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Web Design Sunshine Coast

Senior web expertise for established organisations.

Based in Minyama on the Sunshine Coast, we design, build and support websites and digital platforms for established organisations with complex requirements. Usually that means custom functionality, connected business systems, a large content operation, or a website that has stopped keeping up with the organisation behind it.

You get a senior team rather than a production line, and we have been working on the Coast since 2018. Impact Office Supplies, Queensland-owned and running from the Sunshine Coast, has a B2B and B2C ordering platform, delivery management software, and Back to School software we designed, built and still actively develop today. The people who scope your project are the people who design it, build it and support it for years to come.

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  • Based in Minyama, on the Sunshine Coast
  • Direct access to the senior people doing the work
  • Complex websites, eCommerce and business system integrations
  • Building for Sunshine Coast organisations since 2018
Impact Office Supplies catalogue page, showing faceted category filtering, contract pricing and bulk order quantities across 15,000 products
Impact Office Supplies Sunshine Coast Laravel B2B and B2C since 2018

Trusted by established organisations Australia-wide

Culture Kings All4Adventure Creative Conversions ROH Wheels Museum of Brisbane Griffith University Wotif Group Healing Foundation FurnX Commercial Furniture Impact Office Supplies Blue Ink Velg Training Gippsland PHN East Coast Bullbars Inspiring Brighter Futures Triple P Positive Parenting Program Brisbane South PHN Burger Urge
Years of commercial web experience
15+
Monthly requests, built to handle ROH Wheels
20M+
B2B conversion rate Impact Office Supplies
33.5%
Years in a typical ongoing client relationship
5 to 8
Who this is for

Web design for organisations that have outgrown a basic website.

The brief is rarely just a redesign. If you need a five-page brochure site, the Sunshine Coast has plenty of good, affordable options and we'll happily point you at them.

  • The website is commercially important

    Revenue, service delivery, referrals, enrolments or member communications depend on it working properly.

  • Content has outgrown the sitemap

    Several audiences, a large library and an internal team that all need to find and maintain the same material.

  • Custom functionality is part of the product

    Search, quoting, portals, applications, calculators or workflows that no off-the-shelf theme covers.

  • Other systems have to stay in step

    ERP, CRM, inventory, accounting, payments or fulfilment need dependable, traceable data flow in both directions.

  • Accessibility and governance matter

    Boards, funders or procurement expect WCAG 2.2 foundations and an accountable process behind them.

  • The current build is holding you back

    Performance problems, reliability issues, legacy code, technical debt, or a platform nobody wants to own.
Local, not local-only

Senior web design and development, based on the Sunshine Coast.

Most web design on the Sunshine Coast is aimed at small business, and a lot of it is aimed well. If you need a smart-looking site for a trade, a cafe or a studio, the local market has you covered.

We're here for the other kind of brief. Jonathan Bird, our founder and technical lead, and Mishalia Bird, our design and content lead, both work from Minyama, so getting in a room with a Coast client is easy.

We're not new here either. Impact Office Supplies, Queensland-owned and Sunshine Coast based, has been a client since 2018. Their ordering platform carries a 15,000-product catalogue, contract pricing per account and a three-way ERP integration, and converts at 33.5% on 3.4 million annual pageviews. It's still in active development.

The rest of our work is Australia-wide: health, government-funded services, enterprise, education, manufacturing and distribution. On the Coast we work with organisations from Caloundra through to Noosa. Brisbane is still a major market and hasn't changed.

Where we are
Minyama, Sunshine Coast Our founder and our design lead both work from Minyama, a few minutes from Mooloolaba and Kawana.
Working here since
2018 Impact Office Supplies, our Sunshine Coast based B2B and B2C eCommerce client.
The rest of the team
Brisbane and Australia-wide A senior developer based in Brisbane, and project experience across health, government-funded services, enterprise and distribution.
How we meet
In person or remote Face to face across the Coast and in Brisbane, remote everywhere else.
Case Studies

Proven website development for established organisations.

Two of these are for Impact Office Supplies, our Sunshine Coast client since 2018: their B2B and B2C ordering platform, and their delivery management software. The other two aren't local, and we won't pretend otherwise. They're here for the complexity, which is the part that transfers.

Is your website closer to this than to a brochure site?

Tell us what's not working. We'll work out the requirements and recommend a sensible next step before anyone talks scope and cost.

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Where we fit

Websites get complicated. That's where we fit.

Four situations account for most of the work that reaches us.

01

Content-heavy websites and digital platforms

Hundreds of pages, several audiences and a content team that has to keep it all straight. Information architecture, a content model people can actually use, and navigation and search that hold up as the library grows.
02

eCommerce beyond a basic online store

B2B and wholesale ordering, dealer networks, contract pricing, product compatibility rules, deep catalogues and approval workflows. Usually with an ERP behind it that has to stay the source of truth.
03

Websites connected to business systems

ERP, CRM, accounting, inventory, payment gateways, search and third-party APIs. The hard part isn't the first successful sync. It's what happens when a record fails and nobody notices for a week.
04

Existing websites that need serious development

Migrations, performance, reliability, security remediation, legacy code and technical debt. Sometimes the answer is a rebuild. More often it's stabilising what exists and improving it from there.
Industries

Websites for established Sunshine Coast organisations.

The Coast economy is more than tourism and trades. These are the sectors where our web design and development experience is most relevant.

