Quality Web Design and Development
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.
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.
Latest From Our Blog
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 plugins (add-ons) that provide an alternative interface for creating and laying out web pages. Page builders are primarily aimed at DIYers who want to build their own websites but don’t have the HTML & CSS coding skills to create web page layouts with raw code. I have concluded that page builders are not a good solution for me or my clients. In this article I discuss six reasons why page builders are problematic.
My Top 8 WordPress Advances in the last 12 years - I started building websites with WordPress in 2007. Since then WordPress has been my content management system of choice. Over the years I’ve witnessed a lot of great advances in WordPress. But even back 12 years ago WordPress was a great platform for building websites. I found that I was always able to customise orRead more "My Top 8 WordPress Advances in the last 12 years"
E-commerce credit card payment options for New Zealand online businesses - (updated Aug 2019) If you are setting up an e-commerce web site (shopping cart, online store, online shop), one of the decisions you will have to make is what system you are going to use for collecting payment. Payment can be handled off-line (by bank deposit, cheque, etc.) or automatically at the time of purchaseRead more "E-commerce credit card payment options for New Zealand online businesses"
How to adjust zoom on embedded Google Maps - Update June 2021: This solution still works in 2021! I was embedding some Google maps and was having trouble setting the initial zoom level. But after playing around with it for awhile, I figured out the simple trick for how to do it. I thought I would share it here in case it helps someone.
Is WordPress any good? - Ok, first things, first, who am I to write a review of WordPress? Well, I’m an independent web designer/developer who lives in the small city (pop 50,000ish) of Nelson in New Zealand. I mostly build websites for small local businesses in the Nelson region, sometimes for businesses in other parts of New Zealand and occasionallyRead more "Is WordPress any good?"
Nelson Web Design Companies - Stellar Web Works is based in Nelson on the top of the South Island of New Zealand. I’ve compiled a list of all the other web design companies located in Nelson. If I’ve missed any let me know.