Wollongong and Sydney, since 2006
Websites that bring the business in.
Shipwreck Studio is a web design, SEO and hosting studio with twenty years in the game. Hundreds of launches, and the clients we started with in 2006 are still with us.
- 20years in digital
- 4.9Google rating
- 100sof sites launched
Brands we have worked with
What we do
Everything a business needs online, under one roof.
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Web design and development
Fast, search-friendly sites built from scratch, from a one-page launch to a full custom build with content and copy done for you.
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Search engine optimisation
On-page, off-page and local SEO run by people who also build the sites, so the technical fixes actually get made.
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Managed hosting
Australian data centres, offsite backups and a team who handles DNS, mail records and the technical parts you should never have to learn.
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Digital Empire package
Own three sites or more? Bring them under one roof with fully managed WordPress hosting, maintenance and a sliding per-site rate.
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Custom web applications
Booking systems, customer databases, API integrations and the four-hundred-thousand-dollar government platforms. If you can sketch it, we can code it.
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Mobile app development
iOS and Android apps taken from idea to the App Store and Google Play, with the backend and the web presence to match.
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Graphic and print design
Logos, brand kits, posters, magazine ads and brochures from designers who give your artwork the attention a publisher never will.
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Social media marketing
Posts, short video, graphics and influencer bookings that keep an audience engaged without you living inside Instagram.
Est. 1 September 2006
Twenty years, one studio.
Based in Wollongong with clients across Sydney and the rest of the country, Shipwreck Studio is built around coder and CTO Rick Moore and a team of specialists in design, print, web, SEO, social, mobile apps and server engineering. We meet in person in the CBD office, at yours, or on Zoom every day of the week.
The thing we are proudest of is not the size of the portfolio. It is that the businesses we built for in our first year are still with us.
Meet the studio- 2006
Opened on 1 September. First commercial sites for South Coast Tattoo and Southside Tattoo, both still clients.
- 2010s
Hundreds of WordPress builds, ten of our own plugins, and the first big custom platforms for government and private clients.
- 2021
Corporate partner of the Illawarra Hawks. The Client Rewards Program starts flying clients to meetings.
- 2023
A new server fleet built for WordPress in Sydney data centres, and the move away from cPanel for security.
- 2026
NitroSites, our own hosting platform (the Blade), and this site rebuilt on it. Twenty years in.
Portfolio
Work that has done its job for years.
What clients say about working with us
Highly recommend these guys if you want a site that actually works and a team that makes it enjoyable along the way.
Kate DohertyRick and the team worked around the clock to help us achieve this and could not be more helpful in the process.
David McFarlandRick Moore is the best in the business, he really knows his way around a.... website.
Daniel GutierrezTools
Free tools we built for ourselves, open to everyone.
How it works
Four steps from first call to launch day.
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Talk
A conversation about what the business needs, not a questionnaire. We quote from that.
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Design
Strategy, content and design worked up together so the site is built to convert, not decorated afterwards.
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Build
Coded by our own developers on our own hosting, with on-page SEO, tracking and forms done properly from day one.
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Launch and look after
We host it, back it up, keep it secure and keep improving it. Most of our clients have been with us for years.
Learn
Twenty years of answers, written down.
- Knowledge base
Why Live Chat Boosts Conversions, Web Design Wollongong
Live chat answers visitors instantly, so fewer leads walk away. See the research on how live chat lifts conversions by up to 20% and how to track it.
- Blog
WordPress releases new “Speculative Loading” plugin for “Near instant load times”
WordPress's Speculation Rules plugin pre-renders the pages visitors are likely to click next, so they load almost instantly. How it works and the SEO benefits.
- Blog
Meta CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, Showcases Significant Investments in AI Amidst Crucial Company Reformation
Zuckerberg has shown Meta staff the scale of its AI spend: chatbots for Messenger and WhatsApp, text-prompt photo editing on Instagram, and open-source models.
- Knowledge base
How To Share Full Size Photos and Videos from your iPhone or Android Phone, With All the Meta Data Intact
Step by step for iPhone and Android: send full resolution photos with the metadata intact, and why compressed email or social uploads hurt quality and SEO.
Questions we get asked first
What does a website from Shipwreck Studio cost?
An entry-level small business site typically starts around $7.7k. Sites with specific or custom requirements usually land between $16.5k and $55k, and large database-driven platforms run from $100k. Our pricing guide lists the typical figures and the hourly rates for smaller jobs.
Do you only work with businesses in Wollongong and Sydney?
No. Most of our clients are in the Illawarra and Sydney, where we meet in person, but we work daily on Zoom with businesses across Australia and overseas.
Can you host and maintain a site you did not build?
Yes. Our managed hosting and Small Business Care Plan cover sites built elsewhere, after a security and performance audit. We migrate the site to our Australian servers for free.
Do you do SEO as well as the build?
Yes, and that combination is the point. The people doing your SEO are the people who built the site, so technical fixes, speed work and content changes actually happen instead of sitting in a report.
How do I get started?
Send a few lines through the form on this page or call (02) 8005 8088. Rick or one of the team will come back to you within a business day to talk through the brief.
Ready when you are.
Tell us about the project, or call the studio. We work in person in Wollongong and Sydney, and on Zoom with everyone else.