Provider facts
What does WB Designs (Website by Designs) 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.
WB Designs (Website by Designs) ("Sydney:" "13 Starkey St, Hurlstone Park NSW 2193"; "Melbourne :" "74 Chatsworth Rd Prahran 3181"; "Brisbane :" "Victora Point, 4165" (contact page, spelling as shown); footer "Vertical Infotech Pty Ltd, T/A Website by Designs"): Builds from $699, maintenance from $59 a month and SEO from $299 a month, all published. Below is everything its own pages say about price and packages, read 13 Oct 2026, with each source linked.
WB Designs (Website by Designs), from its own pages
Named by: Claude (8 Oct) for "website designer for tradies in Australia".
- Website price shown
- "Bronze Plan" "$699" "starting price" ("6 Page Website"); "Silver Plan" "$999" "starting price" ("12 Page Website"); "Ecommerce Plan" "$1499" "starting price" ("25 Page Website"); "Packages shown are starting points and can be tailored to your business needs." No GST note. The tradie page FAQ also says "Pricing depends on your business goals, number of pages and required features."
wbdesigns.com.au/website-design-for-tradies-in-sydney - What a build includes
- Every plan lists "Responsive Design", "Contact Form", "Royalty Free Images", "Animated Banner Design", "SEO Friendly URLs", "Content Management (CMS)", "Compatible To All Browser", "Custom Google Map", "Image Gallery", "Call to Action Pop up"; "Most tradie websites are designed and launched within 3 to 5 weeks"
wbdesigns.com.au/website-design-for-tradies-in-sydney - Ongoing fees
- WordPress maintenance "Bronze Plan" "$59" "Starting/month", "Silver Plan" "$99", "Gold Plan" "$149"; "billed monthly", "no lock-in contracts, no hidden fees"; FAQ: "The Bronze plan ($59/month) covers the essentials". No GST note. Hosting is offered ("We’ll take care of your website hosting to keep it secured.", packages page) with no hosting price shown
wbdesigns.com.au/wordpress-maintenance, wbdesigns.com.au/website-design-and-development - Local SEO or marketing
- "Our SEO packages in Sydney start from $299 per month for the Bronze Plan", "$350 per month for the Silver Plan", "$499 per month for the Gold Plan"; "Each plan includes a 1st page guarantee for a set number of keywords"; the Bronze Plan lists "Local Citation Building" and "Google Business Profile Optimisation"
wbdesigns.com.au/seo-consultant-sydney - Platform
- "WordPress Specialists" and "Built on WordPress so you can easily update services" (tradie page); "we build on WordPress by default" (home FAQ). Their own site is served as WordPress with Elementor (wp-content and elementor markup in the served HTML)
wbdesigns.com.au/website-design-for-tradies-in-sydney, wbdesigns.com.au - Named person
- "Hi, I'm Robin", "Lead Website Design and Digital Marketing Consultant with 17 years experience" (tradie page). JSON-LD article author on the pages read: "Declan Norwood". A home page testimonial block names "Wilson"
wbdesigns.com.au/website-design-for-tradies-in-sydney, wbdesigns.com.au - Reviews on its own site
- Tradie page: "4.9 / 5 on Google, from 140+ Australian business owners". About page: "5★" "Google Rating". Home page: a TrustIndex Google widget whose 7 named reviews ("Posted on Google") sit in a template in the served HTML and are drawn by script in the browser; it shows no total. JSON-LD LocalBusiness AggregateRating "ratingValue":"5","reviewCount":"4500" on the tradie and about pages
wbdesigns.com.au/website-design-for-tradies-in-sydney, wbdesigns.com.au/about, wbdesigns.com.au - Example builds
- Portfolio page: 16 entries, each a logo and one line (for example a Darra shade specialist, a Deception Bay ute canopy supplier, a UK bathroom renovation firm), one of them repeated; names appear only in logo images. The tradie page section "Our Website Design Portfolio for Sydney Tradies" shows 16 image tiles (alt text such as "shadeworx", "essex home bathrooms", "fully equipped")
wbdesigns.com.au/portfolio, wbdesigns.com.au/website-design-for-tradies-in-sydney - Page for tradies
