Testimonials
“Rachel and Stephen are the pros when it comes to website design! I am absolutely blown away by how incredible and professional my website looks, and I can honestly say there’s no way it would look this amazing if I had gone with anyone else. Their responsiveness is unmatched—I always feel like they truly care about their clients’ happiness. Not only did they deliver an exceptional design, but they also offered expert advice throughout the entire process. I’m so thankful I stumbled upon them while searching for a cooking website designer. It really feels like they were destined to design my cooking website and grateful that even after the launch, they continue to be there for me providing stellar customer service.”
—Cindy Lam Lorimer, Cindy Lam Cuisine
“Initially I was a little wary about hiring a design team in New Zealand, but those concerns turned out to be entirely unfounded. Hiring Cre8d to redesign my site was one of the best business decisions I have ever made. They are a pleasure to work with – always professional, responsive (despite the time difference), and knowledgeable – and my new site is as beautiful as it is functional. The numbers speak for themselves: since the launch of the new site about six months ago, my traffic and ad revenues have increased threefold. New email subscriptions have gone through the roof, thanks to a more engaging design and easy, seamless sign-up process. I have continued to work with Cre8d and wouldn’t hesitate to recommend them – they are top-notch!”
—Jennifer Segal, Once Upon a Chef
“If I had to start over, I would definitely go with Cre8d again! It has been a wonderful experience throughout the complete rebranding and redesign of my bilingual site. Rachel and Stephen are both very nice people to work with, extremely knowledgeable, and responsive (despite the huge time difference). Not only did they create exactly what I pictured in my mind, but they made it even better. Their level of professionalism and technical skills, attention to detail, and organization throughout was exactly what I was looking for. The new site is truly beautiful, modern, and easy to use. Just a few months after the redesign, I can already see the results with a spike in traffic, and more engaged people that translate into subscriptions. I wish I had hired them years ago. I highly recommend them!”
—Delphine Fortin, Del’s Cooking Twist
“Rachel is the designer of my dreams, and I’ve hired many of them as CEO of several companies. Talented both as a designer and programmer, an entrepreneur in her own right, and fully conversant with all the latest technologies. If you have a blog or a website and you want it done right, call Rachel.”
—Antony Van Couvering
“Our US-based B2B company needed a new site to go with our new brand name. Rachel and Stephen have a very structured and thorough development process, and show excellent creativity and judgment. The outcome was excellent — super clean, fast to load, and lovely on mobile.”
—Andrew Benkard
“Working with Rachel and Stephen is among the most productive and pleasurable relationships I have. We work remotely, with a time difference of 16 hours, which is incredibly efficient, they always understand what I want, never get frustrated with my frequent changes and delays and their designs and executions solve problems before they arise. They are a five star team. I recommend them without hesitation.”
—Joe Dolce
“In addition to her tech expertise, Rachel is more creative, responsive, personable, and articulate than any other designer with whom I’ve worked. She understands your vision, and is able to execute in a professional and timely fashion. Rachel’s work has never been anything less than stellar. I’ve referred her and worked with her on several client website launches. She has made the collaboration process truly enjoyable, and has taught me so much.”
—Lucinda Blumenfeld
“My company, Huff Industrial Marketing, delivers custom build websites and ongoing marketing for manufacturers. I’ve worked with Rachel and Stephen since 2010; they’re the ONLY design and development team I’ll work with. As part of my own messaging, I state we deliver flawless websites. Part of the reason is because of Rachel and Stephen. They are THE BEST. Their attention to detail is unsurpassed. Plus, they’re super responsive, resourceful, smart, and very easy to work with. They’ve become a seamless and integral part of the HIM team.”
—Dianna Huff, Huff Industrial Marketing
“Working with cre8d has been the smoothest of experiences, and they have continually impressed me with their professionalism, responsiveness, and creative thinking. The complete makeover and migration of a website can be a stressful and daunting project for a blogger to undertake, but I felt in the best of hands and would recommend their services wholeheartedly.”
