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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Ben Wallbank

Owner Wedd.film

Being in different locations everything had to be done remotely, but honestly, I might as well have been in the room sharing some coffee as we talked over ideas. I came to Brendyn with a broad set of thoughts and ideas. These were then turned into tangible goals as we both worked on getting things looking their best and creating a true reflection of what I had in my head.

Kim McCormack

Deputy Director - Nelson Centre of Musical Arts

It is always a pleasure working with you both, and it feels as though you're part of the NCMA family, and not just another external business that we deal with. The whole process was surprisingly smooth from our end, and your advice and guidance throughout made it all that much doable as we climbed the mountain.

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.

Susie Wood

Lakes 380

Many thanks and yes we have had awesome feedback. The most interesting feedback as come from ours and other organisations who have wondered how we have produced such a great website with such limited resources.

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