Web design in Northcote
Northcote has one of the strongest small-business strips in Melbourne — High Street from Ruckers Hill down through Westgarth, plus Northcote Plaza, St Georges Road and the Separation Street shops. Cafés, wine bars, boutiques, wellness studios and allied health practices, most of them run by people who care a great deal about how things look.
We build fast, fixed-price WordPress and WooCommerce sites from $1,699 + GST, designed and built by our own team in Melbourne.
Complete one-page Northcote website
$1,699 + GST — live in a week
- Fixed quotes, no hourly billing
- You own the site and the domain
- Fast Australian hosting
- Local SEO from day one
What a Northcote business website needs
A Northcote customer will judge the website the way they judge the shopfront. Here is what has to hold up.
Tap-to-call on every screen
Most High Street searches are made standing on High Street. The number stays stuck to the screen, and online booking sits right next to it.
A page for every service
One page listing everything you do will not rank. A page per service is what gets you found for the exact thing someone typed into Google.
Real photos, not stock
Your fit-out, your plates, your treatment room. In Northcote a stock photo reads as a shortcut, and people notice.
A Google Business Profile that matches
Same business name, address and phone on your site and in Google Maps. Mismatched details are the most common reason a local listing quietly underperforms.
Fast on a phone
Big images and heavy builders make beautiful sites that nobody waits for. We build light and host on Australian servers.
Enquiries straight to your inbox
No portal, no login, no app to remember. The enquiry lands in the email address you already check, and you reply from your phone.
Northcote businesses we build for
- Cafés and brunch venues
- Wine bars and restaurants
- Boutiques and homewares
- Yoga, pilates and wellness
- Massage and day spas
- Physio, chiro and osteo
- Psychology and counselling
- Dentists and medical clinics
- Hair, beauty and nails
- Photographers and creatives
- Architects and interior designers
- Builders and renovators
- Real estate agents
- Accountants and consultants
- Online and retail stores
Not on the list? Call us anyway — what makes a local site work does not change much between industries.
What it costs
Every quote is fixed before we start. All prices exclude GST.
A complete one-page site — all a lot of Northcote businesses need.
- Live in a week
- Services, gallery and service area
- Sticky tap-to-call
- Quote form to your inbox
Up to 7 pages — a page for each service you offer.
- Live in 2–3 weeks
- Copywriting included
- A page per service for local SEO
- Google Business Profile setup
Online bookings, integrations, multiple locations.
- Online booking system
- Multi-location structure
- Third-party integrations
- Expanded page count
Larger builds, portals, custom functionality.
- Scoped to your requirements
- Custom functionality
- Dedicated project lead
- Fixed price before build
Ongoing care plan
WordPress updates, security, daily backups, uptime monitoring and small content changes.
Fixed before we start. No hourly surprises, no scope creep invoices.
Where we work around Northcote
We work across Northcote and the rest of Melbourne from our studio in Mernda — and Australia-wide by phone, email and video.
In and around Northcote
- High Street Northcote
- Northcote Plaza
- St Georges Road
- Separation Street
- Heidelberg Road
- Ruckers Hill
- Westgarth
- Northcote station
- Croxton station
- Merri station
- Thornbury
- Fitzroy North
- Clifton Hill
- Preston
Other suburbs we cover
Not local to us? That is fine — a good chunk of our clients we have never met in person.
Recent projects
Over 600 websites built and more than 1,000 businesses supported since we started.
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Global Sunsets
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Northcote web design FAQs
A complete one-page site is $1,699 + GST. A small business site of up to seven pages is $2,490 + GST, and a larger Business Pro build is $3,490 + GST. An online store starts at $4,990 + GST. Every quote is fixed in writing before any work starts.
Our studio is at 12 Bidwell Street, Mernda VIC 3754. Northcote is a straightforward run down Plenty Road and we are happy to come to you. Call 1300 144 414.
A one-page site can be live in a week. Most small business sites take two to four weeks once we have your content and photos. Larger builds run four to six weeks.
On High Street the competition is real and the fundamentals decide it: a page for each service, genuinely fast pages, correct local markup and a Google Business Profile that matches your site detail for detail. That is what we set up. Nobody can guarantee a Google position and we will not pretend to.
Yes. We build WooCommerce and Shopify stores with products loaded, categories organised and a secure payment gateway connected, starting at $4,990 + GST.
Yes. Every site is built in WordPress with a back end you can actually use, and we record short how-to videos for your own site. If you would rather not touch it, send the change through and we will do it for you.
Yes. The domain, the hosting account and the WordPress login all stay in your name. If you ever move on, the site goes with you. No lock-in contracts.
If you want us to. Care plans start at $32.95 a month and cover WordPress, theme and plugin updates, daily off-site backups, security monitoring and small content changes. Month to month, cancel any time.
No. We work across the inner north — Thornbury, Westgarth, Fitzroy North, Preston, Brunswick and Clifton Hill — and Australia-wide by phone and video.
Ready to get started?
Call us, or send a few details and we will come back with a fixed price. No sales sequence and no discovery workshop.
VisualWeb · 12 Bidwell Street, Mernda VIC 3754 · 1300 144 414 · info@visualweb.com.au
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