Southland
Web Design in Invercargill
We build custom websites for Invercargill businesses — trades, retail, hospitality and professional services. Based an hour up the road in Ohai, so you're dealing with someone in Southland rather than an account manager in Auckland who's never been south of Dunedin.
Invercargill businesses are competing on search, not on the street
Invercargill is big enough that most trades and services have genuine competition in local search. If you're a sparky, a plumber, a builder or a mechanic here, “electrician Invercargill” is the search that decides whether the phone rings — and it is usually won on structure, not budget.
It goes to whoever has the better-structured site and a properly maintained Google Business Profile. That's a fixable gap. Most of the sites we audit in Invercargill look fine and are simply never told what they're about: no structured data, thin service pages, and a profile that was set up once in 2019 and never touched.
If you want to run the same pass over your own site, here's what we check first.
What we build for local trades and services
A page for each service you offer, real photos of work you've actually done, a phone number that's tappable on mobile, and a quote form short enough that someone fills it in from a ute. Not a slideshow.
For retail and hospitality it's opening hours, location and menu or stock above the fold — the three things people are actually searching for when they pull their phone out on Dee Street.
Working with a studio outside the city
We're remote-first, which for Invercargill means everything happens over phone, email and video, and we can meet in person when it genuinely helps. There's no city office overhead in your quote, which is a large part of why the numbers look different.
What it costs
Our Web Presence package is a $599 setup fee plus $75 a month on a 24-month term, covering hosting, maintenance, security updates and small content changes. eCommerce is $120 a month with product management and payments included.
Domain, hosting and analytics all go in your name. If you're weighing that against an agency quote, we've broken down where the difference actually goes.
Common questions
- How much does a website cost in Invercargill?
- Local quotes commonly land between $2,000 and $8,000 for a similar small business site. Most of that spread is overhead rather than quality. Our subscription option spreads the cost — a $599 setup fee plus $75 a month with hosting and maintenance included.
- Can you meet in person in Invercargill?
- Yes, when it's useful. We're based in Ohai, about an hour away. Most projects run fine over phone and email, but we're not going to pretend a coffee is impossible.
- Do you work with Invercargill trades businesses?
- Regularly. Builders, sparkies, plumbers, contractors and mechanics are a large share of what we do, and the site structure that works for a trade business is well understood at this point.
- How do I rank for searches like "builder Invercargill"?
- A page dedicated to that specific service, a verified Google Business Profile with recent photos and reviews, and consistent business details across every directory you appear in. That combination handles most local trade searches.
Working in Invercargill?
Tell us what your business does and who you want ringing you. We'll tell you what the site needs to do to make that happen.
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