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We are a small company based in Wellington, New Zealand. We have been providing website design and hosting for over 10 years. As a small New Zealand business we understand other New Zealand businesses.
Dear John makes web hosting and website development easy and affordable for small businesses and businesses who are just starting out. Our sites grow with your business.
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Sue Skene
Just to say that I am very pleased with my website! Have just been looking at it on my phone too and that works very well! Many thanks for everything. We got there in the end.
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NB this blog post assumes you are using the SEOPress Pro plugin. We provide this free to all our website design and care plan clients. Meta Titles and Descriptions — Controlling What Google shows Your meta title and description together create what is know as a “snippet” — that’s what shows in Google if you…
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We are not the only NZ business to get this email — for a scam — it’s well written, and looks vaguely legit. Particularly for the non-techie business owner who may freak out that someone is trying to steal their company name. So let’s unpack what they are actually saying here. They are claiming that…
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Think about these scenarios: Ngaire runs a landscaping business. She wants a few more clients in your area. So around 6pm one Friday, when you are the middle of cooking tea, her cold-call company calls you to see if you’d like to talk to her about landscaping your garden. Now you have been thinking about…
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Saturday morning, not too early, on account of the party the night before, I check my email. Not happy to discover my business partner’s email has been hacked! Given we host the email, very much unhappy about it. In fact I had to spend more than 10sec to work out that it’s a scam. What…
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Short answer: Yes. But what on earth is SSL? I could talk to you about an added encryption layer of SSL/TLS to protect the traffic, but let’s just focus on why it matters to business owners, and leave the geekery to me and other geeks. SSL is the technology that changes a website’s address from…
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Many years ago I had an email account which ended with @paradise.net.nz. Overseas friends thought it was cool that someone living in NZ lived in “paradise”. Paradise was our internet provider at the time (subsequently bought by Clear, who in turn were bought by Vodafone). At some point I moved and changed providers — and…
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We help Wellington businesses kick-start their online marketing with effective websites, first class website care packages, branding and marketing materials. We pride ourselves on listening a providing a clearly priced, cost-effective solution.
Once final payment is made, you own all materials developed for you, and we use technology which means you control your website with no long-term lock in to us.
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