What we do

Web Design

Our experience and fresh approach to website design ensures that all of the websites that we produce not only look great, but most importantly, work hard for your business. Unlike most web design companies, we believe that we can offer our clients the complete solution. An innovative design built by our in-house web designers incorporates a user friendly layout, encouraged lead generation, high search engine rankings and most importantly, great customer service.

We offer professional web design tailored to your specific requirements. We will keep you at the centre of the design process to ensure that you get a look and feel suitable for your customers.

With a focus on creating a web site that reflects your company's image we will prepare  a sample home page and other key portals and "tweek" the design until you are completely happy with it.

Mobile Web Design

The mobile web is the most effective way to present relevant information to users on the go. Don’t risk losing customers because your website looks bad on a mobile device, is slow to load or hard to navigate.

The number of users browsing the Web from a mobile device continues to rise, yet most mobile websites are still sub-par.

If you are not taking steps now to ensure your website is mobile-accessible, so prospective customers can find your business and access your site, you’re throwing away money! 

Adjusting a site for the mobile environment is a great challenge. A lot of techniques you are used to applying on web design would not make any sense on mobile, and vice-versa.

Mobile is a great place to try new things with different limits. People using the mobile web are much less patient than those in front of a computer--cellphone screens are much smaller and the mobile internet connection, usually 3G, isn't as fast yet.

At Web Torque we have a mobile module in our cms, you can simply select what pages you want to show on your mobile website or if you want different mobile content you just enter it!

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Web Development

Every website we build is designed to meet the business's objectives and to be an integral part of its online marketing presence. Developing and designing one-of-a-kind web sites, is what Web Torque is all about. We work with our clients to ensure they're involved during the entire process. It's a collaborative effort to ensure your business is well represented on the web."

We are specialists in fields of web design and web applications development including HTML, XHTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP, ASP,.NET, Java and Flash

XHTML and CSS are the languages used to create functional web pages from graphical website designs . We refer to this as 'slicing' your website because the process requires us to cut up the web design into smaller images for use within the website template. We then use PHP to integrate those pages with your database and content management system (cms). We take great pride in ourselves on taking a standards compliant approach to every project we do, and sticking to the strict list of best practices.

E-Commerce

With ever increasing numbers of people in New Zealand purchasing their goods and services on the internet, it has never been a more important time to effectively sell online. Web Torque offer various ecommerce (online shop) solutions that can be tailored to suit your business. Our 'Content Management' (CMS) e-commerce software allows you to fully control and maintain your shop without having advanced computer skills or experience. What's more, you can dial into your back-end system from any computer that has access to the internet.

Features for ecommerce 

• Add as many levels of categories and sub-categories as you need, products can appear in multiple categories.
• Shipping and Tax options
• Support for various payment types, including Paypal, PaymentExpress, Cheque, Bank Transfer.
• Email notifications of orders
• Customer account for viewing past orders
• Coupons
• Wish lists
• Product Reviews

Payment Gatways we use are Direct Payment Solutions and Paypal

Direct Payment Solutions provide a PCI DSS compliant Visa and MasterCard certified payments solution called Payment Express.  Payment Express facilitates electronic payments seamlessly from multiple access points i.e. Websites, shopping carts, EFTPOS, Billing systems, Recurring Billing, IVR (Interactive Voice Response), Vending machines, MOTO (Mail Order / Telephone Order), Wireless systems and much more. DPS are certified with banks in Australia, New Zealand, Pacific Islands, Singapore, South Africa, USA and United Kingdom offering processing in multiple currencies. DPS provide solutions to customers including Trade Me, Apple, Air New Zealand, Quantas, Vodafone, Telecom, Auckland City Council, Farmers, Microsoft, NZ Herald, Sky TV and Genesis Energy to name a few. For more information please feel free to visit the DPS website on www.paymentexpress.com  

Content Management

If you are the editor for your organisation's website, you're a busy person. You need to be able to update your site easily and be confident that your changes come out the way you intended them to. You may manage other staff with various technical skills contributing content to your site, and you don't have a lot of time to train them.

With the SilverStripe CMS, website editors don't need to know HTML or even be familiar with complex web applications. You can get started in very little time-a typical training session with one of our clients takes no more than an hour or two. You and your staff can quickly start taking advantage of powerful features such as:

• Create new pages and drag and drop them where you want them to be in the site map
• Edit and style content using a toolbar with familiar buttons and drop downs (similar to MS Word)
• Easily insert links, images, and Flash into your content
• Copy and paste content from MS Word
• View a draft of your content changes before pushing them live
• Publish changes to your site with one click of a button
• Assign different user roles and permissions for each section or even page of your site
• View older versions of a page and roll back if needed

Hosting

Website hosting is the service we provide so you can display your website on the Internet for your clients, friends, members or anybody in the world to view.  We have a complete range of website hosting packages for every need, every skill level and every budget.

Go to our web pricing page to get a full run down on our hosting packages.

Google Maps Integration

There's alot more to Google maps integration then just having you place of business on a Google map on your contact page. Yes we can do that for you but we can alos fully integrate specific functionality around Google maps for you website or application.

thecoffeeguy.co.nz - Find you nearest drive-thru, enter a town and suburb and Google will show you where you can get your Coffee Guy coffee from. 

SEO

85 - 95% of internet users use a search engine to find what they are looking for. 95% of those internet users will click on a link on the first page of search results. If a site ranks higher in a search engine for a specific search, it will have a better chance of bringing traffic to that site. SEO means optimising web pages for particular key phrases or words. This can give ‘naturally’ higher rankings at the search engines for chosen search terms.

Optimisation means getting a number of factors right – technical infrastructure, key words and phrases, page titles and H tags, enough relevant, well written copy, effective linking strategies, site maps and more. SEO is not about tricking the search engines but about understanding what elements search engines look for to help determine the relevance of the page to a search term. Organic SEO is long lasting.

See below for some of our results with our clients on Google

giftbarn.co.nz - search for gift baskets. Result is first page, position 1. View pdf

flowersbyblush.co.nz - search for candy buffet. Result is first page, position 7. View pdf

flowers4newzealand.co.nz - search for flowers. Result is first page, position 9. View pdf

thecoffeeguy.co.nz - search for mobile coffee. Result is first page, position 1. View pdf

Pricing

Prices vary between projects as most clients change certain aspects of the job, see below for our price guidelines. Contact us for a free no obligation quote.