Web Design Agency in Wellington
Wellington web design for government suppliers, creative studios and tech firms in New Zealand's capital. Buyers here research carefully before they commit, so we build credible, accessible websites with clean structure that ranks and content that makes the decision easy.
Real Mojo Dojo clients, on the record.
Trusted by 1,500+ brands across 81 industries
Clear, accessible websites for an evidence-minded capital.
The region had the highest GDP per capita in New Zealand in the year ended March 2024, at $92,776, and 65.6% of adults in the city hold a post-school qualification. Its largest industries are professional services, public administration and finance. People here read carefully, check claims and dislike hype. A website that over-promises or makes them hunt for basic information loses them quickly.
Accessibility matters more than in most markets. Firms that supply government agencies are often asked how their digital work meets accessibility expectations, and the wider audience includes plenty of people who use keyboards, screen readers or zoom. Te Reo Māori is the most common language after English, and place names such as Te Aro and Pōneke are in everyday use, so content and CMS setup should handle macrons and bilingual labels properly from the start.
The market has also shifted. Public sector cuts from 2024 reduced CBD spending, and Infometrics counted 62,442 business units in the region in February 2025, down 2.2% on a year earlier. Many firms now need to reach customers beyond government-linked work, which usually means a clearer site with stronger service pages. We build most of these on WordPress, with Shopify, BigCommerce, Magento or PrestaShop for retailers, and every build includes semantic structure, speed work and analytics.
Web design in Wellington: the regional picture.
Figures from Stats NZ, Parliament's library and Infometrics describing the market your site serves.
Industries we help in Wellington.
Six sectors that shape the capital region, and the kind of website each one needs.
Consultancies and policy advisers
Plain-English sites with service pages, published thinking and team credentials, structured for buyers who shortlist on evidence and want to see relevant past work.
Government suppliers
Accessible, well-structured sites that document capability, methodology and panel status clearly, so procurement staff can verify you quickly.
Finance and insurance
Trust-first designs with clear disclosures, tools and application paths, and a CMS workflow that lets compliance approve content.
Technology and software
Product sites with documentation hubs, demo requests and fast, modular pages for teams that want to test messaging often.
Screen and creative studios
Portfolio-led sites with fast video and image handling, showreels and credits pages aimed at international clients and specialist talent.
Hospitality and events
Menus, bookings and event pages ready for Wellington On a Plate in August and WOW in spring.
Need a clearer, more accessible Wellington website?
Tell us who you serve and what the site has to do. We will reply with an honest recommendation on platform, scope and timeline.
Websites that convert, not just look good.
Real figures from Mojo Dojo client case studies, where site structure, speed and conversion paths were part of the work.
Your website has seconds to earn the next click.
Visitors here expect clarity and evidence. The site has to answer their questions quickly, in plain language, for everyone who uses it.
A site some visitors cannot use
Poor contrast, missing labels and keyboard traps shut out users and raise questions from government and corporate buyers.
Accessibility built into the design system
Accessible design and development as standard: semantic markup, colour contrast checks, keyboard navigation and screen reader testing before launch.
A clumsy mobile experience
Layouts built for desktop first break on the devices most people browse on.
Seamless on every device
Our designs ensure a seamless user experience across desktop and mobile devices, proven by responsive and browser testing before launch.
Every update needs a developer
Small content changes turn into tickets, delays and invoices.
An intuitive backend you control
Our intuitive backend management system makes it easy for you to make quick updates and changes as needed, and we train your team to use it.
A beautiful site nobody finds
Design without search architecture leaves you invisible where buyers are looking.
SEO built in from day one
Semantic structure, schema markup, page speed optimisation and analytics configured as standard on every build.
Too reliant on government-linked work
After the 2024 public sector cuts, firms whose websites only speak to agencies struggle to attract private sector and regional clients.
A site that reaches new customers
Service pages and navigation that speak to new audiences, plus catchment pages for the Hutt Valley, Porirua and Kāpiti.
Platforms we build on.
We are platform-agnostic. A policy consultancy, a creative studio and a specialty retailer need different tools, so we recommend the CMS that fits your content, team and growth plans.
