Working with Dardo from New Zealand
Dardo is a three-person design studio in Bogotá, Colombia, led by its founder, Nicolás Cerón. We work with companies in New Zealand remotely: there is no Dardo office in New Zealand. Calls happen on video, in English or Spanish, and everything we agree goes into a written proposal.
Bogotá keeps UTC−5 all year, with no daylight saving time. Auckland is 18 hours ahead of Bogotá in January and 17 hours ahead of Bogotá in July, so our office hours barely meet: 9 a.m. in Auckland is 3 p.m. the evening before or 4 p.m. the evening before in Bogotá. Calls go at the start of your day, which is the end of ours, and everything else is in writing.
A project starts with a brief through the contact form, by email to hello@dardo.studio or on WhatsApp. Nicolás replies within one business day with the questions that set the scope. The proposal that follows lists the scope, deliverables, assumptions, exclusions, payment stages, a timeline and the people doing the work, by name.
Quotes are in US dollars, per scope, with no minimum budget. Pricing explains how a quote is built.
What our website development covers
Development can follow Dardo's own web design or start from designs supplied by your team or another studio. Either way, the proposal lists the templates, states and integrations being built, who supplies each input and how each part is accepted.
- Responsive frontend implementation of every agreed template and state
- Content model, CMS setup and publishing workflow
- Forms and agreed integrations, tested with real submissions
- Metadata, structured data and crawlable page structure
- Accessibility and performance checks on representative pages
- Launch checks, deployment and handover documentation
The web development service page has the full scope, the process and the questions buyers ask.
How fast websites in New Zealand are on phones
In October 2026, 52% of the websites in New Zealand measured by Chrome's user experience report passed all three Core Web Vitals on phones, according to the HTTP Archive. The platform behind a site moves that number:
| Platform | Sites measured | Pass on phones |
|---|---|---|
| Wix | 983 | 85.6% |
| Shopify | 6,036 | 74% |
| Webflow | 682 | 67.9% |
| Framer | 57 | 59.6% |
| WordPress | 9,387 | 52.9% |
| Squarespace | 1,043 | 49.8% |
Speed comes from how a site is built more than from the platform, and Google uses Core Web Vitals in search. The platform speed report has the same numbers for other countries.
Rules a website in New Zealand has to meet
These are the rules we plan around for sites that serve customers in New Zealand. They are a starting point, not legal advice.
- Privacy: the Privacy Act 2020 covers the personal information a website collects through forms and analytics.
We build to WCAG 2.2 AA and set up consent and forms for these rules from the first brief.
Work you can check
Projects from 2026, each with its published result:
- Janus Observatory (Science / Interactive storytelling, 2026). −47.9% 3D models: 8.2 MB instead of 15.8 MB.
- Hyper (AI / Customer intelligence, 2026). USD 10 per customer research report on hypers.dev.
- Gissi (Education / Music & arts, 2026). 34 → 416 Google clicks: 3 months before, 9 days after relaunch.
- superame.lol (Community / Digital products, 2026). 17 currencies in Spanish, Portuguese and English.
- Shiimain (Public data / Territorial intelligence, 2026). 4 days to build, 27 to 30 May 2026.
These are the projects we can show, with their numbers.
Questions before you choose
Does Dardo have an office in New Zealand?
No. Dardo is a three-person studio in Bogotá, Colombia, and works with companies in New Zealand remotely, on video calls, in English or Spanish.
How much does web development cost with Dardo?
Each project is quoted by scope in an itemized written proposal in US dollars, with no minimum budget.
How much does website development cost?
It depends on the work: the number of templates and states, content migration, CMS requirements, integrations, languages, accessibility, animation, testing and handover. We price the documented scope after reviewing those dependencies rather than using a universal per-page rate, and the proposal separates one-time build costs from recurring hosting and software fees.
What's the difference between web design and web development?
Web design decides what the site says, how it's organized and how it looks and behaves. Web development turns those decisions into working code: templates, content management, forms, integrations, performance and deployment. Many problems sit between the two, such as a layout that breaks with real content or a form with no error state, which is why Dardo keeps both in one team or reviews outside designs before building.
Sources & further reading
Sources behind this page, with further detail from the original publishers.
- HTTP Archive technology report (Core Web Vitals by platform and country)httparchive.org
- Privacy Act 2020, Office of the Privacy Commissionerprivacy.org.nz
- Google Business Profile guidelinessupport.google.com
- Google Search Central: local business structured datadevelopers.google.com
- Google Search Central: spam policies (doorway abuse)developers.google.com