Inglewood, Taranaki
I'm Elijah Short. I'm based in Inglewood, and I look after more than eighty sites across the region. Most of my clients have been with me for years, which I take as the best review I'm going to get.
Prefer to talk? Ring 022 361 9457 or email elijah@elijahshort.co.nz
80+ Taranaki sites I look after, most of them for years
35 Google reviews, every one of them five stars
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What I do
New sites and rebuilds for businesses, trusts and clubs. Written and coded by hand, not dragged together in a page builder. Fast on a phone, readable by someone with poor eyesight, and findable by someone searching for you in Stratford.
Hosting, domain, SSL certificate and email on one yearly invoice. Daily backups. Your domain set to auto-renew so you never get one of those "expires in five days" emails and have to wonder if it's a scam.
Changes, fixes, and the honest answer when something isn't worth doing. You get me, not a helpdesk.
Recent work
Stratford · Full rebuild
A maintenance and construction management consultancy with forty years of technical material and no good way to show it. Rebuilt from scratch, live since August 2026.
Taranaki · Wix migration
A community trust moved off Wix onto a site that loads fast on an old phone and can be read by someone whose first language isn't English.
Taranaki · Ongoing
Award-winning Taranaki builders. The site has to make the photography do the work, and stay current as the House of the Year results come in each year.
The part people forget
They fail two years later, quietly. The plugins go out of date. The domain lapses because the reminder went to an email nobody checks. The hosting company gets bought and the support address stops answering. Nobody notices until a customer says "your website's down".
That's the part I'm actually here for.
Every site I build stays on my hosting, gets backed up daily, and has one person responsible for it. When something breaks, you ring me and I fix it. When something's about to break, I tell you before it does.
How it works
A coffee, a phone call, or an email. You tell me what the business does and what the site needs to achieve. No charge, no obligation.
A written quote with the pages listed and the price on it. If I think you need less than you asked for, I'll say so.
The site goes up on a private staging address first, so you can click through it on your own phone before anyone else sees it. Two rounds of changes are included.
Your first year of changes is included in the build price. After that it's hourly, and the hosting ticks over once a year.
What it costs
Websites from $2,850 + GST Design, build, going live, and your first year of changes.
Bigger sites cost more, and I'll tell you the number before I start, not after.
Hosting, domain, SSL and email: $264.50 + GST a year One invoice, once a year, for the lot.
Support after the first year: $120 + GST an hour Charged in the time it actually takes. Small things are often no charge.
What people say
★★★★★
I highly recommend using him to get a website made. Very friendly and easy going, also responds quickly.
★★★★★
Elijah designed our website and what an amazingly easy experience. Our website exceeds all my expectations!
★★★★★
Elijah has been great to deal with for all things related to websites … very approachable. I would highly recommend him.
Have a look at what I do, or just ring me. I'm in Inglewood and I answer my own phone.
42 Tarata Rd, Inglewood 4387. Happy to come to you anywhere in Taranaki.
Elijah Short The person who picks up the phone is the person who builds the site.
