This is new website for Hike n’ Bike Shuttle in Seddonville, who have provided a shuttle transport service to hikers and bikers on the Old Ghost Road trail in the Kahurangi National Park since the beginning. This site replaced an older website that had served the business well but had become outdated and needed to be replaced. We are using WordPress for easy updates and a future-proof platform.
Club Buller needed a fresh start after their previous website was left unfinished by a previous developer who had disappeared. I rebuilt the site from the ground up, giving it a cleaner look and significantly improving speed and stability.
The new site presents the Club clearly and highlights its important role in the local community.
Wax n Wood is a Westport business making all manner of beautifully crafted wooden products from recycled native timber. Chopping boards, wooden utensils, containers – all manner of high quality crafted items that really have to be seen to appreciated. They also market Wood Butter, an exclusive wood finishing wax that protects and beautifies all timber.
The website is built using WordPress and WooCommerce, allowing the owners to manage products and keep everything up-to-date. Check it out! >>
This new website was created for FBI Cleaning, a startup on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast specialising in bond cleaning, forensic cleaning, insurance work, meth decontamination, and other specialist services. The site is built in WordPress and provides a solid foundation for the business as it becomes established, with room to expand as services and content grow.
Back Rd Contracting, based in Granity and servicing the Upper Buller region, needed a new website to establish their online presence. The site was built in WordPress and is already performing well, with a few small additions planned as the business grows. It’s fast, lightweight, and uses all the usual optimisation techniques — helped by running on a LiteSpeed server and further refined for even better performance.
Custom Construction in Waikouaiti needed a replacement for their older Wix website, which had been built a few years earlier and was no longer performing well. Rising costs on the “free” Wix platform prompted the owners to upgrade. I rebuilt the site using WordPress, improving the structure, speed, and overall clarity.
With updated SEO, better performance, and a more flexible foundation, the new site serves the business far more effectively than the one it replaced
Willmax Sport is a new Westport‑based product designed to improve football training, offering features well beyond the older “ball‑on‑a‑string” devices. I built a new website to introduce the product and support online sales, using WordPress, WooCommerce, Stripe payments, and Cloudflare CDN for fast worldwide delivery.
The site gives the business a clear, modern platform to promote the product and reach players, coaches, and parents both locally and internationally.
A website for Tamara’s Art Station in the Wairau Valley, Marlborough. A straightforward site for her original artwork, workshops and gallery presence, built to be simple and easy to maintain. The business has been online for several years and the site continues to support her work in the area.
I work with businesses in and around Blenheim and Marlborough and am happy to help if you need assistance with a website.
This project for West Coast Horse Adventures began as an unfinished build from another developer, leaving the client without a working site. I rebuilt the website from the ground up, adding online booking enquiries for rides and treks, and integrating Stripe payments through WooCommerce. The result is a clean, reliable site that finally gives the business the online presence it needed.
This project was a full website rescue. The client had been using a poorly designed Shopify site that loaded slowly and was difficult to manage. I rebuilt the website using WordPress and WooCommerce, improving the structure, clarity, and performance. The new site runs around three times faster than the old one and is far easier for the client to update.
Client feedback:
“Ken… thank you for all your help and getting us up and away. I wish I’d done more research at the start but I’ve found you now.”
Later: “Absolutely brilliant — so easy to get around and an interesting read. Thank you again.”
— Brian
Cranberries Westland needed a modern, reliable online store to replace an older site they’d outgrown. I rebuilt the website on WordPress using WooCommerce, moved the business to a .nz domain, and improved the structure, speed, and clarity throughout.
To protect their search rankings, every page from the old site was carefully redirected to its new equivalent. The result is a faster, cleaner, easier‑to‑use website that supports their nationwide sales.
“‘Thank you so much for sorting our website, you did everything you said you would- and so much more! It has been a great pleasure working with you, I really appreciate the ongoing support and I look forward to growing our business together!”
Kate, Cranberries Westland.
Truck Archive, as the name suggests is a large collection of trucking photos and videos recording the history of trucking in New Zealand. It is a WordPress website, initially built by us and now totally managed by the owner with us only very occasionally needed for advice. If you are interested in trucks then this is a site for you! Truck Archive >>
Reality Warped is an all‑image and video hobby website exploring alternative realities through a growing archive of AI‑generated visuals. Now numbering in the hundreds, the collection blends technical experimentation with imaginative world‑building, creating scenes that feel both impossible and strangely plausible. All images are produced in‑house at Webdesign Matters, with new additions made regularly as the system evolves.
The site is intentionally designed for desktop and larger tablets only, with mobile access disabled to preserve the visual experience.
Time Frozen, a website about and selling rocks, minerals, crystals – using WordPress and WooCommerce. Started as a hobby website – somewhere to display a collection but has grown a little! >> Time Frozen
This is a website that had its beginnings last century, in 1997, as the first website I ever built. This is a much later version of course and reflects my interest and hobby as an amateur radio operator first licensed in 1971. It has quite a high profile on the Internet and uses Cloudflare CDN (Content Delivery Network) for very fast performance world-wide.
