Web Design & Development for Sydney Businesses
A web design agency Australia brands can brief in person: custom-coded, mobile-first websites built from our real Martin Place office — priced by quote, not a generic band.
shakalakaa is a web development company Australia businesses can meet in person. It builds custom-coded, mobile-first websites for Sydney businesses from a real Martin Place office, built to a sub-2.5-second mobile load target and scoped and quoted individually for each project.
Levels 1, 2 & 3, 60 Martin Place, Sydney NSW 2000
Last updated: August 2026
Working with a national brand, platform or listed company in Australia
Australian platforms and national brands need search, product and acquisition work run by one team, with Australian privacy and spam rules built in.
Search, product and acquisition together
SEO, apps and paid acquisition planned as one programme rather than three vendors.
Privacy Act and Spam Act built in
Lead capture and email follow-up designed around Australian privacy and spam obligations.
A named lead from Sydney
One accountable lead, operating from 60 Martin Place, Sydney.
Several brands, one team
Separate plans per brand or product line, coordinated by one team.
A website built for a Malaysian or generic template and relabelled "Sydney" tends to miss what actually matters for a Sydney audience — real district references over a generic national pitch, and a build team that can genuinely meet in person if a client wants to.
We build for Sydney specifics from the start, from the same office behind our Sydney performance marketing programme.
Australian platforms and groups we work with
What's included
- Built for your business. Custom WordPress, custom-coded or Shopify — no purchased templates or drag-and-drop builders.
- Mobile-first, Core Web Vitals-focused. Sub-2.5-second mobile load target from day one.
- SEO foundations built in. Clean code, proper heading structure, schema markup and fast load times from launch — pairs naturally with a Sydney SEO or performance marketing programme if you run one.
- Post-launch support. Training so your team can make day-to-day content updates, plus managed hosting available via our Web Support & Hosting service.
WordPress, custom-coded, or Shopify
We build on all three and recommend by what your team needs to do after launch. If your marketing team wants to edit pages, publish posts and run landing pages without a developer, we build on WordPress — a bespoke theme built for your site, not a purchased template, with the plugins kept to the ones you actually need.
That is the brief most buyers have in mind when they search for a wordpress developer sydney or a wordpress agency sydney. If the site is mostly an application — bookings, portals, calculators — we custom-code it. If it is a store, we build on Shopify.
More detail on WordPress, custom-coded, or Shopify
As a wordpress agency sydney businesses can meet in person at Martin Place, we also take on rebuilds of WordPress sites that have slowed down or become hard to update: we audit the theme and plugins, rebuild what is holding the site back, and keep the content and URLs so search rankings carry over.
Melbourne clients looking for a wordpress developer melbourne get the same team and the same process; we run Melbourne projects remotely with on-site sessions when needed. Whichever market you are in, a wordpress developer sydney engagement with us includes the SEO foundations, Core Web Vitals work and hosting options described above, and a wordpress developer melbourne project is scoped and quoted the same way.
A wordpress agency sydney build — or a wordpress developer sydney or wordpress developer melbourne project — is one of several ways we can deliver your site; the recommendation comes after scoping, not before.
Most website design briefs we take on in Sydney, from multi-site operators to Shopify Plus and B2B wholesale brands, need three things a template rarely gives: pages that load fast on a phone, a booking or enquiry flow that lands in the owner's inbox or CRM, and SEO foundations so the site is found without paying for every click. As a WordPress web design company we build those into a bespoke theme your team can edit; if you sell online, our Shopify web design work covers the theme, the catalogue structure and the checkout, with tracking wired to Google Ads and Meta Ads. For a multi-location brand's website project or a WordPress web design company rebuild, the scope comes first and the platform second; Shopify web design is the recommendation only when the catalogue and checkout need it.
After launch, the store can be marketed by the same team: see ecommerce marketing in Australia.
How We Run It
Discovery and planning first — a real scoping conversation on your business, audience and goals, not assumed. Design and custom-coded development follow, then cross-browser and cross-device testing before launch. Every Sydney project is scoped and quoted individually against the real deliverable.
How We Compare to Sydney's Established Studios
Sydney has a deep bench of established web design studios, many with a decade or more of local case studies.
