How to Choose a Web Design Agency: What to Look For
How to choose a web design agency: the checks, the questions to ask, typical costs and when doing it yourself makes more sense.
New websites, e-commerce and maintenance
Web design in Mildura for businesses that want a site they can update themselves, built to turn visits into calls, bookings and sales.
Web design
Rock Solid Marketing designs and builds websites for businesses in Mildura and across Sunraysia and the Mallee, from our office on Deakin Avenue. You get a site that works on a phone, tells people what you do and makes it easy to call, book or buy.
When a business owner calls us about their website, it’s usually for one of three reasons: they can’t edit it, it looks broken on a phone, or nobody can find the prices. If you’re looking for a web designer in Mildura who hands you the keys, every site we build runs on a content management system you can update yourself.
Website packages start from $5,000 + GST, or 6 monthly payments of $833 + GST, and every project starts with a free 30-minute discovery call.

9+
Years serving Sunraysia and the Mallee
10+
Years’ minimum experience for every specialist
10
Marketing specialists on your team
6
Core digital channels, one joined-up strategy
What you get
Mildura website design from a team that builds for your customers, your industry and the phone in your customer’s hand.
Change your hours, add a staff member or post a special without calling anyone. We build on a content management system (the dashboard where you edit pages) and show you how it works.
A winery, a tradie and an aged care provider need different pages. Your theme is designed around your industry and brand. If you need custom website design in Mildura, Advanced is a bespoke build.
Plenty of your customers will meet you on a phone, often in a hurry. Every page is responsive and tested on phones and desktops before launch, with buttons big enough to tap.
Every page answers what you do, where you are and what to do next. Your phone number, booking button or enquiry form sits where people expect it, on every screen size.
Page titles, descriptions, headings and a sitemap are in place before launch, so Google can read every page. Ongoing SEO is a separate plan if you want to climb further.
Sell wine, apparel or a full product catalogue online, with a shopping cart and payment gateway. Our E-commerce package starts from $6,000 + GST, with the store set up for you.
Every package includes 12 months’ hosting. After that, Australian hosting is from $400 + GST a year, and care plans from $275 + GST a month keep the site updated and backed up.
Start with up to 5 pages on Essentials and add pages, products or email marketing later. Standard covers 10 to 25 pages and Advanced 25 to 50, with up to 50 products.
Your specialists
Lindsay BuckleyDigital MastermindSydney NSW
Rachel EhratCreator Of All Things Amazing!Tasmania
Saimul IslamDeveloper & AI expertBendigo VICHow it works
Four stages, with your feedback built in before anything goes live.
A free 30-minute call to scope your pages, features and budget against our website packages.
We design the site around your brand and content, with rounds of feedback along the way. Essentials includes three rounds.
We build on a content management system you can update yourself, set up the search basics and test the site on phones and desktops.
Keep the site secure and up to date with Australian hosting from $400 + GST a year and a care plan from $275 + GST a month (minimum 6 months).
How it starts
Before anyone opens a design file, we sit down with you (at our Deakin Avenue office by booking, or on a call) and work out who your customers are and what they need to do on your site. A caravan park needs bookings. A tradie needs the phone to ring. A winery needs wine orders and cellar door visits.
Then we map the pages, match them to a package and give you a fixed quote. You supply the business information, photos and words, or we write them for you at $175 + GST an hour.
You approve every page before it goes live.

Package inclusions
Packages assume you supply the business information, photos and words. Copywriting is available at $175 + GST an hour. Support after launch runs 2 weeks on Essentials, 4 weeks on Standard and 8 weeks on Advanced.
Website packages
Every package of our web design services includes a theme for your industry, responsive design, SSL, contact forms and 12 months’ hosting.
Essentials
From
$5,000+ GST
Up to 5 pages for a complete website design. Theme designed based on your industry. 3 rounds of feedback revisions.
Enquire NowStandard
From
$6,500+ GST
Design a comprehensive website, themed to suit your industry with all the necessary plug-ins to ensure security and SEO.
Enquire NowAdvanced
From
$12,000+ GST
Design a bespoke industry specific website, with all necessary plug-ins to ensure security and SEO.
Enquire NowE-commerce
From
$6,000+ GST
A customised e-commerce website, designed to attract, with an online store, shopping cart and online payment gateway integration.
Enquire NowWebsite maintenance
From
$275+ GST a month
We’ll keep your plugins and certificates up to date, monitor your website activity, fix any bugs or breaks that may arise, and keep your website backed up and secure.
Basic care for 3 to 5 page sites. Larger sites: Essentials $395 + GST a month; e-commerce and complex sites: Premium $549 + GST a month (minimum 6 months).
Enquire NowWeb hosting
From
$400+ GST a year
Flexible Australian hosting for businesses just starting out, growing fast, or running a high traffic e-commerce site. cPanel or VPS, with unlimited support.
Enquire NowAdd-ons
Set up the extras at launch, so your new site is measured, listed on Google Maps and ready to climb the search results.
Learn More About SEOGoogle Analytics, Search Console and Tag Manager set up and connected, so you can see who visits and what they do.
$800 + GSTYour listing on Google Maps set up with the right categories, hours, photos and a link to your new site.
$500 + GSTPackages assume you supply the words. We can write them in your voice, using the searches your customers make.
$175 + GST an hourKeyword research, on-page work, link building and a monthly report, with no lock-in contract.
From $1,000 + GST a monthMore Web Design
Near you
Our work
Irymple VICRock Solid Marketing created the brand and WordPress website for Mildura CCTV & Data, a CCTV, security and data cabling installer in Irymple VIC, along with customer guides, SEO and Facebook posts.
Mildura VICRock Solid Marketing designed the website and runs the marketing partnership for Princes Court, a community-owned aged care provider in Mildura, with social media, storytelling and community campaigns across its three services.
Strengthened Princes Court’s reputation as a community-first organisation
Murray Darling regionRock Solid Marketing built the first website for Capogreco Winery Estate, a family-owned boutique winery in the Murray Darling region established in 1976, with online wine sales and an SEO foundation for regional discovery.
The estate’s first website, built around its heritage
Wilcannia NSWRock Solid Marketing designed the logo and website for Warrawong on the Darling, an outback caravan park and cabin stay on the Darling River near Wilcannia NSW, and has run its SEO and social media since 2021.
Broken Hill NSWRock Solid Marketing designed and built a new website for Tristate Tours, a small-group Outback tour company in Broken Hill NSW. Its 36 travel posts and WeTravel bookings came across, and every old page address still works.

