We are a Sunshine Coast based website design team of experts in creating exceptional looking, easy to use, mobile friendly and responsive website designs for hospitality, tourism & leisure, food & beverage, retail, and lifestyle industries. Our websites are designed to engage, convert and be easy to use, while you enjoy the smooth management experience.
Based on the Sunshine Coast,. we specialise in designing WordPress & Shopify websites for the tourism & leisure, hospitality, food & drinks brand, ecommerce and leisure industries.Â
Since 2011, we have been crafting websites for the eat, drink, travel, and leisure industries from our Sunshine Coast base, developing a portfolio of over 500 sites. Our dedicated team of designers, tech specialists, and digital marketing strategists ensures we deliver comprehensive online experiences from start to finish.
At Social Tap, based on the Sunshine Coast, we deliver outstanding user-centric digital experiences. By combining a deep understanding of user behaviour with meticulous attention to detail and a commitment to continuous improvement, we ensure that every project meets the highest standards of quality and user satisfaction.
We highly value the relationships we have with our clients. Our mission is to make your website look exceptional, deliver tangible results, and simplify your life. After your new WordPress or Shopify website is launched, our dedicated support team is here to help you maximise its potential, ensuring ongoing success and optimisation.
We’ve built over 500 websites for our clients since 2011. Your success online is our goal, and we have the experience and expertise to achieve it!
Welcome to Social Tap's premier website design hub, where innovation meets strategy to bring your digital vision to life. Drawing upon years of expertise in marketing, customer experience, and web development, our dedicated team crafts user-centric designs that not only captivate but also drive results. Whether you're a budding startup or an established brand, we're passionate about transforming your online presence into a compelling digital experience. Explore our website design portfolio, discover our approach, and let's create something exceptional together.
Manage content with drag & drop functionality. With the Social Tap Website Builder you can create and alter the layout, edit text, change images, edit banners and more all within the one window. No more editing in the backend and seeing inconsistent results - with the new Page Builder, what you see is what you get.
From embedding video to loading sliders and banners, anything is possible with the extensive element library. The website design builder has a toolbox of 30 content elements, 9 shop elements, and 5 layout elements, along with hundreds of presets and options for every element. This gives you endless opportunities for your site and the ability to create whatever you have in mind for your website.
The Website Builder lets you customise your site in a live customiser. There are unlimited options you can choose from to make your site unique and beautiful.
Our new builder is highly customised, taking all the good and none of the bad that WordPress has to offer, making simple tasks easier for you and reducing the need to install & worry about dodgy plugins. Focus on what you want to do, not how to do it.
Our websites are designed to be responsive, fast and light. We use the latest technology to deliver a great user experience. We’ll make sure your website loads quickly and doesn’t frustrate your users.
Easily insert beautiful sliders and banners with the Website Builder. Drag and Drop the elements around, align images and set sizes on all devices with no need for other slider plugins. Everything is done in one place when editing a page.
Our new framework directly supports the mobile-first philosophy encouraged by Google. Create amazing mobile and desktop friendly layouts and grids, drag and drop the boxes around as you wish, to easily edit the order of content on mobile, desktop and tablet.
If you are looking to launch a shop on your website now, or any time in the future, the Social Tap Website Builder is the better choice. It is extremely flexible and can be used for any kind of Shop or product including event tickets, gift vouchers, takeaway meals, digital downloads, groceries and any type of retail product you wish sell.
Want to edit your footer or section that repeats on the website? With the new Social Tap Website Builder, anything you see, you can edit. Blocks lets you add custom content boxes anywhere that can be opened and edited with the Page Builder.
The Social Tap Website Builder is backed by a team of highly skilled web developers and designers. Updates and new features are released on a regular basis to improve your website for both you and your customers. Our new framework also allows us to adjust with the times, reducing/eliminating the new to build on a new platform.
With our new framework, we can now build many features that require custom coding, making your online presence more engaging and unique for your customers. Additionally, more advanced layouts are available to choose from, all accessible through a visual interface that is quick and easy to use.
