Events, races and conferences
You have advertised a date. Entries may already be open. The site needs to be ready before then, not shortly after.
We take on a limited number of projects each month.
The one fixed thing
Every other client can move their launch. You cannot.
ENTRIES OPEN
Live and taking sign-ups before the date you advertised
EVENT WEEK
Changes go in the day you ask, not the next sprint
THE SPIKE
Built for the fortnight when everyone arrives at once
AFTER
Results, photos and next year's date, without starting again
The hard part
An event site does almost nothing for most of the year. Then entries open, and it carries everything at once.
Entries open at nine and the whole field turns up at once. A slow site loses people who were ready to pay.
Where to park, what time their wave goes, whether it is still on. Nobody is browsing. They want one fact, fast.
Weather, a permit, a venue. Something shifts and every mention of the old date has to change today.
Volunteers rotate. The person who knows the login leaves. The site still has to be run by whoever is next.
Where the money goes
Point at what you already use
Humanitix, Eventbrite, whatever your entries already run through. The site sells the event and sends people to it. No new account, no new fees, and your refund policy stays exactly where it is.
Build what is missing
When the platform you already use stops short of what your event actually does, this is the part that gets built. Member logins, entrant lists, categories and waves, committee access, volunteer rosters. Toorbunna is that job.
Most events need the first one. Some need both. Tell me how entries run now and I will tell you which one you need.
Proof
Toorbunna Ski Club is run by volunteers. Before the rebuild, bunk bookings arrived in somebody's inbox and member records lived in a spreadsheet.
The booking side runs itself now. A member signs in, sees what is free and takes it. No volunteer sits in the middle of that any more.
It went from first email to live in seven days. The database and the hosting account are registered to the club, not to me.
The process
Day 0
We go through what the site has to do, who it is for and what already works. No brief template, no discovery phase. You get a fixed quote in writing within two business days.
Thursday
New message
To: matt@doleritedigital.com.au
Day 1–2
Your site goes live on a private link. Not a design file, not a slide. The actual working thing.
Day 3–4
You tell me what to change. It gets changed.
Day 5
We go live and I show you how everything works. Then you choose: I keep looking after it, or you take the keys and run it yourself. Either way it is yours.
I look after it
From $30/month. Hosting, security, backups, monitoring. You never think about it again.
You run it
Full handover. Domain, code, every account, plus written docs. No fee, no hard feelings.
Most sites are live within a week. Simple ones go within two days. The reason is not that I rush. It is that there is nobody to brief and no queue in front of you.
For an event, the date at the end of that week is your date, not mine. If entries open on a Monday, we work back from the Monday.
Included
What it costs
A one page site for a conference and a full entrant system are not the same job, so a range here would tell you nothing useful. Tell me what the event needs to do and you get a fixed quote in writing within two business days.
“Matt took our 20-year-old website and turned it into something our members actually want to use. The booking system alone has saved us hours every week.”
Will Gordon, Vice President, Toorbunna Ski Club
Questions
Ordinary build questions live on the main websites page.
Who you are hiring
I co-owned Tasmania's largest pharmacy for twenty years and sold it in 2017, so I have been the client on plenty of these projects.
That is why you deal with me directly and get changes done the day you ask, rather than waiting on someone to check with someone else. The longer version is on the home page.
Matthew Will
Founder, Dolerite Digital
ABN 11 906 226 465 · Launceston, Tasmania
Get started
Tell me the date, roughly how many people, and whether entries run through something already. That is enough for a quote.
Prefer email? Reach Matthew at matt@doleritedigital.com.au
Not running an event? The main websites page covers ordinary business sites, and there are pages for Launceston, Hobart and the rest of Tasmania.
