Perth Website
Design
Our Perth web design service has been making websites for local businesses since since 2007 so we’ve built up a bank of knowledge to help you get the best website outcome with value for money. Many business owners think they can do it themsleves or get their cousin or friend or themselves to give it a go. I mean how hard could it be?
The truth is building a website on your own is not quite as easy as you think: It can be expensive, mind boggling, confusing, frustrating and time-consuming. If you want your website to perform, attract and sell like a professional you need to build a professional website. It’s essential for reaching more customers, increasing your brand awareness, and growing your business. It is important to work with a specialist who has the necessary skills, experience, and knowledge.
Can You Handle The Truth
There are several common misconceptions that people have about building their own website:
It’s easy: Many people believe that building a website is easy and can be done quickly without any specialised knowledge or skills. Well, we haven’t found anyone yet who felt that way after they tried to build their own! In fact we have many people coming to asking for us to fix what they tried to do.
It’s cheap: Some business owners believe that building a website is a cheap and low-cost option, but the reality is that designing and building a website that looks professional and works beautifully does cost a bit more, but worth every dollar if you’ve tried and failed to DIY.
All websites are created equal: Some business owners believe that all websites are the same and that there’s no real difference between a professional website and a DIY website. As chalk is to cheese, there is reality gap when seeing a homegrown version of a website and a bespoke, crafted and coded website built by professionals.
We’ll Make It Easy For You
Our Web Design Process
- Consultation: This is where we learn about your business, your target audience, and the type of website your business needs.
- Proposal: After the consultation, we will create a proposal that outlines the scope of the project, the timeline, the cost, and the services that we will provide. You can review the proposal and make any necessary changes.
- Design: The next step is the design phase, where we create a visual representation of the website. This includes the layout, the color scheme, and the overall look and feel of the site ready for your feedback.
- Development: Once the design is approved we start the development of the website. This includes coding the website, adding the content, and integrating any necessary features and functionality.
- Testing: After the development is complete, we perform quality assurance testing to make sure the website is functioning correctly and check to make sure it is responsive and looks great on the main browsers.
- Launch: Once the testing is complete, and you have approved it, we launch the website and make it live.
What’s included in your new website:
unique design
An individual design ensures that your website stands out from the competition, and reflects your unique brand identity and message. It will be custom designed in-house by our graphic designer and tailored to your aesthetics and functions.
mobile friendly coding
Designing and developing a mobile-friendly website is crucial. It involves creating a responsive design and developing it so that your website adapts to various screen sizes. Our web developers ensure your website is fully responsive, ensuring seamless user experience across devices.Â
website statistics
We install the code for Google Analytics on your website and link to your GA account. We believe it’s critical to your success to know where you’re traffic is coming from and what they are looking for. We’ll do an SEO audit for you to help you set your marketing goals.Â
all content added
You supply the content and we’ll add it all. And if you need help with your text we can quote on creating it for you. We will add all your images to your website but if you need more we will supply unlimited high quality and appropriate stock images.
training & support
We give you one on one training in our office before we launch your new site so you will have an understanding on how to manage and edit it. To help you edit your website ongoing we offer support options which include telephone support, video manuals, email support and remote login support.
website speed optimisation
Your website is hosted on a local dedicated server so you will have faster load times. We include software that ensures that the components of your website load in an optimal order. This ensures Google provides a good load speed score.
Our Service Promise To You
Our sole aim is to design and build you a website that will convert web visitors to customer.
We have a local office with local people who put their heart and soul into developing and promoting your website. If you have a problem you can pick up the phone and talk to us here in Perth, or even drop in and see us.
We know what we are talking about..
What we realise, that many of our competitors don’t, is that we are building you a business tool not just a website. We want your website and our marketing expertise to bring ongoing customers and increase revenue to your business. Your website will work on a computer, on any mobile device, on iPads and tablets, it will work in all current browsers, all your potential customers will be able to interact and use the designed functions of your website.
Our team are all web nerds – they live, breathe, talk,discuss, debate and create at the front edge of web design and online marketing. They look at design,technology and marketing trends to make sure that we are always delivering the latest online developments and using the most effective tools available.
