Web Design Narre Warren

It depends on scope, and any agency giving you a single number before asking about scope is guessing. A five page brochure site and a store with fifty products are different jobs by an order of magnitude. At WP Creative, custom builds start from $15,000 and monthly partnerships run from $2,500 to $10,000 a month depending on the development hours and depth of support you need. You get a fixed proposal covering every page and feature before anything starts, so the number does not move on you halfway through.

Around Melbourne you will be quoted anywhere from a few hundred dollars to several thousand for five pages. The gap is almost never in the design. It is in what exists after launch. A cheap build is a set of files on a server with nobody responsible for them. What we hand over is the site plus hosting, security monitoring, backups, updates, tracking and named development hours every month. That is why we quote a monthly figure rather than a price per page.

More than it was, and for a reason that has changed recently. Buyers now arrive through AI search and answer engines as well as Google, and those systems favour sites that load quickly and state clearly what a business does and where. A slow, vague site is now invisible in two places instead of one. A well structured, fast site earns visibility in both at once, which makes the same build work harder than it did two years ago.

One that answers the local question faster than the national alternative. If you sell products, that means stock, delivery and pickup terms visible immediately, because the shopper comparing you has 400 retailers at Fountain Gate and every one of their online stores as the alternative. If you sell services, it means your coverage area and a short quote form, because a customer in Lynbrook will not guess whether you travel. Speed matters more here than in most markets, since the majority of local traffic arrives on a phone.

Because we build for businesses where the website carries real revenue. If all you need is a simple online presence, a budget builder will serve you well and we will say so on the call rather than sell you something larger. If your site takes orders, books jobs or feeds your ad spend, then performance, security and someone accountable every month stop being optional. That is what the monthly figure buys.

Yes, and it is a large part of what we do. WooCommerce and Shopify, with payments, shipping rules, stock sync and tax configured and tested before launch. The part that decides whether a store sells is usually the category and product structure, so we plan that around how your customers actually compare items rather than copying your existing menu. Tile Factory Outlet and Gregory Jewellers are both in the portfolio if you want to see the work.

Four to eight weeks for a standard build once content is signed off. Stores with large catalogues, multi-location brands and anything with complex integrations run longer, and we will tell you that up front rather than at week six. Dates are fixed in the scope, so if your launch needs to land before a season or a campaign, we plan backwards from that date.

That is a build-time decision, not a launch-week one. Tell us your busiest day rather than your average one and we size caching, image handling and hosting to it. If you run predictable seasonal peaks, bring the numbers to the first call.

Yes, and this is the part cheap redesigns get wrong. We map your existing URLs, set up redirects before launch, carry across the pages already earning traffic, and watch positions through the switch so anything that slips gets caught in days rather than months. Done properly a redesign usually lifts rankings, because the new build is faster and reads more clearly to search engines than the one it replaced.

Products, variants, images, categories, customer accounts and order history all migrate. We map the fields before touching anything, run the migration into a staging environment, and check a sample against the live store before switching over. Magento, Shopify and older WooCommerce installs are all routine. See WordPress migration and Shopify migration.

No, we work with clients across Casey, greater Melbourne, every capital city and internationally.

Yes, and that is a design goal rather than an afterthought. You get editable templates instead of a locked design, plus training before go-live and written documentation for the tasks you will actually do. Adding a product, publishing an offer or changing opening hours takes minutes and no support ticket.

Care Plan starts from 20 development hours a month, with updates, security checks, off-site backups, staging and QA, uptime monitoring, a one hour emergency response on priority one issues between 8am and 8pm, and a monthly report.

Scale Plan adds a dedicated delivery pod, a signed 90 day roadmap, speed and Core Web Vitals work, conversion optimisation, tracking and a quarterly business review. Enterprise adds a named Account Director, board-ready reporting and enterprise governance. Full detail on the pricing page.

No. Monthly plans run month to month with 30 days notice to cancel. For custom builds we take 50% up front and 50% on completion, and every build carries a 30 day warranty. You stay on a plan because the work is producing something, which is the arrangement we would want if we were buying.

Alongside web design we cover WordPress development, eCommerce development (WooCommerce and Shopify), website maintenance, and performance optimisation.

Book a free strategy session through our contact page or call 02 8278 7530. We walk your current site, map the local demand and send you a costed plan. If it fits, we schedule the build. If it does not, the plan is yours to keep and use with whoever you like.