NDIS
Website Design

At Thrive Digital, we specialise in creating dynamic NDIS websites tailored for the disability care sector. We’re no strangers to designing accessible websites that not only show off your services but guarantee users a hassle-free experience. Whether you’re a disability service provider or an advocacy organisation, the Thrive team will deliver a website that empowers and informs. Let us help you make a positive impact with the NDIS community.

The power of accessibility for NDIS websites

When it comes to connecting with the NDIS community, your website needs to be user-friendly, inclusive and easy to navigate. It’s not just about reaching your audience; it’s about ensuring every website visitor, regardless of their ability, can access the support and resources they need. At Thrive Digital, we make accessibility our priority when designing websites, ensuring everyone can benefit from the valuable services or information you provide.

Secure and Fast NDIS web hosting

Thrive Digital can offer super secure hosting with our multi-cloud CDN, which is fast, bulletproof and always available.

Lions Haven website design, Aged Care & Disability Care

What makes a great NDIS website?

An NDIS provider website has two audiences at once: participants and their families choosing a provider, and support coordinators and plan managers checking that you are the right fit. The site has to work for both, and it has to be accessible to people with disability as a matter of course, not as a feature.

  • Your NDIS registration status and registration groups stated plainly, with your provider number where you choose to show it.
  • Services organised the way the NDIS describes them, from daily living and community access to support coordination and SIL.
  • Service areas and regions named, because most NDIS searches include a suburb or city.
  • Accessibility built in to WCAG 2.1 AA: contrast, keyboard navigation, screen-reader structure, captions and plain language.
  • Easy Read summaries and short, clear pages for participants who need them.
  • Referral and enquiry forms that a support coordinator can complete in two minutes, with the fields your intake team actually needs.
  • Staff, qualifications and real photos, because trust is the whole decision for a family.

NDIS and disability provider websites we have designed

Happy Learners

Thrive worked with Happy Learners Therapy Services to design a warm, engaging website that reflects their child-centred approach to paediatric occupational therapy. The project focused on creating an accessible and…

Social Futures

Thrive worked with Social Futures to design a modern, accessible website that reflects their commitment to building inclusive communities and connecting people with the support they need. The project focused…

Enable Health

Thrive worked with Enable Health Co to develop a distinctive logo and a modern website that reflects their holistic approach to supporting young people's mental health and wellbeing. The project…

Global Care

Thrive Digital partnered with Global Care Australia to enhance their online presence and outreach and bring their website to life with a user-friendly interface and custom animations.

Lions Haven

Lions Haven is a fully-accredited not-for-profit residential aged care home on Hope Island on the Gold Coast. The caring team at Lions Haven provides 24/7 clinic care and health services…

Kindred

Kindred is an uplifting, supportive, and educational space for families raising children with developmental delay, disability or medical needs. It’s a community made by caregivers, for caregivers with the approach…

Gold Coast Primary Health Network

Gold Coast Primary Health Network (GCPHN) is an independent, not-for-profit company by the Australian Government. Established to identify the health needs of local communities and fund and improve primary health…

HillView Aged Care

HillView Care, a progressive aged care provider, engaged Thrive Digital for a comprehensive end-to-end project encompassing Branding, Design, Development, and Marketing. Faced with a dated brand and uninspiring website, HillView…

Southport Lodge

Southport Lodge is a privately-owned aged care home where every resident is given personalised care from a professional, dedicated team. Thrive Digital was approached to create an elegant, easy-to-navigate website…

Liberty Community Connect

Liberty Community Connect empowers Australians to live socially connected, independent and meaningful lives. The team at Liberty approached Thrive for logo, branding, and website design, and we have enjoyed working…

What an NDIS provider website needs

The right audiences

A participant or parent wants to know what you do, where, and whether they will feel safe with you. A support coordinator wants your registration groups, capacity and how to refer. A plan manager wants your ABN and invoicing details. Each finds their answer without reading the others’ pages.

Services as the NDIS names them

Participants search for what is in their plan, so the site uses the same language: daily living, community participation, supported independent living, specialist disability accommodation, support coordination, therapy supports, plan management. One page per service.

Compliance without the jargon

The NDIS Practice Standards expect clear information about services, complaints and feedback, privacy and incident management. We build those pages properly and make them easy to find, which also satisfies the auditors.

Referral paths that work

A referral form a support coordinator can complete in a couple of minutes, a confirmation that lands with your intake team immediately, and a phone number never more than one tap away. For larger providers, connected to your client management system.

Registered or not, said plainly

Registered providers show their registration groups. Unregistered providers explain what it means for self-managed and plan-managed participants. Being clear builds trust; hiding it does the opposite.

