Welcome to Redfox Web Design, where we believe that awesome web design and effective online marketing are the keys to making a splash in the digital world. Our mission? Simple. We're here to give businesses like yours stunning websites that stand out and strategies that make success a reality.
I started building websites in a fantasy era. Web designers were extremely well paid, and if you could be one of the first to launch a website in your niche, it was almost guaranteed to succeed.
A lot has changed since then. Luckily for me, I like learning new things and staying ahead of my game. The trick is to work out what's new and anticipate what will actually stick around.
The way we build websites has been through many stages. The page builder era is still dominating our space, unfortunately. Easy for amateurs, fast to build, slow to load, full of bloat. And it seems every web designer on the planet is using the same three tools to ship the same slow sites dressed up in different fonts. Clients can't tell. Google can. Six months after launch, the sites that were built properly start pulling ahead of the ones that weren't.
Now it's AI, and the influencers are making exaggerated claims about what's possible. Don't get me wrong. It's a powerful tool, it's here to stay, and I use it constantly. But it needs someone with deep knowledge of the process to produce anything but an empty shell.
In that time I've built more than 280 websites. Small businesses, trades, health practices, professional services, e-commerce. I've worn every hat: graphic designer, web designer, developer, hosting manager. I understand how the whole stack fits together. The design, the code, the server, the SEO, the conversion. Not because I dabbled in each one, but because for over 18 years it's been my job to make all of them work together for a client who just wants their phone to ring.
Custom websites delivered for clients across Australia
Helping clients grow
Redfox is small. Two people at most, and mostly it's me.
I know some clients hesitate at that. They picture a one-person operation and wonder whether it can really handle everything (design, development, hosting, SEO, maintenance) without dropping the ball somewhere.
It can. And the reason it can is precisely because it's small.
When you hire three specialists and hope they communicate with each other, you get three separate opinions, three separate timelines, and nobody who feels responsible for the whole thing. When you work with someone who understands every part of the system, things get done properly the first time. You also get one phone number. When something isn't working, you call it and someone who knows your site answers.
That's not a sales pitch. It's just how this tends to go.
Redfox Web Design is fantastic! They have built eight outstanding websites for our business, and their expertise and friendly approach made the process a breeze. Highly recommended!
Redfox's expertise in SEO yielded remarkable results. Our booking numbers doubled and continued to do so. Their extensive knowledge, meticulous attention to detail, and talent for translating technical web and IT jargon into understandable terms for our key team members have solidified Redfox as our partner for the past 15 years.
Darryn at Redfox Web Design is an unbelievably brilliant guy, who is an amazing web designer. He is, however just soooo much more. He knows his stuff and has not just built my website but has mentored me the entire way with it.
I work with small businesses, mostly in the $3,000–$10,000 range for a website build, with a faster, more affordable option for businesses that need something solid but don't need anything complex.
Almost all of my clients use our website hosting plans. Most of those add a maintenance plan. Some add monthly marketing. Not because I push it, but because once a site is running well, it makes sense to keep it that way. It's easier to do that with the person who built it than to hand it off to someone starting from scratch.
I don't bullshit. I'd rather tell you a job is out of scope than take it on and do it poorly. I'd rather talk down what you need than talk it up to win the quote. It's not a great trait in a salesperson. It works well for clients.
I take the phone calls myself. I answer emails the same day. I explain things in plain language. And if I don't know something, I'll tell you that too.
Tweed Heads, on the NSW and Queensland border. I work with clients across the Tweed region, the Gold Coast, and further afield. Most of my work is done remotely, so geography hasn't been a real constraint for a long time.
Templates are a starting point, not a strategy. A good template in the hands of someone who understands SEO, page speed, and conversion is better than a mediocre custom site. But a well-built custom site, done properly, is in a different league.
Page speed matters more than most clients realise until it's too late. Two sites can look identical. One loads in two seconds. The other takes twenty. The one that loads fast ranks better, converts better, and keeps visitors longer. The difference is invisible until it isn't.
SEO built into a site from the ground up is a different thing to SEO bolted on afterwards. The structure of the code, the heading hierarchy, the semantic HTML, the schema markup. These aren't extras. They're what makes a site readable to Google. Doing them properly at build time costs nothing extra. Retrofitting them later costs a lot.
