Chapter VI of Six · Website Design & Development · Newcastle
Your website is either winning you jobs or losing them quietly.
Custom websites for trades, construction and service businesses across Newcastle and the Hunter. Built to convert, not to sit there looking tidy.
- Custom designed, never a template you will outgrow in two years
- Staged payments tied to milestones you approve, never a lump sum up front
- Three major rounds of design revisions until you are satisfied
- Mobile-first, because 70 to 80% of your visitors are on a phone
- 60-day warranty and training so you can update it yourself
Businesses We've Worked With
What's Actually Happening
They looked you up before they called.
Almost nobody finds a trade and rings on the spot. Someone passes on your name at a job site, or they see the ute, or they search. Then they look you up. Every one of them does.
That is the thirty seconds your website exists for. A stranger decides whether you are a real operation or a bloke with a logo, whether you do the exact thing they need, and whether calling you is going to be easy or a hassle.
You never hear from the ones who decide no. There is no notification, no missed call, no record. That is exactly what makes a weak website so expensive and so easy to tolerate for years.
The jobs you lost this way never showed up in any report.
Why Most Of It Fails
Most trade websites are brochures with a phone number at the bottom.
They look fine. That is the problem. The design is rarely what is broken.
What is broken is that nobody ever decided what the site was supposed to make someone do. So it does not make them do anything. No offer, no proof, no reason to enquire today rather than keep scrolling through the other six tabs they have open.
We build websites the way we build campaigns: engineered around one job, which is turning a stranger into an enquiry you can quote.
The Short Answer
Black Lion Digital designs and develops custom websites for service businesses: construction, painting, plumbing, property detailing and other trades. Builds run across six stages with payments tied to approved milestones, include three major design revision rounds, and every site ships with a 60-day warranty, SEO foundations and a training session.
What's Included
Everything the job actually needs.
Kickoff and roadmap
A dedicated project manager gathers your goals, brand assets, images and content, and we agree exactly what the site has to achieve before anyone designs anything.
The homepage first
We craft the homepage as a bespoke build. It sets the standard every other page follows, and you approve it before we scale it out.
Design and copy together
SEO-optimised copy written in the language your ideal client uses, designed around the words rather than dropped into a layout afterwards. Three major revision rounds, so the design stage ends when you are satisfied, not when the calendar says so.
Development on a staging site
You watch it take shape on a collaborative staging site and your feedback steers it, rather than seeing it for the first time at the end.
Pre-live review
A meticulous last look at every pixel, every function and every word before a single visitor sees it.
Launch, warranty and Web Care
A one-on-one training session so you can run it yourself, a 60-day warranty on anything technical, and an optional monthly Web Care plan covering hosting, software updates, security monitoring, backups and a support hour. Cancel it any time.
Proof
It works, and here is one we can show you.
40%+
increase in website conversions after the rebuild
Same traffic, same products, same ad spend. We rebuilt the site around how people actually buy and the conversion rate moved by more than forty percent.
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The Honest Bit
What we will and will not promise.
Three months to prove it, then no lock-in
We ask for an initial three months, because that is how long it takes to build the system and let real data speak. After that it is month to month, with thirty days' written notice whenever you need it.
No money-back guarantee, and here is why
Every company we have seen offering one is running a churn-and-burn model. Nobody can guarantee a specific outcome. We guarantee the work, the optimisation and the honesty.
Built in your account, not ours
Your ad account, your pixel history, your data. If we part ways you keep every bit of it.
Nothing outsourced overseas
Every campaign is run by a full-time Black Lion employee, with a dedicated consultant you actually speak to.
From the Builds
5.0from 57 Google reviewsDaniel and the team at Black Lion Digital are passionate about what they do, they genuinely care about our business. The knowledge and experience of the team gives us the peace of mind that we are in the best hands.
Straight Answers
Your questions, answered.
How much does a website cost?
There is no fixed price, because a website can be one page or a hundred. Every build is custom designed around what your business actually needs to win work. If you are after a cheap templated site that needs replacing in two years, we are honestly not the right fit.
How long does it take to build a website?
Roughly 10 to 12 weeks from scratch, covering kickoff, design, copy, development, testing and training. An express option is available at extra cost when a deadline genuinely demands it.
What is your payment process?
Payments are staged against milestones you approve: one to start, one when the designs are signed off, and the balance before the site goes live. Each stage only begins once you are happy with the last, and nothing unexpected appears in between.
What do I need to supply?
Your logo files and any photos or videos you want on the site. Everything else, including the writing, is on us. One honest warning from experience: gathering content always takes longer than owners expect, so start early, because the build cannot enter development until the content is agreed.
Do you write the copy?
Yes, from your input. You know your offer and your proof better than we do; turning that into words that sell is our job. You will not be sent a blank document two weeks before launch.
Do you offer any kind of warranty?
Yes. Once the site goes live we enable a 60-day warranty covering technical issues. It does not cover breakage caused by changes made at your end, but if something we built misbehaves, we fix it.
Will it work on mobile?
Always. 70 to 80% of visitors to your site will be on a mobile device, so every website we build is fully responsive as standard, and we design for the phone first.
Do I own it, and can I edit it myself?
Yes to both. Ownership transfers to you in full at handover, and we deliberately build in a way most developers can support, so you are never locked to us. You get a one-on-one training session and a site you can update yourself. Changing a phone number should never require an invoice from us.
How do you approach SEO?
Every build includes keyword research, on-page optimisation, technical SEO and content creation as foundations, so Google can find you from day one. Ongoing SEO is a separate service if you want to keep climbing.
Limited to Three Businesses a Month
The Acquisition Audit
The Acquisition Audit is a free in-depth marketing report from Black Lion Digital covering three areas: your traffic campaigns, your sales pages and your follow-up. Valued at over $1,500, it is limited to three businesses per month and identifies what to double down on and what to fix first.
See what a rebuild actually looks like.
Twenty-four builds with the before and after side by side. Drag the slider and judge it yourself.