Hobart
I build fast, static websites for Hobart businesses — from the waterfront to Sandy Bay, North Hobart to Kingston. Websites built to load quickly, cost almost nothing to run, and help you get found on Google, Apple Maps, and the AI-assisted searches your customers are already using.
01 — Hobart's digital landscape
Hobart's economy runs on tourism, hospitality, creative industries, and professional services. Your customers are searching on their phones — walking down Salamanca, sitting in a café on Elizabeth Street, or planning a trip from the mainland. When they search, the businesses with fast, well-structured websites win.
Most Hobart businesses are still on Squarespace, Wix, or WordPress. I think that's a poor deal: general-purpose platform weight, a site tied to an editor or plugin stack, and another rebuild when it is time to leave. A purpose-built static website starts faster, is easier to move, has a smaller maintenance surface, and can live on a free hosting tier.
I've been building websites since 1996 and working in digital marketing for over 25 years. I've run my own small businesses since 2013. I understand Hobart because I'm based just outside it in the Huon Valley — close enough to meet for coffee, deeply connected to the local business community. I serve businesses across all of Tasmania.
I live in the Huon Valley, 40 minutes from Hobart CBD. Available for face-to-face meetings and local support.
From the early web to WordPress to modern static sites. I've seen every platform era and I build for the current one.
SEO, Google Business, social media, email marketing, analytics — decades of hands-on experience.
I've been a small business owner for over a decade. I build for businesses with real budgets, not enterprise fantasies.
I've built websites for accommodation providers, wedding vendors, restaurants, and experience operators. See my wedding and travel industry work.
I know what it's like to need a website that actually brings in customers, not just looks nice in a portfolio.
02 — Getting found in Hobart
When a tourist walks down Salamanca and asks their phone "best coffee near me", three things decide who shows up: page speed, structured data, and local listing accuracy. Most Hobart websites fail on all three. They load in 4–6 seconds on mobile, have no schema markup, and their Google Business listing doesn't match their website.
And that's just Google. People are increasingly asking ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini for recommendations. "What's the best photographer in Hobart?" "Can you recommend a restaurant in North Hobart?" If your website isn't structured so these AI systems can read it, you don't exist in their answers. This is Generative Engine Optimisation — GEO — and it's the biggest opportunity in local search since Google Maps.
Every website I build treats PageSpeed as a release target and includes JSON-LD schema markup, llms.txt, and properly configured local listings. The goal is a business that is easier to find everywhere its customers are looking.
Google uses page speed as a ranking factor. My sites target a perfect score across Performance, Accessibility, Best Practices, and SEO.
JSON-LD structured data with your exact Hobart address, service area, hours, and offerings — so Google features you correctly.
llms.txt and clean structured data so ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini can recommend your Hobart business.
Set up correctly with accurate categories, hours, service areas, and photos — linked to your website.
iPhone users see Apple Maps first. Your listing accurate, complete, and connected to your site.
Targeted for how Hobart customers actually search — by suburb, by service, by 'near me'.
03 — Hobart work
Hobart's award-winning video production studio. SEO optimisation delivered measurable ranking improvements and increased inquiries.
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Tasmania's premier wedding videographer. SEO and Google Workspace integration with a design showcasing 500+ weddings.
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Five-room motel on the Huon River with integrated front desk booking software.
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Pick-your-own flower farm in the Huon Valley. 100/100/100/100 PageSpeed.
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Tasmania-based massage therapist. SEO got the business busy within a short time.
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Tasmania's top wedding celebrant. Multiple content collections and interactive islands.
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"Your commitment to developing modern, professional, and high-performance sites exceeded my expectations. The SEO optimisation has already yielded measurable results, with improved Google rankings and an increase in inquiries."
Adam Sills
HutchTV, Hobart
04 — What you get
Hobart is a city where word-of-mouth and online discovery work together. Your website needs to impress both — the person who Googles you after a friend's recommendation, and the tourist who finds you through AI. Every build includes the full technical stack that makes this happen.
Designed around your brand, your content, and your Hobart market — not a template.
Pre-built HTML on a global edge network, with far less work left for the visitor's phone to do.
Schema markup, sitemaps, llms.txt, meta tags — the complete technical foundation for ranking.
Static sites can fit comfortably within free hosting plans, without a mandatory website-builder subscription.
No public CMS, live content database, or plugin catalogue is required to serve the website.
Built for the phone in your customer's pocket. Responsive, fast, accessible.
Website offers and investment
A typical website build starts around A$3,000–A$4,000. These offers explain the shape of the work; the written quote confirms the pages, functions, exclusions, and investment for your business.
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For a business with an ageing, slow, difficult, or platform-bound website that is worth preserving.
Starting investment
Quoted after a review. If a full rebuild is the right answer, a typical website build starts around A$3,000–A$4,000.
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For a small business that needs a professional website built properly from the ground up.
Starting investment
A typical small-business website build starts around A$3,000–A$4,000, with a quote based on scope.
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For celebrants, photographers, filmmakers, planners, venues, and other wedding professionals.
Starting investment
A typical wedding-industry website build starts around A$3,000–A$4,000, with a quote based on scope.
Josh first confirms the scope and investment in a written quote. Once you accept it, a 50% deposit starts the project. The quote and invoice set out the remaining payment details.
Support can cover agreed site changes, technical monitoring, listings, search visibility, and reporting. There is no invented monthly package price: enquire for a scope based on the work your business needs.
I build fast, static websites that belong to your business, help it get found, and give customers a better experience.