Website design & development

Sites that do the selling when you're not in the room.

What it is

Design and build sit in the same hands here. Pages get drawn in the browser instead of in a mockup, so the thing you approve is the thing that goes live. Fast, findable, and yours to edit once we hand it over.

Best for

Companies where the site is the first meeting

Timeline

2 to 4 weeks once content is settled

Price

Projects from $5,000 + GST

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A dark studio desk at night: two wide monitors, one running the build in a code editor, the other showing the finished paak.works site

Why it matters

A website has one job, which is to answer the questions a buyer has before they'll get in touch. Plenty of sites answer a different set of questions instead, because they started from a template that was designed for nobody in particular and the copy got written to fill it.

Then there's what happens after launch. A site nobody can update is a site that goes stale, and stale costs you the enquiry you never hear about. You don't get told you were too slow, or that the phone number was three numbers out of date. The call just goes somewhere else.

What you get

01

DESIGNED IN THE BROWSER

You get real pages on a real URL early, openable on your own phone, rather than a flat picture of a website at the end. Feedback happens while changing things is still cheap.

02

BUILT ON THE RIGHT PLATFORM

Sanity, Webflow or WordPress when your team needs a CMS it already knows. A hand-built Astro site on Cloudflare when speed and control matter more. We'll tell you which one your project needs, and why, before anything gets built.

03

SPEED AND SEARCH BAKED IN

Image weight, fonts, layout shift and the technical SEO get handled while it's built, not audited six weeks after launch. Every page ships with its title, description, schema and a sitemap entry.

04

MOTION WITH A JOB

Scroll and hover work either carry meaning or they don't ship. Nothing moves for decoration, and nothing gets between a visitor and your phone number.

05

HANDED OVER PROPERLY

The accounts, the files, and a short walkthrough of how to change the things you'll actually want to change. If something breaks later you reach the person who built it, not a ticket queue.

How it runs

Step 1

Discover

We work out what the site has to do, who it's talking to and which pages earn their place. Content is almost always what sets the launch date, so we start it in week one.

Step 2

Build

Real work ships in pieces on a live staging URL. You see it on your phone as it goes up, and nothing is called done until it has been opened, tested and loaded on a real device.

Step 3

Live

It launches, and we don't vanish. Changes go to the same person who built it.

Work like this

The Room One Live homepage: a full-bleed broadcast hero with the wordmark over it
Room One LiveBranding + Web Development
The Acreline homepage hero: a warm-lit architectural interior filling the screen
AcrelineWeb Development + Motion
The K Golf homepage: an eleven-bay indoor golf venue in Wairau Valley
K GolfWeb Development + Booking System

Common questions

How long does a site take?

Most are live two to four weeks after the content is settled. Content sets the date far more often than the build does, which is why we start it early.

Can we edit it ourselves?

Yes, when you want to. If your team will update it weekly we'll put it on a CMS. If it changes twice a year, a CMS is a monthly cost for nothing and we'll tell you that instead of selling you one.

Can you work with the site we've got?

Sometimes. If the platform is fine and the real problem is the design and the copy, rebuilding from scratch is the wrong invoice and we'll say so.