Web developers standing behind Whakatū based businesses and organisations

Avoca Web Design

Avoca’s developers have been helping local businesses and organisations with website design since 2006. Our core team love living and working in sunny Whakatū, New Zealand!

We’re actively involved in supporting the local community, engaging local arts/education organisations and local non-profits. We’re proud to support events like the Adam Chamber Music Festival, our fantastic Arts Festival and organisations like Fresh FM and Top of the South Community Foundation.

Come and meet us in our central office on Hardy St. We’d be delighted to help you grow your business online and reach a broader audience.

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Nelson / Whakatū website services

What we do

Our designers develop rock-solid websites and digital strategy, hyper-focused on your target audience and making your brand shine. We also help get you found in search engines and provide ongoing hosting and care.

Website design

Web design and development is our core expertise. You need a fantastic website that engages and delights your perfect clients. We build modern, mobile friendly websites that look great and are easy to use.

Slow websites cost you conversions. We focus on performance and accessibility alongside great design, meaning you site will always load fast. Your visitors won’t get frustrated trying to find what they are looking for.

Our team works closely with you to develop a strong online strategy and a beautiful website, ensuring your business stands out.

Explore website design

We build websites for:

Science and environmental teams

Arts and education organisations

Product and service businesses

Online stores

Hosting and care

Making sure your website is always available, safe and fast-loading is crucial to your marketing efforts. So it’s great to have an experienced team for website management, hosting and support.

We look after your site like it’s our own, whether it’s built on WordPress or Statamic.

We can also help with content updating, design tweaks and other common management tasks.

Get hosting and care

Fast hosting

Daily backups

Help managing website content

Growth strategy

Our strategy and search engine optimisation (SEO) services can help you get more visitors, growing your online impact.

We can also help you refine what converts those visitors into customers with A/B testing campaigns and conversion optimisation.

SEO, growth and strategy

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)

Content Strategy

Conversion opimisation (A/B testing)

Website Audits

Accessibility Audits

How we work

We’ll ask you to tell us all about your business, your dreams and your plans. Then we’ll probably fall a little bit in love with your brand and wish it was ours.

We’ll plan your digital strategy and website to really target the people you want to reach. And we’ll craft your new website with care and the latest tech to ensure the best possible results.

After launch, we’ll keep your site in tip-top shape, freeing you up to make your magic.

Sound good?

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Michael Mackinnon

Committee Member - Ceol Aneas Irish Music Festival

Avoca have just rebuilt our website. We couldn’t be happier. The colours and layout captured me instantly. It’s easy for visitors to navigate, to get the information they need, then register and pay. Due to the understanding Avoca has of our needs and processes, the back end, where I spent a fair bit of time updating the variables for our events, is easy to work through.

Paulette Knott

Tasman Homes

We have worked with Avoca Design for many years now. They will always be our first port of call regarding our website management and improvements. We are thrilled with our new website! The team at Avoca is always genuinely excited along with us about our business. They listen, offer ideas and have a fabulous team that supports them to get our voice and vibe across.

Abby Boffa

Tasman Environmental Trust

I wanted to thank you guys again for not only building the website but for giving us really great advice and ideas and helping us to really clearly scope the work needed and stay in scope.
You guys are great!