Guides
Straight answers for Perth small businesses
No jargon, no agency fluff. Practical guides on what a website should cost, how to get found on Google, and how to make your business look the part online - written by the people who build the sites.
Start with how much a website costs in Perth, with the published prices of 13 Perth designers.
- Costs & pricing How Much Update Time Does Your Website Need? Basic, Specialist or Premium Changes to words and photos you can make yourself, free. For the rest, here's how 30 minutes or an hour of included change time compares with paying by the hour, with real prices.
- Owning your website Website Maintenance Checklist: What to Do, How Often and What It Costs One table of every website maintenance job: how often to do it, why it matters, the tool to do it yourself and what it costs, and whether our care plan does it for you.
- Costs & pricing Website Management or Maintenance: What Each Costs a Month (2026) Do you need someone to keep your website running, or someone to run it for you? Here are the levels of help, what each covers, and what each costs a month in Australia.
- Case studies Case Study: How We Redesigned the Australian Society of Hypnosis WA Website in One Week The Australian Society of Hypnosis WA needed its old WordPress site replaced, and we had one week to do it. Here is the before and after, what it saves the Society, and why each change was made.
- Costs & pricing What a $500 Website Includes, and Why It's Hard to Beat (2026) A line-by-line look at what you get in CatalystHub's $500 Standard build, what it costs over three years beside a website builder and a typical designer build, and what $500 doesn't cover.
- Costs & pricing $500 or $1,500: which website does your business need? An honest side-by-side of CatalystHub's Specialist and Standard website builds, five signs you've outgrown five pages, and what the Specialist build adds.
- For your industry Ahpra advertising rules for clinic websites: reviews, before-and-after photos, claims and offers (2026) For allied health and cosmetic clinics: what Ahpra's advertising guidelines and the National Law say about testimonials, before-and-after photos, claims, offers and titles, quoted from Ahpra's own pages on 6 November 2026. Then how our Specialist build is set up for regulated clinics.
- For your industry Your website and capability statement: a guide for WA contractors chasing tenders What WA purchasing officers and tender panels look for, what goes in a capability statement, where WA work is advertised, and how a contractor's website should carry the same evidence, with a downloadable PDF version.
- Getting started How to write a website brief for a 10 to 30 page website A practical outline for briefing a 10 to 30 page website, built on the WA Government's own website planner: what to write under each heading, the rules your industry may need named, and how to turn the brief into a fixed price before you pay.
- Costs & pricing Online booking for business websites: tools and costs in Australia (2026) What booking tools charge, read from each tool's own pricing page on 6 November 2026, how a booking tool connects to your website, and how our Specialist build includes booking integrations.
- Getting started Planning a 10 to 15 Page Business Website: Which Pages You Need (2026) Which pages a growing business website needs, how many of each, and why every page earns its place on Google and in AI answers, from Google's own guidance.
- Getting started Questions to ask a web designer before a bigger website project (2026) Seven questions worth asking before you pay for a bigger website, what a good answer sounds like for each, and CatalystHub's own answers.
- Costs & pricing How to show prices on your website in Australia: the total-price rule (2026) What the Australian Consumer Law and the state consumer regulators say about showing prices on a website: the total price as one figure, GST included, no hidden fees and no drip pricing. Information, not legal advice.
- Getting started Does my business website need to meet accessibility standards in Australia? WCAG 2.2 and the law What the Disability Discrimination Act and the Australian Human Rights Commission say about websites, what WCAG 2.2 Level AA asks for in plain words, and how accessibility is built into a CatalystHub Specialist website.
- Google & getting found How should a business with several locations set up its website? (2026) How to set up one website for a business with more than one location, from Google's own guidance: a page for each location, one Business Profile per real location, a consistent name and a local phone number. Plus how many pages that adds and what it costs.
- Google & getting found How to Redesign Your Website Without Losing Google Rankings (2026) You're replacing a website that already brings in work from Google. Here is how to move it without losing your place: page addresses, redirects, moving the content and checking Search Console after launch, all from Google's own guidance.
- Costs & pricing What should a web design quote include? A 9-point checklist (Australia, 2026) The nine things a clear web design quote lists, what a good answer to each looks like, and how CatalystHub's Specialist build answers them in writing before you pay.
- Costs & pricing How Much Does a 5-Page Website Cost in Australia? What a website of about five pages costs in Australia, from 44 prices web designers publish on their own sites, read between 17 October and 5 November 2026: the median, the spread, how we read them and what pushes the price up.
- Getting started What Should a Small Business Website Include? A Checklist Before You Hire A short checklist of what a small business website needs, with one line on why each matters and how to check it before you pay.
- Costs & pricing How much does a website cost by number of pages? 5 to 30 pages in Australia (2026) What Australian web designers charge for about 5, 10, 15, 20 and 30 pages, from 25 published price lists read on 5 November 2026, what usually changes as a site grows, and CatalystHub's prices beside them.
