Newcastle NSW · Lake Macquarie · Hunter
Web design in Newcastle NSW from A$900, with local agency prices compared
Codingclave builds WordPress sites for Newcastle NSW businesses at A$900–A$4,300 and custom-designed business sites at A$1,200–A$6,900, with one fixed figure in writing before you sign.
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- One fixed AUD price, in writing
- Every login handed over at launch
- Second opinion on a Newcastle quote
- WhatsApp, email and video calls
- ★ 4.9 on Google (76 reviews)
- 200+ projects since 2017
- Top Rated on Upwork
Founder-led delivery
Overview
For comparison, Clickk on Bolton St starts at $2,750 + GST for a single page, and Redback in Wickham at $7,500 + GST for a WordPress theme site. We are founder-led and work from Lucknow, India, so every Hunter project runs by WhatsApp, email and video call.
By Ashish Sharma, founder · Updated 6 October 2026
Quick answer
What do Newcastle NSW web designers charge for a small business website?
In Newcastle NSW, the first-page web designers that publish prices start at $2,750 + GST for a single page (Clickk) and reach $7,500 + GST for Clickk's 15-page Business Essentials tier or Redback's entry WordPress site. Digital Nomads HQ, a Sunshine Coast agency with a Newcastle page, says most small to medium business sites start at $5,000, and the cost-guide site What's The Damage puts most Newcastle small-business sites at $2,000–$6,000. Our WordPress builds cost A$900–A$4,300 and custom business sites A$1,200–A$6,900.
- Clickk: from $2,750 + GST (one page) to $25,000+ (corporate)
- Redback: from $7,500 + GST; custom WordPress from $25,000 + GST
- Only 3 of the 9 first-page results publish a figure
- Our WordPress band: A$900–A$4,300
- Our custom business-site band: A$1,200–A$6,900
- Hosting: Clickk $39–$70 + GST, Redback from $49; ours optional at A$80–A$240
Local snapshot
Newcastle at a glance
- Largest employing industry
- Health care and social assistance, 27,570 employee jobs (year to June 2023)
- Source: dbr
.abs .gov .au
Areas we work with
- Newcastle CBD
- Honeysuckle
- Hamilton
- Cooks Hill
- The Junction
- Merewether
- Mayfield West
- Wallsend
- Lake Macquarie
- Maitland
- Port Stephens
- Hunter Valley
In Newcastle
What we build for Newcastle businesses
- Newcastle
App Developers
iOS + Android apps for Newcastle and Hunter businesses: A$6,900–A$43,000 in 4–12 weeks, one fixed AUD quote, stores in your name. 9 builders compared.
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Custom Software Development
One written AUD price before any code: CRMs A$4,900–A$35,000, systems A$9,800–A$98,000. Plus what Castle IT, 13Labs and Appello publish.
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E-commerce Websites
Newcastle NSW online stores for A$2,400–A$19,500, fixed in writing, live in 2–6 weeks. Hunter store prices compared: $15,000 to $35,000 + GST.
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WordPress Developers
Newcastle NSW WordPress fixes, takeovers and new sites at one fixed AUD figure from A$900. Compared: Clickk $175 + GST/h, Redback from $7,500 + GST.
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SEO
Newcastle NSW SEO prices from 10 providers, checked 7 Oct 2026, with GST and 12-month totals. Ours: A$990–A$9,800/mo, month-to-month, no ranking promises.
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Google Ads Management
Only 2 of 8 Newcastle Google Ads providers print a fee. See them side by side, the all-in month from A$990, and Lake Macquarie and Maitland targeting.
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Tradie Websites
Newcastle and Hunter tradie websites from A$900, live in 1–3 weeks, domain in your name. Six trade web designers compared: bases, prices, timelines.
