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Calgary Web Designer

Custom website design and development for Calgary businesses. Built by hand, hosted, and supported.

$0 down · $75 / month all-inclusive 12-month minimum, then month-to-month

Calgary's small-business market moves fast. A modern, hand-coded site sets the right tone with customers researching you from Mission, Beltline, or one of the suburban office parks. I work with Calgary shops, clinics, trades, and consultancies remotely. Every build, edit round, and hosting handover happens online, with no in-person discovery call required.

Areas served

Web design and development across Calgary.

The studio works with small businesses in downtown, the Beltline, Mission, Kensington, and the suburban office parks of Mahogany, Tuscany, and Auburn Bay. Most of my Calgary clients are solo or small-team operations (trades, shops, clinics, studios, consultancies) that need a credible web presence without spending the kind of money downtown agencies charge.

The work is the same whether your business is headquartered in Calgary or in a community an hour's drive away. Discovery happens over email, design happens in the browser as a working preview, and the finished site is hosted, supported, and edited by the same person who built it. There's no account-management layer, no offshore dev team, no hidden hand-offs. Just one designer-developer, one codebase, and a website that does the work it's supposed to do.

Web design services in Calgary

What's included with every Calgary website.

Every Calgary build runs on the same all-inclusive plan. There are no add-ons hidden behind a sales call, no pay-per-edit tickets, no surprise hosting bills.

  • Custom website design in Calgary

    Designed for your business specifically, not picked from a template gallery. Every Calgary project is wireframed, styled, and refined for your brand's voice, customers, and competitive position.

  • Hand-coded website development

    No WordPress bloat, no page-builder slop, no plugin sprawl. Clean semantic HTML and CSS that loads instantly on any device and ages gracefully, the way a Calgary business's website should.

  • Calgary website hosting & security

    Fast, redundant hosting with SSL certificates, daily backups, and automatic security updates included in the monthly fee. No separate hosting bill, no security plugin maintenance, no surprise renewals.

  • Unlimited edits

    Send a message; the change goes live within one to two business days. New staff bio, updated services, fresh photo, revised hours: no per-hour billing, no ticket queues, no waiting on a copy-paste agency.

  • SEO foundation for Calgary search visibility

    Schema markup, sitemap, semantic HTML, fast Core Web Vitals, and clean metadata. The technical groundwork search engines reward, built into every Calgary website from day one, not a $500 SEO upsell.

  • Direct one-on-one support

    You email me directly, not a help-desk queue. The same person who designed and built your Calgary website is the same person who answers when something needs to change. That doesn't scale to thousands of clients, which is the point.

Why custom

Why Calgary businesses choose custom over templates.

A template is faster and cheaper up front. It's also why most small-business websites in Calgary look like every other small-business website in Calgary. The hero photo is from the same stock library; the colour palette is two clicks deep in a Squarespace settings panel; the typography is whatever Wix shipped that quarter. Clients notice. Younger clients especially notice. And businesses that compete on credibility cannot afford to be visually indistinguishable from the business down the street.

Hand-coded, custom-designed websites take longer to build but pay back in three places: clients trust them more, search engines rank them better (because clean code loads faster and structures content more clearly), and the business doesn't end up locked into a platform's roadmap. When the time comes to update the site, expand it, or move it, your Calgary website is just files, not someone else's hostage. That's the deal the studio offers, and it's the same deal whether you're a solo operator or a fifteen-person regional company.

Process

The Calgary web design process.

  1. 01

    Discovery

    You send a few sentences about your Calgary business: what you do, who you serve, and what's not working with the current site (or the absence of one). I come back with thoughts, a rough scope, and a fixed-fee or subscription quote within one business day.

  2. 02

    Working preview

    Within a week or two, you have a live URL with your actual content in a real design, not a mockup, not a Figma file, the real thing. We iterate on it together over email until it feels right for your Calgary business.

  3. 03

    Launch

    The site goes live on your domain, hosted on the studio's infrastructure with SSL, backups, and the SEO foundation already wired up. The whole Calgary project usually takes three to five weeks end to end.

  4. 04

    Ongoing edits & support

    You email me when something needs to change: a new hire, a new service line, a new photo, new copy. Edits go live within one to two business days, included in the monthly fee. No tickets, no agency middlemen, no surprise invoices.

Pricing

Calgary web design pricing.

Monthly subscription

$0 down

$75 / month all-inclusive · 12-month minimum

Design, development, hosting, edits, security, and direct support, all for one monthly fee for as long as you stay. Site stays live as long as the subscription is active.

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FAQ

Calgary web design FAQ.

Do you only work with businesses in Calgary?
Most of my clients are in Calgary and the surrounding region, but the studio's remote workflow handles businesses anywhere in Alberta, and across Canada and the US generally. Whether your business is in Calgary proper or in a nearby community, the build, edit, and support process is identical. Nothing about the work depends on being in the same room.
How long does a website build take in Calgary?
From the first email to a live site is usually three to five weeks for most Calgary businesses. Discovery happens over email, the working preview goes up within a week or two, we iterate, the site polishes, and it goes live on your domain. There's no in-person meeting required at any step, though you're welcome to schedule a call if you'd rather talk things through.
What kinds of Calgary businesses do you build for?
The studio specializes in small businesses: Calgary trades and contractors, shops and studios, clinics, consultancies, and other businesses where the website needs to communicate trust, credibility, and clarity. If your Calgary business sells expertise or service rather than mass-market products, the design language fits.
Do I own my Calgary website?
The $0-down, $75-a-month plan is a service relationship, not a buyout: the site is hosted and supported as long as you stay on the plan, so if the subscription ends, the built site goes offline. You always keep your domain (registered in your business's name from day one) and any content or assets you provided. Cancel before the 12-month minimum and the remaining months × $75 are due (e.g., cancel at month 6, owe 6 × $75 = $450). After 12 months, cancel any time with 30 days' notice, no exit fee. Want to own the code outright? Just ask, a one-time buyout can be arranged.

Also serving

Web design services near Calgary.

The studio works with small businesses across Alberta and beyond. If your business is outside Calgary proper, the same hand-coded design, all-inclusive pricing, and remote workflow apply.

Start a project

A modern Calgary website that finally matches the work behind it.

Send a few sentences about your Calgary business. I'll come back with thoughts, a rough scope, and often a working preview within a few days.