Website Design Services
Web Design Sunshine Coast
We offer very affordable website packages designated to incorporate everything you need to succeed in your online business endeavour. We have 3 packages, each determined by the extent of online presence your business wishes to achieve.
When it comes to business websites for small to medium organisations, a lot of us decides to do it by ourselves. ‘It can’t be that difficult’ – right? Right. There are plenty of free website design platforms out there, these would let you create a nice looking websites and it won’t cost you a cent (except for domain & email hosting – if you get that option).
ENGAGING A WEBSITE DESIGNER
If you haven’t already gone down this path that might be something you would like to explore before engaging a website designer.
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This path is certainly something to consider but please keep in mind that there are several other factors to consider when deciding to create your own website:
- Where would my new website be hosted
- How fast and how much hosting space will I have (do I need to pay for extra space)
- Will I have any email hosting attached or do I need to purchase this separately (check the prices as these can be as expensive as $100 per month)
- How secure is my hosting
- Is there a way to do a on-site SEO on my pages
- Can you submit robots.txt and sitemap.xml for Google to recognise your new website online.
- Who is going to produce your business images and headers?
- Can you write a good content
- How much time do you really have to spend creating your new website
This and many other questions you should ask yourself before you decide to create your own free website.
Or you can explore hiring a professional website designer with years of experience who will do it all for you. That is why I have created three affordable business web design packages to suit your needs.
Website Design Services
Tailored to your business needs, there are three website packages available. Choose your next website with SunCoast Media and take your business to the next level.
Are you a small to medium business based on the Sunshine Coast? Are you looking for a website design that will stand out from the crowd? SunCoast Media will build you a stunning, mobile responsive website fast. Not only will it be professional but it won’t break your budget. We offer affordable website design on the Sunshine Coast, whether you are looking for a one page website, small up to 7 pages website or medium size website we can do it all.
100% Satisfaction Guarantee or we’ll give you your money back, no questions ask. Let us build your business website today at an affordable price. Web Designer Sunshine Coast.
One Page Website
One Page Web Designs are a great place to start your online journey. This particular web design service is ideal for small business owners who require an online presence but do not offer a large range of services or products at this stage.
If you have a limited amount of content a one page website design package would be suitable for your business. This doesn’t mean you can’t extend and build on this adding pages later as required, you will have all the tools available and ready to use when the need arises.
Ideal for small one man businesses, perfect for tradesmen and individuals: photographer, interior designer, marriage celebrants, electricians, plumbers, labourer, actor/actress, copywriter, painter, sculptor, artist, seamstress, gardener, cleaner, pest control, copy writer, beauticians, instructors, training providers, pool safety certificates specialist, pest control, online magazines.
Small Website
Ideal for all small to medium business that offer an array of services. Up to a maximum of 7 pages this is enough to present yourself online. You will be able to in details explain what you offer with this small web design package.
This web design solution becomes much more advantageous if you are planning to advertise online or further search engine optimise your website. It’s much easier for Google & Bing to index bigger websites because of the larger amount of content. If this sounds like your businesses the small website design package would probably be the way to go.
Ideal for florists, coffee shop, cafe, dentist, medical centre, chiropracer, physio, small grocery shop, insurers, accounting firms, layers, doctors, farmers.
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Medium Website
Ideal for all small to medium business that offer an array of services. Up to a maximum of 7 pages this is enough to present yourself online. You will be able to in details explain what you offer with this small web design package.
This web design solution becomes much more advantageous if you are planning to advertise online or further search engine optimise your website. It’s much easier for Google & Bing to index bigger websites because of the larger amount of content. If this sounds like your businesses the small website design package would probably be the way to go.
Ideal for florists, coffee shop, cafe, dentist, medical centre, chiropracer, physio, small grocery shop, insurers, accounting firms, layers, doctors, farmers.
Packages Explained
Please find our web design prices below. Don't forget, if for any reason you don't like your website we will give you your money back GUARANTEED! It doesn’t matter how much time we have already spent building your website.
*Please note below prices are without the GST component.
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One Page web design Sunshine Coast
from...- All content on one page | Custom WordPress website | Fav Icon | Static image as header | Responsive Design | Enquiry form | Social Media links | Google Map Integration | Introductory SEO | SSL Certificate | Cloudflare | Web & Email Hosting | Email Support
Small Website Design Sunshine Coast
from...- Initial Consultation Meeting | Up to 7 Pages | Custom WordPress Website | Fav Icon | 2 Image Slider | Responsive Design | Enquiry form | Email Subscription Form | Social Media links | Google Map Integration | SSL Certificate | Cloudflare | Web & Emails Hosting | Email Support
Medium Website Package Sunshine Coast
from...Initial Consultation Meeting | Between 8 & 15 Pages | Custom WordPress Website | Fav Icon | 3 Image Slider | Responsive Design | Enquiry form | Email Subscription Form | Social Media links | Google Map Integration | SSL Certificate | Cloudflare | Web & Email Hosting | Email Support
What you get
Based on the three different price ranges, we have put together a list of features and services included in each of the affordable website packages. If you have any questions please feel free to contact us at anytime.
