Wellington
Website support and design for Wellington businesses.
I am based in the capital, so if you are too we can do this over a coffee rather than a video call. Same work, same prices, and someone local who answers the phone.
What working with a Wellington developer actually changes
I live and work in Wellington, so if you are here too we can do the scoping session in person. That matters more than it sounds. Twenty minutes with your existing site open on a laptop usually surfaces more than an hour of email back and forth. You point at the thing that annoys you, and I tell you on the spot whether it is a ten minute fix or a rebuild.
I work with businesses across the region: the city and Te Aro, Petone and the Hutt Valley, Porirua, and up the Kapiti Coast. If you are further out, we do it over a call, the same as anywhere else.
What comes up most with Wellington businesses
A lot of local businesses inherited a site from someone who has since moved on, changed jobs, or stopped answering email. If that is you, a rescue is usually the cheaper path than a rebuild. I take over what already exists, clean it out, and move it onto hosting that is actually maintained. You keep the content and the search history you have built up, which a rebuild often throws away.
The free audit is the honest starting point. It tells you which of the two you are looking at before you spend anything.
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Slow, out of date, or held hostage by whoever built it.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 Wellington, 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.