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A web design agency for villas, hotels, restaurants, salons and clinics.

Manara Studio is a web design agency for businesses that sell an experience: villas and hotels, restaurants and cafés, salons and clinics, in Australia, the Gulf and Indonesia. We design, write, build and launch the whole website ourselves, then look after it every month. Starter is A$24 a month, and every package is on our pricing page.

contact [at] manara-studio (dot) com
A lighthouse at dusk with its lamp lit, standing above a row of low buildings against a warm orange sky.
Stickers: villas, restaurants, salons, clinics, and SEO · AEO · GEO Sticker: منارة (manāra), Arabic for a lighthouse, literally the place where the light is kept

01What you get

Sticker: Manara, from first sketch to live site

What does a web design agency like Manara Studio do?

We handle the whole website, not a slice of it: custom design, the words, a build that's quick on a phone, SEO and AEO basics, and WhatsApp and email buttons. Then we look after it every month: hosting, the domain, small changes and a short report, with two rounds of design changes before launch.

You won't be passed between a designer, a copywriter and a developer who each own one piece. One studio answers for all of it.

Do you design websites for small businesses?

Yes. We build for small and mid-sized businesses that sell a stay, a meal or an appointment: villas and hotels, restaurants and cafés, salons and clinics, and property.

Each one gets chosen differently. A villa site has to sell the stay before guests arrive, then take them to WhatsApp or a direct booking; Booking adds online booking and payment so guests can book on your own site. A restaurant has to be the place they pick tonight. A salon or clinic earns the trust first, and the booking follows.

Is a website worth it for a small business?

For a business people choose before they visit, usually yes. A website is the one place you fully control that Google and AI assistants can read and quote when someone looks you up.

02Prices

How much does website design cost?

A Manara Studio website is A$24 a month for Starter, A$44 for Business and A$79 for Booking. The first 6 months are paid upfront, and you pay for 5 of them: the first month, while we build, is free. Hosting, small changes and a monthly report are included, and anything beyond your package is quoted before we start.

PackageA monthPagesLanguagesTimeWhat you get
StarterA$24up to 521–2 weeksA very fast site with WhatsApp leads, on-page SEO and schema, and a blog your team updates
Business (our pick)A$44up to 1552–3 weeksEverything in Starter, plus local SEO and AI search, analytics, Google Business Profile and a basic Google Ads setup
BookingA$79up to 30unlimited3–4 weeksEverything in Business, plus a booking engine so guests book on your own site, calendar sync with Airbnb, Booking.com and Agoda (iCal), online payment with local methods and an advanced Google Ads setup

If you came here asking what a five-page website costs: that's Starter: A$24 a month, or A$120 for your first 6 months. Pay 12 months ahead and you pay for 10. A logo, colours and type cost A$160 if the business doesn't have a brand yet, and every price is also shown in riyals, dirhams and rupiah.

03How it works

Sticker: a boarding pass from Indonesia to Australia to the Gulf

How long does it take?

Starter takes 1–2 weeks, Business 2–3 weeks and Booking 3–4 weeks. The clock starts once we have everything we need from you.

  1. We talk about the business, then send you a quote.
  2. You pay for your first 6 months (the first one, while we build, is free), and we start the design.
  3. Two rounds of design changes, until it's right.
  4. The site goes live.
  5. From then on we host it, keep it safe, make your small changes and send you a short report every month.

04Our work

Can you redesign my existing website?

Yes. HaloPuncak, one of our two projects, is an existing villa website we rebuilt, and you can open it yourself at halopuncak.com.

Two projects, both ones we're proud of: HaloPuncak, a villa and resort site rebuilt to feel as good as the stay itself, and WaxPoint Beauty Salon, calm, exact, and bookable from a phone in a few taps.

The HaloPuncak homepage: villa rooftops below the Puncak mountains, with a headline about private villas between the mist and the mountains The WaxPoint Beauty Salon homepage: the salon's lit sign behind a deep green wash, with a WhatsApp booking button

The small details decide it. When we rebuilt HaloPuncak, we pointed all 193 of its old page addresses to their new pages one by one, so nothing Google already knew got lost. On WaxPoint, all 67 treatments show their real prices, and every WhatsApp button opens a message that already names the treatment and the branch.

Manara Studio was founded by Abdulrahman Moneer, a web designer and developer who designed and built both sites, and who talks to clients directly in English, Arabic and Indonesian.

05Questions

Sticker: a search for “best villa website near me” that leads to manara-studio.com

What should you look for in a website design company?

Check three things: live work you can open yourself, a clear price before anything starts, and what happens to your site and your content if you ever stop. If any of the three is vague, ask before you pay.

At Manara Studio, the work is above, the prices are on the pricing page, and if you stop, your words and photos come back to you and a domain you already owned stays yours.

Will my website show up on Google and in AI answers?

Every site is built with SEO and AEO basics, so Google and assistants like ChatGPT can read it and describe the business correctly. Nobody can honestly promise the top spot, and Google says no one can guarantee a #1 ranking.

SEO means people find you on Google. AEO means AI assistants like ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity describe you correctly. GEO means you show up in the answers they write.

For Google's AI Overviews and AI Mode, there's no extra requirement: the page has to be indexed and eligible to show in normal search. So the groundwork is the same: a site machines can read cleanly.

Business includes local SEO, AI search and a Google Business Profile. If you want to keep climbing after launch, our monthly Search work is A$240 a month, with a 3-month minimum, because SEO usually takes about three months to really take effect. After that, one message stops it.

Who owns the website and the domain?

The website is ours, and you use it for as long as you're a member: that's how the monthly price stays small and everything technical stays our job. A domain you already own stays yours, and so do your words, photos and logo; a new domain we register for you is part of the membership. If you'd like to own the site itself, you can buy it after 12 months: A$395 for Starter, A$950 for Business or A$1,600 for Booking.

Can I update the website myself?

You don't need to: small changes are included every month, just send them to us on WhatsApp. If your team wants to post to the blog themselves, we'll give them a login for that.

What does a website cost each month?

A$24 a month for Starter, A$44 for Business and A$79 for Booking. That covers hosting, the domain, SSL, backups and security updates, small changes whenever you need them, a short monthly report and fixes whenever something breaks.

The first 6 months are paid upfront, for the price of 5, or 12 months for the price of 10, with the first two free. After that you choose: monthly at the full price, another 6 months for 5, or 12 for 10, each invoiced by hand and never charged automatically, and one message stops it.

Do you work with businesses in Australia and the Gulf?

Yes. We build for businesses in Australia, the Gulf and Indonesia, in English, Arabic and Indonesian, and everything runs over WhatsApp and email.

How do we get started?

Message us on WhatsApp, or email if you prefer, or build your order on the pricing page and send it. We reply with a few questions, then a quote; once you approve it, you pay for your first 6 months, and the first month, while we build, is free.

Say hi.

Sticker: Say hi! Sticker: fluent in English, Indonesian and Arabic, with halo · hi · مرحبا

Tell us about the business. We’ll tell you what we’d build.

contact [at] manara-studio (dot) com
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