Proof

Real staff, real photos, real stories where consent allows. Stock imagery of people in wheelchairs is the fastest way to lose a family’s trust.

Global Care website design, Aged Care & Disability Care

Accessible by design, not by plugin

Every NDIS website we build is designed and tested to WCAG 2.1 AA: colour contrast, text that resizes, full keyboard navigation, headings and landmarks that make sense to a screen reader, captions on video and alternative text on every image.

We write in plain language and add Easy Read versions of the key pages for participants who need them. An accessibility overlay widget is not a substitute for this, and we do not rely on one.

NDIS websites across Queensland and Australia

Thrive is based in Burleigh Heads on the Gold Coast and has designed websites for NDIS and disability providers across South East Queensland, including Brisbane, Ipswich, Springfield, Logan, the Sunshine Coast and Toowoomba, as well as providers in regional Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria. Most of our clients never visit the studio: the whole project runs by video call and a shared project board, so a provider in Melbourne gets the same service as one in Southport.

Recent NDIS and disability work includes Liberty Community Connect, a community participation and independent living provider; Global Care Australia, a disability and community care organisation; Kindred, a community for families raising children with disability; and Enable Health Co, a mobile occupational therapy practice. Our aged care and disability care page covers the residential side of the sector.

Happy Learners

Getting found by participants and support coordinators

A new website only pays off if people find it. Our SEO team builds the service and region pages so you rank for the searches participants make, our Google Ads team runs campaigns for the regions you want to grow in, and our digital marketing team ties it together with one report.

Got questions?

NDIS Website Design FAQs

What does an NDIS website design cost?


It depends on the number of services and regions, whether you need Easy Read versions, referral forms and integrations, and how much of the content we write. Every project starts with a written scope and a fixed quote, so you know the price before we begin. A small provider with a handful of services is a very different project from a multi-region organisation, and the quote reflects that.

How long does it take?


Most NDIS provider websites take six to ten weeks from the first meeting to launch. Content is the usual reason projects run long, so we write it with you rather than waiting for it, and we build the site in stages you can review as we go.

Do NDIS websites have to meet accessibility standards?


There is no law that names a specific standard for a provider website, but the NDIS Practice Standards expect information to be accessible to participants, the Disability Discrimination Act applies to websites, and participants and their families will judge you on it in the first ten seconds. We build to WCAG 2.1 AA as standard and test it, and we add Easy Read versions of the key pages where your participants need them.

What is Easy Read and do I need it?


Easy Read is a way of presenting information in short sentences, plain words and supporting images for people with intellectual disability or low literacy. The NDIS itself publishes Easy Read versions of its documents. If your participants include people who need it, an Easy Read summary of your services, how to contact you and how to complain is worth having, and we can produce it.

We are a registered provider. What does the website need to show?


Your registration groups and the services within them, how participants can give feedback or make a complaint, your privacy policy, and clear information about your services and who they are for. The NDIS Practice Standards and the Quality and Safeguards Commission expect this to be easy to find, and auditors do look at the website. We build those pages as part of every registered provider site.

We are not registered. Does that matter for the site?


No, but it changes the message. Unregistered providers can work with self-managed and plan-managed participants, so the site should say that plainly and explain how invoicing works for each. Being clear about it builds trust; hiding it does the opposite.

Can the site take referrals from support coordinators?


Yes, and it should. We build a referral form with the fields your intake team needs, nothing more, that a support coordinator can complete in a couple of minutes, with instant notification to your team. For larger providers we connect it to your client management or CRM system so referrals are not re-keyed.

Do you build NDIS websites outside the Gold Coast?


Yes. Most of our NDIS clients are across South East Queensland, including Brisbane, Ipswich, Logan and the Sunshine Coast, and we work with providers in regional Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria. Projects run by video call and a shared project board, so distance makes no difference to the result.

Do NDIS websites need SEO?


Yes. Most NDIS searches include a service and a location, such as “support coordination Logan” or “SIL provider Gold Coast”, and participants and support coordinators use them to build a shortlist. We structure the site with a page per service and per region so it can rank for those searches, and our SEO team can keep building on that after launch.

Will the website reflect our organisation, not a template?


Yes. Every site is designed from scratch around your services, your people and your participants. We use your photography wherever consent allows, write the copy in your voice with you, and avoid the stock imagery that makes so many provider websites look identical.

Who looks after the website once it is live?


We do, if you want us to. Our hosting and support plans cover the server, security updates, daily backups and help with changes, and we train your team so updating services, staff and news is something you can do yourselves.

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