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Fast where it actually counts
Your site is shipped as flat HTML at the edge — no PHP, no plugin chain, no admin panel waking up. Google rewards it; visitors notice it; you stop apologising for it.
Wollongong · Illawarra · NSW
Wollongong web design that ranks locally and ships in days.
A small Wollongong studio building fast, conversion-tuned websites for Illawarra businesses. New builds, local SEO, and WordPress rescues — from one developer who picks up the phone.
95+ Lighthouse, day one
3–10 days to launch
1 developer, no handoffs
< 1s
typical first-paint on a NitroCore build
95+
Lighthouse score out of the box
3–10
business days from brief to live site
10+
suburbs across the Illawarra we build for
Four services, done properly.
No vague "digital solutions" — just the four things a small Wollongong business actually needs from a web studio.
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New website builds
Astro-powered static sites that load in under a second and score 95+ on Lighthouse. Built around your offer, not a generic template.
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Local SEO for Wollongong businesses
Schema.org markup, Google Business Profile tuning, suburb-level landing pages — the boring fundamentals that move you up the map pack.
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WordPress rescues & migrations
Slow, bloated, or hacked WordPress site? We rebuild it on a modern stack — same content, a fraction of the page weight, no plugin lottery.
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Conversion-rate tune-ups
Page audit, heatmap review, copy and CTA rewrites. Most fixes pay for themselves within the first month of leads.
Learn moreSmaller. Faster. Honest about what works in 2026.
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A real person answers the phone
We are a small Wollongong studio, not an offshore ticket queue. When you call (02) 8005 8088, you get the person who built your site — same week, usually same day.
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Built for the way people search now
Half your future customers will find you through Google's AI overviews, ChatGPT search, or Perplexity. Every page we ship is structured so those engines can read it, quote it, and link to you.
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Honest pricing, no retainer trap
One quote, fixed scope, fully owned by you. No locked CMS, no monthly licence fees, no "we host it so you can never leave" arrangement.
Four steps from "I should update the site" to "we're getting calls again".
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A 20-minute call
You tell us what the business actually does and who you want walking through the door. We tell you, honestly, whether a new site is even the right move.
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A fixed quote within 24 hours
Scope, pages, timeline, total cost — on one page, in plain English. No surprise line items, no "from $X".
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Drafts in days, not weeks
We've cut the bottleneck out of the design and copy stages, so you're reviewing real pages on a real preview URL inside the first week.
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Launch, then keep ranking
We hand over the keys, lodge the sitemap, and stay on retainer only if you want us to. Most clients just call when they need the next thing.
The studio edge
A polished site, in days — not months.
Most agencies still build the way they did in 2015 — a designer hands off to a developer, a developer hands off to a copywriter, and a project manager forwards emails between them. We use a tighter workflow: one senior developer, working alongside the best AI tooling available, doing the work of a full team without the handoffs.
The result is not "AI-generated content slop". Every word is briefed, edited, and signed off by a human who actually understands your business and the Wollongong market. The tooling just lets one person move at the speed of five — which is why our quotes look the way they do, and why we can give you a draft on Wednesday for a Friday review.
Agency-quality writing, design, code, and SEO from a single accountable person — at boutique pricing, on a timeline that respects your launch date.
Honest answers to the questions we get most
How much does a website from Web Design Wollongong cost?
A clean 5-page business site starts around $2,400. Larger sites with custom pages, a blog, or product catalogues are quoted on the call. Every quote is fixed-scope and itemised — no hourly creep.
How long does a new site take?
Most builds are live in 3 to 10 business days from the moment we have your content and brand basics. We have shipped same-week launches when a deadline mattered.
Do you actually build sites in Wollongong, or just sell to it?
Built in Wollongong, by a Wollongong-based developer. We meet local clients in person where it helps, and we know the Illawarra search market — Thirroul to Shellharbour and inland — well enough to plan suburb-level pages that actually rank.
Will I be able to update the site myself later?
Yes. Content lives in plain text files anyone on your team can edit, and we hand over a one-page guide for the common changes. For larger updates we are an email away.
Do you do SEO, or just the build?
Both. Every site ships with on-page SEO done properly — clean titles, structured data, fast Core Web Vitals, sitemap, robots.txt. Ongoing local-SEO work (Google Business Profile, citations, content) is a separate, optional engagement.
What if I already have a WordPress site I want to keep?
We can absolutely work with your existing WordPress install — security hardening, speed work, theme repair. But if it's slow, fragile, or full of plugin bloat, we will tell you honestly whether a rebuild costs less than a year of patches.
Who owns the site when you are done?
You do. Code, content, domain, hosting account — all in your name from day one. No locked CMS, no "we host it so you can never leave" arrangement.
Do you build for businesses outside Wollongong?
Yes — most of our work is in the Illawarra (Wollongong, Shellharbour, Kiama, Thirroul, Corrimal, Dapto, Port Kembla, Albion Park) but we ship sites for clients across NSW and interstate when the fit is right.
Ready for a website that actually pulls its weight?
Tell us about the business in a 20-minute call. You'll get a fixed quote inside 24 hours — and an honest answer about whether a new site is even the right move.
Start the conversation Serving the Illawarra
- Wollongong
- Illawarra
- Shellharbour
- Kiama
- Thirroul
- Corrimal
- Fairy Meadow
- Dapto
- Port Kembla
- Albion Park