Professional website development Hobart and Tasmania

We use GoDaddy to register our own domain names, and we recommend clients register their own so ownership stays in-house and fully in your control.

From there you can add Wakeford Digital as a delegate, which lets us use our technical skills to link your website to your new or existing domain. We guide plenty of clients through this process, so we're on hand to help at every step.

We use Webflow's in-built hosting to store the files that make up your website. Some other platforms make you host files externally and export everything manually every time you update, which opens the door to errors, adds security risks and extra cost.

With Webflow, everything is managed in one place on a fast, secure server, and it powers the editor and content management system so changes and updates can be made quickly and easily. You can learn more at webflow.com/hosting.

We offer a range of ownership options based on what you need, but most of our websites sit under Wakeford Digital's Webflow account. We do this to reduce your costs and keep things as simple as possible.

You'll have access through the client Editor, which lets you handle most, if not all, of the day-to-day tasks needed to maintain your site.

If you'd prefer complete ownership, that's completely fine - we can transfer the website to your own Webflow account and give you 100% access. The only reason we don't do this by default is that most clients don't need the developer side of Webflow, and we like to keep things simple.

While our focus is website design, we're happy to help clients who also need a professional email address set up. We don't push one system over another, but we're very comfortable setting up and using Gmail through Google Workspace, linked to your domain so you get proper addresses like hello@yourbusiness.com.au. We've found it both affordable and reliable.

We've even written a guide on how to set up your own business email using your domain and Gmail.

Yes. Depending on what your business needs, we can build in Shopify e-commerce, as we did for Frankcomb Wines, CMS-driven listings and enquiry pathways like the host enquiry system we built for Tubs of Tasmania, or custom forms and booking integrations. We'll scope the right integrations for your business as part of your Website Brief.

Yes, page speed and Core Web Vitals are built into every site from the start, not bolted on afterwards. We compress images, keep code clean and build on Webflow's hosting, which is fast and reliable out of the box. Since site speed is one of the technical ranking factors Google considers, this also directly supports your SEO foundations.

This is a great and common question. You can do around 80% of the everyday tasks yourself, such as editing existing content, adding new blog posts and changing images, all through Webflow's client Editor. For CMS-driven sites like Bikes For Good and Tubs of Tasmania, that also extends to managing your own listings day to day, without needing technical support.

There are a few things Webflow doesn't make simple, like adding new pages or menu links, but there's usually a good reason and a workaround for most of them. You can read more in our post on what you can and can't do with Webflow's website editor.