The website and the contenta company your size should have in 2026.
700
STAFF THE APPSELEC EMPLOYEE PORTAL LAUNCHES WITH, GROWING TO 1,200
Enterprise web design, corporate photography and corporate video production for Australian companies with 50 to 1,000 staff. Most have been operating for decades, and it shows in two places: a website built for the company they were, and photographs that undersell the operation. One Melbourne team, in house.
Updated 3 September 2026
Three things,one team.
What a company with hundreds of staff gets from one studio.
- 01/Explore websites
The website built for the company you are now, not the one you were.
Custom designed and built around your sectors and your projects, with the photography and the video shot for it, and structured to be found in search. The kind of site a buyer opens and immediately understands the size of the company behind it. You own the domain, the accounts and the code.
- 02/Explore photography
Photography shot to the scale the company operates at.
Brand and team photography, headshots, offices and facilities, and the work as it happens on site. Shot on location, edited and delivered in every size you need for the website, for tenders and for print. Every frame is yours and nothing is stock.
- 03/Explore video
Video that shows the operation, for the people you hire and the people you sell to.
Brand films, capability and recruitment videos, project coverage, and the social cuts that come off the same shoot day. Shot, edited and delivered by the same team that builds the site. Every file is yours.
- 01/
Why does our website look smaller than our company?
Because it was built for the company you were, not the one you are now.
A company that has operated for decades usually has a website built around a smaller fleet, fewer sectors and projects that are no longer the biggest thing it has done. The signs are plain. The photography is old or stock, the projects page stops years ago, the staff portal link leads nowhere, and it does not read properly on a phone. It costs work before you hear about it. In the largest recent survey of business buyers, 68 per cent began with a preferred supplier already in mind, and that supplier won 55 per cent of the time. In another, 94 per cent of buyers had ordered their shortlist by preference before speaking to any seller. The shortlist is built from what the buyer, their team and their procurement people can see, and the website is what they see.
- 02/
What should a corporate website do in 2026?
Tell a buyer the size of the company in the first screen, and be found by the people looking for one.
Three jobs. It carries the sectors you work in and the projects you have delivered, in enough depth that a head contractor or a procurement team can check you without ringing anyone. It is fast and it reads properly on a phone, because that is where it is opened first. And it is written and structured so search engines and the answer engines people now read can find something on it worth quoting. Underneath all three is the same thing: photographs and film of the real operation, because a site with nothing of its own to show cannot do any of it.
- 03/
Do we need an employee portal or just a website?
A portal is for the people who already work for you; the website is for everybody else.
They are two builds and they answer to two audiences. The public website exists to be found and to be believed by buyers, head contractors and the people you want to hire. An employee portal is a private place behind a login where the office publishes documents, forms, bulletins and safety alerts and staff read them from their own account. Most companies at this scale need the website first and the portal second, and plenty need only the website. The employee portal we are building for Appselec launches for 700 staff and grows to 1,200, and it is a web build like the site beside it.
- 04/
How is corporate photography quoted?
Per shoot day, against the shot list we write with you.
We start with what has to exist: the sectors on the website, the team pages, the headshots, the sites and facilities that have to be photographed, and whatever tenders and recruitment need beside them. That becomes a shot list, the shot list becomes a number of shoot days, and the days are quoted with the editing and the delivery already in them. Nothing is charged by the image and nothing is held back behind a licence. You own the files and the usage rights, in every size you need for the website, for print and for social.
- 05/
How long does a corporate video take from brief to delivery?
The shoot days, then the edit, and you get both dates in writing at the brief.
The order is always the same. We agree what the film has to do and who it is for, then we plan the days around your operation so filming happens while the work is happening rather than around it. Filming and photography usually share the same days, which is why one visit can serve the website, recruitment and the feed at once. After the last day the edit begins, you see a cut and give us your notes, and the finished film is delivered with the social cuts from the same footage. We give you the dates at the brief and we keep them.
- 06/
Who owns the files, the domain and the code?
You do, all of it, and it is written down before we start.
Every photograph and every video file is yours with the usage rights, delivered in the sizes you actually need rather than locked to one channel. The domain and the hosting accounts are registered in the company’s name, not ours. The website’s code is yours. Nothing about the arrangement depends on you staying with us, which is the only way a company at this scale should buy a website.
- 07/
Why one studio for the website and the content?
Because a website is only as good as the photographs and the film in it.
The usual arrangement is a web agency, a photographer and a video producer who have never spoken to each other, and a site designed around images nobody has taken yet. We plan the pages and the shot list in the same conversation, so the frames exist for the layout and the layout is built for the frames. The same team is on site on the shoot day and in the code afterwards, so nothing gets lost between suppliers and there is one place responsible for the whole thing.
Built to lookthe size it is.
A very old website that did not reflect how big the company is, and a staff portal link that led nowhere. We are building the new website, an employee portal that launches for 700 staff and grows to 1,200, and shooting two full days of photography and video across their live projects.
“We love this.”
the lightning bolt people
Every reviewis five stars.
5.0
Google rating
24+
businesses in our directory
"The quality of work is next level."
Questionsbuyers ask.
When it stops reflecting the company, which for a business that has been operating for decades is usually now. The agencies that sell redesigns say every two to three years; we say the test is whether a buyer who has never met you can tell your size from your site.
It is quoted per project against a written scope, in stages, and nothing is charged for the first call. A website for a company with hundreds of staff is scoped on its sectors, its projects, its portal and how it needs to be found, not on a page count.
Photography is quoted per shoot day against the shot list, video is quoted with it, and both are usually scoped alongside the website so one set of days covers all three. Every frame and every file is yours to use on the site, in tenders and on LinkedIn for years.
Because the answer engines read your website the way a buyer does, and a thin or outdated site gives them nothing to quote. A site written and structured for how search works in 2026 is found by people and by the answers people now read instead of a page of blue links.
Yes, and that is the point of one team. We plan the days around what the website needs, what recruitment needs and what the feed needs, so one visit produces the frames for a sector page, the headshots for the team page, a capability film and the social cuts, instead of three separate bookings that never quite match.
Usually the website, the photography and the way the company is described, not the logo. A company that has operated for decades has a name people know; the job is to make what they find match it.
Yes. We shoot on location across Melbourne and Victoria, in offices, in facilities and on live sites, and we plan the days around your operation rather than the other way round.
Melbourne first and across Victoria; the flagship build has a Moorabbin head office and Queensland operations.
The current site, the sectors and projects that matter most, and a sense of what has to be photographed. Thirty minutes on a call is enough to map it and come back to you with a plan in writing.
Find out what is possiblein thirty minutes.
30 MINUTES. NO PAYMENT TAKEN. BRING THE THING THAT BUGS YOU MOST.
- 1/Forrester, Buyers’ Journey Survey 2025https://www.forrester.com/blogs/preference-matters-more-than-in-market-intent-alone-in-modern-b2b-buying/ (opens forrester.com in a new tab)
- 2/6sense, B2B Buyer Experience Report for 2025https://6sense.com/science-of-b2b/buyer-experience-report-2025/ (opens 6sense.com in a new tab)