Finding the Perfect Web Designer: Freelance vs Agency

Choosing the right web designer for your business is crucial, no matter the size or industry you’re in. At Spin Design, we understand this decision can be incredibly challenging. We’re here to help you navigate the options between hiring a freelance web designer or an agency so you can find what works for you and most importantly, what doesn’t.

Why Work With Freelance Web Designers?

Freelance web designers work independently, juggling multiple clients but still providing a personal touch to each project. They are often more affordable because they can set their own rates without middleman fees, making them flexible with budgeting. Their hands-on approach also means they are deeply invested in every aspect of your website, from design to functionality. This one-on-one interaction allows for a personalised experience where the designer is directly accountable to you, ensuring your vision is realised.

Why Work With Web Design Agencies?

Agencies, on the other hand, are teams of professionals working under one roof, each specialising in different aspects of web design. This collaborative environment means agencies can offer a diverse range of skills, including SEO, copywriting and advanced web development, all in one place. Agencies also provide 24/7 support to ensure any issues with your website are resolved promptly. Their larger teams allow for tighter turnaround times, making them ideal for projects with strict deadlines.

Deciding What’s Best for Your Business

The choice between a freelancer and an agency depends on your business needs, budget and project scope. If you value a personal touch, have a flexible timeline and are budget-conscious, a freelancer might be the right fit for you. However, if you need a project completed quickly, prefer having all resources in one place and want to save time by letting experts handle everything, an agency could be more suitable.

Partner with Spin Design

At Spin Design, we blend the best of both worlds, offering the personalised service of a freelancer with the comprehensive support of an agency. Our team is dedicated to creating responsive, SEO-optimised websites that cater to the Australian market. We ensure your website looks great on any device and ranks well on local search engines, driving organic traffic and increasing your visibility.

We also prioritise user experience, designing intuitive and easy-to-navigate websites that engage Australian audiences. Our services include content creation tailored to the local market, ongoing website maintenance, e-commerce solutions with secure payment gateways and detailed website analytics to track user behaviour and improve performance.

Whether you choose a freelance web designer or an agency, the key is to find a partner who understands your vision and can deliver a website that meets your business needs. Spin Design is here to provide seamless web design solutions that help your business thrive in the digital landscape.

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Paul Walters

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A HUGE 5 stars to Simon and all the team at Spin Design. Can't thank them enough for the incredible job on the new website and so looking forward to launching our new Shopify store they also created in the next few days. Simon and his team as always so incredibly helpful, patient and professional from the initial planning right through to launching the new site...it's been an absolute pleasure.

Geraldine Guillermo

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elise chanesman

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Simon Priest and his team at Spin Design are fantastic to work with. They have built several websites for our companies over the years and we have always found their work of the highest quality. We would highly recommend them for their knowledge, web development skills, technical expertise and artistic direction.Simon is extremely professional and will always respond to your emails or calls with expert advice. Any technical issues are dealt with immediately. We love Simon, but I think we love Grace even more! Grace has just created the most fabulous Oneday Journals Shopify website and online Product Customizer for our corporate clients to create their own bespoke custom branded corporate golf day journals, a new luxury gift for golf clubs, professional businesses, and corporate hosted golf days! Thanks to the team at Spin!Elise & Nathan ChanesmanFounders Oneday Golf Journals

Conor Hehir

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Simon and the team at Spin Design were a pleasure to deal with. Not only are they very professional and prompt with replies but they also understood the unique qualities of my business and were able to create a website that is able to convey what I needed.

Good Time Harbour Cruises

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Spin Design has been looking after our 2 websites for over 3+ years now. I have found Simon and his team to be very prompt, professional and extremely knowledgeable from when they first created our sites to maintaining our sites and email system, I would highly recommend Spin Design to anyone looking to get their website either upgraded or built.

Tal Weiner

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Simon & the team did a great job on rebuilding our small business website. They gave it a much more professional look and great functionality. It was great to work with them as they were patient and adaptive to our requests. I would highly recommend small business owners to use Spin Design for building a new website or rebuilding your current website.

Campbelltown Chiro Team

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Easy to deal with, updated all website changes perfectly as requested. Great communication and job done quickly. Thank you.

Leilah Sydney

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Fantastic Company. Simon and his team have always been very professional and extremely helpful and supportive with all our web needs. Their services have helped us grow in so many ways and they have been an essential part to our business.

Halifax Building pty ltd

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Simon & the team have given me peace of mind when it comes to all online needs for my small business. very prompt reliable & as important very competitive pricing. Highly recommend.Bill

Natalie B

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Great service, very responsive and approachable team.

