Successful websites are built on four key pillars:

Target the right people

Delightful, mobile-ready design

Carefully planned, built just for you

Killer content strategy

The Avoca Web Design team conducting a website review.

We build websites that let you work your magic

What we do

You’re already doing great mahi (work). It’s time for your website to share your magic with the world and drive your business forward.

To grow, you need a great website that engages and delights your perfect clients. Working closely with you, we’ll develop a strong online strategy and a beautiful website, ensuring your business stands out.

Once the website is finished, we won’t leave you to fend for yourself. We host and maintain your site, ensuring it’s fast and safe. We train you to easily edit content, and provide ongoing support.

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Websites for businesses / organisations with big impact

Who we help

Are you delivering awesome experiences, products or life changing learning? Fantastic, we’ll be a good fit. We’re here to support your kaupapa (mission).

Environmental / science teams

Communicating your cause and how you’re making a difference is key to making a connection with your audience

Science & environment sites

Arts / education organisastions

You’ve got a great range of programmes and events that you need to share with the world. We’ll make it easy for you.

Arts & education sites

Helping one-of-a-kind businesses tell their story

You’ve worked hard creating a fantastic product / service that has a great story. Your website needs to make an impact too.

Business websites

Simplifying e-commerce for unique online stores

Have unique products with a great story to sell? We’ll take the hard work out of creating a great online store and selling more.

Our recent work

Recent projects we loved working on

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Ceara McAuliffe Bickerton

Business Development Manager

Really positive experience! We felt like you really heard our needs & vision for the site and didn't make any assumptions about our users. Great communication throughout.

Kim McGettigan

Admin Officer

Avoca were fantastic to work with during the rebuild of our website and we were delighted with the result. Since the launch, however, what has impressed us even more is the ongoing support as we add further features and their creative help to iron out the inevitable glitches as we learn how to use the website ourselves. We can’t recommend them highly enough.

Jamilla Knopp

Business Owner

Kieron and I chose you to design our new website after our initial meeting because we liked your approach and it felt like you would partner us in the whole process of the creation of the new site well, which you did. And I felt like you heard me and understood what we wanted to create and needed.

Vicki

Dunstan Property Management

“Our experience was positive and delightful. You made the process of having a web site built painless, interesting and understandable with your expertise.”

Our website design process

How we do it

Since every business is different, every website should be too. Don’t settle for cookie cutter solutions. Get the right result for your business with a website that’s perfectly tailored to you needs.

1. Discovery

It’s super tempting to just dive right into the details and design. However, it’s always better to have a good plan.

We’ll spend some time digging further into your target market, search engine opportunities and put together a strategy & development plan that will get you where you need to be.

The outcome of this stage is a custom website marketing plan.

2. Prototyping, UX design

Ok so now we’re diving into the look and feel right? Hmm not quite yet :).

Too make sure we’re developing the right solution, we create a “working model” prototype website. This process (sometimes called “wireframing” or “UX design”) lets us quickly test functionality and refine content requirements before beginning design work. We work through your customers journey on your website to ensure they have a great experience and convert.

3. UI Design

Now it's time to make it look fantastic.

We take the wireframes from the UX stage and design them to fit your brand and look stunning. We work closely with your brand to make sure the website really feels like it’s one of a kind.

This is where your website really comes to life and you can see what the finished product will look like.

4. Website development

Time to get building. We get our hands dirty in the code during this phase and build out your website any features and any custom functionality. We'll import your content and train you on how to use your fancy new site.

Your visitors’ time is precious. We want them to spend it converting, not waiting. So as we build, we focus heavily on performance, accessibility and usability, as well as great design.

5. Launch

When the site is ready for the world, we launch. That means putting the website through our comprehensive launch checklist, making it “live” to the world and ensuring it’s firing on all cylinders.

This is also when we make sure you know how to get the best out of your website. Easy, short learning videos and 1:1 training are built into every project launch.

6. Ongoing maintenance and strategy

Launching your website is only the beginning. You'll need to nuture your website overtime.

We have your website hosting, backup and maintenance covered. We can help you grow your site over time with new features, content. We can connect you to our network of professionals for additional services including copywriting, video, photography and online advertising.

Our creative whānau is here to help

We stick to our knitting and do one thing, website design, really well. But what if you need a logo and copy or great photography as well?

We’re part of a creative whānau (family) — more than just partners or colleagues in the business space — people we trust to deliver great work. Stellar graphic design, killer copywriting and great strategic advice.

We work as individuals but also together, bringing complementary skills and the strength of our shared kaupapa (purpose). You can relax, trusting in the security of knowing our creative whānau has your back

Meet the team

Brendyn, chief web wrangler at Avoca. — The Web Wrangler