Web design7 min
How much does a website cost in Canada?
What Canadian small businesses pay for a website in 2026, from a DIY builder to a custom agency build, with sources; yearly costs, GST/HST, French pages and how to compare quotes.
Web design company building Canadian small business sites that bring calls
Custom WordPress websites for contractors, clinics, law offices and local stores: quick on a phone, a page for every service and ready for Google. A fixed quote, paid once it's live.
Employment Lawyers in Brampton | Ortega Vale
Ortega ValeEmployment lawyers
(905) 555-0100
Employment law · Brampton
We'll tell you within 24 hours
if you have a case.
Send us your termination letter and we'll reply in writing with what you may be owed and the deadlines.
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4.9·G212 Google reviews
Reply within 24 hoursIn writing, with deadlines
How we help
01
Wrongful dismissal
We review your letter, your tenure and what you're being offered.
02
Unpaid wages
Overtime, late paycheques and final pay calculated wrong.
03
Discrimination
Human rights complaints and court if needed.
CallText us
Ortega ValeEmployment lawyers
(905) 555-0100
Employment law · Brampton
We'll tell you within 24 hours
if you have a case.
Send us your termination letter and we'll reply in writing with what you may be owed and the deadlines.
CallText us
4.9·G212 Google reviews
Reply within 24 hoursIn writing, with deadlines
How we help
01
Wrongful dismissal
We review your letter, your tenure and what you're being offered.
02
Unpaid wages
Overtime, late paycheques and final pay calculated wrong.
03
Discrimination
Human rights complaints and court if needed.
CallText us
MessagesnowJames R.Hi, writing from your website. I was let go today and want to know if I'm owed more than my final pay.
Our web design services
Your proposal only includes what your business actually needs.
Ecommerce websites
An online store built to sell: products that are easy to find, a short checkout and the shipping and returns answered before people ask.
Landing pages
One page for one campaign, with a single offer and a single button, built so your ad clicks turn into calls and forms.
Website redesign
A new website that keeps what the old one already earned on Google: every old address pointed to its new page and nothing that worked thrown away.
Website speed
A site that opens fast on a phone, measured with Google's own tools before and after, so visitors don't leave while it loads.
Website maintenance
Updates tested before they go live, backups kept off your server and someone watching your site, every month.
You have a website, and it doesn't bring you any work
If your site does any of these, it's sending visitors to your competitors.
- It looks fine on the office computer and crawls on a phone with one bar of LTE.
- It talks about quality and passion but never says what you do, where, or how to reach you.
- Updating your hours means tracking down whoever built it years ago.
- Nobody has ever told you “I found you on your website”.
What a website built to win jobs looks like
How we get there
We start from how your customers search. Each service people look for on its own gets its own page, with what's included, who it's for and the questions you always get. Every page has one job: getting the visitor to call, text or send the form.
It's built to load fast on a phone and to be read properly by Google from day one, so it's ready for SEO, and accessible: readable contrast, labelled form fields and buttons that work with a keyboard, following the WCAG guidelines. Domain, logins, copy and photos are in your name.
Fast on a phone
Most of your visitors arrive on a phone. The site loads right away even on a weak signal.
Core Web Vitals in the green
One page per service
Customers searching for something specific land on the page about exactly that, instead of a generic home page.
Contact always at hand
Call, text and form buttons visible on every screen, and every lead tracked.
conversion tracking
How we build your website, start to launch
Four stages, and every task shows up on your tracking page.
Searches and structure
How customers search for you and which pages your site needs to answer them.
Plan and fixed quote
The page map, the copy we'll write, the fixed price and the delivery date, before you decide anything.
Design and build
We ask you, in one message, for what only you know, write the pages and build the site. You see the home page and one service page in week 2.
Launch, check and pay
We launch, redirect old addresses if there's a previous site and track every lead. You check it all, then you pay.
What our website design service includes
How many pages and what the site has to do are set in your proposal.
- Pages planned around real searches
- Copy written for you
- A design that's yours
- Fast and secure
- Accessible by default
- SEO from day one
- Every lead counted
- You can make changes yourself
We test your current website on a phone, off Wi-Fi
We open your site on a phone using mobile data and send you screenshots: how long it takes, what a visitor sees first and how many taps it takes to call you. Plus what's worth keeping, so nothing that works gets lost.
- What we found
- The plan, page by page
- The fixed quote
- What we wouldn't do
Carles builds your site, and he's the one who reviews it in the audit. Òscar makes sure Google understands it. Who we are
audit · osbornevillagephysio.ca
sample document
1 · What we found
On a phone your home page takes 9 seconds on LTE, and physio, massage therapy and concussion care share one page.
2 · The plan, page by page
- Pages for physio, RMT massage and concussion care
- Call and book buttons on every screen
- Direct billing details on each service page
- Every old address pointed to its new page
3 · Fixed quote
- Website
- Fixed quote
- Paid
- Once it's live
- Up front
- Nothing
- Until then
- CA$0
When a new website is worth paying for, and when it can wait
Worth it if
- You need a site that brings customers, and looking good is only part of that.
- You want a fixed price, a signed date and the site in your name.
- You can tell us how you work and what customers ask.
Not a fit if
- You need a custom app or a platform with user accounts.
- You need the site live within a week.
- You want a cheap template with no strategy behind it.
