Twenty years building websites in Whakatū

Avoca Web Design

Avoca has been designing and developing websites from Nelson since 2006. This is home for us.

We're part of the local community, supporting events like the Adam Chamber Music Festival, our fantastic Nelson Arts Festival and organisations like Fresh FM and Top of the South Community Foundation.

Come and meet us at our Hardy St office in central Nelson, or get in touch.

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Nelson / Whakatū website services

What we do

Our designers develop rock-solid websites and digital strategy, hyper-focused on your target audience and making your brand shine. We also help get you found in search engines and provide ongoing hosting and care.

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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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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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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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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Jenny Hunter

Administrator - Harley St Medical

Avoca have been excellent to deal with and have created a user friendly, fit for purpose website for us. They made the process easy to understand, gave us lots of opportunity for feedback and listened to our requests. We were grateful for the creative direction they took when we were lacking in ideas.

Lubo & Denisa

Founders

From early drafts to the final launch, you helped turn our ideas into reality. Every tweak, suggestion, every "let's try this instead', you were in it with us and your ongoing support is just outstanding.

Whenua Iti Newsletter June 2018

Whenua Iti Outdoors

Avoca Design manage our webpage and offered to help us design a database so we could manage the growth and complexity needed in such a system and the result has been amazing. The new database is still a work in progress but so far we are delighted with progress we have made by collaborating with Avoca. It's a fantastic tool that will help us build all sorts of other relationships too.

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.

Who we work with in Te Tauihu

We've built websites across most of Nelson's major sectors. Here's where our work runs deepest.

Arts and culture

Festivals, theatres, galleries and music. Seasonal content, ticketing and event management without the panic.

Including:
Nelson Arts Festival
Theatre Royal
Nelson Centre of Musical Arts
Adam Chamber Music Festival

Science and environment

Research institutes and environmental trusts. Communicating complex work to the public, funders and government.

Including:
Cawthron Institute
Te Tauihu Environmental Trust
Our lakes, Our future
Kotahitanga mō te Taiao

Businesses and trades

From builders and manufacturers to food producers and professional services. Considered, fast websites that bring you the right kind of work.

Including:
Design Windows
Bruce Design & Build
Kudos Food Design
Nelson Water Blasting

Tourism and the outdoors

Tourism operators, outdoor brands and active lifestyle businesses. Fast, mobile-first sites with booking integrations.

Including:
Waka Abel Tasman
Kinetrix Performance
Wheeliefantastic Cycle Tours
Go Minimal

Education

Colleges and training academies. Clear websites that connect prospective families, students and community with your kaupapa.

Including:
Nelson Boys College
Nayland College
Top of the South Trades Academy

Community and non-profits

Charities, trusts and community organisations. Clear kaupapa and complex content, handled with care.

Including:
Cancer Society Nelson/Tasman
Fresh FM
Top of the South Community Foundation

Web design and development in Nelson