About Expert Web Design company in Wellington, New Zealand
What started as a mutually beneficial business relationship between our co-founders Evan Bayly and Aaron Main quickly turned into the partnership that holds Expert together to this day. Expert was originally established back in 1998 when Google was still based out of Susan Wojcickis garage and a dollar could still get you a litre of petrol.
Twenty years on and hundreds of websites later were proud to say Expert is one of New Zealands longest running most reliable web development and design companies around.
Check out our timeline below to see the highlights of our time creating exceptional work.
It all began with our two owners Evan Bayly and Aaron Main. Aaron was working in an IT department of a large organization while also running his own web development business on the side. Evan was busy sharing his marketing knowledge as a Business Advisor and Consultant. When Aaron began to build websites for Evans clients the two quickly realised how their talents complimented one another.
As the ’World Wide Web’ gathered momentum our resourceful pair became acutely aware that the IT market space yearned for a quality content management system that could offer support to those less acquainted with the technological jargon and skills that inherently came along with website building. They also recognised that website owners wanted to be empowered to make changes to their own website content without having to pay a development company a fee to ensure this happened. And so MoST (Management of Site Tool) user friendly CMS (Content Management System) was born.
MoST was quickly becoming the go-to option for intuitive flexible and cost-effective content management Aaron and Evan had devised a practical and affordable solution to satisfy the mounting requests for web development.
Expert Developments Ltd was incorporated as an official company on the 1st of April 2000.
Aaron continued to make improvements to MoST until Version II was ready for release. This enhanced version was the product that really separated MoST from other CMS products. Users could now manage their entire enterprise with its in-depth membership e-zine and event management tools.
Experts Wellington office opened on Tennyson Street in the heart of the creative quarter as our client base and team of experts continued to flourish and grow.
Business as usual would see MoST Version IIIs launch in 2005 and this was made fully e-commerce capable by 2006.
Expert broadened development services into the global financial in with the creation of NZdata Service which is still used for financial market data collection and dissemination today. This application was the start of our continued presence as a reputable application developer in the financial market locally and overseas.
Experts first official re-brand commenced along with a website re-design.
Following the devastating Christchurch earthquakes Expert established an enhanced and enlarged disaster recovery protocol system.
Expert began advocating the increased benefits of using social media apps and mobile-friendly websites for businesses and also introduced a sophisticated cloud-based system to meet the needs of a major clients accounting requirements.
Over the following years often through word of mouth more large membership organisations approached Expert for help with creating and managing their websites and complex membership databases. Thanks to a balanced combination of continued technical support and having a user-friendly infrastructure platform (MoST) Expert could meet their requirements.
After 14 years in business Expert has helped build the online capabilities of thousands of organisations from small one-person businesses to local body councils and government departments. MoSTs ongoing development meant that Expert was able to cater for a range of clients with the most basic of CMS requirements to a full-blown ecommerce website with online payments membership and event management.
Aaron and Evan along with Experts team of specialists continue to discover just how well their varying and diverse skills complement each other when it comes to developing designing marketing supporting … and well almost anything else thats necessary to create and manage exceptional websites.
Two new big developments have been undertaken at Expert this year. Weve been working in the artificial intelligence space and became the NZ agents for SimSage who have created a simple to use Qamp;A bot which works on semantic searches (not key word searches like Google uses). This means getting relevant and timely answers to questions quickly. Weve also created a Member Management System which is a bespoke CRM database tool that helps you streamline manage and engage with your membership in one central location. We developed this for Iwi to use and it can be applied to a wide range of similar groups.
