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

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Website Design Services

We offer a comprehensive range of website design and development services including:

Aidan’s design work transformed my website

Aidan’s design work transformed my website and I am very happy with the result.

The best part is Aidan showed me how to maintain and manage my own website so I can now update my news section regularly. Thanks again Aidan!

Anna Gibbons

Active Mums

very impressed with the rapid understanding of our needs

Our team was very impressed with the rapid understanding of our needs, suggestions for improvement, and support at every stage from concept to delivery and back-up support. Throughout the entire process, Stellar Web Works was thorough, patient and professional.

Helen Steenbergen

Nelson Marlborough District Health Board

your service has been brilliant. Can’t thank you enough!

You have done a great job for us in putting up with all my requests, delays etc, and your service has been brilliant. Can’t thank you enough!

Graeme Butterfield

Clar Innis Guanaco Stud

What can I say but AMAZING…

What can I say but AMAZING… Aidan is very creative and professional, We hired him to build our website, and he did more than an EXCELLENT JOB, we love his work!! He also taught us to manage our website so that’s a real bonus. Do give Aidan a call or email, he is more than

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Nans Kirpatrick

Fun Parcel

Excellent, well priced, and responsive service – Highly recommended!

We have found Aidan and his team at Stellar to provide an excellent, well priced, and responsive service – Highly recommended! Thanks Aidan, especially for the fast response, you rock!

Lester Binns, CEO

MyTax

I was super impressed!

An easy to use website was designed for me. Aidan is a good listener and came up with many great suggestions which felt like massive upgrades yet all within the budget I allocated. Have recently started another wee business and this website I left completely up to Aidan. I was super impressed! Fully recommend Stellar

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thank you for creating such a beautiful website

I’m just writing to say thank you for creating such a beautiful website. It is everything I hoped it would be, in my imagination, and more!

Andrew Forrest

Aidan was a champion!

Aidan was a champion! We highly recommend his service.

Paul Crawford

Wisdom For Life

Would definitely recommend to anyone looking for a web designer

Aidan at Stellar Web Works was so professional and did a great job of our long overdue website! I loved the “how to” document he provided us with at the end too, so helpful! If we have any queries he is always more than happy to help. Would definitely recommend to anyone looking for a

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Tamara & Ben Allen

Fusion Plumbing & Solar

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

Wow you have literally done a ‘Stellar job’

Wow you have literally done a ‘Stellar job’ so pleased with the layout etc – thank you!!!

Lizzie Nicolson

Essenze Therapies

Stellar simply outclassed the other developers by miles.

Stellar simply outclassed the other developers by miles. We are really pleased with the results and would rate the Stellar team highly! We enjoyed the warm and friendly, “no fuss” approach, and the speed in getting things done was impressive.

Dave Marshall

Big Brothers Big Sisters of NZ

Thank you so much for your level of professionalism, understanding, expertise and support

There is some amazing work here. I am absolutely delighted. Thank you so much for your level of professionalism, understanding, expertise and support towards the new feel (r) website.

Jaime Brookes

Director, Momint

WOW! Stellar Web Works has done an incredible job of redesigning and rebuilding our site.

The level of detail and care Aidan has put into this project does not go unnoticed. We are still pinching ourselves with how immersive, colourful and functional our new site is, we are really happy with how it has turned out!

Ashleigh McNeilly

SANITI - Student Association at NMIT

thanks for going beyond the expectation with this process and making it easy for us!!

Throughout the process, Aidan listened to our input and made suggestions to improve the function and aesthetic of the website. From the outset, we felt we were in very capable hands. To Aidan and the team, thanks for going beyond the expectation with this process and making it easy for us!!

Fraser Campbell - Principal

Riwaka School

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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.

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