We build websites for Mornington businesses

Web design in Mornington, built free

We're a Melbourne family business, and we build websites for local businesses on the Mornington Peninsula for free. You see yours finished before you pay a cent — then it's $199/month, all in, with no lock-in.

Princes Bridge and the Melbourne CBD skyline
Here's the short of it

What does web design in Mornington cost?

The build costs nothing upfront — we design and build your website for free, and nothing is charged until you've seen it and approved it. From there it's $199/month with no lock-in; see the full pricing breakdown.

The businesses we build for around Mornington

Mornington runs on a rhythm that most of Melbourne doesn't. The population swells through summer and thins out again after Easter, and businesses here plan around that swing whether they want to or not. Main Street is busy in January in a way it simply isn't in July.

That seasonality shapes everything, including how a website earns its keep. For a lot of Peninsula businesses, the most valuable thing a site does isn't generating new enquiries in the peak — there are plenty of those already. It's keeping the quiet months from being quite so quiet.

The trades and businesses that stay busiest here

There's a substantial holiday-home market, and it generates work that's invisible from the outside. Houses occupied six weeks a year still need cleaning between stays, gardens maintained while nobody's watching, and pest control on properties that sit closed up for months. Plumbers and electricians get called by owners who are three hours away and need someone they can trust to let themselves in.

The permanent residential side is a mix of established coastal housing and newer development further back from the water. Roofers and painters contend with salt air, which is unforgiving and keeps them in work. Builders handle renovations timed deliberately for the off season. Fencing contractors and concreters work the newer estates.

And the retail and service strip supports a dense run of small businesses — hairdressers, beauty salons, personal trainers — where the summer trade has to carry the winter.

The absent-owner market is the one worth building for

This is the part most Peninsula businesses underuse. A holiday-home owner who lives in Melbourne cannot ask a neighbour who to call. They don't know the neighbours. They search, from a couch in Hawthorn, and they book whoever looks like they'll actually turn up and can be trusted with a key.

That customer is choosing entirely on what they can see online. No handshake, no referral, no ute they recognise from down the street. Your website is the whole basis of the decision. If it doesn't exist, or it was built in 2014 and doesn't load properly on a phone, you're not in the running for a market that pays well and books repeatedly.

Building for that customer is a different job to building for a walk-in. It needs to make you look established and reachable, it needs to show finished work, and it needs a way to get in touch that doesn't depend on catching you between jobs. That's the version we'd build.

Nothing is charged until it's finished and you've approved it.

Why Mornington businesses work with us

Melbourne-based, working with you remotely

We're a Melbourne family business working with small businesses across regional Victoria, not an overseas agency — you get a real person who answers the phone, that's Baz on 0412 843 733.

You see the finished site before you pay anything, and every build is fast, structured properly, and set up with your Google Business Profile — the foundation that helps local customers find you, wherever you're working from.

Weighing us up against building it yourself? Here's how a DIY builder compares to a local web designer.

Every build is guaranteed: free to build, nothing charged until you approve it, ready within 5 business days or your first month's free, and no lock-in with 30 days notice to cancel — see the full guarantee.

We've built sites for restaurants, painters, electricians and more across Melbourne — have a look at examples of our work.

Questions we get asked a lot

The stuff you're probably wondering

Do you actually work with businesses in Mornington?+
Yes — Mornington is right in our home patch. We build for businesses here and across Melbourne's southeast, as well as Australia-wide.
Do we need to meet in person?+
No. It's all done by phone, email and a quick online form — easy wherever you are.
I've already got a website. Why would I start again?+
Most were built once, years ago, by someone who's now unreachable — and your business has moved on since. If adding a page means chasing a developer and paying by the hour, it never gets done. Yours would be built to change.
What's the catch?+
There isn't one, but here's our business model in plain English: the build is free, and we make our money from the Care Plan once you're live. We only get paid if you love the site — which is exactly the incentive you want us to have.
Is it really free?+
The build is genuinely free — no setup fee, no deposit, no card details. The Care Plan (hosting, updates, upkeep) is $199/month, and it only starts when your site goes live.
What if I don't like the site?+
You walk away. No payment, no invoice, no hard feelings. And before that, you get a full 7-day review window with unlimited changes — batch your feedback into a list and we'll work through the lot.
How fast will it be ready?+
Ready to review within 5 business days of your completed form — or your first month is free. Once you approve and pay, it's live within 24 hours.
Am I locked into a contract?+
No. Month to month from day one, cancel anytime with 30 days notice. Watch out for "free website" offers that need a 12-month contract — that's not free, that's a lease with a smile.
Do I own the website?+
Your domain and your content are always yours, full stop. The site code stays ours while you're on the Care Plan — that's how we keep the build free — and if you ever want to take it elsewhere, you can buy it outright for a flat $1,800, anytime.
What happens if I cancel?+
Your site stays live through your 30-day notice, your domain goes with you, and you've got 30 days after that to buy the code if you want it.
Who qualifies?+
Mornington businesses and Australia-wide small businesses. Bigger or more complex operations usually fit Made to Order — get in touch instead.

Still got questions? Drop us a line

Ready to get your website sorted?

Free to build, $199/month once it's live, and you can walk away whenever you like.

First payment after launch only