Web design studio · Christchurch Websites that earn their keep.

Most businesses I meet are good at what they do and badly served online. I fix the second half.

Start a project How I work
Based in Christchurch, working across Canterbury and the wider South Island.
Every site hand-built for speed. No page builders, no bloat.

What I do

Four things, done properly.

A one-person studio, on purpose. You deal with me from the first call to well after launch — no account managers, no handover to a junior after the pitch.

01

Web Design

A page made for your business — not a template with your logo dropped in the corner.

02

Web Development

Hand-coded, fast on rural 4G, and simple enough that you can change your own hours and prices.

03

Getting Found

Your Google listing, map, hours and contact details set up properly, so people searching for what you do actually land on you.

04

Video Ads

Short Facebook and Instagram ads made from your own job photos — fresh every week, no filming day. See the samples.

The honest bit

Real Canterbury work.
Honestly labelled.

Site Pilot is new, so here’s exactly what you’re looking at: previews I built for three real Canterbury businesses, shown with their permission, and one demo build. Each one says what it is — no invented case studies, no made-up testimonials. Christchurch is a small city.

Preview · 2026

Featureworks

A one-page site for a North Canterbury stonemason — twenty-five years of fireplaces, walls and paving, in one scroll. It’s live, so open it on your phone and click around.

The brief
Show the stone properly, and make it easy to ring Tim.
On the page
His own photographs, the stone he works in, and a form that sends through a job.
Built with
Hand-written HTML, CSS and JavaScript. No page builder.
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A preview built for Featureworks and shown with their permission. It isn’t their official website, and the photographs are their own.

Preview · 2026

Sam Meek Electrical

A one-page site for a Prebbleton electrician: recent work, what he covers, and a form that reaches him on site.

The brief
Show the finish, and make the job details easy to send.
On the page
Recent work, EV chargers, data and security, and Sam himself.
Built with
Hand-written HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Nothing loaded from anyone else’s servers.
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A preview built for Sam Meek Electrical and shown with their permission. It isn’t their official website, and the photographs are their own.

Preview · 2026

Grace Electrical

A one-page site for a Rolleston electrician, built around the phone call it’s meant to start.

The brief
Make it obvious what Manu does and how to book him.
On the page
Recent jobs, current offers, how booking works, and a job-details form.
Built with
Hand-written HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Nothing loaded from anyone else’s servers.
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A preview built for Grace Electrical and shown with their permission. It isn’t their official website, and the photographs are their own.

Demo build · 2026

Custom Cakes

A one-page site for a home cake maker in central Christchurch. It’s live, so open it on your phone and click around.

The brief
One page that turns someone looking at cakes into someone asking for one.
On a phone
194 KB to open, measured on the live site with an empty cache.
Built with
Hand-written HTML, CSS and JavaScript. No page builder, and nothing loaded from anyone else’s servers.
View the live site (opens in a new tab)

A demo, not a paid job. The cake photos are AI-generated stand-ins, and the prices and reviews on it are sample content.

Open offer

A free, honest look at the site you have now.

Send me your website and I’ll write back with what’s costing you enquiries. What loads slowly, what falls apart on a phone, what a customer can’t find, and what I’d change first. Plain English, no jargon, no sales call.

If you want me to fix it, I’ll quote you for it. If you’d rather hand the list to someone else, or fix it yourself, it’s yours either way — I’d still rather Christchurch had fewer bad websites in it.

Send me your site What the review covers

Measured, not claimed

This page just timed itself.

Not a benchmark from my machine — your browser, your connection, a few seconds ago. Reload and the numbers move.

measuring Before this page was ready to use. On your site, that’s the wait before a customer can tap your number.
weighing The whole page, without the video. Less than one photo straight off your phone.

Why it matters: on a phone with two bars, that difference is whether someone waits or goes back to Google — and Google counts it too, when it decides who to show first. The Canterbury footage is another — on top: a deliberate indulgence, and the only heavy thing here.

How it goes

A flight plan, not a mystery.

You'll know what's happening, what it costs and when it lands — from the first call to well after go-live.

01

Discover

Half a day on your business before I open a design tool. Who buys, what stops them, and what a good month actually looks like.

