Web design Mackay for cane and coal country.
DIGITALON designs and builds WordPress websites for Mackay businesses, from shops, clinics and trades around the city to mining-services firms in Paget working across the Bowen Basin. Our Wurtulla team on the Sunshine Coast does the work, at a price settled in writing up front.
Cane on the doorstep, coal inland.
Mackay sits at the mouth of the Pioneer River, ringed by cane fields and sugar mills, with the coal mines of the Bowen Basin inland to the west and the coal terminals at Hay Point to the south. Many businesses here serve both worlds: engineering and maintenance firms in Paget send crews to mine sites, while the city's shops, clinics and trades look after the people who live here.
That shapes what a Mackay website has to do. A mining-services business needs to show which sites and towns it covers, from Moranbah to Dysart, and how it handles call-outs. A dentist, mechanic or gym needs to work for rostered customers who look for help on their days off, often late at night and on a phone.
Who covers my site or town?
Mine-site buyers and rostered workers both search from wherever they are, so a result has to say plainly where you go and when you are open.
- The towns and sites you cover
- Call-out arrangements, in plain words
- Hours that suit a roster
Make coverage obvious.
A coverage page, clear contact paths and an enquiry form that works at any hour turn a search from camp or from town into a job.
- A page per service line
- Coverage named town by town
- Enquiries that arrive overnight
What every DIGITALON website includes.
The same Australian team designs, builds, hosts and supports the site, so nothing in the list below is quoted again later.
Designed for your business, not a theme
Every page is designed from scratch in WordPress around what you sell and who buys it. You are not picking a template and hoping your content fits it.
Built to be found
Clean structure, fast pages, sensible headings and metadata come as standard. Keyword research and on-page SEO are included from Standard, and AI search optimisation at Premium.
Readable on the phone first
Most local searches happen on a phone. Layouts, menus, forms and buttons are checked at desktop, tablet and phone widths before the site goes live.
Yours to edit
You get the admin login, a site you can update yourself and 1:1 training at Premium. If you would rather not touch it, our maintenance packages cover the updates for you.
Hosted and supported in Australia
Australian cloud hosting, SSL, nightly backups and a support team you can reach by phone or email, with no offshore help desk in between.
Mackay websites with the price up front.
Five pages suit one trade or service, ten leave room for each service line and a coverage page for the basin towns, and twenty suit a firm with several divisions, depots or a library of projects.
Essentials
An affordable small business website that puts you online properly.
$2,990One-off price, all-inclusive
- 5 custom-designed pages, including home, about, services and contact
- Australian designers and developers
- Mobile optimisation
- Self-editable content
- SSL certificate
- Royalty-free stock images
- Nightly backups
Standard
The package most small businesses land on, with search built in.
$3,990One-off price, all-inclusive
- 10 custom-designed pages, with room for services and locations
- Everything in Essentials, plus
- Search engine optimisation (SEO)
- Image gallery with categories
- Customer testimonials slider
- WordFence firewall
Premium
For growing businesses that publish, measure and keep adding pages.
$4,990One-off price, all-inclusive
- 20 custom-designed pages
- Everything in Standard, plus
- AI search optimisation (GEO)
- Self-editable portfolio or blog
- Google Analytics and visitor insights
- 1:1 website training
Prefer a monthly fee instead of a one-off price? See the Small Business Monthly Packs, or compare the full inclusion lists on website design packages and website design pricing.
Selling online, or something more specialised?
A Mackay retailer can ship statewide from an online store, while corporate sites and online-course platforms are scoped and quoted separately.
- Basic $4,990 6 pages: home, about, contact, shop, cart and checkout
- Standard $5,990 10 website pages, with keyword research and on-page SEO
- Premium $7,990 20 website pages, with AI search optimisation
eCommerce
An online store on WooCommerce with product search and filters, customer logins and multiple payment options. Fixed one-off prices from $4,990.
Corporate
A well-branded corporate website built to your brand guidelines, with clean custom code and enterprise-grade security. Quoted to scope.
Online course
Create, host and sell online courses — memberships, lessons, student progress and payments in one place. Quoted to scope.
Mackay is a long way from Wurtulla.
Wurtulla sits far to the south of Mackay on the Sunshine Coast, and we have no office in Mackay. So the project lives in calls, emails and online meetings on a shared screen, and the same person on our team guides it from the first conversation to the day it goes live.
That suits a city that runs on rosters. Reviews are booked on your days off or before a shift starts, and you supply the local knowledge, like which sites you can reach, which jobs you want more of and what customers ask before they book, and nothing goes live until you have approved it in draft.
Fitted around your swingCoverage you can stand behind
The coverage page lists only the towns and sites you can really service, so the enquiries that arrive are ones you can take.
Depot and workshop details
Address, opening hours and after-hours contact sit on every contact page, with a map that opens straight into the phone's navigation.
Seasonal notices you control
Harvest-season hours, holiday closures and notices can be changed from your own admin login without waiting on us.
Enquiries sorted at the door
Separate forms for site work, workshop jobs and general questions send each enquiry to the right person in your team.
We deliver. You celebrate.