PAGES
All content on one page
up to 7 pages
up to 15 pages
Face to face Initial consultation
Phone calls & emails
1:1 Meeting
1:1 Meeting
A custom designed website
adopt your branding
adopt your branding
adopt your branding
Favicon
custom designed
custom designed
custom designed
Image Slider If required
Static image
2 image slider
3 image slider
Mobile & tablet responsive
Responsive website
responsive website
responsive website
Enquiry form
simple contact form
up to 8 fields
more than 8 fields
Email Subscription form
no
yes, if required
yes, if required
Social media Links
custom designed
custom designed
custom designed
Google Maps Integration
yes
yes
yes
Blog post module
optional
optional
optional
Introductory On-Site Search Engine Optimisation
optional
optional
optional
Monthly Google Analytics report
optional
optional
optional
Personal WordPress Training
Optional ($120 per hour)
Optional ($120 per hour)
Optional ($120 per hour)
Let's Encrypt SSL Certificate
Free
Free
Free
Cloudflare improved speed & website protection
yes
yes
yes
Fast, reliable & secure hosting
$25 per month
$25 per month
$25 per month
Unlimited Email Accounts & Support
included with hosting
included with hosting
included with hosting
Addition of your site to Google & Bing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Add more pages yourself for FREE
Free
Free
Free
Monthly Website Maintenance
Optional ($15 per month)
Optional ($15 per month)
Optional ($15 per month)
Additional hourly work if required
Packages Available
Packages Available
Packages Available
Content Writing
Packages Available
Packages Available
Packages Available
Initial On-Site SEO
Optional ($120 per hour)
Optional ($120 per hour)
Optional ($120 per hour)
We also offer Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) Services, Google Ads Services as well as Web Hosting, Email Hosting and Domain Registration Services.
Client Testimonials
What they’re saying…
Talk to a real person, not a robot who works with you to create the best outcome for your website (www.mooloolabacanalcruise.com) and ultimately enhances your business, so that it can grow and prosper. Adriana has some very attractive web design packages to suit whatever you are looking for, and she will even customise them further if need be. Go on, give her a call? You won’t be disappointed.
Scope of Services
SunCoast Media takes a wholistic approach to design & development. I strive to understand your market, your audience & your core business drivers in-depth, so that I can correlate every design and engineering decision directly back to helping you achieve your business goals.
We are believers in the power of collaboration. The more fluid our communications, the more powerfully we can achieve your goals.
To deliver this outcome, my process has five stages:
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1. Research
I begin by performing a rigorous audit of your market space. Who is the core audience? What are their concerns and values?
The first step is I need to thoroughly understand your business, your business goals, your customers and their expectations and behaviour, and how your website factors into all of it.
I’ll also look at the competitive landscape to establish context and benchmarks for how your site should function and then improve on that. This stage will give me the foundation for moving forward with just the right recommendations for the design and development of your new responsive website.
2. Prototyping & Design
Prototyping involves rapid & collaborative iteration on wireframe concepts, layouts & directions.
Once we’ve agreed on finalised prototypes I’ll create high fidelity mockups of the final product with dummy text.
I’ll set to work sketching out interface layouts for 3-5 different views, including the home page, sub page, the blog template (if applicable), and any additional page templates needed. Wireframes look like simple skeletons of your website without the visual polish of the finished design, allowing me to experiment and iterate on solutions quickly so that I have a good sense of how content should be laid out across different screen sizes.
3. Development
Once you’ve approved the design, I’ll start building them.
4. WordPress Integration
After testing the static layouts, I integrate the new designs with your current WordPress theme. To do this I’ll need to mirror your live site in a development environment, then I will test the site across different browsers (Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Internet Explorer 9+) and devices (iPhone 4S, Galaxy II). Any bugs that arise from this testing will be fixed prior to launch.
5. Launch & Measure
Finally, we go live to the world and measure the return on investment for you, with detailed analytics.
The launch process is a carefully considered one. I need to ensure email addresses don’t go down, the site doesn’t have any downtime, any old links are re-directed to the new pages and several other things.
This is something I’ve done hundreds of times before.
I operate to a checklist which I’ve curated over the years and it’s not failed me once.
I always launch late on a Friday night to give us the best chance of getting any issues ironed out.
