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What does HighStreet by Jezweb charge, and what do you get?
Disclosure: Appear is run by creativebyjake, which appears in this comparison. Every fact is from each provider's own pages with the date we read them, ours included.
HighStreet by Jezweb (Wallsend, Newcastle NSW: "5 Cowper St, Wallsend NSW 2287"; "We build sites for businesses across Australia. You don't need to be in Newcastle to work with us." (get started page)): Published prices ($900 or $1,800 + GST once, then $90 + GST a month), a named team and 20+ years in Newcastle. Below is everything its own pages say about price and packages, read 13 Oct 2026, with each source linked.
HighStreet by Jezweb, from its own pages
Named by: ChatGPT (8 Oct) for "affordable website for a tradie in Australia".
- Website price shown
- Two tiers. HighStreet: "$900" "+GST" "one-off build fee". HighStreet Plus: "$1,800" "+GST" "one-off build fee". "All prices exclude GST." Payment: "50% deposit before we start, 50% before we launch."
highstreet.au/pricing - What a build includes
- HighStreet: "Up to 10 pages (home, services, about, contact, etc.)", "AI-written copy, AI-generated images", "L2Chat AI chatbot bundled", "Cloudflare hosting & SSL", "Domain setup (we can register one if needed)", "Click-to-edit post-launch (no admin panel)", "Delivery in one week". HighStreet Plus: "Up to 30 pages", "Mixed content: galleries, tables, team grids, accordions", "Blog or news section included", "Delivery in one to two weeks".
highstreet.au/pricing - Ongoing fees
- "$90" "+GST/mo" on both tiers, "hosting, chatbot, support, 12-month minimum"; "Content edits, $50+GST each if you'd rather we do it"; "Domain registration if you need it is around $40/year at cost."
highstreet.au/pricing - Local SEO or marketing
- Not in the website price: "SEO campaigns, SEO Local is a $650/mo add-on from our SEO team". Add-on "SEO Local": "Monthly SEO work. Blog posts, backlinks, keyword tracking, Google Business posts. Local ranking focus." "$1,500" "+GST foundation" "$650+GST/month".
highstreet.au/pricing - Platform
- Their own managed system on Cloudflare, not WordPress: "No WordPress, no plugin updates, no security patches for you to worry about." "Cloudflare infrastructure." The served HTML carries "flare:meta" comments.
highstreet.au/how-it-works - Named person
- "Jezweb started in January 2005, run by Jeremy (Jez) Dawes out of Newcastle." Team shown: Jeremy (Jez) Dawes, "Founder & CEO"; Marianne Boughton, "Business Manager"; Karen Irvine, "Sales"; Rabin Acharya, "Developer"; Deepinder Kaur, "Admin"; Adalat Jurat, "Support"; "Plus additional remote staff not pictured here."
highstreet.au/about - Reviews on its own site
- Not shown on the pages read (no Google rating, review count or testimonials on the home, pricing, about, portfolio or get started pages)
highstreet.au - Example builds
- "Nine recent Jezweb client sites." Filters "Trades (5)", "Services (2)", "Community (2)"; listed include Colorbond Roofing Maitland, Pool Fencing Newcastle, Solar Panels Hunter Valley, Termite Inspections Newcastle, Garage Doors Hunter Valley, Concrete Driveways Maitland, Newcastle SEO, Discover Broadmeadow and Wallsend NSW.
highstreet.au/our-work - Page for tradies
- No dedicated tradie page in the sitemap. Home page section "Tradies and services": "Electricians, plumbers, locksmiths, cleaners, pest control. Answer the obvious questions, capture the job, get back to work."
highstreet.au - Based
- Wallsend, Newcastle NSW: "5 Cowper St, Wallsend NSW 2287"; "We build sites for businesses across Australia. You don't need to be in Newcastle to work with us." (get started page)
highstreet.au/get-started
Other things its pages say
- "20+ years in Newcastle", "1,500+ sites built", "Live in one week", "3,000" "client relationships"; sites described as "AI-search ready"; "12-month minimum commitment. Month-to-month after that." highstreet.au
- "Jezweb has been building small-business websites for Newcastle and Australian businesses since 2005." highstreet.au
- Under not included: "Source code ownership, it's a managed service, you own your content" highstreet.au/pricing
- Portfolio story names "Flare CMS editing" and "Built as a Flare Site Plus (30-page tier)" highstreet.au/our-work
- Awards listed: "Hunter Region Business Excellence Award" (2014-2017, "Four years running"), "Australian Achiever Award" (2020), "BNI Outstanding Referral Award" (2024) highstreet.au/about
- "Jezweb the agency still builds $3,000-$25,000 custom WordPress and web-app builds for clients who need that." highstreet.au/about
- "A service of Jezweb Pty Ltd." "ABN 88 127 346 730" highstreet.au
Is HighStreet by Jezweb right for you?
Best for: small businesses that want a managed site live in a week from a firm running since 2005.
Worth asking them: about the 12-month minimum, the source code (you own your content, not the code), and SEO Local, which is a separate $650 + GST a month.
How does creativebyjake compare?
creativebyjake runs this site, so read this as our side of it. Same date, same kind of source.
| HighStreet by Jezweb | creativebyjake (ours) | |
|---|---|---|
| Website price shown | Two tiers. HighStreet: "$900" "+GST" "one-off build fee". HighStreet Plus: "$1,800" "+GST" "one-off build fee". "All prices exclude GST." Payment: "50% deposit before we start, 50% before we launch." highstreet.au/pricing | $500 + GST for a two-page site, paid once; going live on a domain in the client's own name is $100 plus the domain's own fees creativebyjake.com.au/tradie-websites/ |
| Ongoing fees | "$90" "+GST/mo" on both tiers, "hosting, chatbot, support, 12-month minimum"; "Content edits, $50+GST each if you'd rather we do it"; "Domain registration if you need it is around $40/year at cost." highstreet.au/pricing | Maintenance at $50 + GST a month, no contract, two weeks' notice to stop; hosting: not stated on its pages creativebyjake.com.au/tradie-websites/ |
| Local SEO or marketing | Not in the website price: "SEO campaigns, SEO Local is a $650/mo add-on from our SEO team". Add-on "SEO Local": "Monthly SEO work. Blog posts, backlinks, keyword tracking, Google Business posts. Local ranking focus." "$1,500" "+GST foundation" "$650+GST/month". highstreet.au/pricing | Appear at $250 + GST a month: the Google listing kept up, details matched across directories, a review kit, a local page every second month, Maps read weekly and AI answers monthly; Appear and maintenance together are $300 a month including GST creativebyjake.com.au/appear/ |
| Reviews on its own site | Not shown on the pages read (no Google rating, review count or testimonials on the home, pricing, about, portfolio or get started pages) highstreet.au | Not shown on the pages read creativebyjake.com.au |
| Example builds | "Nine recent Jezweb client sites." Filters "Trades (5)", "Services (2)", "Community (2)"; listed include Colorbond Roofing Maitland, Pool Fencing Newcastle, Solar Panels Hunter Valley, Termite Inspections Newcastle, Garage Doors Hunter Valley, Concrete Driveways Maitland, Newcastle SEO, Discover Broadmeadow and Wallsend NSW. highstreet.au/our-work | Example builds for made-up businesses, labelled as such: Pipeworth Plumbing Co. and Brushmore Painting Co. creativebyjake.com.au/tradie-websites/ |
Worth asking us: about how new it is: its examples are builds for made-up businesses and its site shows no reviews, so ask Jake for a call and judge for yourself.
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