WordPress. The world's most popular CMS, powering 43% of all websites. We have built over 1,500 WordPress sites since 2008, from small businesses to enterprise-scale platforms with complex custom post types and advanced SEO architecture.
Shopify. The ecommerce platform built for growth. We design conversion-optimised Shopify stores with custom theme development, app integrations, and SEO-first architecture that turns browsers into buyers from day one.
BigCommerce. A scalable SaaS ecommerce platform with built-in SEO tools, multi-channel selling, and enterprise-grade features. Ideal for rapidly growing stores that need power without the complexity of a self-hosted solution.
Magento. Enterprise-grade ecommerce for complex product catalogues, multi-store environments, and high-volume transactional requirements. Magento gives you total flexibility when your business has outgrown simpler platforms.
PrestaShop. A lightweight, open-source ecommerce platform with a global community since 2008. PrestaShop is well-suited for businesses that need a cost-effective, customisable storefront without the overhead of enterprise platforms.
Custom Development. Sometimes no off-the-shelf platform fits. Our development team builds fully bespoke web applications and headless CMS solutions for businesses with unique functional requirements that standard platforms cannot satisfy.
How we design and build your website.
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Brainstorming
You will meet with the development team to brainstorm and provide a brief of your online design requirements, vision and objectives. A feasibility study follows, with a project plan that gives you a better understanding of your target audience and the competitive landscape. Covers: understanding your target audience, choice of a custom CMS, the architecture design of your website, and finalisation of website feature requirements.
User Experience and User Interface
Mojo Dojo's designers create a fluid UX and UI experience with on-brand visualisations of your website in Adobe XD. Covers: incorporating your brand into the design, website layouts designed in Adobe XD, review of the layouts, and finalisation of navigation and design layout.
Custom Management System Development
The conversion from UX/UI design to a content management system takes the longest time in the project. The CMS is industry compliant, with support available from Mojo Dojo or the online community. Covers: custom development, calls to action, plugins, extensions and apps, SEO integration, and framework.
Testing Process
Before launching the final product, we perform thorough technical and user acceptance testing to ensure a high-quality, user-friendly website. Covers: responsive design testing, browser testing, functional requirements testing, and usability testing and improvements.
Training and Support
After launch, we run a website training session with your staff on navigating the content management system, in person or online. Ongoing support is available to enhance or edit the website on request. Covers: website backend training, in-person or online training, dedicated support, and phone or email support.
Website Maintenance
We highly recommend regular website maintenance to improve the security of your website. Regular updates add new features and functionality and reduce the risk of being hacked. Covers: updating the CMS and database to the latest version, updating plugins, extensions and apps, and regular backups of the website.
Get your free website audit.
Submit your details and within 48 hours we will review your website design, accessibility, page speed and conversion paths, and send you a prioritised list of fixes. No calls, no obligations.
Five stages, clearly documented.
Every project follows five main stages, each with written outputs you can review and share internally. We understand your audience and competitors, plan the site around them and turn concepts into draft designs. It is a discipline refined across 1,500+ projects in 81 verticals.
Brainstorm
We define your target audience, select the right CMS, map the information architecture, and identify the features and integrations your site needs to compete and convert.
UX/UI Design
We create high-fidelity wireframes in Adobe XD, incorporating your brand identity, navigation logic, and conversion-focused layouts. You review and approve before a single line of code is written.
CMS Development
Custom theme and plugin development, CTAs, SEO integration, schema markup, page speed optimisation, and framework configuration. Built to spec, not templated.
Testing
Responsive testing across devices, cross-browser compatibility, functional QA, form submission flows, page speed benchmarking, and usability review before any site goes live.
Training & Support
We train your team to manage the backend confidently. Ongoing support, maintenance packages, and performance optimisation ensure your site stays fast, secure, and competitive long after launch.
Areas we serve in Wellington.
We work remotely with businesses throughout the region. In the city that includes Wellington Central, Te Aro, Thorndon and Kelburn, the southern and eastern suburbs of Newtown, Kilbirnie, Miramar and Island Bay, and Karori, Johnsonville, Khandallah and Tawa to the west and north.