02

Design

You see real pages with your words in them — not a mood board. Two rounds of changes are built into every project.

03

Build

Hand-coded, tested on real devices, and tuned until it loads fast on a phone with two bars in Ashburton.

04

Launch & Grow

Your site goes live on your domain, in your name. I walk you through the parts you can edit yourself, and I’m here whenever you want something changed — quoted the same way, before I start.

Paras, who runs Site Pilot, photographed in a Christchurch café

Paras · Site Pilot, Christchurch

Who you’d actually be working with

Hello, I’m Paras.

I taught myself to design and build for the web. No agency background and no design degree — just a lot of hours and a stubborn streak about getting the details right.

I started Site Pilot because most local businesses I meet are good at what they do and badly served online. A site that loads slowly, falls apart on a phone, and never turns a visitor into a phone call. That is a fixable problem, and fixing it is the entire job.

What I care about is consistent work for the people I build for. Not a spike from a launch post — a site that keeps bringing enquiries in, month after month, long after I’ve handed it over.

You’d work with me directly, start to finish. No account manager, no handover to someone junior after the pitch. When there is a team, I’ll say so here.

What it costs

One page.
Done properly.

I build one thing, and I build it well. A single page that loads fast, works on a phone, and turns a visitor into a phone call — then I set up your Google listing so people can find it. One price, no packages to compare, no tiers to decode.

$1,000, all in.

One page, built by hand · Your Google listing set up · Fixed, in writing, before I start

Always included

  • A design made for your business, not a template with your logo dropped in
  • Built by hand to load fast, including on rural 4G
  • Works properly on a phone — designed for it, not shrunk to fit
  • An enquiry form that reaches your inbox
  • Your hours, location and map
  • Your Google Business Profile set up and verified — categories, service areas, hours and photos
  • Your name, phone and website the same on Google, Bing and Apple Maps, so you read as one business
  • A review link ready to send your first customers
  • Two rounds of changes before we go live
  • The domain, hosting and code all in your name

Costs extra, if you want it

  • Writing your words — you send me the copy
  • Photography — you send me the images
  • An online shop or booking system
  • Ongoing SEO or advertising campaigns
  • Extra pages beyond the first

Said plainly so there are no surprises later. Any of it can go in — it just changes the quote, and I’ll tell you by how much before you commit.

What the number covers. The page, and the Google setup, for $1,000. Everything in the list above is in it; anything from the list beside it changes the figure, and I’ll tell you by how much before you commit.

No hourly billing, no estimates that drift, no invoice you weren’t expecting. If the job grows later, we agree the new number before I touch anything.

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Questions

The things everyone asks.

About a week from the day you send me your words and photos. That’s the real variable — the build itself is quick, but I can’t start until the content is in. I’ll chase you politely.

Yes — completely. The domain, the hosting account and the code all go in your name. If you ever want to move to another studio you take everything with you, and I’ll help you move it.

The parts that change often — hours, prices, menus, staff, project galleries — are all editable without touching code. I’ll walk your team through it before launch and leave you a short screen recording for whoever joins later.

Yes. I’m Christchurch-based and I like being able to meet in person, but none of the work requires it — discovery, design reviews and handover all work fine over a call.

Then we start by finding out what's actually wrong with it. Sometimes a rebuild is the answer; sometimes it's better copy and a proper search setup for a fraction of the cost. I'll tell you honestly, even when the honest answer is a smaller invoice. Start with a free review of the site you have now.

Half to book your spot, half when the site goes live. Anything you want changed afterwards gets quoted first, so you always know the figure before I begin. Everything agreed in writing — no surprise invoices.

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Let's talk about what you're building.

Tell me a bit about the business and I’ll come back within one working day — usually with a couple of questions and a rough sense of budget and timing.

Based in

Christchurch, New Zealand
Working across Canterbury and the South Island

Email

hello@sitepilot.co.nz

Response time

Replies within one working day, Monday to Friday.

What can I help you build?

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Pick at least one, so I know what I’m looking at.

A sentence or two is plenty — at least 10 characters.

Please tell me your name.

Enter an email I can reply to, like jamie@business.co.nz.

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