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Websites
Preston
The builder. Preston makes the sites themselves — every page, every screen size, fast enough to rank and clear enough to convert.
Our story
Three friends, one front line.
We started Frontline because we kept watching good businesses lose to worse ones — purely because of what showed up on a phone screen.
How it started
It started with a mate’s bakery.
One of us built an ordering site for a home baking business. Nothing fancy — just fast, clear, and easy to order from. Orders went up. Then a friend of that business asked for one. Then a friend of theirs.
Somewhere around the fourth "can you do mine?" we realised something: most small businesses are not competing on quality. They are competing on visibility — and losing to whoever happens to look best on Google. So the three of us made it official.
The name is the point. Your website, your Google listing, your socials — that is the front line of your business. It is where you win or lose customers before you ever speak to them. We hold that line for you.
Our mission
Give small businesses the online presence
Give small businesses the online presence
big budgets buy — without the big budget.
Every job we take gets the same treatment we would give a national brand: real strategy, real design, real results — at a price a three-person local business can actually say yes to.
What we stand for
Our values.
Not poster words. These are the rules we run every project by — hold us to them.
01 — Straight talk
No jargon, no upsells
If you do not need it, we will tell you — even when it costs us money. We have talked more clients out of features than into them.
02 — One number
Fixed prices, kept
You get one quote before we start and it does not move. Scope changes are agreed and priced before we build them, never after.
03 — Your keys
You own everything
Domain, hosting, code, accounts — all in your name from day one. If you ever leave us, you take it all with you. No hostages.
04 — Ship fast
Weeks, not months
A site that launches in three weeks and improves every month beats a "perfect" one that ships next year. Momentum wins.
05 — Results first
Pretty is not the goal
Design wins awards; enquiries pay wages. We measure our work by the calls, bookings and orders it produces — and we report on it.
06 — Pick up the phone
Actually reachable
You have our direct numbers. No ticket systems, no "your call is important to us". A real person replies, usually the same day.
The journey so far
Small studio,
Small studio,
growing on purpose.
We are deliberately staying small. Three people means nothing gets lost in handover, and the person who promised you something is the person who delivers it.
2024
The first build
An ordering website for a home baking business goes live. Orders double in the first month, and word starts to spread.
2025
Side hustle gets serious
Cafés, trades and a real estate agent later, the projects will not stop coming. The three of us start working together on every job.
2026
Frontline is born
We make it official — a name, a studio, and a promise: agency-grade work at small-business prices.
Next
Your project?
We take on a limited number of builds at a time so quality never slips. The next opening could be yours.
Who you will work with
The whole company, on one page.
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Backend
Makarios
The engine room. Makarios builds the backend — databases, integrations and the systems most people never see but always feel when something works at 2am on a Saturday.
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Marketing
Jaxon
The megaphone. Jaxon makes sure the site actually gets seen — local SEO, Google Business, ads and the follow-up that converts.
Get in touch
Sound like your kind of people?
Email, text, call — whatever suits. We reply to everything within one business day, usually a lot sooner.
Talk to a human.
No contact centre, no chatbot. These go straight to the three of us.
Phone or text
0400 000 000Where we are
Brisbane & the Redlands, QLD. We work with clients Australia-wide over video call.
Hours
Mon–Fri, 8am–6pm AEST. After-hours calls by arrangement — we know you have a business to run during the day.
Before you write
The things people usually ask first.
No. We are based in Brisbane and the Redlands and we like meeting local clients face to face, but most of our work happens over video call and email. We have clients across Queensland and interstate.
Yes, and there is no obligation attached. Thirty minutes, we ask about your business, you get our honest read on what would help most. If that is not us, we will say so.
Not at all — that is most people. Pick "Not sure" on the form and tell us what is frustrating you about how your business shows up online. Working out the answer is part of what we do.
We keep a limited number of builds running at once so nothing gets rushed. Typically the next slot is two to three weeks out, but urgent jobs can sometimes be squeezed in — ask.
Your logo if you have one, photos of your work or premises, and a rough idea of your services and prices. If you are missing any of it we will help you sort it out — that is normal.