As web developers, our first goal is always to make sure our websites are functional and easy-to-use. That’s why we opt for WordPress & Shopify. These platforms allows us to create back-end functionality that’s seamless, intuitive, and easy for you (and your customers) to use.
Our website design process begins with a thorough understanding of your company, brand and business objectives. We will meet with you in order to gain a deep understanding of your industry, target audiences, and goals which will enable us to clearly define user flows and website architecture.
Internet security is a huge concern. With both your personal and customer information at stake, you don’t want to take any chances. At Social Tap, we ensure that your website is protected by multiple layers of security and proactively defend your website from new & existing threats.
First and foremost, our designs are built for search engine optimisation (SEO). We create unique designs that are easily scannable by search engines. In addition to a basic layout, we ensure that all of our coding is compliant with popular search engines like Google.
No matter what you want to do with your website, Social Tap allows you to integrate many of today’s leading technologies. We can provide you with an enterprise level platform that meets your needs now, and will continue to expand and adapt as your needs grow.
A website is never done, it’s always changing. This is why we don’t take a set-it-and-forget-it approach to web development. Instead, we build sites on WordPress and manage them with ongoing updates that are performed in real time. Backups are taken daily to further add to your peace of mind.
Social Tap got the website brief from day one, their process helped us to identify and reinforce what was special about our business and our new branding brings that story to life.
Carlo Renzulli – Aromas Noosa
Social Tap really understood the brief and exceeded our expectations for the new website design. The look and feel as well as functionality is exactly what we envisioned and seamlessly showcases Seahaven and all it has to offer.
Alan Golley – General Manager Seahaven Noosa
Yes. We build all our websites on WordPress with a Visual Editor, which means our websites are simple for you and your team to manage and update.
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Our average web design delivery time frame from project start to finish is 6 weeks. However, this timeframe will be reduced if there are no delays in receiving content from the client.
If you have a specific deadline to meet, please discuss this with us. Chances are we will be able to work with you and deliver your web design to meet the deadline.
Responsive websites intelligently adjust their layout to suit the device or screen it is being viewed on, without losing or distorting pages and images.
Our web development process is mobile first, meaning we design for mobile devices first and then build for tablet and desktop.
Yes. Since we started building websites for Hospitality and Tourism we have built over 400 websites. Please head over to our Website Portfolio page to see some of our recent projects.
Yes. Â All our websites are built from the ground up with online marketing and SEO as a top priority. Â We work with you to determine the best keywords to target before a single line of code is written. This ensures we optimise your position in Google, and that your website contributes as a key component of your marketing strategy.
As social media is kind of our ‘thing’, we make sure all our websites are integrated with social channels to encourage customers to share your content and spread the word about how great you are!
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Yes. Your first 12 months hosting as well as 12 months plugin and WordPress updates are included in the price.
The web development platform we build on has online shopping capabilities built in. So if you decide in the future to start selling Gift Vouchers or Merchandise we can add shopping cart functionality later on.
The Social Tap online gift voucher platform is 100% self-serve, so customers can purchase vouchers for friends and family any time of the day or night and pay online with their credit card via your website. You will need a Pro or Pro Plus Website Package to sell online. Please see pricing below.
Social Tap is based in Noosa, Queensland. We deliver web design services to clients all across Australia including Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Townsville and have a number of clients based around the world.
We have video conferencing facilities to accommodate private meetings, both in person and virtually, and have the experience and expertise to deliver an outstanding website for you no matter where you are based in the world!
Our Sunshine Coast Website Design team are looking forward to working with you.Â
If you are needing to purchase a domain name you can do so from our domain name portal.
We are industry experts in the design and development of modern web sites, landing pages, mobile sites/apps and ecommerce platforms in the Sunshine Coast, Noosa, Brisbane, Australia and Asia Pacific region.
If you have any questions at all, get expert, one-on-one help from our team of digital marketing consultants.