You pay for your website once it's live, and not before
We look at your business for free, then we agree on a fixed price and a delivery date. You pay once everything in your proposal is published and you've gone through it.
- Fixed priceit doesn't grow with extra hours
- Signed dateusually about 6 weeks
- All yoursdomain, site and logins in your name
We don't guarantee Google rankings: no one outside Google controls them. We guarantee the work.
How paying at the end works- Free audit and proposal
- CA$0
- Fixed price and date agreed
- CA$0
- Design, copy and build
- CA$0
- Live, and reviewed by you
- you pay
- Until it's live
- CA$0
Questions about our website design
What Canadian owners ask before ordering a website. Yours can go in the audit form.
What does a custom WordPress website cost with you?
That depends on the project: a five-page site costs less than one with an online store, several areas with their own pages or bookings. You get a fixed quote before we start and pay in one go once it's live. The domain and logins are always in your name.
How long will my new website take to build?
Usually about 6 weeks from the day you accept the proposal, and the date is signed in it. The clock pauses if we're waiting on copy, photos or your approval, and we tell you when it pauses and restarts.
Do you build on WordPress, and will I be tied to you?
Yes, on WordPress, and no, you won't be tied to us. You can edit it yourself, any developer can take it over and it doesn't lock you into one company's monthly plan. Wix or Squarespace can suit a very small site you'll run alone; for a site meant to bring calls, WordPress gives more room.
Do you build bilingual English and French websites?
We build the site so it can run in both languages, with each page linked to its French version. We write the copy in English; if you serve Quebec, the audit tells you which pages need French and how the French text would be covered, before you accept anything.
Do I pay anything before the website is done?
No. Nothing up front and nothing in stages: you pay once everything in your proposal is published and you've reviewed it. If something in the proposal is missing or doesn't work, we fix it first.
Will I be able to make changes to the site myself?
Yes. You get a short guide to change hours, prices, photos and text without asking anyone. For bigger changes you can come back to us or use any WordPress developer.
We design and build custom WordPress websites for small businesses across Canada: fast on a phone, clear about what you do in seconds, with a page for each service people search for. A fixed quote after a free audit, one payment once it's live, with a signed date and a site that's entirely yours.
More detail: Web design
Your current site is losing you calls this week
A slow or confusing site hands the people who find you to competitors whose site answers faster. Every visitor who leaves without calling is a customer you'd already done the work to reach.
A new site usually takes about 6 weeks, with the date signed in your proposal. In the free audit we show you what your current site does on a phone and what we'd keep.
What a Canadian business website needs: French, accessibility and consent
If you do business in Quebec, the province expects commercial websites to be available in French, and the French version can't be less complete than the English one (CFIB summary of Law 14). We plan the site so French pages can sit next to the English ones from the start, instead of bolting them on later.
In Ontario, businesses with 50 or more employees must make their public websites meet WCAG 2.0 Level AA (Ontario.ca), and we build to that level for everyone. If your contact form also signs people up for emails, CASL asks for their consent first (Government of Canada), so the checkbox goes in from the start.
Custom website design or a website builder: which to choose
Website builders like Wix or Squarespace can be fine for getting started. They fall short when you need a page for each service and area, real speed on a phone or full control over how Google reads the site. A custom WordPress site takes more work at the start and is built around how your customers search.
WordPress is what we use for small business sites because you can edit it yourself and any developer can take it over later. For online stores it depends on the catalogue, and we explain it in ecommerce website design; if you need a page for a campaign, see landing page design.
How to choose a web design company in Canada
Ask for a fixed price and a signed delivery date, check that the domain and logins will be in your name and ask how the site will show up on Google as well as how it will look. A good-looking site that nobody finds doesn't bring customers.
We work with small businesses across Canada, with a published starting price, a signed date and the pay-when-it's-done guarantee: nothing until everything in your proposal is finished and live. If you already have a site that brings some visits, see website redesign first.
What a small business website costs with us in Canada
It depends on what the site has to do: the number of pages, an online store or bookings, how many service areas, French pages. The audit gives you a fixed quote before anything starts, and you pay in a single payment once it's live and you've reviewed it.
To compare quotes from Canadian agencies and freelancers, read how much a website costs in Canada, with the usual price ranges and their sources. How we build a quote is on how we quote.
What's included, point by point
Pages planned around real searches
The pages your business needs, each built for a group of searches.
information architecture
Copy written for you
We write the pages from what you tell us, in your customers' language, and you approve every one.
A design that's yours
A custom WordPress design that fits your business, built for phones first, instead of the template everyone else bought.
custom WordPress theme
Fast and secure
Optimized images and code, HTTPS and hosting that keeps it fast.
Core Web Vitals and SSL
Accessible by default
Readable text, labelled forms and buttons that work without a mouse, so nobody gets stuck before contacting you.
following the WCAG accessibility guidelines
SEO from day one
Titles, headings, structured data and a sitemap ready for Google.
technical and on-page SEO basics
Every lead counted
Calls, texts and forms counted, so you know what the site brings.
GA4 and Search Console in your name
You can make changes yourself
A short guide so you can update hours, prices or photos without asking anyone.
More on business websites that get people to call
What works alongside a new website
Guides on websites
Pull up your site on a phone like a customer would. We'll count the taps between them and your number.
Tell us about your business in 2 minutes and we'll send you what your current site does on a phone and what we'd build, with its price.
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