You can sleep easy knowing I’ll be on-call over your launch weekend to ensure everything goes according to plan.
Process Stages
Web Design Sunshine Coast Process Stages
Although there are a lot of web design companies, highly experienced ones follow the same basic steps.
If you are planning to order a website, here are the basic steps for the design and hosting of your website.
There are several steps involved in creating a website.
There are several steps involved in creating a website. I probably cannot emphasis a customers involvement enough. Not only that your website should be aesthetically pleasing, functional and professional but you should love your website. Too much? I guess maybe a little. I say this because if you are in love with your website you will want to create articles, insert images as well as produce and then showcase your videos. Website should be treated as a central online platform.
Remember, you are in total control of your website, as you collect a following you will have full access to email addresses and contact details you gather. It’s you who is in charge of your contacts not Facebook or other platforms.
This is very important to remember, if you build a following on Facebook for example and Facebook changes one of their algorithms in the future you will lose some of that following there is nothing you will be able to do about it. If you have a website you can collect your own following by asking people to subscribe.
Domain Name
Sometimes it is beneficial to add your location. You may provide your domain name or brainstorm with your website designer to create one. It is better to use a domain name that explains the purpose of the website.
Web Design Brief
Website build
The structure of any website is of considerable importance as the easier it is for Google bots to crawl through the higher the site will rank.
Content insertion
Remember, all marketing and SEO techniques can only bring visitors to your website when you have quality content.
Initial SEO
These days, developing and hosting your website is only half the job. It simply must be optimised for search engines as there are thousands of websites competing in every niche. Ideally you need to begin to optimise your website even before you launch it. That is why initial Search Engine Optimisation is offered with each of my web packages.
Going Live
Content for the website
SunCoast Media will lay the content provided and images as well as create every page that is required and agreed upon.
*Please note that content is to be provided by the client. I understand that this might not be your cup of tea. That is why I also provide copy writing services by engaging professional copy writers. The additional cost per page is $55 (brief is incuded).
Homepage
Solid call to action attracting email subscribers from which a slow burn relationship will be formed.
About
These are great and far better than stock photos.
Case Studies
A range of case studies will serve you for years to come.
Services
For example ‘Bookkeeping’, ‘Saving Tax’ and ‘Audits’. Doing this means people can relate your headers to solutions to their problems in a fast and effective manner.
Call to Action
Process
Pricing
Resources
Time Line
How long will the whole process take? There is a lot to take into consideration: Research, Wireframes, Sitemap design, Initial Designs, Design Revision, Design Approval, Coding, CMS & configuration, Testing & Debugging, Client Testing, Setup, and finally taking the website live!
I endeavour to have template & pages ready and this will depend on which package you have chosen. Normally for the small website design it will be between 10-14 days, after that if provided content and images are supplied by you, We will have a website ready for final approval in 3 days.
Choosing affordable website
Why should you choose affordable website
One major reason that websites were costly in the early days was that there was a lot to do. Even an agency offering cheap websites needed to have a lot of staff to build everything from scratch. Specialists in each arena, filling chairs, adding to the bill no matter the workload. Things got shaved off to offer cheap web design.
Many agencies still charge this way even though they use the same infrastructure that is available to all on the open market (WordPress, Servers etc.). Whilst there is still a very valid reason for agencies, when the business needs a lot of custom work in several disciplines and wants someone else to stage manage it all, the reality is that most businesses can benefit far more from hiring smaller.
1. Cost – it is cheaper to hire only the web design specialist.
2. Speciality – passion, the personal touch.
Local Freelancers a growing industry
Enter the Freelancer
Local* Freelancers have become a growing industry in the last 10 years as businesses realise they can invest in specialist skills without significantly increasing their overheads.
Some people worry that using a Freelancer and a system like WordPress to build an affordable website is that they have no flexibility. In reality, in most cases that sort of flexibility just isn’t required.
This allows genuinely affordable websites to be built. The Freelancer focuses on their speciality which is arranging sales content so it does the job it is supposed to.
Single, defined person to build your website
Passion Sells
Instead of having an IT Department of faceless people build your website, you get to have a single, defined person who loves what they do build your website – as and when they work best.
The person building your website, your sales platform, is the person you are talking to, not some person just out of college jammed in a cubicle rushing to hit volume KPIs – I know, I have been there.
Freelancers are purely outcome focused and client focused in ways the corporate employee rarely is. Freelancers are more affordable for you; getting the results both you and they want personally. Wins for all.
*I said “local” before. Local for me is right here on the Sunshine Coast. Local is better because Sunshine Coast Website Designers understand the world you live and work in. They know they might run into you at the local shops. Time zones match. Languages match. You can meet face to face. Personal attachment and responsibility is high. This is why I offer the most affordable websites on the Sunshine Coast. This is the community I love and raise my children. Find out more about my website design packages & contact me today.