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What Newcastle NSW web designers publish, checked 6 October 2026
On 6 October 2026 we opened all nine organic page-one results on Google Australia for 'web design newcastle'. Three print a figure, only Clickk prints a full ladder, and two of the nine belong to Queensland agencies running Newcastle landing pages.
| Provider (where based) | What you get | Published price | Published timeline | Hosting / support shown |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clickk (Bolton St, Newcastle) | Single Page: WordPress template, up to 5 sections, 2 revision rounds | From $2,750 + GST | About 2–4 weeks | Hosting $39 + GST a month for a single page |
| Clickk | Micro Site: up to 3 pages, WordPress and Elementor template | From $4,200 + GST | About 2–4 weeks | Hosting $70 + GST a month for a standard site |
| Clickk | Business Essentials: up to 15 pages, template-based | $7,500 + GST | About 4–6 weeks | Support $175 + GST an hour, or $200 for priority |
| Clickk | Custom Website: no templates, up to 30 pages | From $12,500 + GST | About 6–8 weeks | As above |
| Clickk | Corporate and custom development, 30+ pages | From $25,000 + GST | About 8–16 weeks | Larger sites priced individually |
| Redback Solutions (Hannell St, Wickham) | WordPress theme website | From $7,500 + GST | Not stated (quicker than custom) | Hosting from $49 a month (GST not stated) |
| Redback Solutions | Custom WordPress; advanced or larger sites | From $25,000 + GST; from $35,000 + GST | Custom sites typically 3–4 months | As above |
| Rhythm (Bolton St), Trek (Merewether), Kazam (Newcastle and Forster), Newism | Quote on request | None on the ranking page; Trek's fees page has no figures either | Not stated | Not stated |
| Studio East (Newcastle) | Holding page: new site 'coming late 2026' | None shown | Not stated | Not stated |
| Digital Nomads HQ (Mooloolaba QLD) | Newcastle landing page; small to medium business sites | From $5,000 (GST not stated) | About 6 weeks once scope is set | Not stated |
| Digital Surfer (Burleigh Heads QLD) | Newcastle landing page with a free-quote offer | None shown | Not stated | Not stated |
| Codingclave (remote, Lucknow, India) | WordPress site / custom business site / online store | A$900–A$4,300 / A$1,200–A$6,900 / A$2,400–A$19,500 | 1–2 / 1–3 / 2–6 weeks, dated in the written quote | Optional hosting and support, A$80–A$240 a month |
Credit where it is due: Clickk is the only Newcastle studio on page one that prices every tier and prints its support rate ($175–$200 + GST an hour). Our bands sit below its ladder because our costs are in India, our scopes are fixed, and copywriting, photography and workshops are either handed to you or left out. Design, build and testing are not skipped. The figure for your job goes into a written quote before you sign.
WhatsApp a Newcastle quote you already hold for a line-by-line comparison.
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Reading a Newcastle web design quote: what is published, what is missing
Hold any quote against this list, ours included. 'Not stated' means we could not find the line on that provider's ranking page on 6 October 2026; it may still appear in a written proposal.
| Line to look for | Clickk publishes it? | Redback publishes it? | In our written quote |
|---|---|---|---|
| Build price | Yes, per tier | 'From' prices | One fixed figure |
| Timeline | Yes, per tier | 3–4 months for custom sites | Start and launch dates |
| Revision rounds | 2 rounds, single page only | Not stated | Set for your project |
| Rate for changes or support | $175–$200 + GST an hour | Not stated | Small changes sit in the optional support plan; larger ones get a fixed price before work starts |
| Hosting per month | $39 or $70 + GST | From $49 (GST not stated) | Optional, A$80–A$240 |
| Payment schedule | Not stated | Not stated | Confirmed in writing for your business before you sign |
| Who holds the .com.au, code and logins | Not stated | Not stated | Named in the quote; every login handed over at launch |
| Fixes after launch | 30-day warranty, single page only | Not stated | Period set in your written quote |
National rules on .com.au eligibility, GST and code ownership sit on our website development page.
