Christchurch
Website support and design for Christchurch businesses.
Wellington based, working with Christchurch clients NZ wide. You deal with the person who builds and maintains the site, start to finish.
How this works when you are in Christchurch
I am based in Wellington, so a Christchurch build runs remotely. Scoping is a call with your existing site up on screen, you get drafts as links you can click through, and you deal with the person doing the work rather than an account manager passing messages along.
Same $789 build, same $39 a month hosting, and the same person answering the phone once it is live.
What comes up most with Christchurch businesses
A lot of Christchurch sites I look at were built five or ten years ago on WordPress with a heavy page builder, and nobody has maintained them since. Those sites are usually not broken, they are just slow, and slow is the thing quietly costing you enquiries. Visitors leave before the page finishes loading and you never see it happen.
That is fixable without starting again in most cases. The free audit will tell you whether you are looking at a tune up or a rebuild, and it costs you nothing to find out.
What I do
Six ways to work with me, priced so you know where you stand.
Website build
From $789
A five page site on a clean WordPress foundation, written and structured for your industry, and handed over with a walkthrough so you can run it yourself.
- Five key pages, swap any of them out
- On-page SEO and schema markup
- Forms, analytics and tracking wired up
- Editable by you from day one
Managed hosting
From $39 / month
Your site on infrastructure I actually maintain. Weekly checks, core and plugin updates, and a restore point that works when it matters.
- Weekly updates and security scans
- Daily offsite backups, tested restores
- Uptime and SSL monitoring
- My mobile number, not a ticket queue
Rescue an existing site
Quoted
Slow, out of date, or held hostage by whoever built it. I take over the site, clean out what is breaking it and move you onto hosting that holds up, usually without a full rebuild.
- Migration handled end to end
- Plugin and theme cleanup
- Performance and security pass
- Full access handed back to you
Site audit
Free
A written report on what your current site is doing well and what is costing you enquiries, plus a call to walk through it. No obligation to hire me afterwards.
- Speed and Core Web Vitals results
- Search visibility and schema check
- Security and update status
- Prioritised list of fixes
E-commerce
Quoted
WooCommerce set up on a new or existing site, so you are selling on software you own rather than renting a storefront.
- WooCommerce build or retrofit
- Payment and shipping configured
- Product import and structure
- Tested checkout before launch
Complex add-ons
Quoted
Something less off the shelf. These can go into the original build or be added later once the site is earning its keep.
- Membership systems
- Directory systems
- Online courses
- Bookings and integrations
Website support
Website support in Christchurch, not just a site that ships and then goes quiet.
01 Someone answers
You get my mobile number, not a ticket queue and not an account manager. Most people move their site to me because nobody was there the last time something broke.
02 Patched weekly
Plugins and themes updated every week, and each update checked afterwards, so a bad one does not sit there quietly breaking your contact form.
03 Small edits included
Text changes, a swapped image, updated opening hours. Send them over and they are done, at no extra cost.
04 Watched
Uptime and SSL monitored from a central dashboard, so an alert reaches me rather than waiting for you to notice the site is down.
Support runs on the managed hosting plan, from $39 a month, whether I built the site or inherited it from somebody else.
No charge, no obligation
Find out what your site is actually doing.
Send me your address and I will run it through the same checks I use on every build, then write up what I find in plain English. Usually back to you within two working days.
Tell me what your site needs to do.
Fill this in and I will come back with an honest read on whether I am the right fit, and what it would cost.