Plain-English guides for New Zealand small businesses

NZDH Website design & hosting is a resource site organised into twelve topics. For services and project work, the team is at nzdh.co.nz—linked only where it genuinely helps readers.

SEO & getting found

Search visibility, local discovery, and content that matches how NZ customers look for help online.

Hosting & domains

Hosting choices, DNS, domains, and email basics so you stay in control of your online presence.

Design & planning

Pricing drivers, briefing a designer, and scoping a website without surprise creep.

WordPress & platforms

When WordPress fits, when custom stacks make sense, and how to decide for SMEs.

Speed & performance

Core Web Vitals and practical speed work that helps users and search quality.

Ecommerce

Planning an online shop: operations, shipping, payments, and trust content.

Security & maintenance

Backups, updates, access control, and habits that reduce downtime and incidents.

Privacy & compliance

Privacy Act primer for small sites: forms, analytics, cookies, and sensible defaults.

Analytics & measurement

Useful metrics, clean tracking, and reporting owners can actually act on.

Paid ads & attribution

Paid search and social basics: budgets, creative tests, and honest measurement.

Content, copy & conversion

Service pages, microcopy, FAQs, and content operations that support sales.

Accessibility & inclusive UX

Inclusive defaults: keyboard use, forms, contrast, and practical testing.

Editorial workflow: use Topic ideas from your GSC export, add new guides to the 12×12 catalog in lib/TopicCatalogBuilder.php (or seed via admin and map slugs there), and publish via the admin editor.