NZ Curated
New Zealand
A refined, image-led website for a private travel designer — built to attract discerning international visitors and reflect a premium, personal guiding experience.
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Astro website development and support
Astro is the framework we build on — fast, secure and search-ready by default. We build new Astro websites, take over ones other developers have started, and migrate tired WordPress sites across. And if WordPress is where you are staying, we look after those too.
Looking for an Astro developer in New Zealand?
Astro is a modern website framework that builds your pages up front and ships them as plain, fast HTML — so visitors get a site that loads almost instantly, and you get one with far less to go wrong behind the scenes. It is what we now use for most of the websites we build, including this one.
Astro is still a small pond in New Zealand, and good support for it can be hard to find. Whether you need a site built from scratch, a hand with a project already underway, or someone to take over a site the original developer has walked away from — we can help. We work remotely with clients right across the country, and locally aroundWestport and the West Coast.
Astro in the wild
Sites we’ve built or migrated to Astro
Live examples of Astro in practice — either built from scratch or moved across from WordPress. The site you’re reading right now is one too.
The Nomad
New Zealand
A WordPress site converted to Astro for one of Aotearoa's pioneering electronic music artists. We took over the management of an existing site and rebuilt it as a fast, static Astro build that is far simpler to maintain.
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New Zealand Dream Weddings
New Zealand
An elegant, photography-led website for a long-established elopement planner — rebuilt in Astro and structured around the searches couples actually make when planning a New Zealand wedding.
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Astro and WordPress, covered
New websites built in Astro
Designed and built from scratch on Astro — fast, secure and search-ready from day one.
Support for existing Astro sites
Inherited an Astro site, or your developer has moved on? We take on existing Astro projects — fixing issues, adding features and keeping dependencies up to date.
WordPress to Astro migration
Move a slow, plugin-heavy WordPress site across to Astro. We carry your content over and redirect your old URLs so the search rankings you have earned come with you.
WordPress support & management
Not every site needs to move. We also look after WordPress sites — updates, security, backups, hosting and fixes — including sites built by someone else.
Hosting & deployment, sorted
Deployed to modern edge hosting with your domain, forms, redirects and analytics all configured properly — then documented and handed over.
Honest advice
Astro or WordPress — which is right for you?
There is no single right answer. Here is how we think about it.
The benefits of Astro
- Loads fast — pages are pre-built and served as plain HTML
- Far more secure, with no database or plugin sprawl to attack
- Clean, structured code that search engines and AI search read easily
- Cheaper, simpler hosting that copes easily with busy periods
- Nothing breaks overnight from an automatic plugin update
- Lower running costs and less ongoing maintenance
The benefits of WordPress
- A familiar editor your team may already know how to use
- A huge plugin range for shopping carts, memberships and bookings
- Easy to hand day-to-day publishing to non-technical staff
- Themes and page builders make big visual changes quick
- No rebuild cost — you keep what you have already paid for
- Widely supported, so you are never short of help
We will tell you plainly which one we would choose for your business — even when that means talking you out of a rebuild.
How we work
Straightforward from first chat to launch
Tell us where you are
A new build, an existing Astro site that needs a hand, or a WordPress site you have outgrown — we start by understanding what you have.
A clear plan and a fixed quote
We recommend the sensible option — which is sometimes staying on WordPress — and put a scope and price in writing before any work starts.
Build, launch and look after it
We build and launch, then keep it running with ongoing website management if you would like us to.
After launch
Someone to call when you need one
The hardest part of a modern framework site is often what happens six months later. We stay available — for small changes, new sections, dependency updates or the odd awkward bug. Our website management covers hosting, updates, security and monitoring for Astro and WordPress sites alike, from $49/month.
See website managementGot an Astro or WordPress site that needs a hand?
Send us the details — the repository, the URL, or just a description of what is going wrong — and we will come back with practical advice and a clear quote.
Get in touchReady to build, move or fix an Astro site?
Tell us what you have and what you need. We will give you a straight answer on the best way forward — Astro, WordPress or otherwise.