About
Built on the coast, for the main street.
Newfront is a small web design shop in Wooli, on the Clarence Coast of New South Wales. We build websites for the businesses people search for, compare and call, and we build them the way a good local shopfront works: honest, tidy, and open when you need it.
Most owners with a bad website already know it's bad.
They haven't fixed it because fixing it is a project. Briefs, quotes, three rounds of revisions, and a designer who needs you to "send through the content". You've got a business to run. It never gets to the top of the list.
Newfront removes the project. We start with what your business already says about itself: your Google listing, your reviews, your photos, your hours. We build the site first, and send you the finished thing on a private link. If it's right, it goes live on your own domain. If it isn't, it comes down and nobody's out of pocket.
The name is the idea.
A new front, with your name over the door. The awning in our mark is the swell coming in over the bar at Wooli, and it's also the thing every good shop on every main street has: a sign you can read from across the road.
Newfront is run by James Banner. Twenty years in land surveying came first, most of it spent alongside builders, tradies, councils and small firms, which is where the plain-English habit comes from. If a page needs a glossary, it isn't finished.
How we work
Four things we don't bend on.
They're the reason the sites get built fast and the reason owners say yes. They're also the reason we say no to some jobs.
Plain English
No jargon, no "digital", no dashboards you'll never open. If your mum can't tell what the page is for in five seconds, we rewrite it.
One fixed price
The same for every business in your trade. Never by the hour, never by the page, never a surprise on the invoice.
Nothing invented
No fake reviews, no made-up prices, no services you don't offer, no stock photo of a smiling stranger pretending to be your apprentice.
You own it
Your domain stays in your name. The files are yours. The monthly care plan keeps it hosted and up to date, and you can leave any month.
What we don't do
Saying no is part of the service.
One template per trade, tuned by what actually makes the phone ring. That's how the price stays fixed and the build stays fast.
You get the best version of your trade's site, not a blank page and a meeting. If you need a bespoke build, we'll say so and point you elsewhere.
Hosting and small edits are the monthly fee. We won't sell you a "package" that promises page one.
We never register your domain in our name. It's yours before, during and after.
You'll hear from us because you asked, or because we built you something worth looking at. Never a script.
The owner opens a link, sees their business done properly, and the only decision left is yes.
Your turn
Say hello.
Tell us the name of your business and the town. A person writes back, usually the same day.
Let's talkor write to hello@newfront.com.au