—Clotilde Dusoulier
“I’ve worked with Rachel and Stephen on six projects now and always consider them first when planning my next venture. They are friendly, professional, responsive, inventive and excellent communicators. In addition to their clear expertise in WordPress, Rachel has provided me with some excellent design work for use in logos and printed media, and Stephen has yet to fail me in terms of his coding.”
—Gareth Furber
“I can’t thank cre8d enough for doing such a great job with the redesign of my websites. From the very first introduction until the completion of the project you were professional, prompt and patient, making me at ease with every single step of the process. Your design and coding skills went beyond my expectations and I couldn’t be any happier with the outcome. You are true professionals!”
—Marie-Pierre Sander, Studio Marie Pierre
“Rachel has both feet firmly planted in the digital world, where her design work shows an appealing clean and clear aesthetic. She is an attentive and meticulous collaborator; someone who listens to others and whom you can trust to do the job well. I enjoy working with Rachel and have no hesitation in recommending her.”
—Atakohu Middleton
“cre8d built a gorgeous home for the soul of my online business. They inebriated every ounce of design and coding with personality, vibrance, and light. Hire them. Your expectations will be blown out of the water.”
—Krystle Cobran
“I had to officially launch my brand as an author and desperately needed a logo and website. With Rachel and Stephen’s duality of services–design and development—I have a site that perfectly reflects my personality, functions the way I need it to, and has been able to grow as my business does. Cre8d is truly a one-stop-shop of super talent… and I can’t thank them enough.”
—Rebecca Donovan, author
“We thank our lucky stars for the day that we discovered Rachel Cunliffe and Stephen Merriman — a smart, creative team that designs beautiful websites. They are consummate professionals and a joy to work with, and we can’t recommend them to you highly enough. We know you’ll thank us later. (You’re welcome.)”
—Karen Page and Andrew Dornenburg, authors
“Rachel and Stephen are a dream team when it comes to perfect design and technical support. From our first conversation to the subsequent tweaks, it has been a wonderful, rewarding collaboration. There is much to commend: their professionalism, elegant, polished aesthetics, and up-to-date knowledge of design trends and solutions. Rachel and Stephen always answered my questions promptly and in detail, and they have made it easy to experiment and look for interesting ways to make my website more interactive and user-friendly. I love working with them and look forward to new projects together.”
—Victoria Frolova
“I called cre8d design. Wow. Marvelous. Rachel and Stephen are helpful and timely and responsive. cre8d design gave me detailed directions about how to update the site. Whenever I have a question, Stephen or Rachel helps me get back on track. And if you’re worried about price…. I was surprisingly pleased. Visit cre8d design. Now.”
—Simone Joyaux
“The excessively talented cre8d design nailed it from the get-go, exceeding my wildest expectations. They could not have been more of a joy to work with, and I would highly recommend them for any web project you have. I’m kind of speechless with happiness at their work right now.”
—Sarah McColl
“cre8d understood my vision for a new website right from the start. They worked directly and efficiently with me, enabling us to bring my dream to life in the best way possible. I was thrilled to work with this team and recommend them to anyone looking to upgrade their website.”
—Kelsey Banfield
“I have worked with cre8d on a number of sites and they always provide an exceptional service. They do a brilliant job taking great care with my vision and turning it into a custom WordPress website. I highly recommend them.”
—Jonathan Gunson
“We’ve greatly enjoyed working with Rachel Cunliffe and Stephen Merriman. I can’t say enough about their organization and communication process. Designs, ideas, and feedback are delivered quickly and with enough detail to follow through on our end without unnecessary meetings or communication; essential when working with a team in a radically different timezone. I would highly recommend working with them on your next WordPress project.”
—Derek Edmond
“I immediately felt comfortable with Rachel just by her straight forward and transparent way of doing business. High integrity coupled with a creative eye makes Rachel our go to for any future design projects and ongoing site adjustments. I would recommend cre8d without a doubt to anyone looking for an esthetically pleasing, easy to navigate and useable website!”