- Costs & pricing What Does a Small Business Website Really Cost Over 3 Years? (2026) The build price is only the start. We set out three years of build, hosting, care plan and domain costs for three common setups, using published Australian prices.
- Costs & pricing What WA web designers publish as their prices: an audit of 94 websites (October 2026) An audit of the website prices web designers in nine WA areas outside central Perth publish on their own sites: the counts by town, the spread of the lowest advertised prices, how we read them and what the numbers can't tell you.
- Getting started AI Automation for Australian Businesses: What It Does and How It's Priced Missed calls answered by text, job dockets priced from a photo, supplier invoices checked against the quote. What AI automation does in a working business, how the price works, and what to ask first.
- Getting started Custom Web Design: When It's Worth Paying More (2026) A template is a ready-made design you fill in. A custom design starts from a blank page and your business. Here's what that means, what it costs at every level, and how to check a designer's work before you pay.
- Costs & pricing How Much Does a Website Cost in Perth? Web Design Prices (2026) We read the websites of 97 Perth web designers, from Joondalup to Fremantle to Canning Vale. About one in three shows a price. Here is what five pages costs in Perth, and what it adds up to over two years.
- Getting started WordPress Web Design in Perth: Yes, We'll Build It, Plus Upkeep and Speed (2026) Yes, we build on WordPress if you want it, quoted for your project. The $500 five-page build and free hosting are our usual setup, which isn't WordPress. Here's what WordPress takes to keep running and when we'd suggest our usual setup instead.
- Costs & pricing How We Build a $500 Website in Perth Without Outsourcing It (2026) Is a $500 website sent overseas to be built? Ours isn't. Here is where the saving comes from, line by line, and what $500 does not cover.
- Getting started Keep Maintaining an Old Website, or Rebuild It? (2026) Someone has quoted you a monthly fee to look after your old website. Before you sign, compare it with the price of starting again. Here is the maths, and when to keep the old site.
- Costs & pricing What Web Designers in Adelaide Charge (2026) We read the websites of the first 20 Adelaide-based web design businesses Google showed us. Twelve show a price. Here are the Adelaide prices we found for about five pages, and what they add up to over two years.
- Costs & pricing What Web Designers in Melbourne Charge (2026) We read the websites of the first 20 web design businesses Google showed us for Melbourne. Seven show a price. Here are the Melbourne prices we found for about five pages, and what they add up to over two years.
- Costs & pricing What Web Designers in Brisbane Charge (2026) We read the websites of the first 20 Brisbane-based web design businesses Google showed us. Fourteen show a price. Here are the Brisbane prices we found for about five pages, and what they add up to over two years.
- Costs & pricing What Web Designers in Sydney Charge (2026) We read the websites of the first 20 web design businesses Google showed us for Sydney. Eight show a price. Here are the Sydney prices we found for about five pages, and what they add up to over two years.
- Costs & pricing How Much Does a Tradie Website Cost in Australia? (2026) We read the pricing pages of 12 businesses that sell websites to Australian tradies. Here's what a tradie website costs in 2026, what it adds up to over two years, and what yours has to show by law in WA. Outside Perth? We build remotely, at the same price anywhere in Australia.
- Costs & pricing How Much Does Website Maintenance Cost in Australia? (2026) We read the maintenance pricing pages of 18 Australian web businesses. Here's what a monthly plan costs in 2026, what an hour of changes costs, and how to tell if you need a plan at all.
- Costs & pricing Cheap Web Design in Perth: What $399–$500 Actually Gets You (2026) A $399 website sounds like a steal until you find out it's a template you rent and can't leave. Here's how to tell a real budget deal from a trap.
- Google & getting found How to Get Your Perth Business on Google (2026) "Getting on Google" is really two things: the map (your free Google Business Profile) and the blue links (your website). Here's how to do both, in order.
- Owning your website Who Owns Your Website? Code, Domain & Hosting Explained (2026) "You own it" is what every web designer says. But ownership is three separate things, and plenty of businesses only discover the gap the day they try to leave.
- Getting started Wix vs a Custom Website for Small Business: Which Is Right? (2026) Wix looks cheap until you count the weekends it eats, the rent you never stop paying, and the fact you can't take it with you. Here's the honest comparison.
- Costs & pricing How Much Does a Small Business Website Cost in Australia? (2026) DIY builder, freelancer, or agency? Here's what a small business website actually costs in Australia in 2026 - and where the hidden costs hide.
- Getting started Is WordPress Still Worth It for a Small Business Website? (2026) WordPress runs a huge slice of the internet. That doesn't mean it's the right call for a five-page small-business site in 2026. Here's the honest trade-off.