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.
Latest From Our Blog
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 - 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 May 2023: This solution still works in 2023! 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.Some of our Clients
Based in Nelson
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.