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Build plus a year of hosting: Newcastle totals worked out from published prices
No Newcastle result adds hosting to its headline figure, so we did the sums from each published monthly rate, with GST shown as each provider words it. No GST is added to our figures.
| Option | Build | 12 months of hosting or support | Total for the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clickk Single Page | From $2,750 + GST | 12 × $39 = $468 + GST | From $3,218 + GST |
| Clickk Business Essentials | $7,500 + GST | 12 × $70 = $840 + GST | $8,340 + GST |
| Redback WordPress theme site | From $7,500 + GST | From 12 × $49 = $588 (GST not stated) | From $8,088, with GST added on the build |
| Codingclave WordPress site | A$900–A$4,300 | Optional: A$960–A$2,880 | A$900–A$4,300 if you host elsewhere; A$1,860–A$7,180 with our plan |
| Codingclave custom business site | A$1,200–A$6,900 | Optional: A$960–A$2,880 | A$1,200–A$6,900 on its own; A$2,160–A$9,780 with our plan |
An honest caveat: at $39–$49 a month, Clickk's and Redback's entry hosting costs less than our lowest plan. Ours bundles backups, uptime monitoring and help with changes, and you can skip it: the site is yours and runs on any host. Year-two costs and national averages are on our Australian website cost guide.
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A Hunter builder, a Junction clinic and a Pokolbin cellar door: what each needs and pays
Three common Newcastle scopes, sized against the published tiers above; typical briefs, not client stories.
A trade or construction business
Construction is the largest business category in the City of Newcastle: 2,526 of 16,296 businesses in the ABS count for June 2025, about 15.5%. A builder, electrician or roofer needs a page per service, the suburbs covered, a quote form that accepts photos, a project gallery and tap-to-call. At four to eight pages that outgrows Clickk's 3-page Micro Site ($4,200 + GST) and lands on Business Essentials ($7,500 + GST). With us it is a business site in the A$1,200–A$6,900 band, or WordPress if you want to edit pages yourself. More on websites for trade businesses.
An allied health or NDIS clinic
Health care and social assistance employs more people in the City of Newcastle than any other industry: 27,570 employee jobs in the ABS figures for the year to June 2023. A physio, psychology or NDIS practice in Hamilton or The Junction needs practitioner profiles, a link to or embed of its existing booking system (how it connects is set in your written quote), a privacy policy, and forms that work by keyboard and screen reader. Nearest published tiers: Clickk's Business Essentials or Custom Website; ours is the custom business site. Ahpra advertising rules are on our clinic website page, and accessibility on the NDIS provider page.
A cellar door, a Port Stephens stay or a Darby St café
A Pokolbin cellar door, Nelson Bay holiday let or Darby St café needs menus or tasting notes, events, a booking path and perhaps a small wine or voucher shop. At Clickk that probably means Business Essentials or the Custom Website from $12,500 + GST, depending on its quote. We would quote a business site, or the online store band of A$2,400–A$19,500 once the range passes a handful of products. More on accommodation websites and restaurant and café ordering.
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Why Newcastle quotes run from 2 weeks to 4 months, and where our 1–6 weeks comes from
Clickk publishes 2 to 16 weeks by tier, Digital Nomads HQ about 6 weeks, and Redback 3–4 months for a custom design. Ours are shorter because most of a larger agency's calendar goes on stages that a fixed small-business scope shortens or hands back to you.
| What takes the time | Typical in a larger agency build | How it runs on our fixed-scope builds |
|---|---|---|
| Discovery | Workshops and strategy sessions, often across several weeks | Scope agreed on a video call and written into the quote |
| Copywriting | Agency writers draft, then you review | You supply or approve the copy; the quote says which |
| Photography | On-site shoots (Redback offers photo and video) | No shoots; you supply photos or we use licensed stock |
| Design rounds and approvals | Several rounds, each waiting for sign-off | Review rounds stated in the quote, done on a staging link |
| Testing and launch | Formal testing, then a booked launch window | Start and launch dates written in the quote |
If you want workshops, a copywriter and a photographer, a 3–4 month agency calendar is fair value. A Wallsend electrician with a service list and job photos ready skips most of those weeks; a Honeysuckle law firm wanting a new brand voice may not.
