Web design Newcastle

We specialise in custom website design and development on leading platforms like WordPress and Shopify. Get a modern, fast website that delivers results.

Whether you’d like a basic site, a custom Ecommerce store or anything in between, our award-winning web design and development team will make it happen.

We are so thrilled with our new website! Great ability to conceptualise our ideas and goals into a top notch design that perfectly reflects our brand.

Bronwyn, Marketing Manager

Web design Newcastle Need a reliable, creative and effective web design team?

Since 1999, our award-winning Newcastle web designers have created thousands of high-performing websites across a broad range of industries.

We’re not just a web design company, though. We are your complete digital team.

Our designers, developers, creatives and marketers will work collaboratively with you to produce a modern website that drives the results you’re looking for.

Why we’re a great fit

  • Creative web designers

    Web design has changed a lot over the years. We keep on top of all modern design trends so that you’re always ahead of the curve.

  • Augmented Reality with Ecommerce

    Reliable website developers

    It’s no good designing a pretty website that doesn’t produce results. We focus on making your site fast, technically sound and easy to use.

  • Effective digital marketers

    Our Newcastle digital agency has won a heap of awards over the years based on the results we produce. A quick search of our Google reviews will back up those shiny gongs!

Our Work

The commercial construction marketplace

A modern, scalable new website for E1, one of the world’s leading tendering software platforms. View live site here.

Moving lives, shaping futures

An accessible new website educating Australians about arthritis so they can support themselves or their loved ones.

Web assets for real-world impact

A custom WordPress website for CFJ, an interactive desktop web app “Justice Beyond Borders” and the animated data visualisation site “Pressing Charges” .

2x
Organic search visibility

Inspired by nature

A beautiful new website experience that positions Marble Plus as a high-end brand. View live site here.

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276k
ranked keywords

An industry leading RTO website

A large, complex online courses website designed for scaling up and converting visitors to bookings. View live site here.

A bright & bespoke WooCommerce website

Best Medium Business website and best Construction & Manufacturing website for bounceled.com at the 2024 Australian Web Awards.

Custom UX design & OnCourse development

A new online experience for University of Sydney CCE’s customers, fully integrated with their Learning Management System of choice.

A fast growing & dynamic regional economy

Our custom WordPress website investlakemac.com.au took out the Financial Services category award at the 2025 Australian Web Awards.

Solutions to waste challenges

A custom WordPress/WooCommerce platform that vastly improves the way users experience the wasteinitiatives.com.au website and unleashes real growth.

130%
conversion rate uptick

An engaging & modern school website

An exceptional online user experience that reflects this school’s unique values and story, increases enrolments and provides an additional avenue for parent communication. 

Protecting industry

A large, custom WordPress site with advanced analytics, tailored compliance tools and a range of integrations to provide a smooth online experience.

Australia's largest aluminium smelter

The tomago.com.au website was a finalist in the “Construction & Manufacturing” category at the 2023 Australian Web Awards.

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We engaged Redback Solutions to re-design 4 websites for us. This project needed to be delivered on time, as our exiting platforms were nearing end of life and we had a launch deadline that needed to be met. With 3 days to spare, the Redback team did an excellent job, delivering a high quality product, which looks modern & professional, with great functionality & easy to navigate for the end user.
Alice, Marketing & Communications Manager – Scone Equine Group

2025 Australian Web Awards winners!

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User experience

Far more than aesthetics

Always designing with practicality and performance in mind, we deliver award-winning user experiences.

Of course, we’ll make sure everything looks modern and professional, with all the right visuals for your brand. But we’ll also be finding ways to boost business efficiencies and create the most seamless journey for your users.

This could mean a number of things: advanced integrations with external platforms, a simplified conversion path, or helpful messaging and notifications. Whatever your digital goals, our experienced web developers will structure your site for success.

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WordPress development

Custom WordPress website developers in Newcastle

Powering over 75 million websites, WordPress is the world’s most popular Content Management System and for good reason.

Building your site on WordPress gives you unmatched flexibility, technical performance, ease of use and security. Not to mention the drag and drop design blocks for quick, convenient and adaptable layouts!

Our Newcastle-based team design, develop and maintain WordPress websites for clients across Australia and overseas. Whether you’re after a cost-effective theme site, or a fully custom WordPress / WooCommerce online store solution, we’ve got you sorted.

 

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Seamless shopping experiences

Customised Ecommerce

Sell products or services online at any time to customers across the globe with a powerful Ecommerce platform.

Ready for online retail? We can help with all aspects of your Ecommerce website, including design, development, marketing and integration with your preferred payment gateway.

