We are a web design Dunedin studio building sites for the small businesses that keep this city and the wider Otago region running. It is one half of what we build.
A good website earns its keep quietly: it loads fast, reads well on a phone, and shows up when someone nearby searches for what you do. That is the whole job, and it is the job we set out to do well rather than dress up.
Why is a Philippine web company talking about Dunedin?
Fair question. The honest answer is that our founder is an Australian who moved to Dunedin for a better quality of life for his family, fell for the place, and is fully embracing the Kiwi way of doing things. His boys are in school here, his wife works in the hospitals, and the family is as embedded in the community as it can be, and loving it. Now it is time to help people here grow their businesses through what we build: websites, SEO and the support behind them.
We have already built for Dunedin businesses like GROOM Laser & Skin Clinic and A1 Electrical Contractors, and we are taking our time building connections here rather than blitzing the place with cold calls. Most of our work still comes from relationships in Australia that go back to 2003, so think of these pages as a hook in the water. If you are after a high quality website from a team that understands quality, process and customer care, and can save you real money without any compromise, you have found the right place.
Built for Dunedin and Otago small businesses
Most of the businesses we work with are not chasing the whole country. They want the people in Dunedin, Mosgiel, Port Chalmers and across Otago who are ready to call. So we build the site around that: clear local pages, your Google Business Profile wired in, and the kind of structure that helps you show up on the map and in the search results when it counts.
You can see our work to get a feel for the range, and the full picture of how we build sits on our websites page.
- Dunedin central, North and South
- Mosgiel and the Taieri
- Port Chalmers and the harbour
- Wider Otago and beyond
Fast, modern sites that rank locally
We build on Astro, which ships almost no JavaScript by default. In plain terms that means light pages that load quickly, and fast pages hold attention, rank better and turn more visitors into enquiries. The framework is the means, not the selling point.
- Responsive across phone, tablet and desktop, designed small screen first
- Clean semantic HTML and a sensible heading structure search engines can read
- Fast Core Web Vitals, a sitemap and pages that crawl properly
- Local schema so engines and AI answers know who you are and where you are
Dunedin based, custom grade work within reach
UBE is a New Zealand owned, Philippine based company, with management here in Dunedin, so you have a local business to sit across the table from. Our delivery team works from our Balanga office in Bataan, alongside Yoonet, and has delivered into the Australian market since 2003. That global talent plus the efficiencies it brings is the honest reason we can deliver the kind of custom grade website that has long been out of reach for a small business, at a fraction of what it used to take. Then we stay with you, with support that genuinely does not let go.
SEO baked in, not bolted on
Technical SEO is not something we tack on at the end. It is how the site is built from the first page: clean structure, the right schema, fast load times and content written to answer the questions your customers actually type. Search has shifted towards AI written answers sitting above the usual results, so we build pages to be eligible for both rather than betting on one. When the site is live, our SEO work carries it from there.
If any of this sounds like the kind of site you have been meaning to sort out, get in touch and tell us where you are now and where you want to get to. We also work over the hill in Queenstown and down the road in Southland.