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website design and production services Stylish, Striking, Memorable

website design and production services Stylish, Striking, Memorable

Hello!

Hi, I’m Nicki Lloyd, founder of Mara Communications. Based in Melbourne’s Bayside suburbs, I’ve been building professional, user-friendly websites since 2014. I love helping sole traders, small businesses and community groups bring their ideas to life online with clean, responsive websites that not only look great but are also easy to navigate and tailored to each client’s goals.

Services

Wordpress Websites

For content only sites Wordpress is my go-to platform. It is SEO-friendly, offers a wide variety of plugins to extend the functionality of the site and can grow along with your business. As a designer it provides me with the flexibility to bring your vision to life. 

Domains, Hosting & Emails

Website production is so much more than just a site. In partnership with Lloydtech, we will assist you with registering your domain, setting up your hosting and ensuring that your emails are working correctly.  Most importantly, ownership will always stay with you.

Ecommerce

I always recommend Shopify for sites where the main function is to sell online. The Shopify platform is mature, offers a range of attractive templates and is supported by a robust and secure payment gateway. It is extremely user friendly, both for the store owner and for the end user.

Wordpress Websites

For content only sites Wordpress is my go-to platform. It is SEO-friendly, offers a wide variety of plugins to extend the functionality of the site and can grow along with your business. As a designer it provides me with the flexibility to bring your vision to life. 

Domains, Hosting & Emails

Website production is so much more than just a site. In partnership with Lloydtech, we will assist you with registering your domain, setting up your hosting and ensuring that your emails are working correctly.  Most importantly, ownership will always stay with you.

Ecommerce

I always recommend Shopify for sites where the main function is to sell online. The Shopify platform is mature, offers a range of attractive templates and is supported by a robust and secure payment gateway. It is extremely user friendly, both for the store owner and for the end user.

What my Clients Say...

What my Clients Say...

Professional, efficient, and genuinely lovely to work with

Working with Nicki from Mara Communications to recreate my website was an absolute pleasure. I came to her with a clear brief: refresh the look and feel, make it modern, use my existing professional images, reduce the site from six pages to four, and – most importantly – build a super‑easy backend so I could update testimonials or make small changes myself without any hassle. Not only did she deliver on every point, she exceeded my expectations.

I chose Nicki based on her great reviews on the Bayside Hub Facebook page, and she absolutely lived up to them. The three‑week turnaround was smooth, fast, and stress‑free. Any tweaks I requested were handled quickly, and she made the whole process feel effortless.

I’m thrilled with the final result and how easy it now should be to manage updates on my own. Nicki is professional, efficient, and genuinely lovely to work with. Highly recommended.

Sarah Wakeling

Collaborative way we work together

Nicki has been a pleasure to work with. We needed to refresh our website to be more contemporary, welcoming and informative for the public, and to be much easier to use for our members.

Nicki helped translate our ideas into a reality with which we are delighted.  Our new members talk highly of its impact on their decision to join. Subsequent improvements have been no problem at all for Nicki to implement.
 
I really like the collaborative way we work together.  No task is too small or too large.  Nicki is always responsive and has been endlessly patient and tolerant of my nitpicking!  As a consequence we are really proud of the result.
 
Thanks again, Nicki.
Ross Mackiggan