A 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 since the beginning. This site replaces an older website that had served the business well but was outdated and needed to be replaced. Using WordPress for easy updates and a future-proof platform.
Time Frozen is a small online shop featuring rocks, minerals, crystals, and other pieces of deep‑time geology. The site is intentionally simple and quiet, allowing the photographs and the objects themselves to take centre stage. Built with WordPress and WooCommerce, it’s fast, easy to navigate, and designed to reflect the calm, honest feel behind the “deep time” idea.
Reality Warped is an all‑image 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.
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 should serve the business far more effectively than the one it replaces
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.
Footlite & Sole is a retail shop in Punakaiki selling footwear, clothing, hats, gifts, and souvenirs. I built a new website for the business with an online store that will continue to grow as stock is added. The site gives the shop a clear, modern presence in one of the West Coast’s most visited tourist destinations.
Punakaiki is known for the Pancake Rocks, walking tracks, canoeing, and its dramatic coastal scenery — this website helps the business connect with both locals and the steady flow of visitors passing through
This website was created to give people a clear, uncomplicated introduction to WordPress and why it remains one of the most practical platforms for building websites. It lives on a domain I already owned and is intentionally separate from my main site so it can focus solely on WordPress without distraction.
It’s a small, helpful resource for clients who want to understand the platform before starting a project.
Club Buller needed a fresh start after their previous website was left unfinished before COVID. 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.
As a not‑for‑profit organisation, I provide reduced rates for the build, hosting, and ongoing maintenance to help support their work in Westport.
This was a new website for a new business – Tamaras Art Station, designed to be simple and cost‑effective at the beginning, with a full WooCommerce store to be added later. For new ventures, getting online early is important: it allows Google and Bing to start indexing the site and avoids delays when the full site expands. This build gives the business a solid foundation to grow from.
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.
Custom Fencing asked me to update a website I originally built for them six or seven years earlier. The design only needed a light refresh, but the real focus was speed and performance. WordPress sites need regular maintenance to stay fast and secure, and this one had fallen into the wrong hands, leaving it slow and unstable.
I rebuilt and repaired the site, updated everything to current standards, and restored the structure so it runs smoothly again — a genuine website rescue.
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
KenFrance.com is my personal website, created as a simple place to talk about the work I’ve done over nearly 30 years and the craft behind it. It gives a more personal look at my background, the experience that shaped Webdesign Matters, and the approach I take to building websites.
The site isn’t a business tool — it’s a quiet introduction to the person behind the work. Clients often find it helpful for understanding my style, my history, and the way I think about design and structure.
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.
This is a website that had its beginnings 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 licenced in 1971. It has quite a high profile on the Internet and uses Cloudflare CDN (Content Delivery Network) for very fast performance world-wide.
