Building for a business that runs on a Tasmanian year.

Your year is not flat.

Tourism, hospitality, trades and retail here swing hard between a January that is flat out and a July that is not. A site that cannot show a seasonal menu, close bookings for winter, or push a shoulder-season offer is making you do that work by hand.

Half your customers are visitors.

A mainland or overseas visitor searching from a car park in Coles Bay has no idea who you are and no local recommendation to go on. Your site is the entire first impression, and it is being read on a phone with one bar of signal. That is a real design constraint, not a slogan.

Your customers are spread across a lot of empty road.

A state of half a million people in scattered towns means your next customer is often two hours away and will never drive past your door. They will not stumble across you, and there is no local grapevine reaching them. The website is the only version of you they will ever meet before deciding.

The talent pool is small, so being locked in hurts more.

Everything is registered in your name, so any developer can pick it up. You are never stuck with one person, including me.

Day 0

Tell me what you need

Send what the site needs to do, who it is for and what already works. Everything runs through written details and email. You get a fixed quote in writing within two business days.

Your brief

Your business

What you needIn writing

Your customers

New message

To: matt@doleritedigital.com.au

Send

Day 1 to 2

See the real site, not a mockup

Your site goes live on a private link. Not a design file, not a slide. The actual working thing.

yourbusiness.com.au

Day 3 to 4

Two rounds of changes

You send your changes in writing. Two rounds are included within the agreed scope. Extra features are quoted before any work starts.

Make the header photo biggerUpdated
Change the phone numberUpdated
Add a booking formQuoted first
Swap the About textUpdated

Day 5

Launch, then pick how you want to run it

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 the domain, code, accounts and content transfer to you on final payment.

Most clients

I look after it

Hosting from A$30/month + GST, or A$60 with care. Both cover security, backups and monitoring. Hosting & care adds simple content changes.

You run it

Full handover. Domain, code, every account, plus written docs. No fee, no hard feelings.

No surprises, in writing, before we start.

FULL SITE

Full Tradie Site: A$2,500 + GST for 5-8 pages. Larger sites are quoted to scope.

FIXED PRICE

Your price never increases for the agreed scope. Extra features are quoted before work starts.

YOU OWN IT

Domain, code, accounts and content transfer to you on final payment. I just look after it.

ONGOING

Hosting from A$30/month + GST, or A$60 with care.

Same price whether you are in Hobart, Launceston, Smithton or on Flinders Island.

If your project does not fit that range, you get a fixed quote in writing within two business days.

All prices are in Australian dollars and exclude GST.

The whole island.

North

Launceston · George Town · Deloraine · Scottsdale

South

Hobart · Sandy Bay · Battery Point · North Hobart · Moonah · Glenorchy · Kingston · Bellerive · Howrah · Lindisfarne · Sorell · Huonville · Richmond · New Norfolk

North west and east

Devonport · Burnie · Ulverstone · Latrobe · Penguin · Wynyard · Smithton · Somerset · Sheffield · St Helens · Bicheno · Swansea · Triabunna · Queenstown · Strahan · King Island · Flinders Island

Twenty years of being the client.

Matthew Will on a summit in the Tasmanian highlands, looking out over a lake and the ranges beyond

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

Web design in Tasmania, answered

Yes, and a good share of the work is exactly that. Devonport, Burnie, Ulverstone, the east coast, the north west and the islands are all normal jobs, not special cases. The build runs through a written brief, email and a preview link. No calls or meetings, wherever you are on the map.

The pricing section on this page sets out the usual landing zone, and it holds whether the business is in a capital city or a town of four hundred people. A single location trade at one end, a larger site carrying service pages, bookings or an enquiry workflow at the other. Written quote first, and the number never moves after that.

No. The price is the same anywhere in the state, whether you are in Hobart, Smithton or on Flinders Island. Distance changes nothing about the work, so it changes nothing about the invoice.

Occasionally, and it is never a condition of the job. Devonport and Burnie are an easy run from Launceston when a project warrants it, the east coast a bit longer. Most regional clients would rather have the site finished than have me sitting in their office for an afternoon.

Yes. I take work from anywhere, and James Begg Properties is a real estate agent on the west coast of the United States. The process is the same one described on this page. Tasmania is home and most of the work is here, but it is not a boundary.

Nothing at all if you host it yourself, since the whole thing is handed over in your name. If you would rather it was somebody else's job, hosting from A$30/month + GST, or A$60 with care. No lock-in. 30 days notice, any time. See the hosting and care plans.

That is the norm here rather than the exception, and it is the first thing in the local reality section above. Sites get built so you can swap a seasonal menu, close or open bookings, and put a shoulder-season offer on the homepage yourself, without paying anyone to do it. If your quiet months are the ones where you actually need the site to sell for you, we design around that.

It has to, because a lot of your customers are reading it from a car somewhere between towns. Pages are kept light, images are compressed properly and nothing important waits on a script to load. A site that only performs on office wi-fi is not much use in this state.

More questions are answered on the main websites page.

Let's talk about your site.

Tell me where you are and what the business does. Send the details through the form. No calls needed. You get a fixed quote in writing within two business days.

Web Design Tasmania

Launceston and the north

Hobart and the south

North west and everywhere else

Building for a business that runs on a Tasmanian year.

Your year is not flat.

Half your customers are visitors.

Your customers are spread across a lot of empty road.

The talent pool is small, so being locked in hurts more.

Recent builds.

Thermawood Tasmania

Watson & Hegarty

Toorbunna Ski Club

James Begg Properties

Trail Kit

How a week works.

Tell me what you need

See the real site, not a mockup

Two rounds of changes

Launch, then pick how you want to run it

No surprises, in writing, before we start.

The whole island.

Twenty years of being the client.

Web design in Tasmania, answered

Let's talk about your site.

Web Design Tasmania

Launceston and the north

Hobart and the south

North west and everywhere else

Building for a business that runs on a Tasmanian year.

Your year is not flat.

Half your customers are visitors.

Your customers are spread across a lot of empty road.

The talent pool is small, so being locked in hurts more.

Recent builds.

Thermawood Tasmania

Watson & Hegarty

Toorbunna Ski Club

James Begg Properties

Trail Kit

How a week works.

Tell me what you need

See the real site, not a mockup

Two rounds of changes

Launch, then pick how you want to run it

No surprises, in writing, before we start.

The whole island.

Twenty years of being the client.

Web design in Tasmania, answered

Do you work with businesses outside Launceston and Hobart?

How much does a website cost in Tasmania?

Does it cost more if I am further away?

Do you travel to the north west or the east coast?

Do you work with businesses outside Tasmania?

What does it cost to keep the site running each month?

What if my business is seasonal?

Will it hold up for customers on a bad signal?

Let's talk about your site.