Website Design
Website Design
Maintenance
Plugins
Wordpress Websites
We know the importance of building our clients’ websites on a platform that is agile, user friendly, adaptive, easily managed and one that Google and other search engines love. This is why our first choice is Wordpress.
As a web development company, we have seen first-hand how building websites using WordPress can provide a competitive advantage for businesses of all sizes. WordPress is a content management system (CMS) that is easy to use, flexible, and customisable, making it an ideal platform for businesses looking to establish a strong online presence.
One of the key advantages of using WordPress is that it is an open-source platform. It has resulted in a large and active community of developers who contribute to the platform by creating plugins and other add-ons that can be used to extend its functionality. This means that businesses can easily add features and functionality to their websites without having to spend a lot of time and money developing custom solutions.
A Step Further
Web Wizards have gone a step further – we have developed our own Wizzie Theme in Wordpress to ensure your website has a solid foundation. We don’t use pre bought Wordpress Themes, so your website is not an off the shelf design that hundreds of others have already used. It is unique to you, your business and your specifications.
WordPress is highly customizable and our exceptional team of coders can customise your site into just about anything you can dream of. In addition there are also thousands of plugins available that can be used to add new features and functionality to a website. These plugins can be used to create contact forms, add social media sharing buttons, optimise website speed, and much more. This means that we can easily tailor your website without having to build a function from scratch which is time consuming and expensive. Utilising pre-built plugins, with our own created themes, reduces build time and costs for you.
SEO Friendly
One of the key advantages of using WordPress and the reason we love using it is that it is a highly search engine friendly platform. WordPress is built with clean and valid code, which makes it easy for search engines like Google to crawl and index a website. Additionally, there are many SEO plugins available that can be used to optimise a website for search engines, including adding meta descriptions, optimising images, and creating XML sitemaps.
Scalable
WordPress is also a highly scalable platform, meaning that it can easily accommodate businesses of all sizes. Whether your business is just starting out or is an established enterprise, WordPress can be used to create a website that meets your specific needs.
Easy To Manage
One of the biggest advantages of using WordPress for businesses is that it is easy to use and manage. The platform is designed with the user in mind, and the intuitive interface makes it easy for your business to manage your website content without needing to know how to code. WordPress is regularly updated with new features and security updates, which means that your business website can be maintained with the latest protocols to keep it up to date and safe
Customisable
We champion the build of websites using WordPress because we know the pluses it has for businesses of all sizes. It is a highly customizable and flexible platform that can be tailored to meet the specific needs of any business, and it is easy to use and manage. We love that WordPress is highly search engine friendly, which means that it can be maximised to attract organic traffic to your website.
Responsive Website Design
As the world continues its move towards a more and more mobile-centric lifestyle, having a website that is optimised for mobile devices is more important than ever before. With the majority of users searching and viewing on their mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets, businesses need to ensure that their websites are designed to be responsive and mobile-friendly.
As wizards of the web, we use a variety of techniques and tools to ensure that the websites we develop are responsive and optimised for all devices.
The complexity of a website can affect how users interact with it, and ultimately, whether or not they stay on the site. With that in mind, it is essential to design a website that is both engaging and easy to navigate on mobile devices.
One of the key factors to consider when designing a mobile and responsive website is the layout. The layout of a website can have a significant impact on its functionality and usability. We design and code our websites to specifically adjust to different screen sizes, regardless of the device being used to access the website.
By using these responsive design techniques, we can create websites that are user-friendly and accessible to all users, regardless of the device you are using. At Web Wizards, we understand the critical importance of responsive web design for the user experience and to meet Google’s standards in search results.
We Build Using a Responsive Framework: We use responsive frameworks like, which provides pre-built CSS and JavaScript code for responsive design. These frameworks allow us to create responsive websites quickly and easily by providing pre-built layouts and styles that adjust to different screen sizes.
We Design with a Mobile-First Approach: We follow a mobile-first approach, designing the website first for mobile devices and then scaling up for larger screens. This approach ensures that the website is optimised for smaller screens and makes it easier to adjust the design for larger screens.
