Small-business websitesAuckland, NZ
Custom-built for New Zealand businesses by a software developer, not pulled from a template. It loads fast on a phone and shows up on Google — and it's built to turn visitors into enquiries.
You're looking at the demo. This page is hand-built and static — no page-builder, no bloat. Run Lighthouse on it yourself. That speed is the whole pitch.
What actually matters
Forget the buzzwords. For a small business, a website has a short list of real jobs. These are the ones I build around.
Most of your visitors arrive on mobile data. A heavy template can leave them waiting, and plenty give up before it loads. A hand-built page comes up quickly, so they stay.
When someone nearby searches for what you do, you want to be in the results. Clean code and proper local SEO give you a fair shot at the map pack and the listings below it.
Looking good isn't the job. The site should make it obvious how to call or message you, and make that the easy thing to do on any screen.
You shouldn't need a developer to change your opening hours or add a photo. I set things up so you can handle the everyday edits yourself.
How it works
First we get clear on the one or two jobs the site has to do for you, like enquiries or bookings. Everything else follows from that.
Then I build it by hand, mobile-first, with speed and SEO in from the start. You see it come together the whole way, not just at the end.
At launch the code, hosting and domain are all in your name. It's easy to update yourself, and I'm here when you want changes. No lock-in.
Proof it works
The fairest way to judge any of this is a site that's already doing the job. Here's a recent one, and the person who built it.
I rebuilt their dated WordPress and Wix site from the ground up — a full custom redesign, not a template swap. The result is a fast site the owner edits himself, with a Tours and Testimonials CMS he updates directly. It also has FareHarbor booking integration and a full SEO migration that preserved the old URLs with 301 redirects and structured data.
I'm Daniel Olliver, an Auckland software developer. I build production systems for a living, including a patient-assessment platform for a UK healthcare provider, so your business site gets held to an engineering standard rather than a template's. Everything here is verifiable: this page is live proof of the speed, and my wider work is public at danielolliver.com/dev and linkedin.com/in/danielolliver. The full range of work is on the Olliver Web homepage.
Start here
Not sure your current site is pulling its weight? I'll go through it and show you where it's quietly losing you enquiries, before you commit to any build.
Fixed. Money back in full if you go ahead with a build.
Risk-free: if it's not worth it, you don't pay.
For the next few clients only.
The questions I actually get asked
Most small-business sites land between $3,000 and $12,000, depending on what it needs to do. You get a fixed quote up front from the audit, so there's no open-ended hourly bill.
Usually 2–4 weeks from kickoff to launch. You see it come together the whole way, not just at the end.
Completely. The code, hosting, domain and analytics all sit in your accounts, in your name. Nothing is locked to a page-builder you have to keep paying for.
SEO is built in from the first line: fast, clean code with the page structure and data Google looks for. Ranking still depends on your market and content, so I'll tell you straight what SEO can and can't do rather than promise page one.
Yes. I'm Auckland-based, but most of the work happens over email and calls, so I build for businesses right across New Zealand. Back to Nature Tours, above, is a Dunedin operator.
Yes. Custom online stores are a separate service and start from around $8,000. See the online stores page for how those work.
A free 20-minute call — tell me what your business needs the site to do, and I'll tell you straight what it would take.
Got here from my email? Just hit reply — it comes straight to me.