Bernice Bolton

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Simon and his team were very helpful and professional in designing our website. The whole process was so much easier and quicker than we anticipated. They also added design features that we hadn't even considered that really improved the appearance of our site. Held our hands and guided us every step of the way, making the whole process quite painless. Happy to recommend this business. We are delighted with the end result.

Lingang F

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We had our online shopping website designed and implemented by Simon and his team. It is a highly customised website due to the nature of the custom made products we sell.We used to have another company doing this website before we knew Simon. It was a disaster and I didn’t want to waste my time. So we quit in the half way.Finally we found Simon. I know it is not a easy job but Simon and his team successfully complete the task.Thank you Simon and your team!Kevin F

Joey Hespe

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Simon has been great to work with- he explains everything to me so I’m across how website building works (as I have no idea!) and has been extremely helpful and approachable in assisting with my e-commerce site and building my website. He’s always reachable and shares his knowledge of what he believes will work and suggests options for me to consider. All up a great team who I’d work with again!

David Henry

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Simon and the team at Spin Design are very professional and provide you with the support required when creating your new website. Very informative and helpful to make sure that your website meets the needs of today.

Elisa Montero

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Great company to deal with. Excellent service, great communication. Quick to solve any issues. Affordable prices.

Killara Garage

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Simon was very accommodating in producing our website and content. His knowledge was second to none and his explanation of the whole process was not tied up in technical spin. It was overall one of the best experiences I have ever encountered with an IT person. He broke the process down and no other IT person we have met was able to do what Simon has done. I would have no hesitation in recommending Simons company and support is just one click away.

Bec Riley

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Spin Design has been our right hand man since day dot! No job too big or small; they are forever professional, patient and so thorough with their work. Would recommend them in a heartbeat. Thanks Simon and team!

Jale

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Simons team are great, very helpful and come up with awesome designs!

Charming Thai

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I have to give Spin Design a "Wow" factor with their professionalism, knowledge and responsiveness. Our website was crashed due to outdated plugin and other things else. Spin design leaded by Simon, has managed to pull all resources to fix our website in no time. I would highly recommend Spin Design to any businesses for IT support. I was convinced by their professionalism to sign up IT support contract with no regret. Spin Design is also very competitive in their pricing. I have dealt with a number of IT organisation in the past, definitely 5 stars for you folks. J A

Ashley D'Souza

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Fantastic and quick Customer Service, Professionalism, Attention to Detail, Creative Input. Cutting edge Website Design and Associated Services from Simon and his team. Highly recommend Simon for any Website Design and Development Services

Ausvex PR

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Great service, attention to detail and well organised. This company does what it promises ...and on time.Thanks again so much for your support!!!!

eser girmez

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We have been working with the Spin Design for a long time and really happy with their services. They are always ready to back us up and helping us with their sources and ideas to get always better results. Definitely recommend them to everyone.

Darren Cowell

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The team at Spin Designs made the process very easy and logical. Pleasure to deal with Simon and CJ. Great work guys!

Julie Sparks

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Grace from SPIN Design has probably been the best website developer I've ever worked with! Really appreciated her recommendations; she understood every change I requested (even on some occasions when I didn’t quite know what I was asking) and was incredibly quick to turn around all amends. Amazing! It’s been an absolute pleasure. Thank you SPIN Design for creating a website we are all very happy with.

Sharynw2

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Thanks for your help Simon. You were fast, well priced and easy to work with. We will definitely use you again when we need to! Thank you. Sharyn Whitton From Newport Education Centre

Graham Carney

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Thank you Spin for your prompt and competent assistance.

Suleyman Girmez

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I have been working with Spin Design for the last 5 years. They built all my sites for my businesses and have been made the process extremely easy and very smooth. I would highly recommend them for your next website project.

Anton vdv

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We are a small company, but our website is essential to our sales. Spin took over the hosting and email support and upgraded our website. Traffic has improved to the website and it looks so much better. But probably the most important aspect of their work for our small business is that it didn't cost an arm and a leg. I have found their team to work efficiently and economically to ensure we get an excellent service, for a very reasonable cost. I would highly recommend Spin for your business.

NGO Recruitment

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Spin Design have been great to work with, they provide advice and a speedy service.

Ian Williams

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Excellent service, prompt responses and always keeping me updated throughout the updating of my web page.

Ron Cumberland

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The guys at Spin are really friendly & a delight to work with - always happy to help solve my problems. Whether I've needed a new landing page, a product catalogue or just a minor detail change on our website, they have always responded extremely promptly & at a reasonable price.

Nathan Chanesman

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We had an API problem and Spin was able to sort it out promptly. Staff were excellent, good communicators and easy to do business with.

