Built for the customer in your queue.
Website design for Gold Coast businesses serving ten million annual visitors. Fast mobile pages make it easier to enquire or book, even on a beach towel.
Two Australian builds. Both still ranking.
Mobile-first, by default
Sub-second loads on a 4G phone, tap-to-call, tap-to-book, tap-to-map. Tested on a real iPhone before launch. The desktop version comes second.
Same day callbacks
Enquire before 4pm and you hear back the same day. No account manager funnel, no ticketing queue, no time zone gap.
You own everything
Code, domain, hosting. No platform fees, no 36 month contracts, no Gold Coast agency lock-in.
Published pricing. No Gold Coast mark-up.
Most Gold Coast operators are quoted between $10K and $25K for a small business site by an agency that takes 12 weeks to ship it. We ship in days, for a third of the price, on the same stack the biggest tech companies in the world run.
Starter
$3,997Cafes, salons, studios and solo operators launching online.
- Up to 5 pages
- Custom design, mobile-first
- Local SEO + LocalBusiness schema
- 100/100 Lighthouse, 3 to 5 days
- Full code ownership
Need it sooner?
Professional
$5,997Restaurants, hotels and growing operators competing on Google Local.
- Up to 10 pages + blog/CMS
- Suburb pages + keyword research
- Lead capture + booking integrations
- Copywriting included
- Google Business Profile setup
Need it sooner?
Premium
$9,997Established Gold Coast operators with bookings, portals or integrations.
- Unlimited pages
- Booking system + client portal
- Custom integrations (CRM, Stripe, APIs)
- Priority support, unlimited revisions
Need it sooner?
50% upfront, 50% on delivery. Maintenance from $197/mo. Express delivery starts the build the next business morning and ships in half the standard timeline. No Gold Coast mark-up.
Your customer is two blocks away with sand on her phone.
The Gold Coast is the only market in Australia where the customer is almost never sitting at a desk. She is on Burleigh Beach. He is at the Pacific Fair food court. They are in an Airbnb in Mermaid trying to decide whether to walk five minutes to your venue or 10 minutes to the one with the better photos.
More about the Gold Coast market
The decision happens in the time it takes your homepage to load. If she sees a spinner, she hits back, and she is gone. There is no second chance on a beach towel.
“The Gold Coast welcomed 10 million domestic visitors and 651,000 international visitors in the year to September 2025. Combined visitor spend cracked $7 billion.”
Experience Gold Coast, Tourism Research Australia figures, 2025
Most of those visitors found their next meal, hotel, gym, hair salon, or surf school by typing four words into a phone. Whoever loaded first won. Whoever loaded second got a back button.
Search demand in Gold Coast
Source: DataForSEO, April 2026. Gold Coast metro. A handful of the categories your customers actually type into Google every month.
The Gold Coast is one of the highest intent local search markets in Australia. Position one captures around 27% of the clicks.
The question is whether your business is the result they book, or the one they thumb past. A Wix template, a slow Squarespace site, a homepage that takes four seconds to paint on the M1 between Robina and Burleigh. Each one quietly hands customers to the venue half a kilometre south that loads first.
Peak season is non negotiable. Your site has to handle it.
October to January and the school holiday windows are when the year is made or lost. We build on Next.js served from Vercel’s edge network, the same architecture Stripe and TikTok run. A 200 visit Tuesday and a 20,000 visit Schoolies Saturday hit your site the same way. No crashes, no rate limits, no last minute panic about hosting upgrades.
Slow sites cost you twice.
A slow page tanks your Google Ads Quality Score and inflates your cost per click. It also drops your organic rankings. Sub-second loads on a 4G phone are not a nice to have on the Gold Coast. They are the only reason a stranger from Sydney ends up in your venue tonight.
Four steps.
Under a week.
Sydney based, delivered to the Gold Coast remotely. Built Brief Legal, Sub Tracker, and Fine Touch Group’s site. Gold Coast builds prioritise mobile and conversion because that is where the customer actually is.
Discovery call
15 minutes. We learn about your venue, your guest mix, the suburbs you draw from, and what is broken on the current site. You learn whether we are the right fit before anyone signs anything.
Design and build
We build mobile-first on a proven Next.js architecture refined across dozens of Australian small businesses. You review a staging link in 3 to 5 days on your own phone, on the M1 between meetings, and request changes in plain English.
Review and launch
Final revisions, content loaded, SEO checked, Google Business Profile aligned, analytics wired, peak-season cache warmed. We switch the domain with zero downtime and your old site disappears the moment the new one goes live.
Ongoing support
Optional maintenance from $197 a month. Or take the code and run it yourself with any developer in Australia. Either way, you own everything from day one.
Same studio. Every Australian city.
Sydney based, building across Australia with the same Next.js architecture, published pricing and delivery timelines.
Gold Coast questions.
How do you handle the tourist traffic spike from October to January?
Every site we ship is built on Next.js and served from Vercel’s global edge network. The same architecture Stripe and TikTok run. A site that handles ten visitors a day handles ten thousand on a Schoolies weekend without flinching, because the pages are pre-rendered and cached close to the user. Most Gold Coast operators only find out their old site cannot cope when peak season actually arrives. We build for that month from day one.
Do you actually understand the Gold Coast as a market?
The Gold Coast is not Brisbane and it is not Byron. Burleigh Heads is a different customer to Surfers Paradise, which is a different customer to Mermaid Beach or Coolangatta. The traffic mix shifts between domestic holidaymakers, international visitors, FIFO workers, retirees, and locals depending on the postcode and the season. We localise the photography direction, the suburbs we target on Google Business Profile, and the booking flow so a Burleigh cafe does not look or read like a Broadbeach hotel. The Math section above shows the categories your customers are searching for right now.
Is everything really mobile-first or is that just a tagline?
Mobile-first means we build the phone version first, then scale up. Not the other way around. A holidaymaker comparing five restaurants from a beach towel cannot pinch and zoom your desktop site to find a phone number. Every page we ship loads under a second on a 4G connection, has a phone number visible without scrolling, has Google Maps and reservations one tap away, and is tested on a real iPhone before it goes live. Nine out of ten Gold Coast tourism searches now happen on a phone.
Do you visit Gold Coast clients in person?
Most builds run end to end over a 15 minute kickoff call, a Loom or two, and a shared staging link. That ships your site faster than any in person meeting. For Gold Coast clients who want a face to face, the founder flies up. No travel mark-up, no minimum spend, no expensive day rate. The remote-first model is the reason we can publish $3,997 pricing while every Gold Coast agency wants $12K and three months.
Do I get a real Australian invoice with GST?
Yes. Studio Slate is an Australian registered business with an ABN. Every invoice includes GST, your details, our details, and a Stripe payment link or direct bank transfer. No offshore billing, no PayPal-only setups, no surprises at tax time. Your accountant will be happy.
What if I want to take the site to a Gold Coast developer later?
Take it. You own every line of code, your domain, and your hosting account on day one. We hand over a clean Next.js codebase any developer can pick up, plus documentation. No proprietary CMS, no platform lock-in, no 36 month hosting contract. Most clients stay because the maintenance is $197 a month and we already know the codebase, but the door is unlocked from the moment we ship.
Stop losing the customer two blocks away.
15 minutes. No pitch deck. Just an honest conversation about what your current site is doing to the Gold Coast visitors loading it on a phone right now.