Auckland based design studio specialising in custom website design and branding for New Zealand businesses.
Website design for small businesses in Auckland, New Zealand. Squarespace & WordPress.
Web design for growing businesses
We specialise in custom website design and branding for growing small businesses across New Zealand, helping both startups and established businesses create a stronger online presence.
Our websites are designed to do more than simply look professional. We combine branding, user experience, and thoughtful design strategy to create modern websites that build trust, connect with the right audience, and support long-term business growth.
Capabilities
WordPress websites
Squarespace websites
Website copywriting
UX-focused design
Brand strategy
Brand identity design
Logo design
Brand photography
Personalised service
We work with growing service-based businesses across New Zealand to create custom WordPress or Squarespace websites and strategic brand identities designed for long term growth.
Unlike larger web agencies, we intentionally work with fewer clients, allowing for a more collaborative and personalised approach. Every website is custom designed with user experience, performance, and brand consistency in mind — without relying on generic templates or outsourced development.
Strategic website design
Your website should do more than simply look good. It should clearly communicate who you are, build trust with your audience, and guide potential customers towards taking action.
We create bespoke WordPress websites that combine thoughtful design, user experience, and strategic structure to help service-based businesses grow online. Every website is custom designed around your brand and business goals, with a focus on clarity, performance, and creating a seamless experience for your users. Unlike many web design companies, we don’t rely on pre made templates or generic layouts. Every website we create is custom designed to reflect your brand, business goals, and audience — resulting in a more distinctive, professional online presence that feels considered rather than off-the-shelf.
Website design for New Zealand businesses
Understanding the New Zealand market and how local businesses connect with their customers allows us to create websites that feel both strategic and commercially effective.
We specialise in custom WordPress website design for service based businesses across Auckland and New Zealand combining branding, user experience, and thoughtful design to create websites that not only look professional, but help businesses grow online.
Unlike many website companies, we don’t rely on generic templates or outsourced builds. Every website is custom designed around your business, audience, and goals creating a more distinctive online presence that feels considered, credible, and built for long term growth.
Our process
Every successful website starts with a conversation.
Before opening Photoshop or WordPress, we spend time learning about your business, your customers and what success looks like for your website.
We’ll discuss:
- Your business goals
- Your target audience
- Your products or services
- Your competitors
- Your unique selling points
- Existing branding
- Website objectives
- Calls to action
- Sitemap and page structure
- Content requirements
At the end of this stage, we have a clear roadmap for the project before any design begins.
Template websites are built to suit everyone.
Custom websites are designed specifically for your business.
With a custom website you’ll benefit from:
- A unique design
- Better user experience
- Stronger branding
- Faster loading pages
- Easier scalability
- Greater flexibility
- Better conversion rates
Every Studio Nine website is designed from scratch around your business goals.
This is where your website comes to life.
Using the approved wireframes and your brand identity, we design a completely custom website tailored to your business. Every website is designed from scratch—never from a template.
Our design process includes:
- Homepage design
- Internal page designs
- Typography
- Colour palette
- Buttons and interactive elements
- Cards and content components
- Image treatments
- Responsive layouts
- Consistent spacing and design system
Every element is carefully considered to create a professional website that reflects your business and builds trust with your customers.
Once the design has been approved, we build the website in WordPress using clean, responsive layouts.
During development we ensure the website is:
- Fully responsive
- Fast loading
- Easy to update
- SEO-friendly
- Secure
- Optimised for all modern devices
Before launch, we thoroughly test every page to ensure everything works exactly as expected.
- Work directly with Katrina throughout the project.
- Over 17 years’ experience in branding and digital design.
- Every website is custom designed.
- No templates.
- Strategy-led approach.
- Boutique studio with personalised service.
- WordPress websites you can easily update yourself.
FAQs
Our custom website design service is ideal for:
- Small businesses ready to grow
- Professional service businesses
- Trades and construction companies
- Property and real estate businesses
- Healthcare and medical providers
- Consultants and coaches
- Startups wanting a premium online presence
If you’re looking for a bespoke website designed around your business rather than an off-the-shelf template, you’re in the right place.
Once we’ve established the strategy, we begin planning how visitors will move through your website.
Wireframes are simple page layouts that focus on usability rather than colours or graphics. They allow us to organise information logically and ensure visitors can quickly find what they’re looking for.
During this stage we define:
- Information hierarchy
- User journey
- Navigation
- Page layouts
- Section order
- Content placement
- Conversion points
- Mobile-first considerations
Because we’re solving functionality before aesthetics, revisions are faster and more effective.
This is where your website comes to life.
Using the approved wireframes and your brand identity, we design a completely custom website tailored to your business. Every website is designed from scratch—never from a template.
Our design process includes:
- Homepage design
- Internal page designs
- Typography
- Colour palette
- Buttons and interactive elements
- Cards and content components
- Image treatments
- Responsive layouts
- Consistent spacing and design system
Every element is carefully considered to create a professional website that reflects your business and builds trust with your customers.
Once the design has been approved, we build the website in WordPress using clean, responsive layouts.
During development we ensure the website is:
- Fully responsive
- Fast loading
- Easy to update
- SEO-friendly
- Secure
- Optimised for all modern devices
Before launch, we thoroughly test every page to ensure everything works exactly as expected.
Once everything has been tested and approved, your new website is ready to go live.
You’ll receive:
- Your completed website
- Editable website access
- Training (if required)
- Developer-ready files (where applicable)
- Website assets
- Ongoing support options
Our goal is to leave you with a website that’s easy to manage and ready to grow alongside your business.
Say Hello!
Studio Nine
33-45 Hurstmere Rd
North Shore, Takapuna
M. +64 21 1306 713
katrina@studionine.co.nz
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