Web Design on the Sunshine Coast

City standards.
Coast pace.
No mark-up.

Built for the operators who moved north and brought their standards with them. Same Next.js architecture that took Fine Touch Group from $250K to $1M in quarterly revenue.

Lighthouse100/100
DeliveryUnder 1 week
Starting at$3,997
ServingSunshine Coast

A coastal town in name. A capital city in customer expectations.

Around 8,000 to 9,000 people move to the Sunshine Coast every year. A lot of them used to live in Sydney or Melbourne. They know the difference between a website that looks like a holiday and one that quietly takes money. They are now your neighbours, your customers, and the people deciding which Maroochydore physio or Noosa cafe to call.

They are not reading your copy. They are scanning for the one that does not look like a 2017 template, and ringing it.

“The Sunshine Coast remains a favourite for Australians leaving capital cities, with Sydneysiders making up 54% of net capital outflows to regional Australia.”

CommBank Regional Movers Index, March 2026

The customer base on the coast is changing every quarter. A site built for the 2018 Sunshine Coast does not survive the 2026 Sunshine Coast.

The Math
real estate sunshine coast22,200/mo
restaurant sunshine coast8,100/mo
massage sunshine coast2,900/mo
plumber sunshine coast2,400/mo
florist sunshine coast2,400/mo
hairdresser sunshine coast2,400/mo
cafe sunshine coast1,900/mo
builder sunshine coast1,600/mo
dentist sunshine coast1,300/mo
electrician sunshine coast1,300/mo
gym sunshine coast1,300/mo
accountant sunshine coast720/mo

Source: DataForSEO, April 2026. A handful of the categories Sunshine Coast residents actually type into Google.

Coast residents search for local businesses by name and by suburb every day. Position one captures around 27% of the clicks.

The question is whether your business is the result they call, or the one they scroll past. A Wix template, a slow Squarespace booking page, a site that takes five seconds to load on a phone in Coolum. Each one quietly hands customers to the operator across the road who looks more serious.

48,520monthly Sunshine Coast searchesacross twelve everyday categories

The coast is several towns. Your site should know that.

A Noosa day spa, a Maleny eco retreat and a Caloundra trades business sell to three different humans. Same coastline, different worlds. The voice, the type, the photography, and the suburbs we target all bend around your specific corner of the region.

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. We build on Next.js, the same framework as Stripe, TikTok, and Uber. Sub-second loads on a phone in patchy hinterland reception.

City standards, coast delivery

Built for the operators who moved up from Sydney and Melbourne and refuse to accept a 2017 template just because they crossed a state line.

Founder direct

You speak to the person doing the work. No account manager, no Brisbane agency middleman, no junior team learning on your build.

You own everything

Code, domain, hosting. No platform fees, no 36 month contracts, no Sunshine Coast lock-in.

Pricing

Published pricing. No Sunshine Coast mark-up.

Fine Touch Group made back the cost of their entire build in the first week after launch. Most clients break even inside a month.

Starter

$3,997

Solo operators and family businesses launching online from the coast.

  • Up to 5 pages
  • Custom design, mobile-first
  • Local SEO + LocalBusiness schema
  • 100/100 Lighthouse, 3 to 5 days
  • Full code ownership
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Most Popular

Professional

$5,997

Growing coast businesses competing on Google Local across multiple suburbs.

  • Up to 10 pages + blog/CMS
  • Suburb pages + keyword research
  • Lead capture + conversion tracking
  • Copywriting included
  • Google Business Profile setup
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Premium

$9,997

Established coast operators with bookings, portals or integrations.

  • Unlimited pages
  • Booking system + client portal
  • Custom integrations (CRM, Stripe, APIs)
  • Priority support, unlimited revisions
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No Sunshine Coast mark-up. 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.

How It Works

Four steps.
Under a week.

Chris Raad, founder of Studio Slate
FounderChris Raad

Sydney based, delivered to the Sunshine Coast remotely. Built for the businesses that moved north and brought city standards with them. Built Equal Legal, Sub Tracker, and the Fine Touch Group site that helped scale them from $250K to $1M in quarterly revenue.

Discovery call

15 minutes on Zoom or Loom. We learn about your business, your customers, the suburbs you serve 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 on a proven Australian small business architecture refined across dozens of projects. You review a staging link in 3 to 5 days and request changes in plain English. No Figma mockups that never match the live site.

Review and launch

Final revisions, content loaded, SEO checked, Google Business Profile aligned, analytics wired. 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 up the coast. Either way, you own everything from day one.

FAQ

Sunshine Coast questions.

City standards, delivered up the coast.

15 minutes. No pitch deck. Just an honest conversation about what your current site is doing to the Sunshine Coast customers landing on it right now.