'll help with one at no charge. Most sites are live within 5–10 days of us getting your words and photos, so if you're opening on a particular day, mention it on the first call.
Help with the business side. The state's Office for Small and Family Business runs business.sa.gov.au, with step-by-step guides on planning, structure, registration and premises, a Small Business Support Officer for each region, and a small business team on 08 8429 3801. For anything digital, Adelaide Business Hub delivers the federally funded Digital Solutions program, whose third round runs from 2026 to 2030. It's open to for-profit businesses anywhere in South Australia with an active ABN and fewer than 20 staff, sole traders included, and offers five hours of one-on-one mentoring for a small fee, once per business in this round, plus free workshops, webinars and tutorials on topics such as social media, digital marketing, selling online and cybersecurity. If a mentor helps you work out what your site should do, send us the notes; they make a good brief.
Running it from home. Under SA planning law a small home business can be a "home activity". Council summaries of the definition in the Planning, Development and Infrastructure (General) Regulations 2017, such as Burnside's and West Torrens', list the conditions: someone who lives there runs it, it doesn't detrimentally affect the amenity of the locality, no more than one non-resident helps, it uses no more than 30 square metres of floor area, it puts no more load on public utilities than other users in the area, no goods are displayed in a window or about the dwelling, and no vehicle over three tonnes tare is used. Within those limits it isn't development and needs no approval. West Torrens names mechanical repairs, panel beating, spray-painting and noisy machinery as things that don't qualify. If your plans sit near the edges, your council's planning team is the one to ask, not us.
Food from a home kitchen. ABLIS says home-based food businesses in SA must notify their local council and are subject to food safety inspections under the Food Act 2001. In five council areas, Burnside, Campbelltown, Norwood Payneham & St Peters, Prospect and Walkerville, that work is done by the Eastern Health Authority. Its food business page suggests talking to an Environmental Health Officer about whether your home is suitable, and asks for notification at least two weeks before a home-based food business launches. Under EHA's guideline for new home-based food businesses, there's an assessment before you start, then notification and routine inspections, and a domestic kitchen can be used only for food EHA doesn't class as potentially hazardous, such as biscuits, plain and fruit cakes, jam, confectionery and plain bread. Food with meat, eggs or dairy, cream or custard fillings, cooked rice or pasta, and things like sandwiches and pizzas need a separate room or building. Outside those five areas your council handles it, so check with them, and expect the menu on your site to follow what they tell you.
Where tech founders go. Stone & Chalk's Adelaide hub is in the Marnirni-apinthi Building at Lot Fourteen on North Terrace, and it looks for founders developing emerging tech with some measurable traction. Adelaide University's ThincLab incubator, on Pulteney Street and at the Waite campus, runs a five-week ThincSeed Pre-Accelerator for testing and strengthening an idea. In June 2026 the university's Innovation & Collaboration Centre named 14 South Australian start-ups for the six-month Venture Catalyst program across three streams. Wherever you apply, assume someone reads your website before your application.
Working with us. We're at Ste 3/110 Hutt St in the city. Most of our projects run by phone and email, Adelaide ones included, which suits founders still working a day job or out on the road; if you'd rather sit down before we start, that can be arranged. You send your words, photos and the area you'll cover, we send a draft link to open on your phone, and you pay once you approve it.
As far as we know, neither business was brand new when it came to us, so we aren't calling them start-ups. They're here because each shows something a new business often wants early on: a single page that takes enquiries, and a quote form that gives people a rough idea of cost before they ask.
Full-day fishing charters from Cape Jervis, seven days a week, for anglers from first-timers up. The whole site is one page: a booking request form, gift voucher requests, catch photos, an FAQ, customer reviews, a map and tap-to-call.
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Structural engineers in Adelaide designing retaining walls, slabs and stormwater systems. Its quote form shows fee ranges and accepts file uploads, so a homeowner can send plans and see what that kind of job usually costs in one step, with four service pages and 16 articles behind it.
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Want numbers from a trade site? Western Sydney Stump Grinding has landed at least 62 jobs, about $46,500 of work, from a single-page site we built. Read the case study.
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Where we'd usually start a new business
$399
A launch page: what you offer, your suburb and the areas you'll cover, your ABN and any licence number, and an enquiry form, with the .com.au and business email set up alongside.
$899
A home page, a page for services or products, and an about page, for a consultancy, a practice or a start-up where the people behind it matter as much as what's on offer.
$1,499
For a launch with several service lines, a product that needs its own explainer, team profiles or a news page for milestones, with visitor stats through Google Analytics.
If you'd like to, yes; it can be arranged. Most of our projects run by phone and email, Adelaide ones included, because that fits around a day job, a shift or a market weekend. We're a web design team at Ste 3/110 Hutt St, Adelaide, working with businesses Australia-wide, and we reply within 24 hours.
No. The list of top-level domains published by IANA includes .sydney and .melbourne but nothing for Adelaide. A .com.au is the usual choice: under auDA's rules it needs an Australian presence, usually an ABN or ACN, and a name connected to your business. We register it in your name for about $20 a year and set up email on it.
Often not. If it fits SA's home activity definition (run by a resident, no more than one non-resident helper, 30 square metres or less, no extra load on public utilities, no goods on display, no vehicle over three tonnes tare, and no harm to the area's amenity), councils such as Burnside and West Torrens treat it as not being development. If you're unsure, ask your council's planning team; that call isn't ours to make. On the website we show your suburb, not your street.
Not before you've notified your council, or the Eastern Health Authority if you're in one of its five council areas; EHA asks for at least two weeks' notice before a home-based food business launches. What you bake matters too: EHA's guideline allows a domestic kitchen for things like biscuits, plain and fruit cakes and plain bread, but bakery goods filled with fresh cream or custard need a separate room or building. Meanwhile the rest of the site can go up with a form for people who want to hear when you open. If you'll sell a range online, our online stores start at $799 for up to 25 products with one payment gateway.
There's no need to wait, though the sessions can sharpen the brief. The program's topics include social media, digital marketing and selling online; our part is arranging your words and photos into pages, registering the domain and setting up email. There's no deposit, so we can start the draft now and you can ask for changes after your sessions before you approve and pay.
Yes. We build online booking and payment systems into sites, quoted for each job, or link a booking tool you already use, such as Calendly or Fresha. If you can't yet tell how busy you'll be, an enquiry form is a reasonable place to start, and booking can be added once you know what people ask for.
Tell us the business name, what you'll offer and where you'll work. We'll check the .com.au is free, give you a fixed quote and build the draft; you pay only once you're happy with it.
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