Fluid Layouts: We use fluid layouts that adjust to the size of the screen. This means that the width of the website elements is defined in percentages instead of pixels, making the website adjust automatically to different screen sizes.
Media Queries: We use media queries to define different styles for different screen sizes. By using media queries, we can adjust the website's layout, font sizes, and images based on the device's screen size.
Flexible Images: We use flexible images that scale with the size of the screen. This means that images will adjust automatically to the size of the screen without losing their aspect ratio.
Font Size Adjustments: We adjust font sizes based on the device's screen size to ensure that the website's content is readable on different screen sizes.
Website Maintenance
We all want to stay healthy, even websites! Website maintenance is the ongoing process of keeping a website healthy, updated, and running smoothly. Just like any physical property or machinery, websites require regular attention and care to function at their best.
The most immediate impact of an unmaintained website is on your website visitors. You want them to stay on your site once they get there but when visitors encounter broken links, outdated information, slow loading times, or parts of your website not functioning, it can frustrate them. This is a poor user experience and causes visitors to leave your site and potentially seek out your competitors.
For e-commerce websites, customers can be particularly affected by poor maintenance. Broken links or malfunctioning payment gateways can prevent customers from making purchases. Outdated product information or pricing errors can lead to confusion and distrust.
Search engines like Google aim to provide the best results to their users. When a website is not maintained, it can result in broken links, outdated content, and slow loading times—all factors that negatively impact search engine rankings. This means the website may appear lower in search results, reducing its visibility and traffic.
The day we launch your new website it's bright, shiny and pristine like any new born. Everything is up to date, like the plugins that help the functionality of your site, the content on your pages and links to images and data. But vertime things change. Your plugins can become out of date, you remove something from your website and there can be a broken link message, or missing image. That's the nature of a self managed website.
In essence, website maintenance is about proactively caring for a website to ensure it remains secure, up-to-date, user-friendly, and performing at its best. It's an ongoing process that involves a combination of technical tasks and content management to keep the website running smoothly and meeting its goals.
So what actually is done during web maintenance?
This is the process of doing an extra backup copy of your website, checking the site for errors, updating the plugins and other software on the site before checking and testing:
Software Updates: Websites are made up of different software components like content management systems (CMS), plugins, and themes. These components need to be updated regularly to ensure they are secure, bug-free, and optimized for performance.
Security: Websites can be vulnerable to cyber attacks, so maintaining security is crucial. Security measures help prevent hacking attempts, data breaches, and malware infections.
Backups: Regularly backing up a website is like creating a safety net. Backups are copies of the website's files and database stored in a secure location. They are essential in case of accidental data loss, hacking, or website crashes. With backups, a website can be quickly restored to a previous working state. Web Wizards backups your website daily and takes an extra full database backup on the day your website maintenance is performed.
Performance Optimisation: Websites need to load quickly and function smoothly to provide a good user experience. Optimisation tasks include compressing images, minifying code, and caching content to improve loading times.
Fixing Broken Links and Errors: Broken links and errors can frustrate visitors and harm SEO. Regularly checking for broken links, 404 errors, and other issues ensures a seamless browsing experience for users and helps maintain search engine rankings.
Web Wizards highly recommends keeping your site maintained. Ask us about the best maintenance package for your website.
Wordpress Plugins
Let's talk about WordPress plugins.
Imagine plugins like a swiss army tool that has multiple functions available that perform different tasks. These can be added to your WordPress website to make it even better, faster, more interesting, easier to manage and market. They're software add-ons that "plug into" your site to give it extra power. With plugins, you can add all sorts of creative and effective tools to your website! Want to turn your site into an online store? There's a plugin for that! Or maybe you're dreaming of a beautiful portfolio or a directory website? Yup, plugins can help with that too!
The great thing is, plugins can be like small tweaks or major upgrades on your website, depending on what you need. For example, you could use a plugin to add a WhatsApp share button to your site for easy sharing with friends. Or, if you're running an online shop website, there are plugins that help with payment gateways, shipping and marketing. , or letting customers book appointments right from your website.
But wait, there's more! You can find plugins to spice up your contact forms, create stunning image sliders, back up your site just in case something goes wrong, and make it super easy for visitors to sign up for your emails.
