Web design packages

Keep using Instagram: it is a great way to show your work and to be found by word of mouth. A website does a different job. It is what appears when someone searches your name, it opens for people who do not use Instagram, and it is the one place that is fully yours. Many customers look a business up before they call, and a simple page with your services, photos and phone number is what they find.

You pay once for the website: design, build, setup and launch. A simple website is $499, add-ons are added to that when you need them (Showcase $149, Catalogue $199, More pages $99, Get found on Google $149, See your visitors $99, and 3 small changes for $50 once you are live), and a custom website starts at $2,500. Then you pick how much looking after it gets, month to month: Lights on at $9.99 a month or $100 a year, or Looked after at $29.99 a month or $300 a year. Paying yearly gets you ten months for twelve. Prices are in Canadian dollars. Instalments for the website are available on request.

Yes, on request. Get in touch and we will agree a plan that suits you.

Interac e-transfer is the easiest way, for the website, the monthly or yearly plan and any changes. If you would rather pay by credit card, I can send you an invoice with a card payment link.

The use of my platform: fast, secure hosting with HTTPS on a global network, security and software updates, your contact form with spam protection, and a fix if something breaks. Your domain stays with you and renews at your registrar.

Both keep your site online: hosting, security updates and a fix if something breaks. Looked after adds small updates, such as text, photos, hours and prices, and support by email. If you rarely change anything, Lights on is enough, and you can move up or down any time.

A simple website uses a look chosen from my palettes, fonts and effects, with my proven page layouts, so it is clean, professional and quick to launch. Add-ons raise its limits, for example more projects or a catalogue. A custom website is designed from scratch around your brand, page by page, including your own project pages. If you can describe your site in a sentence, such as what you do and how to reach you, it is probably a simple one. If the design itself helps you sell, it is a custom one. Many custom projects start as a simple website and grow.

Yes. A site of 3 pages and one of 5 pages cost the same, so you never pay per page. A gallery counts as a page, and one is included. If you need up to 8 pages, add More pages, which includes up to 3 galleries, and 3 more pages or galleries are $99. A shop, member logins or a more custom design is a different kind of site.

A pack adds a new kind of page or service to the simple website, with some room included and a simple way to get more. Showcase gives each project its own page: up to 8 projects, 5 more for $99. Catalogue gives each item its own page with an Enquire button or payment link: up to 10 items, 10 more for $149. More pages takes you from 5 to 8 pages, including up to 3 galleries, and 3 more pages or galleries cost $99. Get found on Google helps with your Google Business profile and local details. See your visitors adds simple visitor numbers. Small changes is a bundle of 3 edits for $50 (text, photos, hours or prices), or $20 for one, and is included with Looked after. Each one is added to the $499 and paid the same way.

Ask. Small things, such as a booking link or a special treatment for one image, are quoted as an extra before I start. If the total gets close to $2,000, it is usually cleaner to treat it as a custom project with one price.

Your site is connected to Google Search Console, which shows how people find you, and that is included. The Get found on Google add-on helps with your Google Business profile and local details. See your visitors adds simple visitor numbers without cookies, so there is no pop-up banner. If you want Google Analytics or Google Ads tracking, I can add your tag, but those use cookies, so they need a cookie notice and are quoted as an extra.

Not on my platform. It is made for brochure, portfolio and catalogue websites, where I make the changes for you. If you need a blog you publish yourself, a shop with a cart and shipping, member logins or comments, Squarespace is the better home, and I build on it too.

Yes, any time. There is no contract. A site on my platform needs one of the two care options while it is hosted with me. If you stop, I hand over the site's files and you host them anywhere you like. Your domain is already yours, so it stays with you.

Then there is no hosting to choose, because you pay Squarespace directly for the platform, and I build the site as a one-time project. If you would like me to make your changes and be your Squarespace person afterwards, Looked after works there too: $29.99 a month, or $300 a year, for small updates and support.

I will get in touch first. If it is still unpaid after 30 days, your site is paused, not deleted, and I send you your files. Nothing is removed without notice.

Yes. Once it is built and paid for, the design and content are yours, and your domain is in your name. If you leave, you take the site's files with you.

Text, photos, opening hours and prices: the everyday changes. With Looked after they are part of your monthly price, so you never count them. With Lights on, small changes are $20 each, or 3 for $50. Anything bigger, such as a new page, a new section or a redesign, is a fixed price for the result, quoted before I start.

No hidden fees. The website price covers the design, build, setup and launch. After that you only pay the monthly or yearly price you chose. Your domain is a separate yearly cost paid directly to your registrar.

No. Your domain is yours, and prices vary, usually about $11 to $24 a year, so I do not include it in my prices. If you already own one, I connect it to your new site. If you do not, I help you choose and register one, and you pay the registrar directly. The .ca ending needs a Canadian presence, so clients elsewhere get a .com. Premium names that someone else is selling, and special endings such as .io or .ai, cost more.

On these plans you ask and I make the change. That is the point: you never have to log in to anything. If you would rather edit your own site, a Squarespace website is the better fit, and I can build one for you.

Yes. The add-ons cover the usual needs, and small extras are quoted one by one. If what you want is not listed, ask. Once the total passes about $2,000, it is cleaner as a custom project with one price.

They are good tools, and Squarespace is the right choice if you want to edit the site yourself or need a shop or memberships. A site built the way I build most of them loads faster, has no Squarespace or Wix plan to renew, only a small month-to-month or yearly care option, and is not tied to one company's tools, but you ask me for changes instead of making them yourself.