Design
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Here at Start, design runs in our DNA. We’re obsessed with it. As a web design and digital marketing agency, we design on a daily basis for a broad range of businesses including ours.
WA'S DIGITAL AGENCY OF THE YEAR 2026
DESIGN / MARKETING / AI
DIGITAL DELIVERY SINCE 2014
Custom-built websites that move like no one else's.
Perth web development that does the design justice and puts function first.
A website is the gateway to everything a business offers: its products, its leads, and its creative ethos. It has to work flawlessly and look bold enough to stop people searching elsewhere. We build sites that manage both, writing every one from scratch rather than reaching for a theme or template.
The team you brief is the team that builds it, so the scroll effects, 3D, and micro-animations make it to the browser intact. Underneath, every build is set up for speed, search, and a team who’d rather not call a developer to change a sentence.
WEB DEVELOPMENT
Our Work
RTRFM
A modern tech stack, archive integration, and better live streaming for WA's sound alternative.
Revo Fitness
A national platform with a gym locator, integrations, and a back end Revo's team runs itself.
Joondalup Festival
An immersive WebGL world built with React Three Fiber, timed to Joondalup's actual time of day.
Top Up Wines
A 3D bottle animation and AJAX-powered voting for WA's first public wine vote.
Matso's
Custom eCommerce, a new beerfinder, and a VPS built for media-heavy pages.
Pacific Energy
Interactive 3D electrolysers built in Blender, plus a CMS their team fully controls.
Hotel Lobby Rum
A Timber-built, scroll-driven site where the bottle takes centre stage.
Knight Health
Location search, live availability, and real-time booking for same-day medicals.
Every line of code, every structural call, and every micro-animation is there on purpose. Nothing we build comes off a shelf.
WEB DEVELOPMENT
Our approach
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Front-end development
The part people see and touch. We turn design-first layouts into scroll, motion, and animation that behave exactly as the designer intended.
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Back-end development
Builds that scale with your ambition, running on the CMS that fits and set up for future performance, growth, and the team using it every day.
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3D development
WebGL and Three.js let your logo, icons, and brand motifs move, react, and jump off the page in ways most websites never attempt.
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Built for search
Good SEO starts with the site that houses it. We build clean, lightweight foundations that Google, AI engines, and people can all read easily.
Every build starts with a blank file
We treat web development as an art form, turning static design into something that sings and dances in the browser. Our builds are always custom and never lean on a theme or template, which is how we can promise your site won’t look or move like anyone else’s. WordPress and Payload are our usual foundations, with room to adapt when your project needs something different.
If you’re up for something bold, we’ll bring your logo, value icons, and brand motifs to life in immersive 3D with WebGL and Three.js. If you’d rather keep things sharp and professional, sleek transitions, quick page loads, and fluid animation can still tell a story worth scrolling for.
Easy to run, easy to find
What’s inside the box matters as much as the front of it. Our Perth web development is built around the people running the site, with custom editing screens for content, colours, layouts, and metadata, so updates don’t wait on a developer. We write our own APIs or connect to the services you already use, including third-party databases, Laravel, React, and Node.
Search gets wired into the build on day one rather than bolted on at the end. Clean structure, lightweight scripts, fewer HTTP requests, schema markup, and optimised images keep Google, AI engines, and your users happy. With real control over headings and metadata, your team can keep improving visibility long after launch.
The latest in design and ideas from the heart of The Start.
AI
Design in 2026: The Return of Taste and Intent
We asked the visually literate leg of our team what’s shaping 2026. The answer wasn’t singular, but it was clear. Taste is back in the driver’s seat.
AI
The Importance of Taste in a World of Slop
AI generated slop is everywhere. It's infiltrated every social channel, reputable news services and everyday chat. Are we doomed? Does society need a reboot?
WHAT WE DO
Other web capabilities
FAQS
Things people ask before we build
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Which platforms do you build websites on?
We use WordPress for its broad familiarity and Payload CMS, via Next.js, for faster, app-style builds. We choose whichever suits your project best, and we’re flexible when a project needs something else.
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Do you use templates or themes?
No. Every site is custom-built with its own design system, shaped around your content and the way your users move through it. No two of our Perth web builds are the same.
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Can I update the site myself once it’s live?
Yes. Our custom CMS setups let you edit content, layouts, metadata, and visual styles yourself. We also run handover training sessions so non-technical teams can use it with confidence.
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Can you integrate APIs or custom data sources?
Yes, regularly. We build our own APIs and connect sites to CRMs, third-party platforms, and bespoke datasets. If it has an API, we can work with it.
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Do you offer ongoing support once the site is built?
Yes. Once your site is live, we can look after hosting, maintenance, and performance optimisation, keeping it secure, fast, and in good shape for search.