WEBSITE DESIGN
Web Development. Web Hosting. S.E.O.
Activate is trusted, proven, reliable and honest Christchurch web company. We don’t employ an expensive horde of sales reps, socialites or ‘marketing people.’ We’re just a small team of professionals who get things done at affordable rates.
New Zealand businesses have been choosing Activate in for website design since 2003. Activate Design specialises in building smart, modern, affordable websites for businesses NZ-wide.
If you are thinking about a website just have a chat to us before making any decision. There are a lot of pathways you can take online and many potential pitfalls most business owners simply are not aware of. We are happy to listen and provide free, fair and impartial advice.
We have been doing this for a long time and there is not much we do not know about websites.
Custom designed for you, no templates!
Easy to use system for self-editing.
Custom functionality development.
SEO campaigns to increase search ranking.
Secure managed hosting, domains, emails.
Professional, friendly, on-going web support.
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Website design and development
Web-hosting and Emails.
WEBSITE HOSTING
YOU CAN RELY ON
A critical aspect of being online for a business is the hosting platform. But it’s an area often overlooked by those seeking a new website. The reason is usually because, at the time, the principle focus is the website itself and not the hosting platform it will operate on. As long as the site works — that is all that matters, right?
Website hosting often isn’t given a serious thought until something goes horribly wrong, and it does! We’ve had so many clients come to us for managed hosting who have expressed this exact situation; ‘I just had NO idea about the importance of hosting’ - is a common phrase.
Our ActiveHost system takes daily backups of all our customers individual sites plus we take a disaster recovery backup of our entire server every day. So we can roll back a customers website to the most recent backup in the event of something small going wrong. Or we can restore our entire server easily if something big goes wrong.
We have an online support ticket system and tech staff available for you to call for any email and website support. We take the management and security of hosting our customers websites extremely seriously.
We run our servers right here in New Zealand for optimal performance and efficiency. Housed in a modern data-centre, purpose built in 2018. Fully redundant power supply and cooling, carrier neutral and environmentally friendly.
- Modern Architecture - Latest UPS and in-row cooling technology.
- Monitoring and Response - 24/7 monitoring and emergency response. Multiple alert systems and sensors.
- Resilience - No single points of failure. Advanced rapid switch-over systems and a Cummins stanby generator. Multiple cooling systems.
- 384 Solar Panels - Offsets around 24,000 tonnes of carbon each year.
- Security - Regular security guard patrols, active monitoring and CCTV. 24/7/365 access monitoring and control with biometric scanners.
- Elevated site - 27m above sea level.
- Earthquake ready - 187% building code compliance rating.
- Backups - Daily website and server backups - keeping your website and customer data safe!
Activate builds smart, modern, professional websites. But we can also 'tune' your website to perform well in searches and increase rankings for keywords specific to your industry.
We have specialised strategies and techniques to drive LARGE amounts of traffic to your website. This is called Search Engine Optimisation or S.E.O. for short.
Search Engine Optimisation increases quality traffic to your website from people looking for your products or services.
There’s a lot of smoke & mirrors out there about this complex and dynamic field and it is rarely understood properly. Which unfortunately makes it a perfect haven for rogues and hoodwinks! We wish to provide clarity and knowledge to our clients.
See our video for a beginners intro---- to SEO, Google Ads and how we can rev up your web traffic which will significantly increase your sales and/or enquiries.
SEO Explained
SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMISATION
WEB SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS
“I am really ecstatic with the finished website!
It really hit the nail on the brief’s head.”
"I have worked with Activate in the past and was more than happy to engage with them again for our new website. This project started with me looking at ‘award-winning’ websites for inspiration, so I had created a high benchmark to achieve. Working with Activate was hugely collaborative – they were very accommodating in terms of iterations which were always performed in a timely fashion, provided me with excellent back-end training and were just a friendly, approachable team to work with."
Tara Connon - Max People
"Thank your team for the hard work they put in on the website."
"We had, within the first week of the website going live, six people book lessons through the website which is amazing! Have had lots of great feedback as well so thank you!"
Corinna Franssen - Starfish Swim School
"Thanks guys, our website looks amazing!"
Nic Furlong - The Loft Co-location Project
"Just wanted to let you know that we have had 5 new clients come on board in past week and all have said that they chose us because of our website so just thought I’d a pass the feedback on to you and your team and say thank you for doing such a good job!"
Rachel Albers, Office Manager - Brown & Company Planning Group
"Thanks for the awesome website!"
"It just picked up a Top Tourism Site Award. They said the fully responsive layout and the fantastic home page imagery adds to the quality user experience."
Malcolm Fagerlund - The Mill House
"Absolutely wrapped with the website design."
"The website layout, its perfect exactly what I was after. You've got a talented team, much appreciation for what you do.
Thanks for the incredible service you provide."
Damian McNaughton - Waimak Glass
A big thank you to the team at Activate Design - for a job well done on our website!
Layne Watson - Layne Watson Plumbing
Thank you Activate Design for going above and beyond for creating this amazing website!
Karri Smith - Dermatech Skincare
Thanks to Activate Design for getting this website up and running so quickly and designing this for us!
Henry - Maxraft