—Pauline Jakober
“cre8d were amazing! Even though they are in New Zealand and I am in the US, you’d never know there was a time difference. They are responsive, creative and patient and I had full confidence in their knowledge of web design and coding. They always came through with flying colors. Since then I have referred them to clients of mine and have received glowing evaluations of their work every time. Your website is in good hands with cre8d!”
—Ginger Burr
“I love working with cre8d. Pretty much every part of working with them is seamless. Their partnership has helped our business grow well.”
—Zac Zavos
“cre8d does excellent web design work. They are very knowledgeable about all aspects of creating an appealing website, very responsive, timely and go above and beyond to make sure you are satisfied with the project.”
—Cathy Taughinbaugh
“cre8d made a wonderful website and really was able to ‘get’ what I wanted. I can’t recommend them highly enough. They are FABULOUS!”
—Tina Sloan, actress and author
“It has been a pleasure working with the friendly team at cre8d to create an amazing website. You took the time to understand exactly what we were trying to achieve, gave helpful recommendations and used your creativity and initiative to satisfy our brief. We would like you to know how pleased we are with the outstanding service you have given us and we look forward to a continuing relationship.”
—Kimberley Crossman, actress
“Rachel Cunliffe’s creative and reliable team are even more available than most businesses located just down the street, and they’re always determined to provide whatever time is required to complete the job well.”
—Davidson Goldin, Goldin Solutions
“cre8d were very professional. Rachel was always accessible, reliable, and easy to work with, providing excellent support. Stephen was exceptional at understanding my needs and objectives for the site and was very helpful in terms of programming.”
—Nikki Kaye, Former NZ Member of Parliament
“We count ourselves very fortunate to have cre8d as our design and development team. Nothing is too hard or a problem, and their combined level of skill and knowledge would be hard to beat. They are fast, efficient and always helpful. We’ve been amazed at the way they have continually improved the functionality of our website and the overall success of our business. We were particularly thrilled when our new site won ‘Best Launch or Relaunch’ at the NetGuide Web Awards and this reflected the excellent site development undertaken by Rachel and Stephen. We can’t recommend cre8d more.”
—Rochelle Gribble
“cre8d made a sophisticated and user-friendly website for our book. She was tuned in not only to design but to the concepts of the book. Our website reflects our mission through a deft use of visuals and type–and she was always reliable and on time! A pleasure to work with.”
—Sonya Rhodes
“I have used cre8d on multiple occasions. Their work is professional, timely, accurate and cost effective. I have not a single thing I can fault them for. I have happily referred cre8d to associates for web design work and would not recommend anyone else. I highly recommend them. Their design process and project management makes an upgrade and re-build a pleasure.”
—Cameron Slater
“I adore working with Rachel and Stephen, not just because they’re knowledgeable and talented designer-developers, but because they’ve made updating and maintaining the tech side of my site a completely unintimidating venture. They answer my questions, dumb and smart, with ease. They communicate their timing and deadlines clearly. Most of all, they deliver perfect work.”
—Cara Eisenpress
“I liked cre8d’s work I have hired them several times. They are talented, have a good eye for design, responsive, produces great results, and are a pleasure to work with.”
—Chris Harvey
“cre8d was a joy to work with in designing my site. Rachel was patient, knowledgeable and a great teacher. It has been a great experience woking with someone continents away. I highly recommend cre8d.”
—Sarah Meder
“It was a pleasure working with cre8d when re-branding our website. They provided insightful and knowledgeable feedback for better SEO and performance and were quick with the turnaround. We couldn’t be happier with the overall site!”
—Amy Grigg
“cre8d always have excellent suggestions about the design, and come up with ideas that really make sense for my site. Friendly, creative, quick and responsive, and I really love working with them!”
—Kelly Keeton
“Are you in need of a new website or design update to help increase sales? Then look no further than the honest and reliable cre8d team. Not only did they do an impeccable job on our site redesign, but they did it with exemplary integrity, professionalism, and creativity. If you want to ensure that you get the site that your business deserves–one that will help boost customer engagement and increase SEO– then I would highly recommend you hire this team.”
