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title: "Website Design & WordPress Developer Sydney | Croissant & Baguette"
description: "Sub-second pre-rendered websites, or WordPress built properly. Editable by your team, yours to keep. 38× faster for Wingboy. From $9k, built in Sydney."
url: "https://croissantbaguette.com.au/web-development/websites/"
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# Websites

https://croissantbaguette.com.au/web-development/websites/

Sub-second pre-rendered websites, or WordPress built properly. Editable by your team, yours to keep. 38× faster for Wingboy. From $9k, built in Sydney.

**Service:** Website design and development (Web development)

Marketing websites, pre-rendered on Cloudflare by default or built on WordPress when it suits the client, designed and built in Sydney and owned by the client (code, CMS and hosting).

- **Website build** from A$9000 — Pre-rendered or WordPress, designed from scratch, editable by your team. From $9,000, typically $9–18k.
- **Care plan** from A$250 — Monitoring, updates, small changes and a monthly performance snapshot. From $250 a month.

## Fast, cheap to run, yours to edit.

Marketing sites for businesses that need them to work: load fast, rank, get cited by AI answers, and take a content change without a developer. Pre-rendered on Cloudflare by default. WordPress when it's the right call for you, built properly.

**Spec ticket**

Fixed quote after one call.

- **Runs on** Pre-rendered · or WordPress
- **Edited in** CloudCannon or Sanity · or the WordPress editor
- **Typical build** 4–8 weeks
- **After launch** care plan optional

- **38× faster** — Wingboy · 27s → 0.7s
- **1 → 4 people who can edit** — NIODA · 10s WordPress to 0.7s first paint
- **3 → 1 three sites, one codebase** — Precise Group · WordPress
- **<0.5s page loads** — Joris · perfect performance scores

## Most websites get slower, costlier and riskier every month.

Plugins to update, hosting to pay, a database to protect, and a “quick change” that needs a developer. Wingboy's site took 27 seconds to load before we touched it. NIODA's took ten. That is rarely a platform problem; it is a neglect problem: a site nobody owns, on hosting nobody chose, running plugins nobody remembers installing. Slow sites don't just annoy. They don't rank, they don't get cited, and they don't convert.

## Two ways to build it.

We'll recommend one after a 20-minute call. Both are designed and built by us in Sydney, and both are yours.

- **Pre-rendered, fast** you want the fastest, cheapest-to-run site there is, and your site is mostly pages, forms and content. — Skyreach · Tilt Renewables · Wingboy · NIODA · Fiducian · Precise Group
  - Every page is built ahead of time and served from Cloudflare's edge. Sub-second loads, measured, not promised.
  - No server, no database, no plugins. Nothing to patch, nothing to hack.
  - Hosting that costs close to nothing. Often literally nothing.
  - Your team edits visually in CloudCannon or Sanity, with live preview, and publishes without us.
- **WordPress, built properly** your team already knows WordPress, you rely on plugins with no real equivalent (memberships, courses, event ticketing, a directory).
  - A lean custom theme, not a page-builder stack. Fast on launch day and built to stay close to it.
  - Managed hosting, caching and a CDN set up from day one.
  - Only the plugins that earn their place, kept updated under a care plan.
  - The honest trade-off: it will never be as cheap to run or as hard to break as a pre-rendered site. We'll say so before you choose.

## Pre-rendered or WordPress?

Most of the time we'll recommend pre-rendered. When WordPress is the right answer, we'll say so and build it well.

- **Speed** Sub-second by design | Fast when hosted and cached well; slows as plugins pile up
- **Hosting cost** Close to $0 a month | Roughly $30–100 a month for managed hosting
- **Maintenance** None. No updates to run | Core, theme and plugin updates every month. The care plan covers it
- **Security** No database, no login page to attack | Needs hardening, backups and updates. The most attacked platform on the web, because it's the most common
- **Editing** Visual editor with live preview | The editor your team may already know
- **Ecosystem** We build what you need; integrations through APIs | Tens of thousands of plugins. Memberships, courses and events out of the box
- **Best for** Marketing sites, service businesses, anything where speed and cost to run matter | Content-heavy sites with features that live in the WordPress ecosystem, and teams that already run it

## Whichever way, you get this.

- **Designed from scratch.** Your brand, not a template with your logo on it.
- **Built to be found.** Semantic HTML, structured data, sub-second Core Web Vitals: the same foundation our Growth work relies on, and what AI answers cite.
- **Editable by your team.** Visual editing with live preview. You're not waiting on us for a headline.
- **Works on every screen.** Phones first, then everything else.
- **Accessible by default.** WCAG AA contrast, keyboard navigation, real headings. Our own site scores 100 on Lighthouse accessibility, and yours will too.
- **Yours to keep.** Code in your repository, hosting in your account, a CMS you own. Leave any time.

