Website design, crafted with care & strategy

web designer working on website code and development

Helping businesses, arts/education organisations and non-profits do awesome things.

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Successful websites are built on these four key pillars:

Targeted to the right people

Custom built for your needs

Delightful, mobile-ready design

Killer content strategy

Website design.

Websites that let you work your magic

You're already doing great mahi (work). It's time for your website to share your magic with the world and drive your business forward.

To grow, you need a great website that engages and delights your perfect clients. Working closely with you, we develop a strong online strategy and a beautiful website, ensuring your business stands out.

Once the website is finished, we won't leave you to fend for yourself. We host your site, ensuring it's fast and safe. We train you to easily edit content, and provide ongoing support.

Let's talk

Who we help.

Are you delivering joyous experiences, products or life changing learning?

Ka rawe, awesome!
We'll help your website make an impact.

Supporting environmental/science teams
Communicating your cause and how you're making a difference is key to making a connection with your audience
Science & environment sites
Stellar arts/education websites
You've got a great range of programmes and events that you need to share with the world. We'll make it easy for you.
Arts & education sites
Helping one-of-a-kind businesses tell their story
You've worked hard creating an excellent product / service that stands out and has a great story. We'll get your website making an impact too.
One-of-a-kind websites
Simplifying e-commerce for unique online stores
Have unique products with a great story to sell? We'll take the hard work out of creating a great online store and selling more.
Online stores

The Web Wrangler

The Graphics Nerd

The Wordsmith

More than just web skills.

Our creative whānau is here to help

We stick to our knitting and do one thing, website design, really well. But what if you need a logo and copy or great photography as well?

We’re part of a creative whānau (family) — more than just partners or colleagues in the business space — people we trust to deliver great work. Stellar graphic design, killer copywriting and great strategic advice.

We work as individuals but also together, bringing complementary skills and the strength of our shared kaupapa (purpose). You can relax, trusting in the security of knowing our creative whānau has your back

Meet the team

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.

Susie Wood

Lakes 380

“Many thanks and yes we have had awesome feedback. The most interesting feedback as come from ours and other organisations who have wondered how we have produced such a great website with such limited resources.”

Janice Marthen

Former Manager - Theatre Royal Nelson

“Working with Brendyn and Jan on the development of our website was a pleasure and they recognised the importance of promoting our shows, the venue and our team”

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.

Our website design process

Supporting you and your business to do awesome things

Since every business is different, every website should be too. Don't settle for cookie cutter solutions. We make sure you get the right result for your business and a website that's perfectly tailored to you needs.

Get a unique website

1. Discovery

It's super tempting to just dive right into the details and design. However, it's always better to have a good plan.

We'll spend some time digging further into your target market, search engine opportunities and put together a strategy & development plan that will get you where you need to be.

The outcome of this stage is a custom website marketing plan.

2. Prototyping

Ok so now we're diving into the look and feel right? Hmm not quite yet :).

Too make sure we're developing the right solution, we create a "working model" prototype website. This process (sometimes called "wireframing" or "UX design") lets us quickly test functionality and refine content requirements before beginning design work.

By doing this in the browser you can see and interact with the site and get a better feel for the end result.

3. Website design and development

Yep, you guessed it, we get into the nitty-gritty of colours, style and finalising the features and any custom functionality. We work closely with your brand to make sure the website really feels like it's one of a kind. This is where your website really comes to life.

Your visitors' time is precious. We want them to spend it converting, not waiting. So as we build, we focus heavily on performance, accessibility and usability, as well as great design.

4. Launch

When the site is ready for the world, we launch. That means putting the website through our comprehensive launch checklist, making it "live" to the world and ensuring it's firing on all cylinders.

This is also when we make sure you know how to get the best out of your website. Easy, short learning videos and 1:1 training are built into every project launch.