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(03) 9000 1234Many Hobart businesses serve two audiences at once: loyal locals and people discovering Tasmania from afar.
We design custom websites that work for both, whether you run a café in North Hobart, a gallery near Salamanca, a producer in the Huon Valley or a trade business in Glenorchy, so your site keeps bringing in enquiries in every season.
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Custom Website Design in Hobart
Hobart is a smaller market than the mainland capitals, and that changes how a website should work.
There are fewer businesses competing for most local searches, so a clear, well-built site can stand out quickly. But there are also fewer customers, which means every enquiry the website loses matters more than it would in a bigger city. A website that answers questions clearly and makes booking easy pays for itself quickly in a market like this.
Seasonality adds another layer. Tourism, hospitality and events businesses often see visitor numbers rise and fall through the year, and their websites need to work hard in both the busy months and the quieter ones. Food, wine and produce businesses frequently sell to interstate customers who will never visit in person, so the website becomes their shopfront. Arts and creative businesses need a site that does their work justice and shows it at its best.
We design for those realities. That might mean seasonal landing pages, clear visitor information, an online shop or simply a faster, more polished site that turns local word of mouth into bookings. Our team is based in Melbourne and works with Hobart clients remotely. Tasmania shares Melbourne’s time zone, so video calls, design reviews and feedback all happen within your normal working day.
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Serving Hobart, TAS
The Challenge
These are the website issues Hobart and Tasmanian business owners mention to us most often.
Many Hobart businesses rely on busy visitor months and work harder for customers in the cooler, quieter season. A static website that never changes its message misses chances to promote off-season offers, events and reasons for locals to visit.
Producers, makers and wineries often have strong interstate demand but websites that weren’t built to sell. Without clear product pages, shipping information and a simple way to order, mainland customers who discover you have no easy next step.
Hobart’s creative, food and tourism businesses often offer genuinely distinctive experiences. A tired template with small photos and generic copy fails to convey that quality, especially to visitors comparing options from the other side of the country.
Opening hours change with the seasons, menus rotate and events come and go. When the website falls behind, visitors arrive to closed doors or call with questions the site should have answered, which frustrates customers and staff alike.
Our Approach
We work with Hobart clients remotely, on the same time zone, with a process built for small teams.
We plan your website so locals can find hours, bookings and contact details instantly, while visitors and interstate buyers get the richer story, imagery and practical information they need to plan a trip or place an order.
Custom layouts with room for strong photography, considered typography and logo and brand styling included help Hobart businesses convey the quality and character that make them worth visiting, buying from or recommending to friends and family.
We build reusable page sections, so seasonal offers, events and updated hours can be published quickly. While your plan is active, simply email through the change and our team updates the site for you within days.
If you sell products, we design clear product and shipping pages and can connect your site to an online ordering or e-commerce platform, so customers anywhere in Australia can buy from you without needing to call or email.
What We Offer
Whether you need a brand-new website, a long-overdue redesign or a single high-converting landing page, we tailor the scope to your goals and budget. Every project is designed and built in-house by our local Australian team.
A website designed from a blank canvas around your brand, services and customers.
We plan the sitemap, write or refine the messaging with you, and build every page to guide visitors towards an enquiry. The result is a professional, distinctive site that reflects the quality of your work and stands apart from cookie-cutter competitors.
If your current site feels dated, slow or hard to update, we’ll rebuild it without throwing away what already works.
We audit your existing pages, traffic and rankings first, keep the content that performs, map every old URL to its new home with redirects and modernise the design so you gain momentum rather than lose it.
Focused, single-purpose pages for Google Ads, Meta campaigns, product launches and seasonal promotions.
Each landing page has one clear goal, persuasive copy, social proof and a short form or click-to-call button. Because they’re built on your main platform, you can duplicate and tweak them for new campaigns without starting from zero.
More traffic isn’t always the answer.
Often the quickest win is converting more of the visitors you already have. We review analytics, heatmaps and user journeys to find where people drop off, then test clearer headlines, stronger calls to action, simpler forms and better trust signals to lift enquiries and sales.
Connect your website to the tools that run your business.
We integrate CRMs, booking systems, email marketing platforms, payment gateways, live chat and accounting software, and build custom functionality such as quote calculators, member areas and searchable directories, so your website quietly saves you admin time every single day.
Great design is more than picking nice colours.
