Designed with
purpose. Built
for business.

Small business web design, Australia-wide. Custom code, no templates: full websites, landing pages and web apps built so people trust you enough to get in touch.

Double Picc Espresso

Reuben’s cafe, with a catering side. The menu is a tap away, you can order online and catering has its own page and enquiry form.

Newtech Civil

Matt’s concrete and civil contracting business. Builders, councils and homeowners see the work, then ring him.

The door is open to any industry: trades and home services, food and drink, professional services, everyone else. Every build starts the same way: work out what the site actually has to do, then build the shortest path to an enquiry.

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Sound like your website?

Tap the signs that match yours.

Tap any that sound like your website and we’ll explain what they usually mean.

  • One sign on its own is usually a smaller fix than people expect, and it’s worth sorting before it costs you more enquiries.
  • Two of the four signs. That usually means a rebuild rather than a patch-up, and a rebuild is a smaller job than most people think.
  • Three of the four. Your website is working against you right now. The good news is that every one of these is fixable in one go.
  • All four. Your website is almost certainly costing you customers every week, and one rebuild fixes the lot at once.

Haven’t got a website at all? Here’s what one actually does for a small business.

Got one but not sure it’s actually yours? Here’s who owns your website, and what happens if your web designer disappears. Thinking about starting again? Here’s how much a website costs in Australia.

How it works.

  1. Chat

    We talk through what your site has to do.

  2. Build

    We design and build it in custom code.

  3. Launch

    Live on your domain, checked on real phones.

  4. Support

    We stay on if you want us, for hosting and changes.

“Ben just got it. He took the time to understand my business, what I stand for and, more importantly, how I need to come across to potential clients. His communication is exceptional, he works bloody quickly and he made the whole process feel easy.”
Nat, Revive Hub
Ben SawkinsPaige Sawkins

We’re Ben and Paige. We build websites from the Hunter Valley for small businesses that need one to actually bring work in.

No agency, no account manager: you talk to the people doing the work.

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Three things people ask.

Do I own the website?

Yes, once it’s paid for: when the build is paid if you pay upfront, or with the last payment on the 6-month plan. The website, the words and the images are yours from then. The domain and your Google listing are yours from day one, with us added as a helper. While you’re on a monthly plan we host the site on our account as part of the plan, and once it’s paid for we’ll move it and its code across to you free whenever you ask. If we part ways after that, you keep the lot.

How long does building a website take?

Most builds take between one and five weeks, not months. A single landing page is usually about a week, and a full site with ten pages or more runs four to five weeks. You’ll get an exact timeline in writing before you pay anything, so the date isn’t a moving target.

Do you build on WordPress, Wix or Squarespace?

No. Every site we build is coded from scratch, custom for that business, with no page builder and no template underneath. That’s why the sites load fast and don’t look like anyone else’s. And if you’ve already got a site on one of those builders that isn’t bringing you work, rebuilding it properly is a lot of what we do.

All the questions

Not sure your website is pulling its weight?

Ask for a free site review. Send us your web address and we’ll spend half an hour going through it, then email you five things we noticed: what’s working, what isn’t and where we’d start. It’s a second pair of eyes, and there’s nothing to sign.

It starts with a conversation.

Tell us about your business and what you’d love it to become. No pitch, just a chat to see if we can help.

Happy to meet in person around the Hunter Valley, or talk on the phone or a video call. We’ll reply within a day or two.