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Your website ought to make you more money.

I build and improve websites that bring in customers, make sales and take work off your hands.

Need a new website, a better booking process or just your content brought up to date? I can help with that.

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What do you want to achieve?

Start with the outcome you’re looking for and explore ways your website can help.

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Imagine landing on a website and not seeing how to make a start.

That’s what I noticed when Sam’s old website loaded. Her business name was there, but not a word about what her sparkling services might be. Vajazzling? Glitter bombs? And no obvious next step to turn a visitor into a client.

Now, the first screen explains what her team does, where they work and how to enquire. Visitors can start telling Samantha what they need straight away.

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Sam’s Sparkling Services
After: Sam’s website explains the cleaning services and displays the enquiry form.

After: services, location and an enquiry form on the first screen.

Three Bounce Haus design directions shown side by side

Three mockups. One website. How we find your design.

Three HTML mockups, different interpretations of your brief and room to mix your favourite ideas. Here’s how we find your website’s direction.

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What it’s like to work with me.

We spoke to many different website developers and found Nelle to be our person of choice to complete our scope. Without hesitation, I’d dare say she’s by far exceeded our expectation. A real great eye for detail and easily patient to work with. Excellent delivery time and reasonable prices. She will now be managing my other business website.

DavidBounce Haus · NSW

Janelle has turned our clunky, slow loading website to one that operates as it should. Janelle is easy to work with, has great communication skills and did exactly what we wanted by taking the brief we gave her and designed a site that gave us what we wanted with a bit of what we needed.

We couldn’t be happier with the outcome and highly recommend her services to anyone.

JanineGood Cents Arty Party · VIC
Janelle, Build With Matriarch

I’m Janelle. Business owner, web developer and a big old nerd.

I’ve spent over 15 years in small business, including 12 coding solutions. You can bring me the business problem—we’ll work out what the technology can do.

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Questions before we start.

Can you improve my existing website?

Probably! Send me a link and tell me what you hate about it. I’ll have a poke around and send you my thoughts, then we can chat about where to go from there. No commitment.

Do you take on small jobs?

Yes—I love them. No job is too small.

There’s a little setup time involved in getting access to your site and finding my way around, so it can be more economical to tackle a few small jobs together.

What does it cost, and how do payments work?

My offers include pricing examples to give you an idea of what different jobs can cost. For an accurate figure, ask me for a quote.

Payment is due before work begins. For projects over $1,000, a $1,000 deposit reserves a specific future start date, with the balance due before I start. If your delivery dates are flexible, there’s no need to pay a deposit to hold a particular slot.

All prices are in Australian dollars.

What do I need ready before we start?

It depends on the job. For a website build, anything you’re supplying yourself—such as branding, photographs or written content—needs to be ready before we begin.

I can help with whatever’s left. We’ll agree on who’s doing what beforehand, so we can start with everything we need.

How long will the work take?

Many small jobs can be completed the day I have access and everything I need.

Website builds can range from about a week for a basic site to several months for a larger build with lots of features. I’ll give you a timeframe for your particular job before you book.

What happens after the work is finished?

All work comes with 30 days of free support.

That includes helping you use what I’ve built, fixing anything that breaks, and sorting out anything you notice doesn’t match what we agreed.

New features or additional work are separate, and I’ll explain any costs before going ahead.

Can we work together by email?

Absolutely—it’s my preferred way to work.

I’m happy to have a Zoom meeting or phone call too, but I’ll often ask you to confirm decisions by email. Having a written record helps keep all the ducks from becoming cats.

What if the work isn’t what I had in mind?

We’ll talk through what you want and agree on the details before I quote. For website design, my mockup process gives us something concrete to explore and refine together.

If we get to the end and the work doesn’t match what we agreed, we’re not at the end. I’ll put it right. Changes to the agreed plan are something we can discuss separately, but delivering what I promised is part of the job.

What’s prompted you to get this sorted?

Tell me what’s happening and what you’d like to change. You don’t need to know the technical solution.

Tell me what you need