We create a consistent visual system of typography, colour, spacing, imagery and buttons that reflects your brand and makes pages easy to scan. Basic logo and brand styling is included in every build, so even a brand-new business launches with a cohesive look.
Areas We Serve
We design websites for businesses throughout Hobart, from the CBD, Salamanca, Battery Point, Sandy Bay and North Hobart to New Town, Moonah and Glenorchy, across the river in Bellerive, Rosny Park, Howrah and Lindisfarne, and further out to Kingston, Brighton, Sorell and Huonville. Businesses elsewhere in Tasmania are welcome to get in touch too.
We work Hobart business hours (AEST/AEDT) via video call
The kinds of local searches we help Hobart businesses show up for on Google and in AI answers.
Pricing
The same transparent pricing everywhere in Australia. Your website is included free with any SEO or Social Media plan.
Sign up to any SEO or Social Media plan and we design, build, host and look after your website at no upfront cost. Logo and brand styling are included in every build.
A custom, lead-generating website for service businesses, trades and professionals.
$0upfront
Free with any SEO or Social Media plan
Cancelling your plan? Keep the site for a one-off $500 and it’s 100% yours.
A Shopify or WooCommerce store built to turn browsers into buyers.
$0upfront
Free with any SEO or Social Media plan
Cancelling your plan? Keep the site for a one-off $1,000 and it’s 100% yours.
Month-to-month SEO with no lock-in contracts. Every plan includes a free website and plain-English monthly reporting.
Local businesses starting out with SEO.
from$225/month
Steady growth for competitive local markets.
from$449/month
Multi-location or larger service businesses.
from$499/month
Maximum visibility, including AI search.
from$749/month
All prices in AUD. Monthly plans are month to month — cancel anytime. Websites are hosted and managed by us while your plan is active; buy out your site anytime to take full ownership.
How We Work
No jargon, no surprises. Here’s exactly how we take you from first call to measurable growth.
We start with a free call to understand your business, customers, competitors and goals, and review your current website and analytics if you have them.
You receive a written proposal with sitemap, features, timeline and the plan that suits your goals. Once approved, we map out the content for each page together.
We create wireframes and then polished mockups for desktop and mobile, refining them with your feedback until the look and flow feel right.
Our developers bring the design to life on WordPress or Webflow, adding your content, integrations, SEO foundations, tracking and speed optimisation.
We test across browsers and devices, check forms and redirects, then go live and confirm Google can crawl and index the new site.
We host and maintain your site as part of your plan, while ongoing SEO, social and conversion work drives more enquiries.
FAQ
Often more so. With fewer customers to go around, every enquiry counts, and a clear, fast website helps you convert more of the people who do find you. Competition for local searches is usually lighter than on the mainland, so a well-structured site can make a noticeable difference sooner. Because the website is $0 upfront with a marketing plan, the risk is low too.
Yes. Many Tasmanian producers, makers and wineries sell interstate. We design clear product pages, shipping and delivery information and an easy ordering process, and we can connect your site to an e-commerce or ordering platform. If your range is large or you plan to grow online sales significantly, we’ll talk through whether a dedicated e-commerce build would suit you better.
Everything is handled remotely. We run discovery and design reviews over video, share clickable design links for feedback and send weekly progress updates by email. Tasmania and Victoria share a time zone, so we’re working the same hours as you. We don’t have a Hobart office or visit in person, but the process is designed to be easy for busy small business owners.
There’s no upfront cost when you subscribe to any of our monthly SEO plans, from $225 per month, or social media plans, from $299 per month. The custom design, build, logo and brand styling are included, and we host, secure, update and edit your site while the plan is active. You can cancel anytime and keep the website with a one-off $500 buyout.
Yes, and it’s included. While your SEO or social media plan is active, our team makes every update for you, from winter trading hours to a new event page or a seasonal menu. Just email or call through the details, and most small edits are completed within one to two business days. We design the site with reusable sections so these changes are quick to make.
Book a free video consultation. We’ll review your current site, talk through your local and visitor audiences and show you how a custom website could bring your Hobart business more bookings and orders, for $0 upfront with an SEO or social media plan.
Contact
Tell us what you’re working on. We reply to every enquiry within one business day, with honest advice and no pressure.
Michael Reid & team · Melbourne VIC 3000 · Mon–Fri, 8:30am–5:30pm