http://www.rocketspark.com/blog/ The latest Blog feeds from www.rocketspark.com en-us Sat, 03 Oct 2026 21:49:30 +1300 Rocketspark http://www.rocketspark.com/blog/post/828/designer-debrief-why-renee-rebuilt-an-award-winning-website-and-won-again/ Designer Debrief is our behind-the-screen look at how Rocketspark designers build award-winning websites, and the choices that help a site win awards and do its job. This time the designer and the client are the same person. We sat down with Renee Davie from Quirk Studio, whose own studio website just picked up a Rocketspark Gold Design Award.There's a twist, too. The site she replaced was also an award winner. Renee’s previous website took out Rocketspark's Site of the Month back in 2022, in ... Tue, 22 Sep 2026 08:44:25 +1200 http://www.rocketspark.com/blog/#post828 http://www.rocketspark.com/blog/post/827/your-website-needs-more-of-you/ I’ll start with a caveat: I’m still learning about this stuff.I work in marketing at Rocketspark, so I spend a lot of time around websites, search and the businesses and designers trying to make sense of how AI is changing both.... Fri, 11 Sep 2026 11:41:53 +1200 http://www.rocketspark.com/blog/#post827 http://www.rocketspark.com/blog/post/825/creative-freedom-brunch-wellington-recap/ Missed Creative Freedom Brunch Wellington? Here's how the day went, a couple of the lessons and why Auckland in October should be in your calendar.... Mon, 24 Aug 2026 15:38:18 +1200 http://www.rocketspark.com/blog/#post825 http://www.rocketspark.com/blog/post/824/designer-debrief-from-olympic-gold-to-a-gold-design-award-how-shaun-built-the-glassbox-website/ Most designers can't tell you what it feels like to stand on an Olympic podium. Shaun can. He won gold with the New Zealand men's eight rowing at the Tokyo Olympics, and then, at 29, walked away from the sport that had shaped his life since he was 14.Four and a half years on, Shaun runs SK Digital, has built over 110 websites and has just picked up his first Rocketspark Gold Design Award for Glassbox, a full rebrand and website for a Hamilton software company that's taking on the world. That's ... Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +1200 http://www.rocketspark.com/blog/#post824 http://www.rocketspark.com/blog/post/822/website-redesign-case-study-whaggy-whiskers/ Amanda from Harbrow Creations caught our eye on LinkedIn, where she'd written her own case study on her redesign of the Whaggy Whiskers website. It walks through what the new site actually does for the business: more online bookings, fewer phone calls, less admin for a busy team.... Mon, 20 Jul 2026 14:55:53 +1200 http://www.rocketspark.com/blog/#post822 http://www.rocketspark.com/blog/post/821/nz-domain-provider/ You've landed on a business name. The next thing you'll want is the .nz address to match, ideally before someone else grabs it. That domain becomes the place people find you online, the foundation for your website and usually the start of your business email too.For a lot of New Zealand businesses, .nz is the natural pick. It tells customers you're local, you're relevant to them and you're serious about being here for the long run.Registering and managing that domain with Rocketspark is simple a... Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +1200 http://www.rocketspark.com/blog/#post821 http://www.rocketspark.com/blog/post/819/designer-debrief-how-katrina-wilson-gave-faulkner-construction-a-website-as-bold-as-their-branding/ Designer Debrief is our behind-the-screen look at how Rocketspark designers build award-winning websites. Not just the finished pixels, but the choices that help a site win awards and do its job.... Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +1200 http://www.rocketspark.com/blog/#post819 http://www.rocketspark.com/blog/post/816/seo-for-small-business-nz/ You've probably been noticing more and more AI-generated answers at the top of Google search lately. They pull together information from across the web before you even see a list of websites.Maybe you've also been hearing words like "AI Overviews", "AEO", "AIO" or "GEO", and wondering if you need to rethink your whole approach to getting your business found online.Fortunately, SEO for small business in NZ still matters, and the techniques haven't fundamentally changed.Google published its own gu... Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +1200 http://www.rocketspark.com/blog/#post816 http://www.rocketspark.com/blog/post/818/creative-freedom-the-book-is-out/ Creative Freedom is (finally) out. A couple of weeks ago in Cambridge, we got a room full of designers, contributors, friends, and the Rocketspark team together to celebrate the launch. After a long stretch of writing, second-guessing, and rewriting, it still feels a bit surreal that people can actually buy a copy.... Mon, 25 May 2026 09:31:26 +1200 http://www.rocketspark.com/blog/#post818 http://www.rocketspark.com/blog/post/815/meet-side-by-side-design-your-desktop-and-mobile-at-the-same-time/ You know that feeling when you've spent ages getting the desktop version of a homepage just right, and then you flip over to mobile and have to start tweaking it all over again? Resizing text, adjusting spacing, nudging things until the phone version feels as good as the desktop one. Yeah, we've been thinking about that one.Designing for mobile has always felt like a second pass. You build the website on desktop, then go and "fix" it on mobile, which is essentially twice the work for one website... Thu, 07 May 2026 12:38:37 +1200 http://www.rocketspark.com/blog/#post815