We design websites that make doing business easy.
We’re Design Garage – a tight knit team of web designers and branding specialists who work with businesses who excel in their field.
We partner with ambitious New Zealand businesses who understand that an exceptional website is essential if they want to achieve sales and marketing success.
We create every website from scratch to ensure that your website is fully customised to your business needs. If you need your website to talk to your existing business tools – we do that. If you need bespoke apps and plugins – we do that too. If you have client or sales data management to consider – we got you covered. If you’ve got a sales funnel to consider – that’s our bread and butter.
Design Garage specialises in powerful web design that gets results, whether you’re a mature brand who just wants more control of your website, you’re ready to scale up or you’re a brand new startup who needs a solid foundation, we have the experience to deliver results for businesses like yours.
We believe that your website should be beautiful and functional for your website visitors, potential customers and you. Our New Plymouth, Taranaki based team prioritises making things easy so you can get on with doing what you do best, doing business.
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OUR PROCESS
01
DISCOVER
We work with you to develop a comprehensive plan that addresses the design, content, goals, and functionality of your website.
02
DESIGN
Our designers come up with a unique design that reflects your business and speaks to your customers. We consider how the content and user experience work together.
03
DEVELOP
We bring the design to life! Employing responsive website coding and optimising your site with SEO.
04
LAUNCH
We take your website ‘Live’ online (the most exciting step!). We give you full training so you can edit the website yourself.
05
RESULTS
We give you the tools to track your website – who is visiting and capturing those sales.
Why us?
The websites we create are:
- Responsive and functional designs
- Strategy driven
- Exceptional user experience
- Easy to maintain
- Owned by you
- Hosted and supported by our team
- Created by WordPress and Shopify Experts
- Search Engine Optimised (SEO)
- Fixed price website packages starting at $4500.
Own your online presence with a website that works for you
We believe that your website should be beautiful and functional for website visitors, potential customers and you. Our New Zealand based team prioritises making things easy so you can get on with doing what you do best, doing business.
When you’re ready to talk about your website needs, we’re ready to listen. Start by hitting the button below so we can collect the information we require to come up with a recommended action plan for you.
FAQ
Your questions, answered:
We are New Zealand based, accessible, and provide you with training when we handover your website. You can always book in additional training with our team if you want to do more behind the scenes and we will never lock you out of your website – it’s yours!
Our office is based in the bustling metropolis of New Plymouth – and we have a not so secret passion for Taranaki based businesses and organisations.
Absolutely.
SEO is included as part of your website project however there is always more that can be done – and if your competitors are investing in ongoing SEO efforts you may need to increase your efforts too. Talk to us about your SEO needs.
Start by filling out the enquire form. We will be in touch with you to talk about your brand and ensure we understand your requirements. You’ll get a proposal to sign – and a 50% invoice to begin your project. Once your deposit is paid we can get started. The build process steps are explained here.
Generally 4-6 weeks from deposit however at times we do maintain a waitlist to get started. As long as you are communicating with us on time, our projects stay on track.
Yes! 50% deposit will be required to begin your project with the remainder due at completion for handover of the files. However we can discuss milestone billing and installments so let us know.
We offer hosting (the space on a server your website needs to occupy to stay live) and maintenance (the regular updates your software may require to stay secure and stable) from $60/month. It is generally easier for you if we take care of this – but we can talk through your options.
We can write copy and content and organise updated imagery. We are experts when it comes to website structure, content that delivers results and how your website should flow. We will let you know what we believe you require to achieve your goals – because we do things once and do it right.
We can organise professional videography, just let us know.
We can only price your project once we have determined what your requirements are. The more complex your business, your tools, and needs, the larger your project. We are experts at pricing projects and pride ourselves on not exceeding quoted budgets as long as the scope remains the same. However if during the build your scope does change, we can handle that, we’ll just re-quote with your new requirements in mind to ensure we can deliver an excellent end result. Websites start at $4500 and you can get an idea from our pricing page.
Yes, we will provide full training so that you can edit all the pages on the website.
