The Mahalo Creative

Here are 5 things to self audit on your websites that you can save for later. 👩🏼‍💻

Websites often run in the background to your business but are an important marketing funnel and source of social proof for your customers. So here are 5 ways to keep up to date.

And a little reminder to myself to review my own. 😊

2023 Website Statistics you need for your business. 🌻

83% of consumers expect websites to load in less than 3 seconds…
Our static sites are lightning-fast and come with lessons on how to optimise your images.

5.94s is the average time spent by users looking at your main website image.
Make a great first impression!

83% of customers consider a seamless website experience on all devices to be very important. All our sites are responsive and look great across all devices.

What are the things that catch your eye on a good website? ❤👀

A huge part of running a business is persistence. Here is a bit of Monday motivation for all my fellow business owners ♡

2023 Website Statistics you need for your business. 🌻

48% of people said that web design is the no. 1 way they determine your business credibility. Think of your website as your online office or shop front. And in 2023 it's one of the first places someone will check on your businesses credibility.

94% of websites impressions are design-related. That doesn't mean the website is just pretty! It also means it has great user-experience (UX). How often have you left a website because you haven't been able to navigate it, it won't load or it just didn't make much sense?

38% of users will stop using a website if they find the layout unattractive. This leads on from point 2. The best websites feel intiutive to the brand and to navigate.

What are your top websites loves and peeves? ❤🙈

"Why are you here? How do you fit in? What’s it all about?”
Sir David Attenborough.

Last year I attended the conference trying to answer these questions for myself and my business. How can I help? What is the gap my business can fill? Why was my business there?

What I found was that a lot of the ecotourism businesses are just re-opening after Covid. Many of these businesses had previously relied on word of mouth. Others were struggling to educate visitors without causing their natural environment harm. All of them had a message they wanted to convey. And many didn't have a website that conveyed this if one at all.

A website is now your online presence, the face of your brand and your audience's first impression. Having a well-laid-out and planned website can strengthen the messages your team works on, on the ground.

🐠 Have a message about reducing plastic. Showcase a metal straw counter for every visitor who has made the transition alongside how that impacts your environment.

🌱 Need to set some guidelines? A National Park website is the first place I look to check what I can and can't bring with me. There is no reason a private tour can't do the same. It's more likely your visitors just don't know than they are actual as****es (we hope!)

🌻 Share your story. People tend to buy from others they have an emotional tie with. What greater bond than one with the natural world? Tell your story online, write that about page or start a blog to captivate the hearts of your audience before they even meet you.

Have your own ecotourism business? Let us know what you are missing right now and what you are all about.

2022 felt like a big stepping stone for me.

It was the year I started my business. 👩🏼‍💻
Finished a certificate IV in Entrepreneurship and new business.
Got my Ls on a motorbike.🛵
Drove the Great Ocean Road in a motorhome. 🚙
And spent a lot of time with friends and family.

There were also a ton of things I felt I hadn't achieved in my business and personally but I'm excited for in 2023. ✨

What were the highlights of your 2022?

I've been a busy bee before Christmas but there is always time to stop and smell the roses. 🐝🌹

In this case quite literally. The beautiful Monique at Maud and Ivy Flowers surprised me with these last Thursday. They are the most gorgeous flowers I have ever received. And I loved seeing her work first-hand after working with her for so long on her website. Her beautiful creations exceeded all my expectations and the photos can't do them justice. Monique really makes any event special.

What's one thing you do this time of year that makes you stop and enjoy the moment?🎄

I have availabilities over the next couple of months. And it's my birthday month! 🍰🎉

I am offering free 30 minute consultations for your new custom coded site.

If you are looking for a website that is uniquely your brand or a redesign of your current site, I'm looking forward to chatting with you.

Check the link in bio or send me a DM. 📩

In honour of an incredible woman, leader and all she leaves behind.

One of my favourite stories on the Queen was a BBC article in which Dr David Nott (a volunteer wartime surgeon) who suffered from PTSD recalls his meeting with the Queen.

"I [had been] coping [in Syria] with children that were really badly damaged and she must have detected something significant.
"I didn't know what to say. It wasn't that I didn't want to speak to her - I just couldn't. I just could not say anything.

"She picked all this up and said, 'Well, shall I help you?' I thought, 'How on earth can the Queen help me?'

"All of a sudden the courtiers brought the corgis and the corgis went underneath the table."

Dr Nott said the Queen then opened a tin of biscuits and invited him to feed and stroke the dogs.

He added: "And so for 20 minutes during this lunch the Queen and I fed the dogs. She did it because she knew that I was so seriously traumatised. You know the humanity of what she was doing was unbelievable."

