About Astonish Me Creative

Astonish Me Creative excels at building beautiful wordpress websites, are experts in digital photography and creative video production. Want to make a seriously good impression on the web? Learn how to utelise your website, so you create traffic, attract your ideal clients or share useful information that keeps them coming back for more.

We build wordpress websites on super fast hosting, including an online store where you can sell your products.

Websites

Need a website to showcase your business? WordPress is amazing to work with and is still the most popular choice world wide. It’s has stood the test of time and performs best in Google search engines – so you get more potential leads and more customisations to suit your needs.

Check out some recent designs below.

Videos

Need a creative video made to help tell your story? We use the best quality equipment including the latest in image stabiliser technology and hi resolution cameras to get those smooth cinematic pan shots. A great video will impress thousands of watchers and get the message across quickly.

What spins my wheels?

I’m obsessed with great design. The balance between making something look appealing and doing it’s designed task is what gets me excited.

In 2004 I completed my BA/B Tch (double degree) majoring in Visual Arts and Graphic design. In my final year I completed a thesis titled “Harnessing Creativity.” Not many people have specialised in this area and the knowledge gained allows me to understand the creative process at the highest level. I know how to generate original material and structure the process in a way that is efficient, magical and gets the results.

I love teaching my clients how to use their website to get maximum return on their investment. A website that’s not being regularly updated is like having a shop with the lights turned off. By using the powerful blog features for feeding out new information it significantly helps your website get seen.

When I’m not working online I’m out mtn biking in the hills above Nelson with my dog SPCA rescue dog Micky. On the weekends I enjoy reading a good book and making music in my recording studio.

Testimonials

“I have just had Bryce develop my new website and I could not be more happier with it. Within 12 hours of going live, I had taken my first book orders and received my payments… all as smooth and as easy as possible. Bryce designed my website to my capability and to the functionality I needed, which means I can manage it well and he also created a site that allows me to promote my book, market the outcomes, monitor the trending and in essence, it acts as my front of house. His ongoing support and availability answer any questions only adds value to his skill set. I cannot recommend him highly enough.”

Chris Stuart

NZ Author

“It was an absolute pleasure working with Bryce. He certainly knows his craft well and I have no hesitation in recommending him to anyone needing a new website from scratch or who needs help tidying up their existing one.”

Andrea Hughes

Prowess Building Ltd

“Bryce took some photos for my facebook page which I felt softly captured the right vibe for my page. I am looking forward to getting a web page designed by him in the future. He is very creative and professional. Thank you so much Bryce!”

Sally McCue

Contact Care

“I had the pleasure of working with Bryce off and on for the last 10 years. He is a multi talented guy with a great eye for design, an excellent ear for music and he’s phenomenal with promotions and management. With awesome attention to detail and great communications skills I have no hesitation recommending Bryce, no matter what project he is completing for a client. He also has a good heart.”

Kerry Smith

Filament Webdesign

“Extremely happy with Bryce’s work. Really easy to work with and very efficient. Thanks Bryce!”

Claire Chicken

The Cutting Bar

“Bryce is talented, personable and proactive. He has great ideas and is genuine in his enthusiasm and commitment to getting the very best result for me as his client. If you’re looking for a website, a graphic designer, or a photographer, he’s your guy.”

Jacquie Walters

Walters PR

“Totally blown away by the promotional videos we had made for Tribe. For years we had struggled to get our message and vibe out there using only words and pictures. Bryce nailed the concept, video and even wrote the catchy background music.”

Caron Proctor

Your Tribe Collective

“Thanks Bryce, you worked really hard to understand my vision. I am very happy with your design and web work. I am a very happy customer indeed.”

Allana Goldsmith

Jazz Musician

“Bryce encouraged me and listened to my ideas & crafted my album cover in a way that would be user friendly for both CD graphics and website. His knowledge, skills, empathy & expertise were greatly appreciated in making a somewhat daunting process much simpler.”

Christina Devina

Musician / Actor

Love to hear from you!

Address

22 Alfred st,

Nelson South, New Zealand

027 446 5047

[email protected]

Follow the journey

Read my blogs

Have a read what’s been on my mind lately and learn something new?

Using the blog on your website to drive traffic.

The blog feature on your wordpress website is where you post new information. Info like your about us section, and staff bios are considered evergreen content. This means you don’t need to constantly update it. Maybe once a year. New…

How to utilise your website

Here’s a great example of how to use your website to generate revenue. Your knowledge is your product. How do customers purchase your knowledge that took many years to learn? It may seem impossible without doing a face to face…

Need Photography?

Need some quality images for your website? Or for facebook, LinkedIn? I have some great cameras and lenses. I prefer to shoot with my Canon DSLR and use natural lighting to keep it feeling natural and human. Here’s some images…

Smush it – the smart way to optimise your website

Optimising images is important so the website can perform better. If an image is uploaded at say 4000 px wide, it will need to open and then shrink down when viewed on mobile phones. This takes time and slows up…

The power and purpose of blogging

Blogging regularly is how we tell Google that the site is active, up to date and searchable online. It’s is part of the site owner’s job to upload content relevant to the website. Bit like what I am doing here.…

Event photography

When capturing an event on camera it is important to consider what the client wants to achieve and use the images for. Recently I filmed and photographed stills to cover a local Womens Inspirational talking event called Her Story. By…

How is 5G broad-band going to affect our life in NZ?

Read this interesting article HERE. Faster broadband will enable new technologies like we havn’t seen before.

The benefits of a good NZ based web hosting plan

One of the most common questions clients ask me is how come $30 a month for hosting as opposed to a cheaper plan they see advertised on their social media newsfeed $4.95. You definitely get what you pay for. For…

Instagram

Instagram is fast becoming a favorite for the online community. It will pass 1 Billion users near the end of 2018. It’s like Facebook however you can only upload via your phone. It also allows 1 min videos to appear…