Jeanenne Ayoub

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I had Spin Design doing my computer update, tidying up, Web Design, all that a business needs when they don't have the knowledge or time poor. Simon is wonderful to work with.

Advanced Biostructural Correction Australasia

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Simon and his team, particularly Grace who designed our new website were so helpful and fast in all their responses that it made the entire project easier than I expected. We are very happy with the finished product, and the level of service received after the project with minor tweaks and added features that have all been done quickly without hassle.

Kylie Johnson

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Sahar May

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Our amazing Simon never fails to deliver only but the best. He and his team strive and work at offering an elite service from brief right through to the finish and I couldn’t have hoped for a better result. The team made my demands easy and met every expectation with delight. Simon and Team thanking you a million, everyone compliments the stunning site you put together for me, you made a vision come to life.

United Roof Restorations Info

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Spin Design has been amazing to deal with, they always make changes and updates to my website quickly and without any fuss. They consistently complete their work on time and on budget. I highly recommend Spin for any web design work!

Love Actually

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It was a pleasure working with Simon and his team. Grace was always super fast in responding to updates and queries. Excellent and easy team to work with. Recommend them highly.

NST Health Info

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Fully equipped with a very broad variety of great IT solutions and knowhow and always friendly, courteous and on time. Really happy to be using SPIN!

Pene Bloch

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Working with Simon and his team has been a dream. From the creation and development of the website to the final product has been very easy. The team communicate every step of the way.

Mike Sheeran

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It is with much pleasure that I recommend to you the services of Simon and his team at Spin Design.Having used Simon and his team on several occasions across several different industry sectors I havefound their ability to understand the message we wanted to relay and their complete professionalism tobe exceptional.Whilst having a complete understanding of what was required and what we wanted to achieve is all welland good relaying this information to someone who you are entrusting your digital messaging to is acompletely different story. Made more difficult of course, as you can see what outcome you want inyour mind but have a lack of the basic knowledge communicate this clearly.I found the team at Spin capable of extracting from our conversations a concept of not only themessaging but also who we wanted to target with the messaging. I also found that rather than be a setand forget organisation they continuously communicate and give feedback with the analytical dataaround our web site. This enables us to stay current, accurately portray who we are and what we do.So much so that following a recent conversation we are currently going through the process ofrebuilding and modernising our current digital face.I cant stress enough how important it is to have an organisation such as Spin Design as a partner, it isrefreshing to be able to say that these guys have been actively involved with BHO and our previousorganisations going on 10 years and I would have no hesitation in recommending Simon and his team toany other organisation looking for real people to deal with who are interested in establishing a longterm relationship.Mike SheeranDirector BHO Finance

Rodney Baker

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I spoke to the people at Spin Design about designing an effective web site for my rubbish business. The listened to what I needed and created a web site that has increased my business. I would happily recommend Spin Design for web design and construction.

Dannie Lyman

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Simon and his team are exceptional. In my opinion he does not charge enough for the services he offers. He has built and managed many sites for us including our company GDL page. He has never flinched at our endless plug ins including complex ones from US based companies.online booking systems, carts and shopping, You name it these guys get it sorted. Simon even gave me a free one on one training session on how to maximise my SEO. This team is all you need for you website developments.

Kerrie Rigby

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Simon has been instrumental in updating our website to a modern and fresh look. He is easy to deal with and took the time to go through each stage of the web design to ensure the layout and content was exactly what our company wanted. Any updates we required were made smoothly and seamlessly.

Anne Siret

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The team of Spin Design has definitely helped me as a bilingual Counsellor & Psychotherapist achieve my dream of taking my Coaching business to an online platform. Since 2013, Spin Design has always been very supportive of my French ideas. I personally thank Simon not only for his creativity and professionalism in making it possible but moreover for his kindness and ability to read in my mind.

Melissa Guest

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Simon Priest and his team at Spin Design created a website for my personal use as an artist. I have been extremely satisfied with the work that Simon and his team have performed and would highly recommend his services to anyone who was looking to create and manage a website .

Adam Alamein

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Can’t fault this firm. Got fed up dealing with all the other sharks. These guys are professional. Always pick up the phone and resolve any problem ASAP!!. Simon and the team just get it! Nothings too difficult and they don’t slug you. I’ve referred four family members!

Christian Brook

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Simon and his team at Spin Design have recently upgraded our Website, we are very happy with the result and how the process was worked through with any issues quickly resolved.We have also moved our emails hosting after his advice and Simon was able to professionally help with the transfer and all issues involved with this.Simon has been very professional and has met all our business needs and I fully recommend him.

David Campbell

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Having used Simon & the Spin Design team for many years, they are what I call a one-stop shop for our digital needs.All this with a no problem attitude that is a rare commodity these days.

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