Build Me A Website
Every business needs a website. We can create a great looking site for you that also gets results. It’s web design that works for your business.
We help businesses reach more customers & increase sales with results focused website designs
- Understanding of your business goals
- Website designed to meet your goals
- Custom bespoke website design
- Responsive/mobile friendly site
- SEO built in, Google friendly
- Aftercare & ongoing support
- Web hosting if you need it
- Secure site setup (https)
- Get 19 years of website building & digital marketing experience
We’ve Worked With
“After handing over my website management to MyTechGuy.co.nz, my website is looking professional, is properly set up for SEO and Google Analytics – and I am now getting several new enquiries every week! Thanks to Martin from MyTechGuy.co.nz for turning my website from a costly burden into a money-making asset!”
How Does It Work?
We take the time to understand your business needs and marketing goals. Then turn this information into an action plan so you know exactly what you are getting.
This is the part where we make your site come to life. Throughout the Design, Development and Launch process we keep in touch so you know what to expect and when.
We never leave our customers high and dry. Our ongoing Website Maintenance Plans can continue to look after your site, keep it up to date and working in tip top condition.
“Good web design is not just about looks, it’s really about the user experience and getting results. A lot of web designers overlook this — we put it top of the list.”
MyTechGuy
Nelson, NZ.
How Do We Get Started?
It’s easy – to get the ball rolling just tell us about your project and what you are hoping to achieve.
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Questions About Our Web Design Services
Here are some commonly asked questions about our web design services. But if you have any questions not covered here please do get in touch here. We’ll be happy to help out.
It starts out with ‘Discovery’ (what are we building). Here we take a close look at your business, what you do and what makes you stand out compared to your competitors. We’ll work with you to determine how to best present your business online to achieve your goals for the site. We then turn this into an ‘Action Plan’ which lays out how we’re going to get from here to a completed web design. On your approval this leads directly into the ‘Design & Build process’. You’ll get to see the design as it takes shape, and of course approve everything before ‘Launch Day’ when we put the new design live. You can read more about our web design process and timeline.
From start to finish you should typically expect a timeline of around 6 weeks. This can vary depending on how large or complex the new site design is. And how quickly we get any required information from you or approvals to proceed to the next stage.
It really depends on what you want out of your website. Building a quality website that gets you results is a valuable investment in your business. It’s really not somewhere to cut corners. Good ‘web design’ is so much more than what a website looks like (as our 19+ years experience building and marketing websites has proven).
The best web designers want to know how your business works, and what the key goals of your site are. That way you get a website that performs – it drives people to sign-up, book an appointment, subscribe or buy.
Done well a quality website design will pay you back many, many times over.
The actual price will depend greatly on what your business needs. But to get things done properly budget around $4,000-$6,000 (+GST) for a fairly typical business site. But get in touch here so we can give you a more accurate price.
IMPORTANT: If your requirements are more straightforward (e.g. if you are a service provider or tradesman) then you may prefer our pay monthly website packages. These provide everything you need with no big upfront costs.
To create a great looking website we will need some images such as your logo and relevant photographs for your business (e.g. premises, staff, products, completed jobs). We will of course help and guide you on this.
To create a site that is focussed on getting results we also need to understand your business. So we’ll send you a short list of easy questions to answer about your business, your product or service and who your customers are. You don’t have to be a writer! We just need the raw facts so we can apply our magic to create pages that will make your business website sing.
‘What you need to provide’ is just one of many important questions to ask a web designer. It helps us understand your needs better and will help you get the website you really want as a result.
Yes, we can. Our Website Maintenance Services provide high quality fast web hosting for your site, as well as ongoing care and maintenance services to keep your site secure and up to date. As well as priority access for any additional changes or updates you need. It’s like having your own Tech Guy on hand.
Yes. Search engine optimization (or SEO) is complex, and often misunderstood. But it all starts with what is on your website. Everything from the structure of your site, the internal linking, the titles used, the body text, the images through to all the technical stuff you don’t see like meta data and schema. We make sure your site is well built, well optimized and properly search engine friendly. When you’re choosing a web designer, this kind of thing should be a standard feature, not an extra. Ongoing SEO services to improve or expand your search presence are a valuable additional service, but the basics should be built in from the start.
We are based in sunny Nelson, but that doesn’t mean you have to be. We can also help if you are based in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Hamilton, Napier or Dunedin. We can work with you and your project from anywhere in New Zealand. We often work with clients in Australia and elsewhere too.
Don’t worry, we don’t need to have any long unnecessary meetings. We also don’t need to have extended phone calls over minor details. In fact most queries will be resolved by quick emails.
That said, we do need to understand your business to build the best website for it. Our experience will cover a lot of the groundwork, but we will have questions up front during our Discover phase.
The whole process from start to finish should only take a few hours of your time though – less if you can delegate to a staff member.
The short answer is making a website work across different devices (phones, tablets, laptops and desktop computers). On average mobiles now account for about 55% of all website visits on average. For some types of site this is even higher. So this too should now be considered a standard basic feature of any website. Your new site will of course be designed to look good across different devices and screen sizes.
The longer answer is that it means making a site adapt (or ‘respond’) to the different sizes of screen across the various devices we all use these days to access websites. It may mean certain elements on the screen resize, move or realign themselves to adapt to a smaller or narrower screen space. It may mean the text size or spacings between things automatically adjust to work well for everyone viewing a site. This has been standard design practice for a number of years now, and should not be considered an extra or add-on. A very significant percentage of website visits, and revenue, now originates from mobile phones.
Most of our sites are now built using WordPress. This incredibly popular content management software (CMS) runs 26% of the top 10 million websites. 59.9% of all sites that use a CMS use WordPress. It’s a great choice because it is already used by such a huge percentage of the internet. And because it has an extremely high level of technical support. It’s also very good. And as a WordPress web designer (amongst other technologies) we can be very confident that it will still be around for many years to come.
Yes, we can provide booking and availability calendars for service providers or custom estimate request forms (also see website design for tradesmen). We can also typically integrate with existing systems or apps that you might use.
We can also include menus for restaurants, interactive maps of store locations, learning management systems or other types of membership only functinality. Just let us know what you would like to achieve.
Yes, absolutely. All of our Care Plans include set up and renewal of a secure SSL certificate for your site as part of our hosting service. If you choose to use your own hosting we will help set this up for you.
We now treat this as a standard, essential feature for all new websites. Search engines such as Google and Bing have stated for years now that they consider this to be important. As have the creators of the most popular web browsers. Over 95% of websites on Google now use HTTPS. It’s simply not optional any longer for any modern website.
We use secure certificates provided by LetsEncrypt (as used by 300 million+ websites). These are perfect for most websites. Some ecommerce sites may wish to upgrade to Organisationally Validated (OV) or Extended Validation (EV) certificates.
Yes, we can either advise you on choosing and securing an appropriate domain name for your website. Or we can simply manage the registration and renewal for you. If you already have an existing domain you can of course continue to use that.
Yes. How your visitors are using your website is important to understanding their needs and the value your website is bringing to your business. We can help you get set up for Google Analytics, install the code for you and help you get useful data out of it.
We can also help setup and manage your Google Business Profile (previously called ‘Google My Business’). This has now become an essential service for any local trade or service business. Read more about our Google Business Profile setup and marketing services.
Yes, you can read more about how we handle website redesign. It’s important to be redesigning for the right reasons, and not to throw out what’s working well when changes are made.