We build websites Marlborough businesses are proud of

Avoca Web Design

Marlborough's reputation is world-class; Sauvignon Blanc, the Sounds, a tourism scene that pulls visitors from everywhere. Businesses here need a website that lives up to that.

Based in Nelson, we're your neighbours. We've been designing and building websites for businesses and organisations across Te Tauihu, including Marlborough, since 2006. We work with tourism operators, science teams, trades businesses, and community organisations across the region, and we'd love to add you to that list.

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Our kind of organisations, right across the region

We work with a wide variety of business and organisations

Science and environment

Research and environmental initiatives. We help teams turn important, technical work into something people understand and act on.

Our Lakes, Our Future

Community organisations

Foundations, trusts and community groups — funding, programmes and the people you serve, made clear and easy to support.

Top of the South Community Foundation

Education and training

We help Schools and training providers manage enrolments, courses and stakeholders to keep informed, with a site that's easy for your team to maintain.

Top of the South Trades Academy

Businesses

Growing businesses that need a site pulling its weight — sharp positioning, fast, ready to scale with you.

KiwiWiFi

Everything your website needs from one team

What we do

Strategy, design, build, SEO, then ongoing hosting and care. One team for the whole journey and who don't disappear after launch

Website design

Strategy-led web development, built to last

Web design

We design around your content, your audience, and the work your website needs to do. From information architecture through user experience to visual design, every decision is shaped by what the site has to achieve for your team and your visitors.

Web development

We build on Statamic for sites that handle real content and stay easy to manage, on WordPress where it fits, and on Shopify for ecommerce. Performance, accessibility and SEO are built in from the start, not bolted on later.

Launch & handover

We migrate content, preserve your search rankings, and train your team to manage the site once it's live. Launch day is the start of the relationship, not the end of the project.

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Growth strategy

Get more from the site you already have

Content strategy & SEO

Practical advice on what to publish, how to structure it for readers and search engines, and how to make sure your content keeps earning its place over time.

Website audits

We dig into performance, accessibility, SEO and content health, then give you a clear, prioritised list of what to fix and why. Useful before a redesign, or as a standalone health check.

Annual strategic review

A yearly deep-dive paired with a strategic conversation. We look at what's working, what isn't, and what to focus on for the year ahead. Included with Peak and Summit hosting plans, or available standalone.

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Hosting and care

The work doesn't end at launch

Hosting

Fast, secure hosting on infrastructure we've chosen specifically for the sites we build. Your site loads quickly, stays up, and has daily backups in case anything ever goes wrong.

Maintenance, support & updates

Updates, monitoring, security patches, and a team you can talk to when something needs sorting. We look after the technical bits so your team doesn't have to.

Strategic partnerships

We can partner with you for a relationship that goes beyond maintenance. Regular check-ins, support retainers, analytics commentary and our Annual Strategic Review keep your site moving forward.

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How we work

We’ll ask you to tell us all about your business, your dreams and your plans. Then we’ll probably fall a little bit in love with your brand and wish it was ours.

We’ll plan your digital strategy and website to really target the people you want to reach. And we’ll craft your new website with care and the latest tech to ensure the best possible results.

After launch, we’ll keep your site in tip-top shape, freeing you up to make your magic.

Sound good?

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Our recent work

Recent projects we loved working on

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Jeff Grimmett

Chairman, Kirkpatrick House Trust, Nelson

Jan and Brendyn got the job done, on time and under budget. Best of all, our entire Board of Governors loved the look and the feel of the website – it really reflected our culture and the message was very clear. Big thanks to the Team at Avoca – impressive stuff.

Lee-Anne Jago

Business Owner - Waka Abel Tasman

Relationships are important to us. We find our interactions with Avoca easy and efficient. They ‘get’ us and our business. So whenever we need updates or tweaks we feel comfortable to reach out. Avoca are our web people for life.

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 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.

Web design & development for Marlborough