Web design for aspiring
Tasmanian businesses.

We've been working with aspiring businesses big and small across Tasmania and Australia for over a decade, crafting beautiful, engaging websites that capture attention, strengthen brands, and inspire action.

4.8 · Rated on Google, designing in Tasmania since 2013

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We learn your business before we design anything.

Almost every design decision is really a business decision. Which service leads. What a first-time visitor needs to believe before they will pick up the phone. What can safely be left off the page. You cannot make those calls from a brief.

So we start by getting to know you. What you sell and what you actually make money on. The customers you serve best and the ones you would rather not. How enquiries reach you now, and what happens to them next. What your competitors are saying, and where they have left a gap.

That work consistently turns up strengths businesses have never put on their website, and audiences they have never spoken to directly. By the time we draw anything, we are designing around real answers rather than assumptions, and you get a site that could only belong to your business.

Six things we work through on every project.

A website is not a picture of your business. It is a sequence of decisions that either earn an enquiry or lose one, and these are the six we work through on every project.

Structure and sitemap

What pages you need, what each one has to do, and how somebody moves between them. Most websites are lost here, long before a pixel is drawn.

Content and copy

We plan and prepare the content together. If writing is not your thing, our content lead writes it for you, in your voice and in the language your customers actually use.

Visual design

Layouts drawn around your content and your brand. Nothing is fitted to a template, and nothing sits on the page because a theme put it there.

Search foundations

Structure, headings, metadata, internal links and page speed set up properly from day one, so you can be found for the things people are genuinely searching for.

The build

Hand built, tested on real devices, accessible by default, and quick to load on a phone or a patchy regional connection. Which matters right across Tasmania.

Enquiry paths

Calls, forms, bookings or quote requests, shaped around how you actually want to take on work. The goal is better enquiries, not more admin.

Our process.

Project discussion and brief

We book an initial chat to understand your business, your goals, and what you need. We'll talk through your project requirements, determine the right scope, and identify the package that makes sense for you and your business.

Discovery, planning and design

We research your industry, your competitors, and your audience, and prepare a project plan with a sitemap, content strategy, and design direction.

Feedback and refinement

Together we plan and prepare content, refining with your feedback until every page reads and works the way it should.

Build

We craft your website grounded in everything we've learned about your business, then build the site that takes your business into its next chapter.

Care and management

Your site goes live on one of our highly refined, managed hosting environments with a dedicated management plan to cover everything your website needs: hosting, security, updates, monitoring, backups and support from our team.

Grow with content and strategy

Our ongoing SEO and content services keep your site evolving with strategy reviews, search data, and real performance insights. We deliver new content, optimised pages, and actionable recommendations that build momentum over time.

Changes become an email, not a chore.

There is no dashboard and no login. You send the change, we make it, usually the same day.

Your first twelve months of hosting and management are included with every build, so this is how it works from the day you go live.

Monday

You · 9:14 am Morning. Can you swap the header photo for the one attached, and add Jess to the team page?

Tas Web Co. · 11:02 am Done and live. The new photo scrubbed up well.

Friday

You · 4:48 pm Prices change Monday. Can the new ones go up over the weekend?

Tas Web Co. · 5:10 pm Scheduled for Sunday night. Have a good weekend.

What comes with every website we build.

Discovery, research and planning

We learn your business, your customers and your competitors before anything is designed.

Content planning and copywriting

Planned together. Written for you where you need it, in your voice.

Design and build tailored to you

Drawn around your content and your brand. No templates, no shortcuts.

Structured to be found in search

Set up correctly from day one, not bolted on afterwards.

Forms, analytics and tracking

Enquiry forms, Google Analytics and conversion tracking configured and tested.

12 months of hosting and management

Purpose-built servers, SSL, monitoring, backups and updates, all included in the first year.

Security handled properly

Hardened hosting, off-server backups and a platform with almost nothing to attack.

Support from the people who built it

WordPress

Mr Sally

A brand-forward hospitality site translating personality and menu into visits.

Questions owners ask before they start.

Q.01

How long does it take?

Most builds run 1 to 3 months, and a larger or more involved one can take longer. The single biggest factor is content, so projects move faster when the words and photos are ready, or when you hand that part to us. If you are up against a deadline, ask. We can sometimes take on an urgent build with a 1 to 2 week turnaround, subject to scope and availability.

Q.02

What does it cost?

It depends on how much research, planning and bespoke design the project calls for, which is why we quote it in full before anything starts. Every build is spread across twelve monthly payments rather than billed as a lump sum, and twelve months of hosting and management is included in that figure. Tell us what you are trying to achieve and we will tell you honestly what it takes.

Q.03

Can you write the content for me?

Yes, and most clients take us up on it. Content is written in your voice and in the language your customers actually use, working from what we learn about your business during discovery. If you would rather write it yourself, we will give you a clear brief for every page and edit what comes back.

Q.04

What do you need from me?

An hour or two early on for a proper conversation, honest answers about what works and what does not in your business, any photography and brand assets you already have, and feedback at each review point. Beyond that we carry the project. You should not need to manage us.

Q.05

Can I update the website myself?

On most of our builds there is no dashboard and no login. You email the change and we make it, usually the same day. Most owners find that faster than doing it themselves, and it means nothing ever breaks. If you do need to publish your own content regularly, we build for that instead. It is one of the things we work out together early on.

Q.06

What happens after it launches?

Your first twelve months of hosting and management are included, so the site is looked after from day one. After that it moves onto a management plan. If you want the website to keep improving rather than just staying online, that is what our Content Partners service is for.

Q.07

Do you only work with Tasmanian businesses?

Tasmania is home and most of our clients are here, but we work with businesses right across the country, from Hobart and Launceston to Melbourne, Ballarat, Brisbane, Townsville and Perth. Everything runs by email and pre-booked calls, so distance has never been the issue people expect it to be.

Tell us about your business.

Send us a brief, or just a few lines about where things are at. We will come back with our honest read on what your business needs and what it would take.

Send us your brief Request a chat

A conversation first

We talk through what you need and agree the scope before anything is quoted.
A fixed, written quote

Agreed before we start, spread across twelve monthly payments.
No obligation, no hard sell

If we are not the right studio for the job, we will tell you that too.

Prefer email? Reach us at hello@thetasmanianwebcompany.com.au