About Gladstone Digital

I've spent over 20 years working in IT — from enterprise infrastructure at some of Australia's largest organisations to building web applications from scratch. I've been in Gladstone since I was a kid, and I started Gladstone Digital because I saw too many local businesses getting a raw deal when it comes to their online presence.

Most tradies and small business owners I know fall into one of two camps: they either have no website at all and rely entirely on word of mouth and Facebook, or they paid someone a few thousand dollars years ago for a site that now looks terrible on a phone and nobody's maintaining it.

Meanwhile, the national operators are offering templated sites with monthly plans — but there's no one local to talk to, and if something goes wrong, you're on hold with a call centre.

Gladstone Digital is the middle ground: a professional web presence, properly built by someone who actually understands the technology, hosted and maintained for you — and if you need something, you're talking to the bloke who built it, not a support ticket.

The other thing I'm genuinely good at — and the work I enjoy most — is fixing broken business processes. You know the one: that Excel spreadsheet with 47 tabs that someone built five years ago, and now nobody understands it but the whole business depends on it.

I sit down with you, understand how your business actually operates, and build a simple web application that replaces the mess. No over-engineering, no unnecessary complexity — just a tool that does the job and saves you hours every week.

If that sounds like something your business needs, let's have a chat.

In a town like Gladstone, reputation is everything. I'm not going to deliver a bad site and disappear — I live here, I shop here, my kids go to school here. When your mate asks if you know anyone who does websites, I want you to say “yeah, talk to Asher at Gladstone Digital, he did mine and it's been great.”

That's the whole business model, honestly. Do good work for local businesses. Keep it running. Be easy to deal with. Let the results speak for themselves.