websitesHand-built, design-first websites for New Zealand businesses. No templates, no page builders. Every site starts from its own palette and is measured the only way that matters: enquiries won.
About eight minutes, on your phone if that suits. You get a written brief at the end, and nothing is charged until you have seen your concept.
To design and build your website. Then $79 + GST a month to host it, keep it safe and make your changes for you. Cancel any month.
Nothing to pay to see your site built. If you want it finished, a 50% deposit starts the refining, and the rest is due before it goes live. No surprise invoice at the end. Bigger jobs, online shops and booking systems are quoted separately and honestly.
Just need to be online, properly, this week? Quick Start is three pages built from our section library at $499 + GST, then $49 + GST a month. See what is in it.
Real clients · real builds · nothing staged
Trade services · Christchurch
Husband-and-wife eco-friendly window cleaning across Christchurch.
Opens with a steamed-glass intro that wipes clean like a squeegee pass, and politely skips itself for reduced-motion visitors
Fraunces + Hanken Grotesk
See how it was made ↗Local services · Blenheim
In-home pet sitting and drop-in care across Marlborough.
Two-track booking: a quick meet-and-greet form for new clients, a full booking request for regulars
Playfair Display + Nunito Sans
See how it was made ↗Creative trade · Blenheim
Vehicle wraps, vinyl and signage across Marlborough.
A 36-image project gallery with before-and-after vehicle wraps
Bebas Neue + Inter
See how it was made ↗Every level is built to look this good. The features are what you choose, and every one has a live demo.
Custom design, hand-built to load fast and read clearly on every device. No templates, no page builders.
Words written to win enquiries, not fill space. Every section has a job.
Structured data, sitemaps and keyword targeting built in from the start, not bolted on later.
Enquiry forms and call booking wired up and tested end to end. Leads land in your inbox and your phone.
We handle hosting, domain, email and SSL. You never touch a control panel.
Monthly care covers content changes: send us what changed and we make it live. Some builds include their own owner admin.
Live in 2–3 weeks from sign-off
One discovery call about the business, not the website: your goals, your sales process, what a customer is worth.
Your market, your competitors and what buyers actually search for, before any design begins.
Message, layout and direction built for your business, and locked with you before any code.
Hand-built, fast, accessible, SEO-ready. A fixed quoted price before we start.
Quality gates pass before live. Then analytics, monthly care and improvement, cancel any month.
Templates are why every local website looks the same. Every build on this wall started from a blank palette: colours, type and layout chosen for one business and nobody else. That is what premium means.
See how a build starts ↗Tell us about the business and Richard will call you back the same day, usually the evening.$899 + GST to design and build it, $79 + GST a month after that, and nothing is paid until you have seen the finished site.
Every build is run by Richard Smith, who owns the studio. You are not handed to an account manager, and the person who quotes the work is the person who builds it.
