Are you tired of web site builders who don’t understand you?  Looking for Canterbury NZ WebSites, SEO and Marketing?

Do you need someone who will actually LISTEN to what you need, what your business needs, what your customers need?

You need someone who has enough actual real-life experience building and ranking web sites and running an online business to be able to help you through the tricky bits, and advise you on what is possible.

Relocated home to Canterbury NZ, after many years of experience in Australia, and ready to bring all this to your small business wherever you are in the world.  And now expanded to have bases in North Canterbury (Cheviot), Central Canterbury (Christchurch) and South Canterbury (Timaru), so we really do have Canterbury SEO covered!

Someone who will totally blow your mind with ideas about what can be done. Ideas you have never heard of. More importantly, ideas that your COMPETITORS have never heard of.

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Here at Gecko Gully, the team is lead by Christine F. Abela, who has many years of experience creating web sites for small businesses like yours.  She has specialised in sites for craft businesses, but brings her gentle down-to-earth approach to all her client relationships.

 

May 12, 2014

Christine F. Abela

Christine is such a professional to work with and really knows her stuff. So glad I have a web designer I can rely on and depend upon.

Karen
Teddy Bears On Main

May 15, 2014

Christine F. Abela

Not only have you set up a great website for my business, but the follow-up support and service is excellent. The helpful tips for self-improvement of the website and business in general are much appreciated. I highly recommend Christine and Gecko Gully Websites.

Julie
Dyes By Hand Yarns

May 13, 2014

Christine F. Abela

My Gecko Gully website is the best thing I have ever done for my business. Prompt, efficient, friendly, reliable service keep things humming and business flowing.

Carole
Maggie Robertson Design

September 12, 2020

New website? Transferring data from an old website

I had an interesting conversation today.  The woman runs a successful small business, and has an ecommerce website.  But her website is in need of a revamp, and there are practical issues with running it as well.  She needs a new website.

 

But, she said, the problem with setting up a new site is that you need to spend ages re-entering the products.

 

Not always, I explained. 

 

What do you need?

 

Sometimes, a website simply needs a “makeover”, in which the look of the site is changed.  Or perhaps it is not fast enough, or is not mobile friendly.

 

But in her case, as with many websites, the problem was bigger than that.  There was a fundamental problem with the way the site was built, and the software used to set up the site needs to change.  

 

Not your average website builder

 

Most website builders are people who know how to use a content management system (CMS) like WordPress, and can drag and drop, and design, and build a website using tools.  Unless there happens to be a tool already created to convert the old format website to the new format, then yes, the copying of the data and products from the old site to the new one needs to be done manually.

 

But a very small number of website builders are also programmers (including me).  This means that I can write a program that scrapes the data (like products) from the old website.  

 

It can then either be put straight into the new site, or it can be put into a spreadsheet, like for Microsoft excel, so that the website owner can review and revise it before it is uploaded to the new site.  And, of course, I write a program to do the upload too.

 

This can save many many hours of work for the website owner.  If they choose to make use of an intermediate Excel file, they can add new products, and edit or delete others.  They can also re-categorise products to make them easier for visitors (and Google!) to find.  And they can add tags or other information to help Google to know what the site is about.

 

If your ecommerce site has become a massive problem, get in touch. Let’s discuss how having a programmer on your team can make a molehill out of your mountain.  And give you a snazzy new asset that works better, is easier for you and you customers to use, and which gets found on Google.