A colour palette makes a huge difference in how your brand can be viewed. And each colour often associates a different meaning.

Pink can be feminine, modern and luxurious, whilst green often feels fresh, renewed and associates to nature.

Sometimes it is hard to find THE colours to the right emotional response in our audience. So here are a few tools that helped me refine my palette.

The Mahalo Creative's palette is designed to be coastal, earthy and fresh.

What do your colours say about your brand? 🍉🦋🌻🥑🌊💜

Having a website can broaden your horizons. ✨

Not only are you missing out on marketing opportunities to funnel new people into your business you are missing the opportunity to engage with your audience. Investing in a website is an investment in your business.

More and more people are voting with their wallets for the sort of world they want to live in. 🌏

A website is your home to tell your story, Whatever your story may be, whether you are family orientated, empowering women, or fighting for a greener world. This is your opportunity to give your customer the right and best impression of you.

We always ensure that our client's websites are branded and strategically planned to reflect them personally. Goodbye trying to micro-manage and DIY everything on your own and hello to working together to create your best impression. ✨

Get in contact with us today for a free consultation!

So you may have heard us say custom-coded a few times...

Not sure what that means?
Here is what it means for your business.

Your site is made from scratch with the latest web technologies; CSS, HTML, Javascript and our much loved static website builder Jekyll.

👉🏻 It is inherently fast. Jekyll is the difference between phoning in for takeaway or having to wait for it to be made in front of you. ⚡

👉🏼 Secure. Pre building the site makes it very secure and virtually unhackable.

👉🏽 SEO ready. Fast, secure, well-coded sites are an SEO dream and a few of the factors that can help you rank in searches. ⭐
We also provide your SEO metadata which is editable by you.

👉🏾 Easy to maintain and host. No constant updates of plugins and flexible hosting. For you, this means an editable less expensive site long term. 🙌

👉🏿 Made for YOU. We don't use any template builders your website is made from scratch.
Just. For. You. ♥

I have some openings over the next couple of months as I look to broaden my horizons for the last half of 2022. ⁠
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Here is a sneak peek of what I will be up to 👇⁠
• improving my photography with ⁠
• finishing off some exciting projects ⁠
• and starting some new ones⁠
• improving my business management with a cert 4 in business and entrepreneurship⁠
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I am offering free consultations to work out how a new website can help you achieve your goals. Feel free to reach out via the bio link or DM. 📩

We want you to reach your dreams! ✨

Our websites are more than a service for us and for you. They are for real people, with families, lifestyles and ambitions.
Building and growing a business is serious work and that's why we will always work with you.

Let us know what your goals are for the rest of 2022 below!

It was such a joy to create Seafood on Parade's new website for Peter and Koula.

We took the visual identity of their logo, added some custom graphics and played with the bright colours to create a fresh new website. Their website showcases their late fisherman father's influence. Meet George! (Swipe across →).

The shop is always busy and ever-growing so Peter and Koula wanted an easy way to advertise new positions and update their hours. Our content management system makes it as simple as flicking a switch and typing in their new times.

It's always rewarding to work with people who have been serving their communities for so long. If you are one of their loyal fans let us know what you think in the comments! 💙

We are excited to share some big news for one of our clients!
Seafood on Parade, has an online home. 💙

Peter and Koula are brother and sister who out of Seafood on Parade provide South Australians with the freshest seafood. 🦐🐟🦀

It was important to Peter and Koula to feature their late fisherman father and heritage throughout the site. See if you can spot the subtle Grecian nods in their upcoming site.

Stay posted!

We are live!

Welcome to The Mahalo Creative. Come visit us through the link in our bio. 🖤

We are so excited to offer your unique website built from scratch just for you. Its been a journey for us and to help you with yours we are offering our first clients heavily discounted packages.

Fill out the contact page on our site and feel free to DM us any questions.✉

We can't wait to help you get your site live! 👩‍💻

Hello! My name is Mahala.🌞
I am the founder of The Mahalo Creative. If you are here there's a chance I will be soon learning about you and your dreams, so here is a little something about me in return.

I hold a Masters in Architecture, I have travelled to 26 countries and my favourite movie is Tangled. And so of course I have been to the lantern festival (swipe right). I love challenges, being in nature and helping others.

The Mahalo Creative is a collation of the last several years of me building upon my artistic, problem solving and project management skills. I am excited to use them to create custom-coded websites that tell your brand story. Share some of your dreams or accomplishments below. ↓

Welcome to The Mahalo Creative!🌻

Our mission is to breathe life and energy into brands that are innovating the natural world. 🌏

We provide imaginative and passionate websites to help tell your stories.

After a lot of hard work, we are very excited to be launching our website soon!