NZ Curated
New Zealand
A refined, image-led website for a private travel designer — built to attract discerning international visitors and reflect a premium, personal guiding experience.
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Affordable, professional websites built to be found
From simple small-business sites to complex operational platforms — designed with you, engineered for search, and ready for any device.
Websites tailored to your business
Lighthouse IT creates websites to suit every need, from basic small-business sites through to complex operational platforms. We can work collaboratively with you on the design, or build to a design you already have. Either way, you get a site that looks the part and earns its keep.
We provide custom development for both new and existing websites — building from scratch, rebuilding, or extending a site you already have. And it’s not limited to websites: we also create custom web applications when your business needs something more capable than a standard website can offer.
Recent work
Websites we’ve built
Lobell Construction
Hamilton
A website redesign and redevelopment for a busy construction company — a smooth, collaborative project delivered from concept through to launch.
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Action Centre Nelson
Nelson
An informative, easy to navigate website reflecting the business brand and style, with incorporated booking platform.
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Every site we build comes with
SEO-ready
Structured, fast and built for local search like “Westport website developer”.
AI search ready
Clear content and structured data so AI-powered search can find and recommend your business.
Fast-loading
Speed that’s good for your visitors and good for your rankings.
Mobile & tablet friendly
Looks and works beautifully on every screen — where most of your customers are.
Cross-browser
Works everywhere your customers do, across every modern browser.
Standards-compliant
Clean, maintainable code that ages well and is easy to build on later.
Platforms
Built on Astro — and we work with WordPress too
Most of the websites we build now use Astro, a modern framework that delivers pages as fast, plain HTML — quicker for your visitors, easier for search engines and AI search to read, and far less to go wrong behind the scenes.
We also build, support and manage WordPress websites, and we migrate WordPress sites to Astro when it is the right move. If you already have an Astro site and need a developer to take it on, we do that as well.
Astro website development & supportAstro or WordPress?
We will recommend whichever genuinely suits your business — including staying exactly where you are.
How we work
From idea to live — with you the whole way
Plan
We learn about your business and goals, then agree a clear scope and a fixed quote.
Design & build
We design collaboratively with you (or to a design you have) and build a fast, search-ready site.
Launch & manage
We get you live — and can keep your site running with ongoing website management.
After launch
We don’t disappear once you’re live
A website needs ongoing care to stay fast, secure and visible. We providewebsite management to handle the technical upkeep — hosting, updates, security and backups — so you can focus on your content and your customers. One local partner for the whole journey.
See website managementReady when you are
Tell us a little about your business and we’ll come back with friendly, practical advice and a clear quote.
Get a quoteReady to build a website that works?
Tell us what you need — we’ll get back to you with friendly, practical advice and a clear quote.