Features & Web Services
Reliable Web Hosting
Having Your Website On A Fast, Reliable Hosting That Is Not Shared
The essence of web hosting is to make a website accessible to all devices on the web. The moment a website has been hosted, anyone can easily find it by searching for the domain name of the site. The speed of your website will affect your site’s UX. A slow website will reduce user experience, further affecting the reliability, hence the amount of traffic to the site.
Shared hosting is great for beginner-level websites. Since all domains share the same server resources, the price for one is low. Now, one major problem of shared hosting is the lack of security. Since shared hosting offers the least privacy among all hosting types, the security becomes a problem, especially on sites that are hosting businesses which require high security.
If your site needs good security, then you might want to consider upgrading to a fast and reliable website that can give you the security you need. A VPS (Virtual private server) or a VDS (virtual dedicated server) can give this security. The use of virtualisation technology makes it possible for the sites to make use of individual resources, thus increasing its speed and providing an easy user experience.
A dedicated server hosting is another excellent choice for a fast reliable hosting that is temporarily owned exclusively by one site. It, therefore, goes without question that this is one of the most expensive hosting options on the web. However, the results are always worth the cost.
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CLOUDFLARE
WHAT IS CLOUDFLARE?
The initial purpose of Cloudflare was primarily for security. However, during a maintenance fixing session, the team in charge stumbled upon the ability for Cloudflare to increase the loading speed of other websites. This was quite a discovery and in fact, the first step towards their long journey to their present stage.
Cloudflare is a web performance company which enables websites to load faster with the help of their numerous, multi-located data centres, and also prevents harmful bots and crawlers from their invasion on sites. It is a Content Delivery Network (CDN), giving it the numerous advantages associated with all CDN networks. Due to the effectiveness of this network in the improvement of the performance and services of all sites, Cloudflare is unsurprisingly one of the biggest internet operating networks. In addition to the CDN services they provide, they also provide DDoS mitigation, Internet security services and domain-name server distribution.
With their security, they prevent SQL injection, identity theft and other harmful actions that can occur on a site. They will easily deny suspicious content, harmful bots, the unhealthy flow of traffic, and access to your site. With the use of this helpful network, you can control the traffic in and out of your site. You can tell when your site is being threatened. The uniqueness of Cloudflare is tied to the fact that it is not a hosting provider. Also, it has easy adaptability to the regular webmaster. This relieves you from the task of being a compulsory tech-savvy person before you can monitor your site traffic.
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SSL Certificate
WHAT IS AN SSL CERTIFICATE?
SSL is short for Secure Sockets Layer. It is a security protocol that is encryption-based. SSL is also called TLS, and a website that uses SSL has HTTPS (encrypted connection) instead of HTTP (Insecure connection). It provides a high level of privacy for its users.
An SSL certificate is a data file that is hosted in a website’s origin server. It is this certificate that makes the SSL encryption possible, enabling the user to move from HTTP to HTTPS. Any device that intends to interfere with HTTPS sites will have to access this certificate first. The certificate contains pertinent information like the identity of the website, the public key, the certificate issuer, associated sub-domains and related information which will aid the verification of the website owner and encrypt the web traffic with SSL.
While the public key of the website can be found in the SSL certificate, the private key is always kept hidden and safe. Websites with SSL certificates are usually more credible than those without one. Also, with the level of security in use, an owner will protect the website from false duplication, attacks and other possible harmful actions.
Valid SSL certificates can be obtained from a certificate authority- a trusted organisation responsible for the issuance of the certificate. After the issuance, the certificate is then installed and activated on the origin server of the website. The activation will allow the load over of HTTPS, providing safety to all the site traffic.
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Favicon
A favicon is a small website icon that appears next to the website address in the browser. This icon is a unique representation of the particular web page or website.
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Mobile & tablet Responsive
Responsive Web Design (RWD) is a way of website development that creates dynamic changes to the appearance of your website while being visited using different devices. The screen size and its orientation is being detected and the version appropriate for that device is shown.
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Blog Post Module
What would you use a blog post module for?
The best way to grow your website's content is by creating relevant articles. Blog post Module would help you with this task immensely. Visitors of your website will be able to search through your articles and keep up to date. This feature is optional with any website package.
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Introductory SEO
What is an initial OnSite Search Engine Optimisation?
There is several factors that will help your pages rank better on Google & Bing. When the website is full of content and images as well as videos I can conduct initial OnSite SEO before taking the site live. Each page should be optimised for different keywords, starting with Title Tag & leveraging SEO-friendly URL, creating informative meta description, adding headings and subheadings, optimising images and videos, adding internal and external links.