We're not trying to out-local a long-tenured Sydney shop — our case is narrower: one team building the site alongside Sydney performance marketing if you need both, from a real Martin Place office, with the same team also covering Malaysia, Singapore and Taiwan for brands with reach beyond Australia.
More detail on How We Compare to Sydney's Established Studios
If your need is purely a local build with no broader cross-border angle, weigh that against a long-established Sydney-only studio's deeper local portfolio.
If you are comparing web design Sydney quotes, ask every studio the same three questions: who writes the page copy, who owns the hosting and domain after launch, and how enquiries are tracked once the site is live. A web design Sydney brief that answers those up front is easier to price and easier to hand over.
Parent programme: for the full Malaysia web design programme this page is scoped from, see Web Design & Development. Pair it with Sydney performance marketing or the wider Australia programme.
Need a website that performs in Sydney?
Work we can show
Nomad Coffee Group
Specialty coffee · Australia · Shopify Plus, B2B portal, SEO3.4× wholesale portal orders · Jan–Aug 2026
One Shopify Plus architecture, a self-serve wholesale portal for 700+ cafés, NetSuite middleware and national SEO.
Ofload
Freight platform · Australia · SEO, App development4.4× enterprise shipper leads · Jan–Dec 2025
240+ freight-corridor pages, technical SEO, native Swift and Kotlin carrier apps and store optimisation.- Cite this
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Frequently Asked Questions
How much does a website cost in Sydney?
We haven't published a verified AUD price band for this market yet — rather than estimate from a currency conversion of our Malaysia figures, we scope every Sydney project individually and quote against the real deliverable. Book a strategy call for a proposal tailored to your requirements.
Do you have a real team in Sydney, or is this run out of Malaysia?
We have a real Sydney office at Levels 1, 2 & 3, 60 Martin Place, Sydney NSW 2000 — the same office behind our Sydney performance marketing programme.
We're honest about being newer to the domestic Sydney web design scene than established local studios; our edge is a team that also covers Malaysia, Singapore and Taiwan for brands with reach beyond Australia.
Do you build on WordPress or custom code?
Both. We build custom WordPress sites — a bespoke theme rather than a purchased template — when your team wants to edit content itself, and custom-coded sites when the project is closer to an application. Shopify for stores. We recommend after scoping, based on who will maintain the site and what it has to do.
What's the difference between this page and your Australia web design page?
There isn't yet a separate national Australia web design page — this Sydney page is the first AU web design page we've built, chosen because Sydney carries lower keyword difficulty and we already have a real Sydney office to build the case study base from.
Is the website SEO-friendly?
Every website we build follows SEO best practices — clean code, proper heading structure, meta tags, schema markup, fast load times, and mobile responsiveness, pairing naturally with our Sydney performance marketing programme if you run one.
How long does it take to build a website?
Timeline depends on scope — we provide a real, project-specific estimate during discovery rather than a generic figure that doesn't reflect your actual requirements.
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Do you also work as a Shopify agency for Australian ecommerce brands?
Yes — as a shopify agency australia we handle Shopify theme customisation, app integration and checkout tuning where an ecommerce backend is the right foundation. From our Martin Place office we run Shopify builds for Sydney and multi-city AU clients alongside custom-coded builds for cases where template CMS constraints do not fit the business logic.
Are you a web design company Sydney businesses can work with?
Yes. shakalakaa operates from 60 Martin Place, Sydney, with design and engineering delivered from our Kuala Lumpur headquarters. We build custom-coded, Shopify and WordPress sites for Australian businesses, and the same team runs the SEO and paid media that sends traffic to them, so the site is built around how it will be found and measured.
What does a web development company do that a web designer doesn't?
The parts behind the design: integrations with your stock, payment, delivery and CRM systems, custom features, B2B ordering, web applications, and the tracking and page-speed work that decides whether the site converts. For a specialty coffee roaster we built on Shopify Plus including a B2B wholesale portal — see the case study.
Do you do ecommerce website development Sydney brands can scale on?
Yes — Shopify, Shopify Plus and WooCommerce stores, with inventory and fulfilment integrations, Meta and Google conversion tracking live from launch, and category and product pages structured for search. Australian Consumer Law applies to every price and claim on the store, so product copy is reviewed before launch.