Custom web design for businesses across Canada
Design work reviews perfectly well over a screen share. We have designed sites for clients in Ottawa, Calgary, Vancouver and across small-town Ontario, and the process is identical to the one we use for a business twenty minutes away: discovery call, layouts drawn and revised before any code is written, two rounds of feedback, then the build.
A site aimed at a national audience is a different brief from one aimed at a single neighbourhood. It has to work for someone reading it in a different time zone, spell out where you actually operate rather than assuming it is obvious, and handle French properly if any meaningful share of your customers are in Quebec. Prices need to be clearly in Canadian dollars, which sounds trivial until an American visitor assumes otherwise and you lose the enquiry.
Since 2006 we have delivered 115 projects across 14 industries. If you are choosing between web design companies in Canada, the useful question is not where the office is but whether they can explain their decisions to you without jargon.
Custom Website Design in Toronto — Frequently Asked Questions
Cost, timelines, templates versus custom, and what you actually own — the questions Toronto business owners ask before commissioning a website design.
How much does a custom website cost in Toronto?
A custom-designed business site of five to ten pages typically runs $3,500 to $9,000. Larger sites with bespoke sections, unusual layouts or integrations go higher. The figure depends far more on how many distinct page designs are needed than on page count — twenty pages sharing three templates costs less than eight pages that all look different.
What is the difference between custom design and a template?
A template is a layout somebody else designed, which you fill with your content and adjust the colours of. Custom means the layout is drawn around what you actually sell and how your customers decide. Templates are quicker and cheaper and genuinely fine for some businesses. Custom is worth it when your competitors all bought the same template, or when the way you sell does not fit the shape of a generic page.
How is this different from your web development service?
Design is what it looks like and how it is structured; development is what it does. This page is about the design work — layout, visual identity, user flow. If you need a booking system, a customer portal, an integration with software you already run, that is custom web development. Most projects involve both, and we quote them together.
How long does a custom website take?
Four to eight weeks for most business sites. Roughly two weeks on design, two to three on build, then content, testing and revisions. The variable is almost always content — projects with text and photographs ready launch on schedule, projects waiting on copy do not.
Will I be able to edit it myself?
Yes. Every site we build has a proper content management system behind it, set up so the things you will genuinely want to change are easy to change. We walk you through it before handover, and you are not charged for edits you can make yourself in two minutes.
Do you design for mobile as well?
Every site is designed to work on phones as standard, and in most cases the phone layout is designed first. That is not an add-on or an upsell — more than half your visitors will be on a phone and Google judges your site on the mobile version. See mobile website design.
Do I own the design and the files?
Yes — the design, the code, the domain and the hosting account, all in your name. If you ever move to another agency you take everything with you. Worth asking any designer this before you commission them, because it is not universal.

















































