## Sites we've shipped.

- A WordPress site rebuilt as a catalogue of 132 machines with real filters and a quote list. Five times faster. (https://croissantbaguette.com.au/projects/skyreach/)
- 21 project mini-sites, a resource hub of 701 documents that builds itself, and twelve editors with the right permissions. (https://croissantbaguette.com.au/projects/tilt/)
- 27 seconds to 0.7. Same content, new build. (https://croissantbaguette.com.au/projects/wingboy/)
- A ten-second WordPress site one person could edit, rebuilt so four do. 391 changes published by NIODA staff since. (https://croissantbaguette.com.au/projects/nioda/)
- Rebuilt in 2021, rebuilt again in 2026. 340 pages, 749 documents, and 99 of the last 118 edits made by their own team. (https://croissantbaguette.com.au/projects/fiducian/)
- Three WordPress sites, one codebase. 309 pages, articles and projects ticked onto the sites they belong to. (https://croissantbaguette.com.au/projects/precise-group/)
- A new brand, a site built to convert parents fast. (https://croissantbaguette.com.au/projects/rookies/)
- A new agency in Newcastle, built to rank from day one. (https://croissantbaguette.com.au/projects/joris/)

## Scope. Design. Build. Launch.

- **Scope.** A 20-minute call, then a fixed quote. We tell you which platform and why, in writing.
- **Design.** Structure and copy first, then design. You review real pages, not mood boards.
- **Build.** Built, connected to your CMS, loaded with your content, tested on real phones.
- **Launch and after.** DNS, redirects, analytics, Search Console, and a month of watching the numbers. Then a care plan if you want one, or nothing at all: a pre-rendered site doesn't need us.

## Ranges.

Fixed quote after a scoping call. No calculator; the interesting variables are never on a form.

What moves the price within those ranges:

- **Website build** from $9,000 (pre-rendered or WordPress)
- **Content migration** quoted (from an existing site)
- **Care plan** from $250/month (monitoring, updates, small changes, monthly performance snapshot)

- number of page templates
- CMS complexity and how much content moves across
- integrations (forms, CRM, bookings, payments)
- platform, because WordPress carries hosting and update overhead the care plan covers

## Ask away.

Six things people ask before they book. The full numbers are in our website cost guide. Still one missing? Ask us.

- **Do you build WordPress sites?** Yes, when it's the right fit: your team already runs it, or you need plugins that don't have a real equivalent. We build a lean custom theme on managed hosting and keep it updated under a care plan. If a pre-rendered site would serve you better, we'll say so first.
- **Why is a pre-rendered site faster?** Every page is built ahead of time and served from a server near the visitor. Nothing runs when someone lands on the page: no database query, no plugin, no theme logic. That's why Wingboy went from 27 seconds to 0.7 with the same content.
- **Can we update it ourselves?** Yes. Pre-rendered sites ship with CloudCannon or Sanity: click on the page, edit, preview, publish. WordPress sites use the editor your team may already know.
- **What happens to our current rankings when we move?** We map every old URL to its new one with 301 redirects, keep the page titles that rank, and submit the new sitemap on launch day. Then we watch Search Console for a month. Done properly, a move doesn't cost you rankings.
- **What does hosting cost?** Pre-rendered on Cloudflare: close to nothing, often literally nothing. WordPress: managed hosting at roughly $30–100 a month, in your own account.
- **Do we need a care plan?** Pre-rendered: no. It runs without us; the care plan is for people who want changes made and a monthly performance snapshot. WordPress: yes, or someone on your side handles updates and backups every month.

- **eCommerce.** Shopify under the hood, a storefront that's yours.
- **Web & mobile apps.** Portals, bookings, dashboards, and the app your team carries.
- **Growth.** Get cited when customers ask ChatGPT, Claude or Google's AI.

## Tell us what the site needs to do.

Two lines is enough. You'll get a platform recommendation and a fixed quote within a business day of the call.