Author
Christopher Lee
Christopher Lee is the name used by the writer and editor of Contractovix. He writes the guides, designs the planning tools and keeps the service pages accurate, checking each against the official sources it relies on.
Written by Christopher Lee, last revised
What Christopher covers
The site's subject is narrow on purpose: websites for building and trade businesses in New Zealand. Christopher writes about the parts of those websites a homeowner looks at before getting in touch: service pages, project pages and photos, quote request forms, area pages, local search details, the claims a business makes about itself and how to move a site without breaking links.
He also writes the four planning tools, which turn the guides into plans and checklists.
How he checks his work
Every guide is checked against primary sources before publication and when it is updated: Google's Search Central documentation, the W3C's accessibility guidelines, the Privacy Commissioner, the Commerce Commission, MBIE's consumer and building guidance and Inland Revenue. Where a guide relies on a commercial source, such as a web company's published article on costs, the source list labels it as commercial and the guide says what it is used for.
Corrections, source grades and review dates are covered on the page about how we write and check.
The guides
- What a builder website needs: the pages that matter, in priority order.
- Project photos for websites: taking, choosing and preparing job photos.
- How to write a project page: six sections and what to leave out.
- Quote request form design: fields, labels, phones and the privacy notice.
- Service area pages: when a town deserves its own page.
- Your Business Profile and your website: keeping them consistent.
- Phone-first trade sites: layout, tap targets and photo speed.
- Redesigning without losing links: inventory, redirects and launch checks.
- What you can claim: the Fair Trading Act basics for a contractor site.
- What a contractor website costs: the drivers and our starting prices.
The tools
The four planning tools come from the same guides. The website project planner turns a list of services, areas and projects into a page plan. The quote form planner goes through form fields one at a time. The service area planner applies the four-question test from the area guide, and the project caption builder drafts captions, alt text and a permission record. Each runs in the browser and keeps nothing.
How the tools are tested
Before a tool goes live, Christopher works through it the way a visitor would: on a narrow phone screen and a wide desktop one, with a keyboard alone and with a mouse, filling in sensible answers and odd ones such as empty fields, very long names and towns with macrons. He checks that the result appears where it should, that keyboard focus moves to it, that the download saves a file with a clear name, and that nothing typed into the form leaves the browser. When a guide that a tool relies on changes, the tool is checked again against the new wording so the two do not drift apart.
About the name
Christopher Lee is a pen name. Using one keeps the focus on the guides rather than on a personal profile, and the editorial policy, sources and correction dates are there so readers can judge the work on its own terms. We do not claim credentials, years of experience or client numbers on his behalf.
Contact
Corrections, questions about a guide or suggestions for a new one can be sent to hello@contractovix.site or through the contact page.