While lots of plugins work their magic on the front end of your site, there are also some that do their thing behind the scenes. These behind-the-scenes heroes might help you find and fix broken links, run fancy A/B tests to see what works best, or even put your site into maintenance mode when needed.
So we think of plugins as your website's best friends, adding all kinds of functionality and useful features to make your site awesome. Now that we've got the scoop on what plugins are all about, let's dive in and see how they work their magic!
WordPress plugins have been downloaded over one billion times. This huge number of plugins available and their widespread usage clearly shows that they offer significant benefits to website owners.
Adding WordPress plugins to your website means you add to or extend the functionality of your website without extra coding. And extra coding can mean extra cost. WordPress plugins are developed worldwide by coders and developers who can see a niche or need for website owners. They then onsell, or allow, their plugin to be downloaded to be added to websites. Getting the WordPress community involded in developing plugins means a web design and development compnay like ours can keep costs reduced for our clients.
But What Can They Do?
If you think of it, have an idea for what you want included on your website there is most likely a plugin that has already been developed. In fact there are over 54,000 WordPress plugins available. Knowing which ine to use is the trick. That's where we come in. We already know the most used and effective plugins to use on most websites. But as we say - your website is unique. So we can do the research to find a plugin that does exactly what you want if not within our normal range. These are popular functions enhanced by use of their respective plugins.
- Contact Forms
- Email Marketing
- Analytics
- Optimisation for SEO
- Membership Sites
- Bookings
- Live Chat
- Accessibility
- Multi Lingual
- Event Management
- Pop Up Messages
- Reviews
- & So Many More
Custom Website Design FAQ’s
What is custom WordPress web design?
How long does it take to create a custom WordPress website?
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Do you have your own web designers or do you outsource the design?
We design and code our websites in our office. We also use a collaborative software so  you can view the web design and comment directly to our designer before we even commence coding your site. You can leave comments during the design period 24 hours a day and we are immediately notified. This is super convenient for our customers and streamlines the design process. Our graphic design team can do everything from branding and logos, business cards and flyers as well as brochures, signs and of course custom web design.
How do you ensure I get the design I want?
At Web Wizards, before we start, we send a web design brief which asks all the right questions to ensure we understand what you want to help us make an awesome design. This is important to us and we make sure we get this right from the start.
What sets Web Wizards apart from other web design companies?

Web Wizards stands out from other web design companies because we create custom-designed websites specific to our client’s needs and do not use templated (pre made and bought online) designs. We do not outsource our work to overseas companies, ensuring that clients can meet and talk directly with the team responsible for designing, developing, and marketing their business online.
What platform are most of the sites developed on at Web Wizards?
Nearly all the sites developed by Web Wizards are built on the WordPress platform, which is widely used and industry-endorsed with an estimated 60 million websites built on the platform. This means it is well-supported with numerous options to build websites with almost any functionality required, and it is also favoured by Google.
What is the main goal of getting a new website?
We believe the main and most important goal of a website is to convert web visitors into prospective customers. Getting visitors to respond to the website through a telephone call or contact form is referred to as a conversion. The way we design your website is with that in mind which means making your website visually appealing, easy to navigate, that people can find the information they are looking for easily, that your phone number is prominent and clickable, that your contact forms go to the right person and your site is SEO friendly.
What kind of support can clients expect when working with Web Wizards?
Clients working with Web Wizards can expect local support from Perth-based staff members who were involved in building their website. The team includes staff who can help with web page building, graphic design, programming, content creation, email support, and how to use the Content Management System (CMS). We develop self-managed websites that are easy to use and build long-term relationships with clients.
Why is it important to invest in a well-designed website?
Investing in a well-designed website is crucial because it can literally transform a business. A properly designed and constructed website needs to be found and appealing to visitors while providing information that encourages them to contact the business, resulting in conversions from visitors to prospective customers. A badly constructed website can cost a business money in lost sales or time trying to manage it. Web Wizards builds affordable, custom-designed websites tailored to a business’s online needs and promises that the design has been created by our designer and developed by our programmers in our Perth web agency office.