Across the harbour we build for firms in Lower Hutt, Petone, Eastbourne and Upper Hutt, and further out in Porirua, Paraparaumu and Masterton. Each project runs on video calls, shared staging and shared reporting.
Real results from real clients.
Selected web design outcomes from our wider portfolio. They show how we work rather than results in one region.
“Their team understood our business before we even had to explain it. Enquiries are up 250% and the quality is better than ever.”
The framework we use to build websites that sell.
Most websites are built by people who think about how they look. This one is about how they sell: the funnel, the proposition, and the landing page, in the order you should work on them.
Send me the Website Playbook →
Free. 14 pages. In your inbox. Magic-link delivery, it arrives in about two minutes, and there's no sales call attached to reading it.
Do you work with Wellington businesses?
Yes, remotely. Workshops, design reviews and training happen over video calls, the build is visible on a shared staging site, and after launch we provide shared reporting on performance and enquiries. Written documentation at each stage makes it easy to brief colleagues or a board.
Will our website meet accessibility expectations?
We design and build for accessibility from the start: sufficient colour contrast, clear headings and labels, keyboard navigation, alt text workflows and testing with assistive technology before launch. If you supply government agencies, we can document how the site was tested so you can answer procurement questions.
Can the site handle Te Reo Māori content and macrons?
Yes. We set up fonts, the CMS and URLs so macrons display and save correctly, and we can structure bilingual labels, navigation and pages where you want them. It is a small detail that visitors notice when it is done badly.
How long does a new website take to build?
Most projects land between 6 and 12 weeks from signed scope to live launch. Simple brochure sites on WordPress can be done in 4 weeks. Complex ecommerce builds with custom functionality or data migrations run 12 to 16 weeks. We set a realistic timeline at the start and hold to it with weekly progress updates.
Which platform is right for my business?
It depends on your goals. WordPress is the right choice for most content-heavy businesses, professional services firms, and brands that want maximum SEO flexibility. BigCommerce suits mid-market retailers that are scaling fast. Magento is for enterprise ecommerce with complex catalogue requirements. We give you an honest recommendation based on your specific situation, not on what is most profitable for us to build.
Do you include SEO in your web design projects?
Yes, always. Every site we build includes on-page SEO setup as standard: semantic HTML structure, schema markup, XML sitemap, Robots.txt, canonical tags, page speed optimisation, and Google Analytics 4 configuration. For clients wanting ongoing SEO campaigns post-launch, we offer integrated web design and SEO retainers that give you a single, coordinated team across both disciplines.
What happens after the website launches?
We include a 30-day post-launch support window on all projects. During that period we fix any bugs or inconsistencies at no charge. After that, clients can move onto a monthly maintenance retainer that covers updates, backups, security monitoring, and priority support. We also offer ongoing SEO retainers to help the site rank and convert over time.
What is the difference between web design and web development?
Web design is how your site looks, reads and flows: brand, layout, navigation and user experience, which we map in Adobe XD. Web development is the build: turning the approved design into a working CMS with custom functionality, integrations, SEO and speed optimisation. We deliver both as one project with one team, so nothing gets lost in the handover.
Will I be able to update the website myself?
Yes. Every site comes with an intuitive backend management system, and after launch we run a training session with your staff, in person or online, covering how to edit pages, add content and manage the CMS. Dedicated phone and email support is there if you get stuck.
Can you redesign or rebrand my existing website?
Yes. We handle CMS redesigns, redevelopments and rebranding projects. Depending on where you are in your branding lifecycle, we scope the work and show you what your brand will look like on completion before development starts, and we protect existing search rankings during the rebuild.
Will my new website work on mobile?
Yes. Every design is responsive and tested before launch across devices and browsers, alongside functional requirements testing and usability review, so visitors get a seamless experience on desktop, tablet and mobile.
Why choose Mojo Dojo for web design?
We have built 1,500+ websites since 2008 across 81 verticals, we are platform-agnostic so we recommend the CMS that fits your goals, and we build SEO and conversion tracking in from day one. Our clients stay with us: 94% client retention and a 4.7/5 average rating across 200+ reviews.
Get your free website audit.
Submit your details and within 48 hours we will review your website design, accessibility, page speed and conversion paths, and send you a prioritised list of fixes. No calls, no obligations.