A website build runs on a short, predictable path. Most sites take one to three weeks to a first version, then move at the pace of your feedback.
Talk it through
We ask what the business does, who you want to reach and what the website has to achieve.
Agree the plan
You get a fixed price, a page map and a content outline, with placeholders where you need them.
Design and build
We design the pages, build them in WordPress and check them at every screen size.
Review and launch
Three rounds of revisions on structure and content, then launch, training and support.
Work from our design and build team.
These are websites our team designed and built. They are examples of completed work, not a promise of the same result for every business.
PharmaOctapharma Australia
MedicalSunshine Coast & Wide Bay Gynaecology
ExhibitionsElite Projex
BuildingTaylor’d Distinction
MedicalDr Sujie
CoachingFIRE UP Coaching
TechnologyAiDialThe client view.
What attracted us to DIGITALON is their promise to make sites that work. They absolutely delivered on this.
Mackay web design questions.
Prices, GST, coverage, rosters and support, for businesses in Mackay and across the Bowen Basin.
Ask us about your websiteOur technicians travel from Paget to mine sites across the Bowen Basin. How should the site show that?
With a page for each service line and one coverage page that names the towns and sites you service and how call-outs work. That usually fits Standard, ten pages for $3,990, which also includes keyword research and on-page SEO so each page uses the words site buyers search for.
A firm with several divisions or depots may need Premium, twenty pages for $4,990; a sole operator with one trade can start on Essentials, five pages for $2,990. Compare them on website design pricing.
Do mining-services companies pay a different rate from local shops, and is GST included either way?
No, and yes. Every business pays the same published price, $2,990, $3,990 or $4,990, whatever its industry or size, and each one includes GST, is priced in Australian dollars and shows the tax on your invoice.
Work outside your package, such as extra pages or a connection to another system, is quoted in writing before it starts, so there is never a surprise variation.
We sell fishing and camping gear from Mackay. Can we ship statewide and offer Afterpay?
Yes, with the right store package. Afterpay arrives with Premium at $7,990, together with Apple Pay and Google Pay, a shipping cost calculator, order tracking and live product search. Below that, Standard at $5,990 handles statewide postage with advanced shipping rules, product filters, customer accounts and SEO, and Basic at $4,990 is a six-page store with card, PayPal and flat-rate shipping.
Store hosting, your domain, payment fees and maintenance are not part of the build price; eCommerce pricing sets out each package.
Most of our team works swings. How do reviews and decisions fit around a roster?
We schedule around you. The first version generally appears one to two weeks into the project, longer for sites with extra functions, and the three revision rounds after it can be booked on your days off or before the day shift.
Decisions can also happen by email between shifts, so the project keeps moving even when you are out at a site.
Our harvesting business is flat out through the crushing season. Can we prepare the content beforehand?
Yes, and that is the easiest way to do it. We send the content outline early, listing what each page needs, so you can gather photos of the gear and notes on your services in the quieter months; placeholders hold anything that isn't ready.
The build can then be timed so reviews fall when you have a spare hour, and the site is ready before the next season's enquiries start.
Rostered workers find us on their phones in camp, often late at night. What should the site do for them?
Answer the basics without a call: what you do, your hours, prices or starting points if you publish them, and an enquiry form that works at any hour. If you already use an online booking system, the site can link to it; connecting it more deeply is scoped and quoted first.
Before launch the form and call button are tried on phone, tablet and desktop layouts, so they work on a small screen with a slow connection.
Will people in Moranbah and Dysart find a Mackay business online?
They can, if the site says clearly that you serve them. Keyword research, included from Standard, shows how people in those towns search for your service, and on-page SEO works the names of the towns you service into page titles, headings and descriptions.
Premium goes further with AI search optimisation (GEO), presenting your services and coverage in a way AI assistants can interpret. Nobody can promise where Google or an AI tool will list a business, and we don't; our SEO packages exist for longer-term search work.
Our site ranks for our old business name. If we redesign under the new name, do we lose that?
Not if the change is planned. A website redesign lets pages that already rank keep their addresses, redirects any address that changes, and the about page can say plainly that you traded under the old name, so searches for it still lead to you.
Update the name on your Google Business Profile and directories as well, since they live outside the website. Simple redesigns can fit a website package; bigger ones get their own quote.
Who keeps the site running while we're out at a mine site without signal?
We can. Our Australian WordPress hosting includes round-the-clock monitoring and backups, and our maintenance packages cover software updates, security and small changes, so nothing waits for you to get back into range.
You keep your own admin login for quick edits when you are back in town, and a support call reaches the team that built the site.
Mackay is a long way north of you. Who do we deal with, and how?
One person on our team at Wurtulla, from first call to launch. With no Mackay office, everything happens by phone, email and online meeting, and drafts go up on a shared screen so you can point at the exact change you want.
Use our contact page to book a time between swings, and browse the portfolio first if you'd like to see finished work.
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Map out your Mackay website.
Send your services, the towns and sites you cover and how customers reach you now, or just the address of your current website. Our reply names the package we'd suggest and its fixed price including GST, then we sketch the page map with you by phone or online meeting, fitted around your roster.
