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Why us · an honest comparison

A website is easy to buy.
A good one is worth choosing carefully.

DIY builder, cheap freelancer, big agency, or a Gold Coast team that builds and looks after your site for life? Here's a straight comparison — including the trade-offs nobody mentions.

01 · Your options

Four ways to get a website.

Wix · Squarespace · GoDaddy

DIY site builders

Cheap to start and fine for a hobby. But you do all the work, you're locked into their platform, the templates look like everyone else's, and they slow down as you add to them. Your time isn't free.

OK for a side project — not a serious business front door.

$200 gigs · overseas outsourcing

The cheapest freelancer

You might get a site. You probably won't get support next month, a fast site, or someone who answers when it breaks. Cheap up front often becomes expensive once it ages, breaks, or has to be rebuilt.

The 'true cost' is rarely the quoted price.

$10k+ builds · retainers

A big agency

Great work, but you're a small account paying enterprise rates, often dealing with an account manager rather than the people doing the work — and ongoing changes get billed by the hour.

More than most small businesses need to spend.

Us — Gold Coast, in-house

Web Design Centre

A hand-built, fast website designed by our own Australian team, then hosted and maintained for life on a simple monthly plan. You deal with the people doing the work, and the site keeps getting looked after.

Professional result, predictable monthly cost, ongoing care.

02 · What you get with us

Six reasons clients pick Web Design Centre.

Australian, in-house

Designed and built on the Gold Coast by our own team — no overseas outsourcing, no hand-offs.

Hand-built & fast

Lightweight, custom sites with no bloated CMS or plugin clutter — quicker to load and harder to break.

Lifetime hosting & maintenance

Included free with every plan, for as long as you subscribe. No surprise hosting bill, no 'who updates this?' gap.

You own it

The site and its files are yours. We don't hold your business hostage.

One team, three centres

Design, hosting and SEO all under ARKNET PTY LTD — so nothing falls between providers.

Honest pricing

Clear monthly plans inc GST, cancel anytime. We tell you up front what's included and what's extra.

03 · The catch with cheap

"Cheap" is rarely
the real price.

A bargain site usually comes with no maintenance, no security, and no one to call. A year later it's slow, out of date, maybe hacked — and you're paying again to fix or rebuild it. Add it up and the cheap option often costs the most. More on this in our guide to what a website should cost.

What we include instead
  • Hosting & maintenance for life
  • Monthly content & design updates
  • Security patching & backups
  • A real team that answers
  • No surprise hourly bills
04 · Questions

The honest answers.

01 Why not just use Wix or Squarespace?
They're fine for a quick hobby page, but you do all the building and updating yourself, your content is locked into their platform, and the sites tend to get slow and samey. We build you a faster, custom site and then maintain it for you — so you can run your business instead of wrestling a page builder.
02 Isn't the cheapest quote the best value?
Rarely. A $200 site with no support, no maintenance and no security tends to age, break, or get hacked — and then costs more to fix or rebuild than doing it properly the first time. We're upfront about price and what it includes, with no surprise bills.
03 What makes us different from a big agency?
You deal directly with the people doing the work, not an account-management layer, and ongoing changes come out of your plan's included monthly hours rather than a per-hour invoice. You get a professional result without enterprise pricing.
04 What if I already have a website?
We can redesign it, move it onto our maintained hosting, and take over the ongoing care so it stops drifting out of date. Tell us what you've got and we'll recommend the best path.
Make the easy choice

Let's build something worth keeping.

Tell us about your business and we'll recommend the right plan — with a free, no-pressure quote.

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