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wordpress or custom
Website design, WordPress
or hand-built.
Two ways to build, and one honest answer about which suits you. WordPress when you want to edit it yourself; hand-built custom when speed and design matter more. We do both well for Sydney small businesses, and we'll tell you which one you actually need, not which one pays us more.
Designed, built, hosted and supported by one Sydney team · 18 years behind us as part of Alien IT Solutions.
the difference
A website should earn its keep.
Too many small business sites are slow, generic and forgettable. Yours should do more than exist. It should load instantly, look like you and lead every visitor towards picking up the phone, whether it runs on WordPress or is hand-built from scratch.
Fast by default
Built lean and tuned for speed, so your pages load in a blink, on the train, on bad signal, anywhere. Speed wins visitors and rankings.
Designed to convert
Every page has a clear job and a clear next step. Strong calls to action, easy contact, nothing in the way of an enquiry, and we make sure the contact form's email actually reaches your inbox rather than a spam folder.
Accessible to everyone
Built to accessibility standards, readable, keyboard-friendly and screen-reader-ready, so no customer is shut out.
two ways to build, done right
WordPress or hand-built.
Whatever fits your business.
Some studios only sell one approach and bend every business to fit it. We don't. We build clean, fast WordPress and bespoke hand-coded sites, and we'll tell you honestly which one suits you.
WordPress, built properly
Edit your own content, run a blog, manage it yourself, on a WordPress site set up to be fast and secure, without the plugin bloat that makes WordPress slow and fragile when it's done badly. More on our WordPress work, including migrations and rescuing neglected sites.
Hand-built & custom
When you want maximum speed, a one-of-a-kind cinematic design and the leanest possible footprint, we hand-build it from scratch, structured to convert and to rank.
The honest recommendation
We start from your goals, not our preference. You'll get a straight answer on which approach fits, and the same team designs, hosts and supports it either way.
what we design
From a sharp one-pager
to a full cinematic build.
Custom business websites
Multi-page sites that showcase your services, build trust and bring in leads, designed around how you actually work.
Website redesigns
Breathe new life into a tired or slow site. Faster, modern and easier to find, with your rankings carried safely across. See website redesign in Sydney and what a redesign costs.
Landing & lead-gen pages
Focused single-purpose pages built to turn a specific search or ad into a phone call. We run a whole network of these.
Cinematic, scroll-driven sites
When you want to stand out, immersive, animated experiences that make people remember you, without sacrificing speed.
built and live
Three we built.
Go and poke them.
The fastest way to judge a web designer is to open the work on your own phone. Here are three, one WordPress, one rebuilt around bookings, one clinic site with an SEO programme behind it. All live, all ours, all one click away.
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cold storage · Sydney Select Coolrooms & Construction
Coolroom and freezer builders working Sydney and the east coast. A full rebuild with a live quote calculator wired straight into their CRM, so an enquiry arrives already priced.
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hospitality · Dubbo Milestone Hotel
A country pub and accommodation venue, rebuilt around the three things guests actually come to the site to do: check a room, read a menu, and find out what is on this weekend.
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healthcare · Mosman ReFigure Chiropractic
A warm, welcoming clinic site built for local search, with AHPRA-compliant copy and an ongoing SEO programme behind it. They have since switched their Google Ads off entirely.
View live site →
ReFigure's numbers are on the SEO page, caveats and all. There are twenty-four live sites in total if you want to keep looking.
one team, whole stack
We don't disappear
after launch.
Most studios hand over the files and vanish. We're the web studio inside Alien IT Solutions, so the same people who design your site also host it, secure it, monitor it and grow its rankings. One number to call, and we already run everything behind it.
- Design
- Build
- WordPress
- Hosting
- Security
- SEO
- Monitoring
- Support
More on hosting and WordPress maintenance, and how we work across Sydney: Penrith and the Nepean · the Blue Mountains.
how it works
Scan. Design. Launch.
- 01
Scan
We learn your business, your customers and your competitors, agree the pages, look and goals, recommend WordPress or hand-built, and give you a tailored quote.
- 02
Design & build
You see the design, give feedback, and we build it fast, accessible and structured for search, on the platform that fits you.
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Launch & look after
We host it, secure it, track the leads and keep it running, so it stays fast and fresh long after go-live.
good to know
Web design questions.
Do you build in WordPress?
Yes. WordPress is offered, and we build it properly, clean, fast and secure, so you get an easy-to-edit site without the bloat WordPress is sometimes known for. If a hand-built custom site fits you better, we do that too. Whatever fits your business.
WordPress or hand-built, which is right for me?
WordPress is great when you want to edit content yourself or already run it. A hand-built site shines when you want maximum speed and a one-of-a-kind design. We'll talk through your goals and recommend the right one, honestly, and we do both well.
Will my website work on phones?
Always. We design mobile-first, because that's where most of your visitors are. Your site will look and work beautifully on phones, tablets and desktops, and it's built to meet accessibility standards so everyone can use it.
Can you redesign my existing website?
Yes. We rebuild tired or slow sites, WordPress or otherwise, into something fast, modern and easy to find, keeping what works, fixing what doesn't, and carrying your rankings across with proper redirects.
Do I own the website when it's done?
Yes. The domain and the site are yours, WordPress or hand-built. We host and support it because it's better when one team runs the whole thing, but you're never locked in.
Tell us what you're building. Get a tailored quote →