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Businesses we build for across Newcastle, Lake Macquarie, Maitland, Port Stephens and the Hunter Valley
Nobody from Codingclave is based in the Hunter, and every project runs remotely, so a Maitland plumber and a CBD accountant go through the same steps. The business mix changes from one area to the next, and so does the brief.
Newcastle CBD, Newcastle West, Honeysuckle and Wickham
Professional firms around Hunter St and Honeysuckle want bios, detailed service pages and a short enquiry path. The University of Newcastle's NeW Space campus in Newcastle West brings international students into the centre, which matters to education and migration agents who serve them, and property agencies with city listings can see what a listings site involves on our real estate page.
Hamilton, Cooks Hill, The Junction, Merewether and Adamstown
Beaumont St and Darby St are café and boutique strips; The Junction, Merewether and Adamstown add clinics, salons and studios, so menus, bookings and practitioner pages dominate.
Kooragang, Mayfield West, Beresfield and Tomago
Engineering, fabrication and logistics firms around Kooragang and the Port of Newcastle, Steel River at Mayfield West, Beresfield and Tomago sell to procurement teams, so capability statements and a clear request-for-quote form carry the weight. Defence suppliers near RAAF Base Williamtown share that brief.
Mayfield, Jesmond, Wallsend and Kotara
Kotara and Jesmond shopping centres and the Mayfield and Wallsend main streets mix retailers with tradespeople; a retailer needs opening hours and stock highlights, a plumber a suburb list and tap-to-call.
Charlestown and Warners Bay, Lake Macquarie
Lake Macquarie is its own council area, so a Charlestown physio or a café on the Warners Bay foreshore should name Lake Macquarie on the site as clearly as Newcastle, because Google treats them as separate places.
Maitland, Raymond Terrace and Nelson Bay
Maitland and Raymond Terrace businesses need their own town named on every key page, not Newcastle's. Around Nelson Bay, Port Stephens holiday rentals and dolphin cruises depend on bookings and seasonal pages.
Cessnock and Pokolbin
Study NSW calls the Hunter Valley Australia's oldest wine region, and around Pokolbin and Cessnock the work is wineries, cellar doors, restaurants and stays, where events, tastings and bookings matter more than page count.
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Newcastle on daylight saving: afternoon calls, changes made overnight
You can talk to us live from 3:30pm to 5pm AEDT. Comments you leave on the staging link in your evening are usually done by the next morning. Our hours are 10am to 7pm India time, Monday to Saturday, which is 3:30pm to 12:30am in Newcastle until daylight saving ends.
| Newcastle time (AEDT, 4 Oct 2026 – 4 Apr 2027) | What happens |
|---|---|
| 3:30pm–5:00pm | Live video calls, inside your working day |
| 5:00pm–12:30am | We build, and answer WhatsApp through your evening |
| Next morning | Progress notes and the staging link are usually updated |
| Sunday | Closed; we work Monday to Saturday |
From 4 April 2027 (first working day Monday 5 April) Newcastle returns to AEST, and our hours become 2:30pm to 11:30pm there, a 2.5-hour overlap with a 9-to-5 day.
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Hire a Newcastle studio or a remote team? Four signs for each
Price is one test, not the only one. A studio in town is the better buy in some situations, and we are in others.
| A Newcastle agency suits you if… | We suit you if… |
|---|---|
| You want workshops face to face, at a studio on Darby St or Bolton St | You are happy working over video calls and WhatsApp |
| You need photos or video shot at your premises | You can supply photos, or are fine with licensed stock |
| Council or agency work needs a supplier already on the NSW Government ICT register (Redback says it is registered) | Your scope is a fixed small-business website |
| Your budget is $25,000 or more for a large custom build | You want a written fixed price inside our bands and a build of 1–3 weeks |
To check us first: ★ 4.9 on Google (76 reviews), which you can read here, Top Rated on Upwork, 200+ projects since 2017, and our work. Delivery is founder-led by Ashish Sharma, who started Codingclave in 2017. Comparing other NSW options? See Sydney, the Central Coast and Wollongong, and how handover works in our Australia overview.
