I’m Stuart Dobson. I consult on AI for Australian businesses, and I live in Sunbury.
Sunbury Web came out of a fairly ordinary observation. Walking around Evans Street and out through the industrial estates, I kept finding good operators (sparkies, physios, cafés, landscapers, bookkeepers) with either no website at all, or one put together by somebody’s nephew in 2014 that nobody can log into any more.
When those businesses do go looking for help, a Melbourne agency quotes them $8,000 and they give up.
Why the city quote is so big
That $8,000 is real, and it’s mostly not the website. It’s an office in the CBD, an account manager, a project manager, a sales team on commission, and a designer who has never met you. The actual work of designing and making a five-page site for a local business is a fraction of it.
I don’t have any of that. You deal with me from the first phone call to the day it goes live, and the price reflects it.
What I won’t do
- I won’t sell you a theme. Every site gets a design drawn for that business. If I bought a template and swapped the logo I’d be charging you for twenty minutes of work.
- I won’t hold your site hostage. The domain goes in your name and you get every login on day one. If you want to leave, I’ll help you pack.
- I won’t sell you AI you don’t need. I do this for a living, and most of what’s being sold to small businesses right now is a chatbot that annoys customers. The handful of things that help have their own page, and I’ll tell you if none of them apply to you.
- I won’t disappear. I’m ten minutes away. If something breaks on a Saturday, you have my mobile.
What every site gets right
None of this is an upgrade or a line item.
Every site I make opens in about a second, because somebody standing in a carpark with one bar of reception will not wait longer than that. You can change a price or post your Christmas hours yourself, in a couple of minutes, without ringing anyone. And it’s set up so you turn up when a local searches for what you actually do, with your free Google Business Profile sorted at the same time.
The last one is the one nobody mentions. Plenty of your customers are over sixty, or reading a phone in bright sun, or working one-handed. About one Australian in five has a disability of some kind. Most local websites shut those people out without ever meaning to, and they take their business to whoever’s site they could actually use.
Where I work
Sunbury first, but I look after businesses across Diggers Rest, Bulla, Gisborne, Riddells Creek, Romsey and the Macedon Ranges, all within about half an hour of Sunbury.