Find a local web designer in Melbourne

A web design gig usually covers the look and layout of every page (colour, type, imagery, spacing), a mobile-responsive build or a design file handed to a developer, navigation and a contact form, and basic on-page SEO like page titles and alt text. Confirm in the brief whether the freelancer is designing only, or designing and building, because the price and timeline are very different.

A design that gets out of the customer's way. It loads fast on a phone, says what you do and where in the first screen, and makes the next step obvious (call, book, enquire). Real photos of your work and your team beat stock images, and reviews placed near the call to action do more for conversions than any clever animation.

A standard 5 to 8 page small business site typically takes 3 to 6 weeks from brief to launch. The design itself is usually a week or two; the rest is content, feedback rounds and revisions. Having your copy and photos ready before kickoff is the single biggest thing you can do to speed it up.

You can. Squarespace, Wix and Canva templates will get a presentable site live without design skills, and for some businesses that is enough. The trade-off is time (most owners sink 60 plus hours into their first site) and a template look that customers have seen before. A freelance designer gets you a site shaped around your business in weeks, and you still edit it yourself afterwards.

Template-based design (a quality theme customised to your brand) is faster and cheaper, and for a brochure site it is usually the right call. Custom design earns its keep when your business needs something templates do not handle well, such as unusual booking flows, a strong visual brand, or a site that has to stand apart in a crowded market. Ask the freelancer to quote both ways off your brief.

You should. The design files, the website itself, the domain and the hosting account all belong in your name, with you holding the master logins. Write it into the gig before work starts. On Unjumble, handover of files and access is a standard stage you sign off before the final payment is released.

It can, but design alone will not do it. A fast, mobile-friendly site with clear page titles and copy that matches what customers actually search is the foundation; Google also weighs your Google Business Profile and links from local sites. Most freelance web designers cover the on-page basics during the build. For ongoing ranking work, post a separate SEO gig.

A freelance web design project in Melbourne typically costs $2,500 to $7,000. Simple template-based sites can come in from around $1,000, while larger custom builds run up to $15,000. Page count, custom features and whether copy and photos are included all move the price.

Hourly rates for design-led web work run about $66 to $123. The $66 to $90 band is a junior designer, which can work when you're starting from a template and mostly need pages laid out well. Most web design gigs land at $82 to $123, an experienced designer who'll structure the site around what you actually want visitors to do, not just make it look current. The narrower spread here compared with other design work is worth knowing: web design rates cluster, so a quote well outside this band deserves a question either way.

Look at live sites they have shipped, not just mockups, and open them on your phone. Check they load fast and the call to action is obvious. Read their verified reviews on Unjumble, ask how many revision rounds the gig includes, and confirm who owns the site and the design files after launch.

Post a web design gig in under five minutes. Describe the work, set your budget and timeframe, and choose whether it is time-based or outcome-based. Local freelancers send a bid with a quote, you compare their profiles, portfolios and reviews, then pick the one that fits. Posting is free, so you only pay for the work.

Every gig is split into stages you both agree on up front. You fund each stage before the work starts and it is held securely through Stripe, then released once you sign off. No chasing invoices, and no paying for work that is not done.