Devarko Australia · Perth

Web Design for Perth Businesses

We are Devarko, a web studio based in Hobart, working with businesses across Australia. We are not in Perth, and we will not pretend a serviced address makes us local. Most Perth companies already run half their supplier relationships with the eastern states remotely, so a studio in another state is nothing new to them. The time zone actually works in your favour: Australian Western Standard time puts us a couple of hours ahead, so we are at our desks and working through your Perth morning, and interstate is a short flight for the rare session that genuinely needs a room.

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Why a remote studio suits Perth

Perth is the most isolated capital city in the world, and that shapes how business gets done here. Firms in West Perth and Subiaco already brief lawyers and accountants in Sydney and Melbourne without anyone getting on a plane. A website is no different in practice. The work happens over shared documents, scheduled calls and a staging link you can open from your office in Osborne Park or from a site office in the corridor north of the city.

The time difference helps more than people expect. Hobart runs ahead of Perth for most of the year, so we are online while your morning is still getting going. A question you send first thing tends to have an answer waiting by mid morning, which is the opposite of the lag people brace for with an interstate supplier.

We are honest about the limit of this. There is no Devarko office in Perth, and if you want someone to sit across a table every fortnight, we are not the right studio. For a launch workshop or a board presentation that truly needs everyone in one room, we book a flight and come across. The rest of the build runs cleanly from a distance.

Build quality that reads as credible

A lot of Perth work rides on how serious a business looks to a corporate buyer. West Perth is thick with resources and professional-services firms whose sites have to hold up in front of the mining clients and investors who form a view in the first few seconds. A slow or dated site quietly undercuts a pitch that is otherwise strong.

We build sites that load quickly and behave properly on the devices people actually use. Our own site scores in the high 90s on Google Lighthouse, and we hold client builds to the same standard for speed, accessibility and clean markup. That matters as much for a boutique retailer in Claremont or a consultancy in Subiaco as it does for a resources company, because the same buyer who judges a corporate site also judges a shopfront brand.

None of this is decoration for its own sake. Fast pages hold attention and give search engines a cleaner site to read. Build quality and the way a site performs in Google are the same job done well, not two separate ones.

Custom code or WordPress, chosen for the job

We build custom-coded sites and web apps, and we also work with WordPress when that is the sensible choice. The decision comes from what the business needs, not from what we feel like building. A creative or hospitality business around Northbridge or Mount Lawley that mostly needs to publish and update content regularly is often well served by a well built WordPress site. A firm with logins, bookings, quoting or anything data heavy is usually better off with custom code that we control end to end.

The proof is in what we run in production. Our own freight ERP, Cargonio, and the Bright Future e-learning platform used across Kuwait are both live systems handling real logins and payments, not mockups, so we are comfortable when a website needs to grow into something with moving parts. You can read more about how we approach the technical side on our web development page.

If you are not sure which route fits, that is a normal starting point. We would rather talk through the actual requirement and recommend the lighter option where it holds up, than sell a heavier build than the work warrants.

You keep everything we build

Ownership is simple with us and we put it in writing. You keep the code, the hosting accounts, the domain and the content. Everything is registered in your name and handed over in full, so nothing about your site is hostage to staying our client.

This matters to independent businesses in particular. Fremantle has its own character as a creative port city full of operators who value being able to move and change their minds, and the last thing any of them needs is a site locked inside an agency account they cannot reach. If you decide to bring the work in house or move to another studio one day, you can, and we will help with the handover rather than make it difficult.

We are happy to talk through exactly how the accounts and handover work before you commit to anything. If that is the part you want certainty on first, start an enquiry and we will walk you through it plainly.

What a build costs, and where SEO fits

Every website build is quoted per project, because a five page site for a Cockburn trades business and a content heavy platform for a larger firm are not the same piece of work and should not carry the same price. We scope what you need, then give you a fixed number to consider. No guessing games, and no padding for meetings that could have been an email.

Search is a separate service, priced month to month from AUD $990 with no lock-in contract. This suits the growth corridors well, where a newer business in Joondalup to the north or the southern suburbs is competing to be found for local searches and needs steady work rather than a one off. You can see how the build and SEO services fit together on our packages page.

Keeping the two separate keeps you in control. Some clients want a strong site built once and left to earn its keep. Others want us on the search work every month. Neither is forced on you, and you can start with the build and add SEO later once the site is live and the numbers give us something real to work with.

Questions

Perth businesses often ask.

Can you really work with a Perth business from Hobart?
Yes, and it is most of what we do. Perth companies already deal with eastern-states suppliers remotely as a normal part of business, so a web studio in another state is familiar ground. We run the whole build over calls and a staging link, and because we sit a couple of hours ahead on the clock we are working through your Perth morning. A West Perth resources firm needs a site that reads as credible to corporate and investor eyes, while a Fremantle independent cares most about owning and being able to move its site, and we have run both kinds of build from Hobart without the distance getting in the way. For the rare meeting that truly needs a room, we fly across.
How much does a website cost?
Website builds are quoted per project, so the honest answer is that it depends on what the site needs to do. A simple brochure site and a site with logins, bookings or a lot of content are very different pieces of work. We scope your requirement first, then give you a fixed price to consider before anything starts. There are no hidden charges added later.
Do you offer SEO as well as the build?
Yes. SEO is a separate, ongoing service priced month to month from AUD $990 with no lock-in contract. It is the right fit for businesses competing to be found in local search, particularly newer firms in growth areas around the city. You can take just the build, just the SEO, or both, and you can add SEO after the site is live once there is real data to work from.
Will I own the website and be able to move it later?
Yes, completely. You own the code, the hosting accounts, the domain and the content, all registered in your name. Nothing is locked inside an account you cannot access. If you ever decide to move to another provider or bring the work in house, you can take everything with you, and we will help with the handover rather than stand in the way.

Planning a website in Perth?

Tell us what you need, from West Perth to Fremantle, and we will give you a straight answer on scope and price.

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