Whether it be Shopify, WooCommerce or some other Ecommerce platform, we’ve got your online store sorted. Learn more about our Ecommerce website design and development services here.

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Scalable online stores

Shopify developers in Newcastle

Keen to start selling ASAP? This easy-to-use Ecommerce platform offers quick, clean-cut designs ready for retail.

Shopify is a one-stop-shop for your online store, providing you with marketing tools, a digital storefront, a payment processor, shipping partners and onsite analytics. In other words, everything you need to do business online!

Adaptable to business growth, you can also access exclusive upgrades like accelerated checkout and chatbots. Whether you’re after a tried-and-true template or a custom solution, we can help you build the right site with Shopify.

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Know the costs

Web design prices Newcastle

Check out our pricing guide below for a rough idea of what it could cost to build your new website:

Looking for cheap & fast?

If you're after a fast and cheap job, we'll be honest with you: that's probably not us. We're definitely not the most expensive website design agency in Newcastle, but we're also not the cheapest. However, our experienced team delivers quality, professionally developed websites that stand the test of time. So if you only want the best for your business, then please read on :)

WordPress Theme Websites

from $7,500

+ GST

Typically built on a premium WordPress theme with a multipurpose page builder such as Elementor. Ideal for smaller websites requiring limited customisation, and no advanced features or Ecommerce functionality.

Common inclusions:

Premium WordPress theme / template

Customised with your logo, brand colours and content within the confines of your chosen theme

Re-usable page templates powered by a multipurpose page builder plugin such as Elementor

Mobile responsive

Blog functionality

Compatible with plugins for SEO, forms, etc

Option to add an online store via WordPress’ Ecommerce platform, WooCommerce

Secure, Australia-based hosting

Please note: The inclusions above are examples only. Every web project is unique, so we'll take the time to understand your needs before providing an up-front fixed proposal based on time, effort and agreed deliverables.

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Custom WordPress Websites

from $25,000

+ GST

Custom designed and developed on WordPress CMS. Ideal if you need a great user experience across all devices and a durable, flexible website to represent your brand and/or grow your business online.

Common inclusions:

Custom designed page layouts

Modular, mobile responsive content blocks with relational content functionality

Re-usable custom templates with simple, no-code content management for pages, blogs, products, events and more

Option to add an online store via WordPress’ Ecommerce platform, WooCommerce

Secure, durable and blazing fast hosting on a premium server with CDN (Content Delivery Network)

No reliance on third party-developed themes or templates

Less reliance on plugins and other tools that slow your site down, break over time and cause security issues. Fully compatible with only the most trusted and reliable plugins for SEO, forms, etc

Please note: The inclusions above are examples only. Every web project is unique, so we'll take the time to understand your needs before providing an up-front fixed proposal based on time, effort and agreed deliverables.

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Advanced / Larger Websites

from $35,000

+ GST

Custom designed and developed on WordPress or Shopify, with a high level of detail. Ideal if you need extra design features (eg. custom animations), advanced functionality and/or third party integrations.

Common inclusions:

Custom designed page layouts

Advanced functionality and/or highly bespoke design features

Modular, mobile responsive content blocks with relational content functionality and in-built animations

Re-usable custom templates with simple, no-code content management for pages, blogs, products, events and more

Secure, durable and blazing fast hosting on a premium server with CDN (Content Delivery Network)

No reliance on third party-developed themes or templates

Less reliance on plugins and other tools that slow your site down, break over time and cause security issues. Fully compatible with only the most trusted and reliable plugins for SEO, forms, etc

Option to add an online store via WordPress’ Ecommerce platform, WooCommerce or Shopify

Customised Ecommerce experiences and API integrations

Relational database for dynamic and/or data-driven content

Please note: The inclusions above are examples only. Every web project is unique, so we'll take the time to understand your needs before providing an up-front fixed proposal based on time, effort and agreed deliverables.

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FAQs

Responsive Web Design (RWD) is an approach of laying-out and coding a website such that the website provides an optimal viewing experience — ease of reading and navigation with a minimum of resizing, panning, and scrolling — across a wide range of devices (from desktop computer monitors to mobile phones).

Recent changes to Google’s search algorithms now mean that if your website provides a great user experience on mobile devices you will rank higher in search results.

Custom designed websites give you freedom to craft your website to your business’s unique brand identity, products and services.

If you’re looking for ultimate flexibility, scalability and performance, then a custom design approach may be the way to go. Custom web designs can be fully integrated with leading CMS platforms like WordPress, Shopify and Drupal.

