How much does website design cost in NZ?

Domain Names are the website address that your customers will use to view your website. Our domain name is energise.co.nz but you might notice that our website runs on www.energise.co.nz. This is because when we started building websites over 20 years ago, all websites used www as a common practice to indicate that they were websites and not some other form of content. If you’re interested, you can read more about the origins of www here. These days, we tend to build websites without the www but still redirect website traffic using it so that no visitors get lost.Domain names need to be registered every year or they are released and made available to the general public again. Costs of domain name registration vary a lot. Many domain businesses in NZ have been bought out by overseas companies and have become difficult to deal with. We use a NZ-based registrar and we are your first point of contact for any domain name queries.

Copywriting refers to the writing of text for your website (not to be confused with “copyrighting”, which refers to legal rights over original creations). Often, our clients will already have some sort of “copy” that they have previously prepared for brochures, advertising or other marketing that can be used in the website design.

However, a new business owner will probably have almost nothing available. You can save money by writing the website copy yourself but don’t underestimate how difficult this can be. If you enjoyed writing essays at school, you might be fine. But if not, consider asking us to write your website copy for you. Even if you do have existing promotional material, you might find that it’s either not suitable for your website.

Good website copy can make your digital marketing more effective and therefore, more profitable. We can provide you with costs for website copywriting based on the number of pages you require. Usually, we can prepare all your website copywriting for under $500.

Graphic design is usually the first step on the way to building your website. This often starts in the form of a logo design, as the colours in your logo will normally be reflected throughout the website graphics. If you need a logo, we have a logo design package you could take advantage of. If you already have a logo you’re happy with (remember, your logo is going to be on everything), then we would move on to discuss the overall look and feel of the website, starting with the homepage. Depending on what you want to spend, the homepage may be the only part of the website that requires any original graphic design. Internal pages are often simpler and more focused on generating an enquiry than they are on encouraging a user to delve further into the website.The cost of web graphics will vary greatly depending on the type of website, quality and quantity of design required and amount of graphic content. A very basic graphic design may only account for a small part of the overall website cost, whereas a website where every page has a custom graphic design would cost a lot more. To give you an idea of the time required, our website design page is entirely custom-designed. It took around 5 hours to do the graphic design and another 10 hours to code the responsive template. To reduce costs to you, we have developed a range of website templates that we can use for your website that significantly reduces the time it takes to develop a website.

A static website is a collection of individually hand-built web pages that cannot be easily updated by you. We don’t build many static websites anymore due to content managed websites becoming cheaper to build and easier to use but some customers still prefer a website that they can’t “mess up”!

This sort of website can be ideal if you are on a budget or require only a very basic internet presence but we can also build a static website that is custom designed and as professional-looking as any other website.

Most static websites we build are around 4-5 pages. If the website requires many more pages or is likely to be regularly updated, it is more cost-effective to build a content-managed website. Updating a static website yourself would require knowledge of website coding or web design software.