—Mark Hayward
“Food Politics is the second website that cre8d has designed for me. I thought the first was gorgeous but the one is even more so. The new site is elegant and conveys precisely the message I wanted it to. I get lots of compliments on it. Web technology does not come easily to me so I especially appreciate how well the site functions and little time it takes me to manage it.”
—Marion Nestle
“Our website is looking and working beautifully! Great to look at, easy to handle, perfectly structured and very accessible. Thank you for your time, energy and creativity, we really couldn’t be any happier.”
—Britta Wiegelmann
“My new website looks absolutely beauticious (yes, that is beautiful + delicious)! I can’t believe it’s here in all its sparkling prettiness. Huge thanks to Rachel and Stephen at cre8d for being so kickass!”
—Nicole Jardim
“You were really patient with people who had limited technical understanding, quick to understand what we were after and efficient in delivering a site that’s received many compliments for its crisp look and functionality.”
—Tim Watkin
“From the initial design (gorgeous) to the implementation (quick and efficient), cre8d did an amazing job, absolutely nailing exactly what we were after, and continuing to make changes as we require them. Although they’re super technical and competent, they can talk to clients in plain English, and are capable of taking convoluted instructions and translating them into code – a rare talent in a world of “I KNOW BEST” coders and web teams.
cre8d’s design work is as beautiful as Rachel’s sunny Kiwi visage, while the coding is solid enough to withstand a battering from the All Blacks.”
—Wil Harris
“I’ve hired cre8d many times to help me achieve important marketing objectives. They’ve worked on everything from full websites to microsites, to campaign landing pages, and has always come through (mostly in a pinch!) They do very good work, are thoughtful and strategic in their approach, and always delivers on time and under budget. They’re smart about leveraging best practice and provides advice based on dozens of projects — in fact, their experience has proven invaluable to me on multiple occasions. I highly recommend cre8d and would work with her again in a minute!”
—Derek Gordon
“cre8d have done an outstanding job with my site. Their quick thorough responses to complex requests have kept me coming back to cre8d time and again. A great web designer’s value is not measured in how flashy a site is. A great web designer is organized, detail oriented, thorough, guides your vision to deliver the best practical user experience. cre8d delivers.
Do not be concerned about working with a company from New Zealand. I have found cre8d to be 100x more capable than the five website designers I have worked with in the US before her.”
—Jason Frasca
“cre8d was creative and quickly came up with a lovely design. The whole process of crafting the site and having my content moved over was seamless.”
—Esther Crawford
“Launching a new website can be a daunting task, but Rachel and Stephen make the design aspect an incredibly fun, collaborative process. Thanks to their patience, accessibility, and exceptional talent, and I wound up with a beautiful, well-functioning site that has far surpassed my expectations. I cannot recommend cre8d design highly enough!””
—Kathryn O’Malley
“Dozens of clients have commented on our clear, attractive and easily navigable new site. The added functionality and streamlined design is exactly what we were hoping for. cre8d took our ideas and turned them into a working reality to bring our small business the online presence we needed.”
—Laura Heeringa
“I hired cre8d for a complete site redesign–it was a fun experience and produced outstanding results. The cre8d team communicated well to accommodate my requirements, making me feel that my site is a top priority to them. cre8d rocks!”
—Udi Tirosh
“cre8d is always efficient, professional and extremely creative! A must-hire.”
—Meredith Bagby
“Rachel is an efficient and creative web designer who always has time to answer questions and solve problems. Her friendly and professional approach to projects is great to work with.”
—Tracey Meek
“cre8d did a fabulous job designing marketing materials for my business. The work looked great and they were always prompt, thorough, and clear in their communication. A great package of qualities – project management, design, and communication are all top-notch.”
—Sally Martin
“Hiring cre8d to redesign my blog was the best investment I’ve made. Rachel is easy to work with, offers amazing advice, and never strays from her timeline. I’ll definitely use their services again!”
—Erika Valente