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Which platform suits your site, and will Hunter customers find it?
Choose by who will edit the site and what it must connect to. A redesign is priced in the same bands as a new build.
WordPress
For owners who change pages and opening hours themselves. Clickk's template tiers, Redback's entry tier and Trek use it.
Shopify or WooCommerce
Shopify bundles hosting and checkout into one monthly plan; WooCommerce adds a shop to WordPress. Our stores run A$2,400–A$19,500.
Custom (Next.js)
For B2B firms whose quote forms feed a CRM or whose product data sits in a spreadsheet. It falls in our A$1,200–A$6,900 business band.
A redesign
Keep the addresses of pages that already bring enquiries, and 301-redirect every URL that changes, or those pages can drop out of Google.
One local quirk: Google Australia suggests Newcastle upon Tyne beside 'web design newcastle', so every build names Newcastle NSW, your suburb and postcode in titles and schema. For hourly rates, takeovers and care plans, see what Newcastle NSW WordPress developers charge, hourly or fixed; for monthly retainers, see ten Newcastle SEO providers' prices, compared with GST.
Pricing in AUD
Our fixed AUD bands for Newcastle NSW websites
Page count, forms, bookings or shop features, and whether your text and photos are ready decide where you land in a band. That figure is confirmed in writing for your business before you sign. No GST is added to our figures; the note below explains why.
WordPress website
A$900 – A$4,300
Excl. GSTWordPress website · Typical timeline: 1–2 weeks
A theme-based WordPress site carrying your branding, with contact or quote forms and on-page SEO set-up; the page count is set in your written quote.
Get a quote for this plan
Business website (custom design, Next.js or WordPress)
A custom-designed site with more pages, or features such as booking or quote flows.
E-commerce store (Shopify, WooCommerce or custom)
A Shopify or WooCommerce store with your catalogue, checkout and shipping rules.
Hosting, backups, monitoring and support
Optional monthly hosting, backups, monitoring and help with changes.
- Fixed price in AUD
- Free scoping call
- No obligation
Your .com.au renewal and any paid plugins or Shopify plan are paid to those companies directly, not to us.
Prices are in Australian dollars and do not include GST: Codingclave is an overseas (India-based) supplier and is not registered for Australian GST. If your business is GST-registered, check with your accountant whether the reverse-charge rules apply to imported services.
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- ★ 4.9 on Google (76 reviews)
- 200+ projects since 2017
- Top Rated on Upwork
- Founder-led delivery
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Send your current site, if any, and any Newcastle quote you are weighing up.
Afternoon video call
Between 3:30pm and 5pm AEDT we walk through pages, features and your deadline.
Written fixed quote
Scope, review rounds, a dated timeline, who holds the domain and logins, and the payment schedule, all set out in the quote.
Design on a staging link
You comment in your evening, and progress is usually waiting for you the next morning.
Launch on your .com.au
We set up Search Console and match the site's name, address and phone to your Google Business Profile.
Handover
Every login passes to you. The support plan is optional.
FAQ
Questions Australians ask us
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How much should I pay a website designer in Newcastle NSW?
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What is the average cost of a website design in Australia, compared with Newcastle?
Is web design still in demand in Newcastle in 2026?
How much is website hosting and maintenance per month in Newcastle?
Can I meet you in person in Newcastle, or is everything done online?
Do you build websites for businesses in Lake Macquarie, Maitland and Port Stephens?
Will a new website get my Newcastle business onto page one of Google?
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- 200+ projects since 2017
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- Founder-led delivery
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Ashish Sharma
Founder, Codingclave · Updated 6 October 2026
Ashish founded Codingclave in Lucknow, India, in 2017 and still leads delivery on every project.
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