- "Website Design for Tradies Built to Win More Jobs", title "Website Design for Tradies Sydney | WB Designs", https://wbdesigns.com.au/website-design-for-tradies-in-sydney/
wbdesigns.com.au/website-design-for-tradies-in-sydney - Based
- "Sydney:" "13 Starkey St, Hurlstone Park NSW 2193"; "Melbourne :" "74 Chatsworth Rd Prahran 3181"; "Brisbane :" "Victora Point, 4165" (contact page, spelling as shown); footer "Vertical Infotech Pty Ltd, T/A Website by Designs"
wbdesigns.com.au/contact
Other things its pages say
- "12+" "Years of Experience"; "50+" "Projects Delivered"; "98%" "Client Satisfaction" wbdesigns.com.au
- "50+" and "200+" "Websites Launched" (both on the same page); "We are a Bark.com recognised agency" wbdesigns.com.au/about
- "Google Partner Practices"; "100% Australian Based" wbdesigns.com.au/website-design-for-tradies-in-sydney
- "WB Designs is a 100% Australian-owned agency with a 5.0-star Google rating." wbdesigns.com.au/wordpress-maintenance
Is WB Designs (Website by Designs) right for you?
Best for: tradies who want a low published WordPress price from an agency with SEO on offer.
Worth asking them: what its "1st page guarantee" on SEO means and what happens if it is missed (nobody controls Google), whether prices include GST, and why its pages give different review and project counts.
How does creativebyjake compare?
creativebyjake runs this site, so read this as our side of it. Same date, same kind of source.
| WB Designs (Website by Designs) | creativebyjake (ours) | |
|---|---|---|
| Website price shown | "Bronze Plan" "$699" "starting price" ("6 Page Website"); "Silver Plan" "$999" "starting price" ("12 Page Website"); "Ecommerce Plan" "$1499" "starting price" ("25 Page Website"); "Packages shown are starting points and can be tailored to your business needs." No GST note. The tradie page FAQ also says "Pricing depends on your business goals, number of pages and required features." wbdesigns.com.au/website-design-for-tradies-in-sydney | $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 | WordPress maintenance "Bronze Plan" "$59" "Starting/month", "Silver Plan" "$99", "Gold Plan" "$149"; "billed monthly", "no lock-in contracts, no hidden fees"; FAQ: "The Bronze plan ($59/month) covers the essentials". No GST note. Hosting is offered ("We’ll take care of your website hosting to keep it secured.", packages page) with no hosting price shown wbdesigns.com.au/wordpress-maintenance, wbdesigns.com.au/website-design-and-development | 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 | "Our SEO packages in Sydney start from $299 per month for the Bronze Plan", "$350 per month for the Silver Plan", "$499 per month for the Gold Plan"; "Each plan includes a 1st page guarantee for a set number of keywords"; the Bronze Plan lists "Local Citation Building" and "Google Business Profile Optimisation" wbdesigns.com.au/seo-consultant-sydney | 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 | Tradie page: "4.9 / 5 on Google, from 140+ Australian business owners". About page: "5★" "Google Rating". Home page: a TrustIndex Google widget whose 7 named reviews ("Posted on Google") sit in a template in the served HTML and are drawn by script in the browser; it shows no total. JSON-LD LocalBusiness AggregateRating "ratingValue":"5","reviewCount":"4500" on the tradie and about pages wbdesigns.com.au/website-design-for-tradies-in-sydney, wbdesigns.com.au/about, wbdesigns.com.au | Not shown on the pages read creativebyjake.com.au |
| Example builds | Portfolio page: 16 entries, each a logo and one line (for example a Darra shade specialist, a Deception Bay ute canopy supplier, a UK bathroom renovation firm), one of them repeated; names appear only in logo images. The tradie page section "Our Website Design Portfolio for Sydney Tradies" shows 16 image tiles (alt text such as "shadeworx", "essex home bathrooms", "fully equipped") wbdesigns.com.au/portfolio, wbdesigns.com.au/website-design-for-tradies-in-sydney | 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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