One of the key advantages with our custom websites is that they make content management simple for non-technical people.

Here’s a little video we prepared to explain the difference between how you can manage your own content with the flexiblocks we use for custom WordPress sites, compared to using third party themes with multipurpose page builders.. (You can set the play speed to 1.5x to get through the video quicker)

 

Wondering whether custom web design is worth it? Read our guide to custom web design here.

 

Third party themes or templates can be a great option for businesses looking to get their site up and running quickly.

Building your site using a third party template (eg. a WordPress or Shopify theme) can be a great lower-cost solution for smaller websites.

We can still customise themes to suit your business’ brand, but with a few limitations.

Not sure whether you need a custom-designed website or a theme-based site? We’ll assess your needs, talk through the pros and cons and come up with the most appropriate solution together.

Here’s a little video we prepared to explain the difference between how you can manage your own content with the flexiblocks we use for custom WordPress sites, compared to using third party themes with multipurpose page builders.. (You can set the play speed to 1.5x to get through the video quicker)

Website builds tend to take anywhere between 4-12 weeks from the date we receive all content.

Of course, the exact time frame will depend on the various aspects of your unique project. We’ll be able to confirm timelines once we’ve sat down and worked out the specifics with you.

Major search engines like Google consider hundreds of ranking signals to determine which content will appear in search results. Some signals you can influence, others require additional effort, time and resources.

With every website we build, there will be some standard SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) work included.

If you’re looking to maximise results from your website, you can choose to engage our SEO services.

 

Great question! Marketing lingo can often become a little confusing.

A website conversion is when a visitor to your website takes an action you desire. This can include clicking the call button, signing up for a newsletter or purchasing a product. Conversions are unique to every client and website, and there can definitely be more than one!

A conversion, however, is different to your website conversion rate. This is the number of desired actions taken (conversions), divided by the number of visitors to your site. This number can change frequently, especially if you provide a product or service that is seasonal in nature.

Improving conversion rates involves using data and creativity to improve the user experience (UX) in a way that guides people to take the actions you want them to take. If the user of your website gets frustrated, it’s likely that they won’t convert. We’ll make sure your website is easy to navigate, loads fast, has relevant and useful content (including text, images and video), and last but not least, includes clear calls-to-action.

Web design and development are often used interchangeably. But they’re actually totally different processes that require different skill-sets.

Web design is the process of creating the aesthetic and user experience of a website. Web designers use (graphics nerds) Figma, InVision and other graphic design tools to create the layout and visual elements of your website.

Web development turns a web design into a functioning website. Web developers (coding nerds) use code such as HTML, CSS and Javascript to bring your website to life. Web developers take the “prototype” of your website and make it dynamic, adding interactive links, buttons, Ecommerce features and more.

By now, you’ve likely heard the SEO community abuzz with all things Core Web Vitals. With today’s website visitors wanting quality content presented seamlessly on all devices, this recent Google algorithm update puts an emphasis on user experience.

It’s long been known that the easier a website is to navigate and interact with, the greater its user engagement. And the greater a website’s user engagement, generally the more likely it is to rank higher on Google!

But the Core Web Vitals trio is just the latest addition to many UX-focused ranking signals. These metrics are not only relative, but also nowhere near the most important factors for your positioning on this mighty search engine’s results pages. In other words, there’s a lot more to consider than these page speed scores.

In this article, we explain how this algorithm works, its influence on your website and what you can do to improve performance moving forward.

We’re glad you asked!

Without gathering data, it’s pretty much impossible for your website to take enquiries, sell products and/or provide online services. But in the wrong hands, this information could be mishandled with serious consequences. That’s why website owners need to display clear and concise agreements that protect visitors’ data and lets them know exactly how it will be used and stored.

Ultimately, it is your responsibility (as the owner of your website) to make sure your website Privacy Policy and Terms of Use are correct and up to date. Even if you’re enlisting the help of a web developer, an employee, or a lawyer to write and/or publish these documents – the buck stops with the Directors of your organisation / the business owners.

However, we have created this Guide to Website Privacy Policies & Terms of Use in Australia which should help you understand how to approach these things.

Disclaimer: on the off-chance you think this guide has been written by lawyers, we’re flattered but that’s not quite the case! So while we’ve included plenty of helpful recommendations below, please double check the facts by doing your own research. When it comes to documents as important as these, it’s always a good idea to consult legal professionals before you post.

In 3 years, we have grown from a product concept to doing over $4m a year and growing steeply. Redback was engaged from the start and we see them as an integral part of our long term growth plans.
Josie, Director – Ecommerce brand

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