Rock Solid Marketing built a new website and content management system for Aline Trading, with a complete product catalogue the team can update themselves, searchable by category, price and specification.
Working with Janine and the Rock Solid team was wonderful. No matter the idea I had, Janine and the team brought it to life and always exceeded expectations. It was a joy and pleasure working and I learnt so much along the way too.
Where we work
Our head office is at 3/71 Deakin Ave, Mildura. We have worked with businesses across Sunraysia and the Mallee since 2017, and with clients across Australia.
From 14 Web Design projects in our portfolio.
Resources
How to choose a web design agency: the checks, the questions to ask, typical costs and when doing it yourself makes more sense.
Do I need a website redesign? Signs your site is outdated, refresh vs rebuild, how long it takes and how to keep your Google rankings.
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FAQ
Can’t find what you’re after? Call us on 1800 842 022 or browse every answer on our FAQ page.
All FAQsWeb design with Rock Solid Marketing starts from $5,000 + GST for an Essentials site of up to 5 pages. Standard (10 to 25 pages) is $6,500 + GST, Advanced (25 to 50 pages) is $12,000 + GST and an online store starts from $6,000 + GST. Each can be paid in 6 monthly payments. More pages, products or integrations raise the price; supplying your own words and photos keeps it down.
Our web designers charge $175 + GST an hour for design and marketing work beyond a package. That covers changes past your feedback rounds, extra pages or copywriting. For small edits after launch, Upfront hours are the same rate, bought in blocks of 3 or 5, with a log of the time used. Larger changes get a quote first, so the cost is never a surprise.
It depends mostly on the number of pages and how quickly your words and photos arrive. An Essentials site of up to 5 pages moves faster than an Advanced site of 25 to 50 pages with integrations. You get a timeline with your quote after the discovery call. Support continues after launch: 2 weeks on Essentials, 4 weeks on Standard and 8 weeks on Advanced.
Web design is planning how a website looks and works: its layout, colours, fonts, pages and the path to call, book or buy. Web development is the build behind it, such as the code, the content management system, forms and payments. Every Rock Solid Marketing package covers both, so you deal with one team from the first sketch to launch day.
Responsive web design means one website that rearranges itself to fit any screen, from a phone to a wide desktop monitor. Menus fold away, images resize and buttons stay big enough to tap. Every site we build is responsive and checked on phones and desktops before launch. A page that breaks on a phone loses the customer before they read a word.
A CMS (content management system) is the dashboard you log into to edit your website without touching code. You can change text, swap photos, add a page or post news. Standard and Advanced include a WordPress user manual. We also walk you through the basics at handover, so you aren’t paying someone every time your opening hours change.
A web design agency plans, designs, builds and launches your website, then helps you look after it. With us that means a discovery call, a page plan, design with rounds of feedback, the build on a CMS, set-up for Google, launch and hosting. Because we also run SEO, social media and Google Ads, the site is built for the marketing that comes after it.
A web design company is a business with a team that designs and builds websites, rather than one person doing everything. At Rock Solid Marketing, a graphic designer, a developer and an SEO specialist work behind one account manager. A freelancer can cost less for a small site. A company covers you when someone is sick, on leave or moves on.
You can find web designers in Mildura through Google, local business networks and the websites of businesses you admire. The footer often names who built it. Rock Solid Marketing is at 3/71 Deakin Ave, Mildura, with consultations by booking. Whoever you choose, ask to see sites they’ve built for businesses like yours and who looks after the site once it’s live.
Build it yourself if you only need a simple page soon and have the time to learn a website builder. If a do-it-yourself builder will do the job, we’ll tell you before we quote. Hire a web designer when the site has to win work: several services, bookings, an online store or showing up on Google against competitors. Essentials, from $5,000 + GST, is our starting point.
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