Manufacturing & Distribution

Manufacturers, wholesalers and distributors with deep catalogues, trade and contract pricing, and an ERP that has to stay authoritative while customers self-serve online.

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Health, Government & Not-for-Profit

Health services, funded programs, public sector bodies and not-for-profits talking to clinicians, funders, members and the public at once, under accessibility and governance obligations.

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Enterprise & Corporate

Larger organisations with multiple business units, stakeholder sign-off and internal systems that need to connect.

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eCommerce & Retail

Online stores where the catalogue, fulfilment logic and customer accounts are more complicated than the storefront suggests.

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Education & Training

Universities, RTOs and training providers with course catalogues, enrolment journeys, member areas and content that changes with every intake.

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Automotive & 4WD

Vehicle fitment search, dealer portals, product compatibility rules and the catalogue data behind them.

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How we work

Senior people. Direct access.

The person you brief is the person making the design and technical decisions, and the person still responsible for the platform in three years.
  • You talk directly to the people making the design and technical decisions
  • Strategy, design and development resolved in the same conversation
  • No junior production line and no offshore hand-off
  • No account management layer between you and the developer
  • Project context stays with us after launch
“Digital Bird has had a huge influence on our business providing many solutions besides just a fantastic reliable website. Jonathan is great to work with and has a solution to every challenge. Jonathan also has the ability to “dumb it down” and provide timely advice and assistance if something goes astray. With Jonathan we have in excess of 99% uptime on all three websites.”
Jeff Ross Director, Impact Office Supplies Impact Office Supplies Logo
Straight advice

We'll tell you what we actually think.

Useful advice sometimes costs us the bigger job. We'd rather give it than sell you a rebuild you didn't need.

A rebuild isn't always the answer

If the existing site can be fixed properly, we'll say so, even when starting again is the bigger job for us.

Requirements pick the platform

Statamic, Laravel, WordPress or Shopify. We won't push a favourite onto a brief that doesn't suit it.

Fix the cause, not the ticket

We'd rather work out why something keeps breaking than invoice you to patch it again.

Custom isn't always justified

Sometimes a config change or an off-the-shelf tool beats a build. We'll tell you when the numbers don't support it.

Capabilities

Web design, development, and the years after launch.

Strategy, design, build, integrations and ongoing development, all from the same senior team.

FAQ

Sunshine Coast web design and development FAQs

Where we are based, who we work with, what it costs and how the work actually runs.
Yes. Jonathan Bird, our founder and technical lead, and Mishalia Bird, our design and content lead, both work from Minyama, a few minutes from Mooloolaba and Kawana. We also have a senior developer based in Brisbane. We were building for the Coast well before the move: Impact Office Supplies has been a client since 2018. You deal with the senior people doing the work, not a local sales contact fronting a team somewhere else.
Yes. Brisbane is still a major market, we have a senior developer based there, and a large share of current projects are Brisbane organisations. Being on the Coast changed where two of us sit, not who we work with. Our Brisbane web design and development page covers that work.
Established organisations where the website matters commercially. Manufacturers, wholesalers and distributors with deep catalogues and trade pricing. Health and community services. Education and training providers. Industry bodies, professional services firms and not-for-profits. eCommerce businesses whose operations are more complicated than their storefront suggests. The common thread is complexity rather than headcount: several audiences, connected systems, governance requirements, or functionality no template covers. Impact Office Supplies is a fair example: a 15,000-product catalogue, contract pricing per account, multi-level order approvals and an ERP that has to stay the source of truth.
Locally you will see anything from a few thousand dollars for a templated brochure site up to six-figure platform builds, because those are different products. Cost is driven by how much of the work is content strategy, custom functionality, integration and data migration, not by page count. We do not publish fixed packages, because a fixed package usually means the scope was decided before anyone understood the problem. You get a defined scope and a firm price before development starts. If your requirements turn out simpler than expected, we will say so.
Yes, and it is the larger half of what we do. Alongside design and content strategy we build custom web applications, B2B and D2C eCommerce platforms, and integrations with ERP, CRM, accounting, inventory, payment and search systems. We also take on existing websites that need performance work, migrations, security remediation or a technical owner. Design and development decisions get made in the same conversation, so implementation constraints do not surface after a design is approved.
Yes. Being based in Minyama makes in-person discovery sessions and content workshops straightforward anywhere from Caloundra through Kawana, Maroochydore and Buderim up to Noosa, and we still meet in person in Brisbane. Day-to-day work runs remotely so the budget goes into the build rather than travel. We suggest meeting face to face where it genuinely helps: early discovery, stakeholder workshops, and decisions that are hard to make on a call.
Mostly Statamic and Laravel, plus WordPress and Shopify where they suit the brief. The platform follows the problem, not the other way round: a content-heavy site with several audiences, a B2B ordering platform tied to an ERP and a straightforward retail storefront are three different problems. Everything sits on open-source foundations, and you own the code, the content and the hosting, so another competent developer could pick it up if you ever needed them to.
Often, yes. A good number of our long-running relationships started with a site somebody else built that had become slow, fragile or unsupported. We start with a technical review of the codebase, hosting, integrations and content model, then tell you whether it is worth stabilising and improving or whether the foundations have run out. Both answers happen, and the cheaper one happens more than you would expect.

Your website should be a business asset, not a headache

If your organisation has outgrown its current website, tell us what is not working and what you are trying to achieve. A senior team member reads every enquiry and replies directly.

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