Web design and development for Australian businesses
Six years of building websites for businesses that need the phone to ring
We started Ninefingers because the way web work usually gets sold doesn’t survive contact with a business that has to justify the spend — three weeks of discovery, a price you only hear on a call, and a retainer nobody measures. So we publish what things cost, quote a fixed number before anything starts, and build it ourselves.
What you can hold us to
Three things we have not moved on in six years. They are not aspirations on a wall; they are how the work gets quoted, built and handed over.
We are named after a character who spends three books repeating that line. He is not the hero. He survives because he does not lie to himself about what is in front of him. That is roughly the pitch: no promise that a new site will double your revenue, and a straight answer when it will not.
Sites are built, not assembled out of a page builder and a stack of plugins somebody else has to keep alive. That means it loads fast, it passes Core Web Vitals, and it still makes sense in three years when a different developer opens it.
Sometimes the problem is that quotes take four days, or nobody follows up the enquiries you already get. A new website fixes none of that, and you would rather hear it before you have paid for one. It has cost us projects. It is also why clients come back.
A better partner for businesses that want a straight answer
I am a developer before I am anything else. Eight years building websites and web apps, six of them running this studio, on one belief that has not moved: a website is only worth what it brings back. Everything else is decoration you are paying for.
Three hundred-odd builds later the shape of it is the same. A small remote team, all of the work in-house, and you talking to the people doing it. No account manager relaying your questions, and nobody quietly handing the build to a junior once the pitch is over.
We work with Australian businesses across Melbourne’s south-east, Newcastle and the Hunter, Geelong and Western Sydney. Published rates you can check before you call, a fixed price agreed before anything starts, and someone who will tell you when a new site is not what you need.
Sarthak Dhonchak, Founder
Offices & locations
Web design for Melbourne South-East, Newcastle, Geelong and Western Sydney
Our point of difference compared to full-service agencies
Published pricing
Every tier, and what is in it, sits on the pricing page. Builds start at A$2,000. You can rule us in or out before you speak to anyone, which is the whole point of putting it there.
Fixed quotes, not hourly
You get a number before the work starts, not an estimate that drifts. If the scope changes we price the change and wait for a yes before building it.
Nothing is outsourced
Design, development and search marketing are done by the same small in-house team. Nobody wins the work and hands it to a contractor you never meet.
One team, three disciplines
Most businesses this size are paying a designer, a developer and an SEO agency who have never spoken to each other. Here it is one team and one number to call when something breaks.
You own the site and the code
Domain, hosting, repository and CMS logins are yours from the first day. No lock-in contract and no proprietary platform you could only leave by rebuilding.
Reporting you can read
Monthly reporting in plain English, measured against enquiries rather than impressions. If a month was flat we say so, and say what we are changing.
The businesses we build for
Industry bodies, insurers, manufacturers, wholesalers and trades. Every one of them worked with us directly — the same small team from the first call to the handover.
We do not white-label and we do not outsource. Design, development and search marketing all run in-house, which is what lets us quote a fixed price and hold to it, for businesses in Melbourne’s south-east, Newcastle, Geelong and Western Sydney.
What we actually do
Services
Design, development, search marketing and the support that keeps a site alive afterwards. Four things, each with a published price, all of it done by the same team.
Design
Design
Web, interface and brand work that survives contact with a real business. Your services, your accreditations, the things a buyer checks before they shortlist you. Figma through to production, with no handover gap in the middle.
Build
Development
WordPress, Shopify, WooCommerce or Next.js, depending on what the site has to do. Ecommerce, customer portals, quoting tools, and integrations with Xero, MYOB or whatever you already run.
Grow
Marketing
Ranking in the places you actually sell. Technical SEO, local search and content, measured against enquiries rather than impressions. From A$1,200 a month, no lock-in.
Keep
Support
Hosting, updates, backups and the small changes you would otherwise sit on for months. From A$180 a month.
Send us your website. We’ll tell you what’s costing you enquiries.
A free 10-minute audit: where you’re losing enquiries, what it would cost to fix, and whether it’s worth fixing. We reply within one business day. Nothing follows unless you ask for it.