Custom websites, WordPress builds and web applications for Victorian businesses, delivered remotely from our office in Ultimo without losing pace or clarity.
Searching for web development in Melbourne turns up hundreds of agencies, and many of them do excellent work. We are not a Melbourne agency: Web Mage is a web development company with its office in Sydney, building for Victorian businesses remotely.
We say that first because it shapes how the project runs. There is no Collins Street meeting room. Instead, the work is planned, built and reviewed in the open, and you can see progress whenever you like.
You get the same people and process as a client around the corner: developers who write and check the code, a written scope before anything is built, and someone who replies to your messages. Our founder has been building websites for almost 20 years, and Web Mage has been trading since 2012.
The work you can hand us from Melbourne, from a first proper website to software that runs part of the business.
Custom themes and blocks your marketing team can edit without wrecking the layout. Hosting, updates and security covered if you want them.
Astro, a headless CMS or a framework when speed, security or unusual features matter more than a familiar editor.
Online stores set up for Australian shipping, GST and local payment gateways, with product data that stays tidy as the range grows.
Customer portals, booking systems, quoting tools and dashboards with secure logins and sensible user roles.
Search that understands questions, assistants that answer from your own content, and forms that sort enquiries before a person reads them.
Ongoing care, page changes, SEO fixes and Google Ads for teams that would rather deal with one developer partner than three suppliers.
Remote does not mean hands-off. It means the project lives in shared tools instead of a boardroom.
Victoria and New South Wales keep identical clocks all year. Both states move their clocks forward on the same October weekend and back on the same April weekend, so a 10am call is 10am for everyone, every month.
Usually not. What matters is how fast decisions get made and how visible the work is. A local developer you see twice a project helps less than a team that shows you the staging site every week.
Yes. Search engines care about your business and your pages, not the postcode of whoever wrote the code. Your Google Business Profile, your Victorian address and pages written for Melbourne customers do that work. We handle the technical side: fast templates, clean structure and local business markup.
Yes. Plenty of marketing teams keep their brand studio or ads agency and bring in a developer for the build. We document what we make so whoever touches the site next can follow it.
Melbourne is a crowded and capable market, with many strong agencies and a great number of businesses chasing the same searches, from professional firms in the CBD to retailers, hospitality groups and manufacturers. That has two practical consequences.
First, local search is hard fought. Suburb and "near me" searches tend to go to businesses with a well-kept Google Business Profile, genuine reviews and service pages that answer real questions. Your site has to support that, not just look good.
Second, buyers compare. Someone weighing up three suppliers will open all three websites on a phone, perhaps on the tram. The one that loads quickly, explains the offer plainly and makes the next step obvious has the best chance of the enquiry. That is a development problem as much as a design one. If you are comparing agencies, our review of web design and development services sets out what to check.
A video call to understand the business, its users and the systems involved. You then receive a written scope and quote.
Key screens shared as a prototype link, so decision makers across Melbourne can review it in their own time.
Weekly progress on a private staging site, a written update each week and one tracker for your team to comment in.
We go live together over video, checking redirects, tracking and speed, then stay on for support and improvements.
Words from people we have built and looked after websites for.
They are fantastic with the technical and coordination capabilities to deliver the desired product. They took charge of the project from day 1 and handed over before the agreed date. Exceptional communication, professionalism and work ethics; we will definitely use them again for any web-related projects we might and highly recommend them for their service.
Gaurab BhandariAPSPT Brilliant team! Was able to execute exactly what we visioned into reality. The set up is really good, they were always available if I needed to speak to them.
Prad NavaratnamCo-Founder and CEO, LeverEdge Sports Quick service, lots of communication and a professional service. Would highly recommend the team and hope to work with them again!
Dion PretoriusCommunications and Engagement Manager, Science & Technology Australia Wallpaper made to measure and sold online. Customers browse designs or supply a photo of their own, and every order is printed to the size of their wall, ready to peel and stick.
A platform that connects people with talented instructors for classes and creative pursuits in their spare time.
A pledge site for a council campaign. Residents add their name, a photo or a snapshot to show support, so the form had to be quick and hard to break.
No. Our office is in Ultimo, Sydney. We run Melbourne projects remotely through video calls, a shared staging site and written weekly updates. When a stage of the work benefits from being in the same room, such as a discovery workshop or launch day, we travel down and agree that in the scope beforehand.
It depends on scope, so we quote each project instead of publishing prices. The main drivers are the number of page templates, integrations with other systems, logged-in features, content migration and support after launch. Any trips to Melbourne are listed in the proposal, so the full picture is clear before you sign.
A typical marketing website takes six to ten weeks. Web applications, online stores with many products and projects with several integrations take longer, so we plan them in stages and put something useful live early. The proposal sets out the timeline for your agreed scope.
Calls happen during our office hours, 9am to 5pm Monday to Friday, which are Melbourne business hours too. Victoria and New South Wales share a time zone and change for daylight saving on the same dates, so nobody has to convert anything. We book a regular weekly slot at kickoff.
We are a web development company first. We design sites as well, but our strength is what sits under the design: fast templates, integrations with your CRM or booking system, online stores and web applications. If you already have designs from a Melbourne studio, we can build from those.
Yes. We offer managed WordPress care covering hosting, updates, backups, security and small content changes, and we can run technical SEO and Google Ads alongside it. Melbourne teams that want one partner responsible for both the site and its marketing can ask for everything in a single proposal.
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