WEB DESIGN MELBOURNE
xCreative™ is a Melbourne web design and development studio based in Chadstone. Since 2016 we have designed and built websites for more than 200 businesses across Australia, including Tony Deng & Co, The Leasing Agency and Grand Galaxy Chauffeur. We work in both English and Chinese. Specialised work has its own pages too, see WordPress web design and childcare centre branding. Interstate builds ship the same way, with dedicated pages for Sydney, Brisbane, the Gold Coast, Perth, Adelaide and Canberra.
We are designers first, so our sites do not look like templates, and we are the same people who handle your brand and your search visibility. A website from us arrives already consistent with your identity and already structured to rank.
Web Design
Websites designed, built and maintained by one team, from first wireframe to ongoing support.
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Design & UX
Layouts and user journeys shaped around your content and your customers. BEKL wanted a gallery, not a corporate site, so that is what we built: large images, editorial pacing, no clutter fighting the work.
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Development
Hand-built WordPress sites that load fast and hold up. When the job needs real engineering we do that too: Grand Galaxy Chauffeur runs a custom booking system that takes payment and dispatches jobs to its fleet automatically.
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Integrations & Automation
Websites that talk to your other systems. Cedar Elm publishes property listings once and they appear on the site and the major commercial portals at the same time, through a CRM pipeline we built into the site.
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CMS & Training
Built on WordPress your team can actually drive. We hand over with training, so updating a menu, a project page or a staff profile does not require calling us. Plenty of clients still call anyway, which is fine too.
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Maintenance & Hosting
After launch we keep the site secure, backed up, updated and online. Many of the sites we have built are still under our care, which tells you something about how the relationship tends to go.
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SEO & Bilingual Build
Technical SEO, English and Chinese metadata, structured data and llms.txt built in from day one, so the site is ready to rank on Google and be cited by AI search before it even launches.
How we work
Four steps, one team, no handovers.
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Scope & Sitemap
We map what the site needs to do and who it serves, then structure the pages around search demand, not org charts.
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Design
Desktop and mobile designs you approve before a line of code. What you sign off is what gets built.
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Build & Test
Development, content load, speed tuning and testing on real phones. The 7pm-on-a-train test matters more than the boardroom demo.
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Launch & Maintain
DNS, analytics, Search Console and search optimisation from day one, then ongoing care so the site stays fast and safe.
Why xCreative
Why clients build with us.
Most web agencies design or develop or do marketing. Splitting those three across suppliers is where projects go wrong, because the designer blames the developer and everyone blames the SEO. Here they sit in the same room. The person structuring your pages for Google is the person who designed them, so nothing gets retrofitted.
The proof is on this site. The landing pages, the structured data and the bilingual metadata you cannot see are the same work we sell, applied to ourselves first. If your website cannot demonstrate your own service, why would anyone buy it from you?
Websites for small businesses
What a small business site needs.
Most small business sites need five to ten pages: home, one page per service, about, a few real projects, contact and the legal pages. Each service page names the service and the suburbs you cover, because that is what customers type into Google.
We build on WordPress so you can edit text and photos yourself, or on Shopify if you sell online. Every quote is written for your project after a short briefing: the number of pages, whether we write the copy, whether you need photography and any booking or payment features are what move the scope. We do not publish a standard price because no two sites are the same.
Before you brief anyone, read what to prepare before you brief a web design agency. Already have a site? We can rebuild it without losing what ranks, or look after it with website maintenance. Leaving another developer? Our checklist for changing web developers lists the accounts and files to secure in week one.
Web design across Melbourne
Every suburb, one studio.
We work with businesses right across Melbourne. Each area has its own page with local projects: eastern suburbs, south east (where our Chadstone studio is), inner Melbourne and bayside, northern suburbs and western suburbs.
Suburb pages: Port Melbourne, South Yarra, Albert Park, Docklands, Box Hill, Glen Waverley, Kew, Ferntree Gully, Rowville, Wantirna, Chadstone, Oakleigh, Clayton, Mulgrave, Bentleigh, Narre Warren, Ivanhoe, Northcote, Bundoora, Greensborough, Footscray, Yarraville, Williamstown and Altona.
FAQ
Questions clients ask us.
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Do you build on WordPress?
Mostly, because clients can run it themselves and it plays well with SEO. Where a job needs custom engineering, like the Grand Galaxy booking platform, we build that alongside it.
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How long does a website take?
A focused business site runs four to eight weeks. Larger builds with integrations or bilingual versions run longer. We give you a real timeline after scoping, not a sales-call guess.
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Can you rebuild our existing site without losing our Google rankings?
Yes. We map every existing URL, preserve what ranks, redirect what moves and usually improve the technical foundation in the process. Rankings normally rise after a rebuild done properly.
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What does a website cost?
Depends on scope: a brochure site, an integrated platform and a bilingual build are different jobs. Send us what you need and we will quote it straight.
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How do I choose the best web designer in Melbourne?
Look at live sites they have built, not mockups, and open them on your phone. Ask who will own the domain and the site, what the ongoing costs are and whether search basics are in the scope. The best website designer for you is the one whose past work looks like what you need and who explains the process clearly. Our guide on what to prepare before you brief a web design agency covers the questions to ask. Our checklist for choosing the best web designer in Melbourne goes further, and small businesses can start with what the best website designers for small business do differently.
Selected work
A selection from more than 200 projects. Filter by type below. Brand and website delivered together: Embrace Architects, WCL Development and Activation Group.
Contact
Talk to a Melbourne team about your website.
Phone: 0402 723 810
Email: richie@xcreative.com.au
Studio: Tower 1, Level 8, 1341 Dandenong Road, Chadstone VIC 3148
See our full portfolio of 63 case studies or read about xCreative.
