About Us
Beautiful, fast, custom WordPress websites
We’re a sister-brother team, Rachel Cunliffe and Stephen Merriman, specializing in clean, creative, custom WordPress design and development since 2003, with expertise in food blogs and small business websites. We’ll ensure your website offers a fantastic user experience that is optimized for search and mobile.
We love getting to know our clients, so expect lots of questions! We’re easy to reach and more responsive than local companies. Based in New Zealand, we work Sun-Thu from noon Eastern, mainly serving US clients.
Rachel Cunliffe – Designer
For over twenty years, Rachel has designed beautiful, successful sites for clients like TechCrunch, ProBlogger, The University of Auckland, and South Pacific Pictures. Her design aesthetic is clean, clear, and creative, ensuring your site is fast, user-friendly, and search engine optimized.
Rachel uses a data-driven approach to design, with a strong emphasis on content. She lectured statistics at the University of Auckland and received a national award for teaching excellence. She is the co-director of CensusAtSchool, co-founded three award-winning websites and Manufacturing Marketing Magazine. In 2025, she launched Friday’s Pizza.
Stephen Merriman – Developer
Stephen is a highly skilled lead developer who specializes in large, custom, and complex WordPress websites with high traffic. He is fast, accurate, and incredibly thorough in his work, coding with HTML5, CSS, PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript. His expertise and dedication ensure your website is built to the highest standards, focusing on optimal performance, security, and scalability.
Stephen has an impressive track record, having competed in international programming competitions and achieving notable success, including an 11th-place finish in the International Collegiate Programming Competition and a top 100 finish in Google Code Jam.
