EASY
Easy to use websites
  • easy to navigate and use
  • easy to update the website
  • easy to find in search engines
FUNCTIONAL
Functional web development
  • designed for your target audience
  • all the features you need
  • no bloat, efficient and fast
AFFORDABLE
  • efficient, cost effective web development
  • high quality professional results at a fair price

Web Design, Nelson

Welcome to Stellar Web Works! Our goal is to help you establish or improve your business’s web presence and get ahead of your competitors. We’re a small web design team based in Nelson, New Zealand specialising in building effective websites for small businesses in the Nelson/Tasman region and further afield.

Friendly – Honest – Reliable

We pride ourselves on providing stellar customer service. We only take on projects where feel that we are a really good fit for the job and are happy to recommend other service providers for jobs that are outside of our scope of work. We do our best to respond in a complete and timely manner to questions, requests and urgent issues.

Professional – Modern – Elegant

We build stellar websites that are professional, look great and work well to serve their required purpose.

We focus on your business needs and pay attention to the details for you, making the whole process of getting your website up and running painless and easy on your pocket too!

Based in Nelson, we can work with you whether you are in our local area, elsewhere in New Zealand or on the other side of the globe.

WordPress Experts

Need help with WordPress? We specialise in building WordPress websites and have expertise in customising and extending the WordPress platform. Contact us for WordPress help.

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The practical ideas, professional approach and the implementation was fantastic

When my husband Pat an I started our business, Aidan at Stellar Web Works couldn’t have been more helpful when we were setting up our website. The practical ideas, professional approach and the implementation was fantastic. The whole thing runs very smoothly and Aidan is always happy to assist with any queries we may have.

Pat & Marilyn O’Connor
Automotive Careers NZ

Latest From Our Blog

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Finding the Best Web Designer in Nelson - In this article we provide you with valuable tips and insights on what to look for in a web designer, how to evaluate their portfolio and experience, and the questions to ask during the selection process.
Choose your WordPress plugins carefully - One of the great strengths of WordPress is the availability of a vast amount of 'plugins' that can add almost any functionality that you can think of or change the way WordPress works. With so many plugins available to enhance a website, it can be tempting to over-use plugins but there can be downsides to using plugins on a website.
Roll your own WordPress block patterns How to create WordPress Block Patterns and Block Templates - In this article I will show you how quick and easy it is to set up your page/post layouts with block patterns and block templates. Let's start with block patterns.
Google Terminating Free Edition Of G Suite / Google Apps - If you have been using the free edition of Google's email services, what are your options now that Google has discontinued their free service?
SEO resources for our clients - Here I include some hand picked online resources intended for our clients to educate themselves on SEO. These are resources that which we feel are suited to small New Zealand businesses.
What is Website Hosting? - In a nutshell, website hosting (or web hosting) is a service that stores a website (which is made up of computer files and sometimes databases) on a special purpose computer and delivers it to anyone who requests some information from your website.
Why WordPress Page Builders Suck - In the context of WordPress, page builders are add-ons that provide an alternative interface for creating and laying out web pages. I have concluded that page builders are not a good solution for me or my clients. Here I discuss why.
My Top 8 WordPress Advances in the last 12 years - In the last 12 years I’ve witnessed the evolution of WordPress from a blogging-centric system that could be adapted to work as a basic CMS into a full-blown CMS and even a web application framework. In this post I identify 8 of my favourite WordPress advances.

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Some of our Clients

Based in Nelson, serving all of New Zealand

Stellar Web Works is based in beautiful, sunny Nelson, on the top of New Zealand’s South Island. The bulk of our clients are based in the local Top of The South region. We serve clients from all around the Nelson/Tasman and Marlborough regions, including Stoke, Richmond, Hope, Brightwater, Māpua, Motueka, Riwaka, Mārahau, Golden Bay and Blenheim. We also have clients throughout New Zealand from Auckland to Dunedin and even a few international clients.

Read more about our connection to Nelson

There are some great local web design companies in Nelson, we know this because we network and collaborate with a few of them. We have created a list of Nelson web design companies.

Nelson web design companies

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