What does a business website cost in Canada?
Understand the factors that move a project from a simple brochure site to a larger custom build.
Straightforward Website Guides for Canadian Small Businesses
Website decisions get expensive when the basics are unclear. These guides explain planning, cost, content, redesigns, technical foundations and common mistakes in plain language so business owners can make better choices before hiring anyone.
Small-business website checklist
A practical pre-launch checklist covering content, trust, mobile, forms, search basics and maintenance.
How to plan a website redesign
What to inventory before changing URLs, navigation or content on an established site.
Use the guides before requesting quotes
Better project decisions start with a clearer brief
Two businesses can ask for a new website and need completely different things. One may only need five polished pages and a contact form. Another may need dozens of service pages, location architecture, ecommerce, booking, account access or migration from a content-management system. Knowing those differences before pricing helps prevent both under-scoping and unnecessary expense.
Our guides are written to help with that preparation. They explain the tradeoffs behind page count, custom functionality, content creation, search requirements, maintenance and redesign risk so the eventual proposal is based on work that matters.
Questions worth answering first
- Which pages already bring traffic, leads or backlinks?
- What should a visitor be able to do without contacting staff?
- Which services deserve their own pages?
- Who will maintain the site after launch?
- Does the project need booking, ecommerce, accounts or third-party integrations?
- Is the current hosting environment Apache, IIS or another platform?