Calgary Web Design
Web Design in Calgary
We build websites for service-based businesses in Calgary, designed to rank locally, load fast, and turn visitors into paying customers.
Who we build websites for in Calgary
Calgary has more agencies, more competitors, and more noise than almost anywhere else in Alberta. Standing out here takes more than a nice-looking homepage. We work with four types of Calgary business, and the site has to do a different job for each one.
Trades and home services
Roofers, HVAC, plumbers, electricians, landscapers, the trades that keep a city this size running. Calgary sprawls in every direction, so the site needs a service area that reflects how you actually work, not just your home quadrant, plus a phone number a thumb can find in two seconds.
Industrial and commercial
Equipment, fabrication, transport, safety, and industrial supply feeding Calgary's energy and construction sector. The buyer is a procurement contact with a checklist, and your site is being measured against it: certifications, capabilities, real project photos, and a way to actually reach someone.
Clinics and practices
Dental, chiro, physio, optometry, legal, accounting, in a city this size you're competing with every practice that shows up in the same map pack, not just the one two blocks over. Frictionless booking, real photos, and rankings for the treatment searches that actually bring in new patients.
Retail and storefronts
17th Ave, Marda Loop, Inglewood, the strips people look up before they drive across town. In a city this spread out, your Google Business Profile does more work than your homepage, so the site's job is backing it up: right hours, right location, current photos, content that ranks beside the map pin.
What's included in every build
No tiers, no upsell path, no “SEO package” tacked on once you’re already committed. Every Calgary build includes all of this from day one.
Design and build
- Custom design, no themes
- Mobile-first layout
- Accessibility built in
- Conversion-focused structure
- Contact forms and booking
- CRM and inbox integration
Content and search
- Page copy written for you
- Keyword research
- Competitor analysis
- On-page SEO and schema
- Google Business Profile setup
- Analytics and Search Console
Speed, hosting, and support
- Managed Kinsta hosting
- Canadian data centre
- Free SSL and daily backups
- Core Web Vitals tuning
- Updates handled by us
- Uptime and link monitoring
Work we've done in Calgary
This isn’t a portfolio of dead projects. Most of these sites are still actively hosted and maintained by us, some for six years and counting.
Inline Braces
We rebuilt Inline Braces website and improved the user experience, performance and local rankings for their most competitive keywords.
Cougarstone Lawn Care
Custom designed website and ongoing website support and maintenance for Calgary's number one lawn care company.
Mill Creek Painters
Custom multi-city website for Mill Creek Painters that ranks in 4 major cities across Alberta for the most competitive keywords.
Business Link Alberta
A fully custom WordPress site and web strategy, helping Business Link better communicate and reach their clientele
Cosy Insulation
Fully custom and multi-location website design for Cozy Insulation, your friendly home and commercial insulation company.
Clean Ice
A multi-location ice machine service and cleaning company with multiple locations. We custom built their website and do local SEO and AEO.
How a website project runs
A Calgary build runs about six weeks from kickoff to launch, on average. Runs longer only when we’re waiting on content or approvals, that’s the honest bottleneck almost every time.
1. Discovery
A conversation comes first, not a form. We need to know what you sell, who buys it, where leads come from now, and what this site actually needs to accomplish. Then we audit your current site, your Calgary competitors, and the search landscape, and return with a fixed price.
2. Design
The homepage and main templates get built first, so there's something real to react to instead of a concept. You give notes, we revise, and nothing proceeds until you're happy with the direction.
3. Build and content
We build on a private WordPress staging environment and write your content alongside it. You review live pages at a real URL, on your phone, and revisions happen at this stage, not after go-live.
4. Launch
DNS, redirects from every old URL, SSL, analytics, Search Console, checked on staging before anything goes public. Your rankings transfer with the site, they don't reset to zero on launch day.
5. Growth
After go-live, you're on a care plan: hosting, updates, monitoring, backups, support. When you want to grow past maintenance, SEO or Google Ads are the logical next step, assuming the numbers justify it.
What Our Clients Say
Verified Google reviews from businesses we’ve built, hosted, and grown.
Calgary website pricing made simple
Most builds start around $4,500 and settle between $7,500 and $15,000, scope and complexity being the main variables. Larger enterprise projects run higher. Hosting and support come as a separate monthly plan, quoted with the project itself. What you get up front is a real scope, a real timeline, and no fees that surface later.
We don't disappear after launch
The pattern with new Calgary clients is almost always the same: great communication until launch, silence after. Two things fix that on our end. Hosting and maintenance covers Kinsta hosting, daily backups, core updates, and monitoring that catches problems before they land on you. Website support is the standing Basecamp project, post whenever something comes up, and a real person on our team handles it, this week or three years from now.
Already have a website? Start with SEO
A Calgary business with a site it likes but no search traffic doesn’t have a website problem, it has a visibility problem, and a rebuild won’t fix that. We’ll audit what’s there honestly before recommending anything.
Who you'll actually work with
Distance doesn’t mean a different process, it just means we do it over video from Edmonton instead of in person. You still get the same four people from the first call through year five, nobody gets handed off.
Paul Letourneau
Zach Belland
Janelle Carriere
Jorge Flores
Calgary web design FAQ
Do you work with businesses in Calgary, and can you help us rank locally?
Yes, though the how looks different than it does for our Edmonton clients. Every Calgary build still launches with full local SEO in place: schema markup, location pages, Google Business Profile alignment, and content structured for local intent, we just handle the relationship over video instead of coffee. That’s also what shows up when someone searches “web design calgary” or “web designer calgary,” the same local signals Google uses for those searches.
How long does it take to build a website?
Six weeks, typically, kickoff to launch. Custom functionality, e-commerce, or a heavy migration extends that to eight or twelve. The variable is almost never our side, it’s how fast content and approvals come back to us.
What does a website cost?
Calgary projects generally fall between $4,500 and $15,000, with $7,500 a common starting point once scope is set. That’s a fixed price agreed on up front, not an hourly number that grows mid-project. Hosting and support are a separate monthly line.
Do you build on WordPress?
Yes, on purpose. WordPress is open source and runs a large share of the web, so you own your site outright instead of renting it. No marketplace themes either, every build is custom from the ground up.
Is this web design, or web development?
Both, and we don’t separate them into two hires. Design is the layout and look, development is everything underneath making it actually work, WordPress setup, custom functionality, the whole build. One project, one team, not a design phase followed by a scramble for a developer.
Do you write the content, or do we provide it?
We handle it. Keyword research and a look at your competitors happen before we draft a single page, and you approve everything before launch. If you’d rather write your own copy, we’ll build around that instead.
Do we have to meet in person?
Rarely, by design, most Calgary work runs the same way our farther-out clients’ does: calls, email, a shared staging link. If an in-person kickoff or launch review genuinely matters to you, we’ll make it happen.
Are there long-term contracts?
None. Hosting and support are month to month, no lock-in, and your site and data leave with you if you go. The build itself is a fixed-scope project with a defined start and finish.
What happens to our rankings when the new site launches?
301 redirects get mapped for every old URL before anything goes live, and we watch Search Console closely afterward. A short dip during reindexing is normal and usually recovers past your starting point, the sites that actually suffer are the ones where nobody planned this step.
Let's talk about your Calgary website
New build, or a rebuild of a site that isn’t working hard enough, let’s start with a conversation either way. Honest advice, a real number, no pressure attached.
(780) 884-0591 · [email protected] · Monday–Friday, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM Serving Calgary businesses remotely from our office at 10665 Jasper Avenue, Suite 1400, Edmonton, AB.