Vancouver Web Design & SEO Services
Professional web design and search engine optimization for Vancouver and Metro Vancouver businesses
Process
- Discovery & Strategy — Before pixels or code, I start with clarity. I conduct a focused discovery, covering goals, audience, competitors, and KPIs, then map those insights to a practical website plan. I audit your current presence, identify quick wins and gaps, and translate business priorities into an information architecture, content outline, and rollout strategy. We'll discuss your Vancouver business, analyze your competition, and develop a strategy to help you stand out in the Metro Vancouver market.
- Design & Development — This is where ideas become a working product. Once we’ve locked the plan, I design and build your site in WordPress or Wix—structured for speed, accessibility, and easy updates—so you keep as much control as you want after launch. We’ll iterate through concise revision rounds to refine the details, and the result is a mobile-first, professional website that competes effectively with larger competitors while carving out a clear niche for your business.
- SEO & Ongoing Support — SEO isn’t a last-minute add-on—it’s threaded through the entire build and crystallizes as we prepare to launch. I utilize keyword and search-intent research from discovery to inform the structure, metadata, internal links, and content of your site, ensuring it’s easy to find, crawl, and understand. When it’s “showtime,” I monitor performance, tidy any loose ends, and handle early optimizations. And you’re not left on your own: I include a minimum 30-day post-launch support window to ensure everything’s running smoothly and you’re set up to grow.
Why a Victoria-based web designer outperforms a remote agency
Vancouver has hundreds of web design agencies. Some are excellent. Most are expensive. A few specialize in your industry. Almost none will give you the direct relationship with the actual developer building your site.
That's where I fit. I'm based in Victoria, which means I'm close enough geographically to handle the occasional in-person meeting when one matters, and far enough removed from Vancouver's overhead structure to charge what the work actually costs. My clients get the developer-as-account-manager relationship that disappears at most agencies once you're past the sales pitch. No project managers translating your feedback into change requests. No quarterly retainer discussions about what counts as in-scope. Just a person who built your site and continues to work on it.
That structure doesn't fit every Vancouver business. It does fit the ones that value direct technical relationships over team headcount.
Who I work with across Greater Victoria
I work with Vancouver-area businesses across the Lower Mainland. The cleanest engagements have been with these kinds of clients:
Owner-operated small businesses
Service businesses, professional practices, boutique retail, niche specialists
Businesses where the owner is the brand, the operations, and the customer relationship. These clients benefit most from a direct working relationship with the developer. The work moves faster, decisions stick, and the website actually reflects how the business runs.
Solo professionals and consultants
Independent professionals, consultants, coaches, specialists
Solo professionals who need a credibility-anchored website without the overhead of an agency engagement. Often a focused service site with clear positioning, a real bio, and a path to booking calls. These projects typically run at the lower end of my pricing range and ship in 4 to 6 weeks.
Non-profits and community organizations
Charitable organizations, advocacy groups, community-anchored initiatives
Non-profits with limited budgets that need real technical capability — donation flows, member management, event calendars, document libraries. I do meaningful pro-bono and reduced-rate work for community organizations doing work I believe in. Ask me about it on the discovery call.
Small e-commerce and online-first businesses
Direct-to-consumer brands, niche retail, subscription products, digital services
Smaller e-commerce operations that need WooCommerce or Shopify expertise without paying enterprise-tier pricing. I build conversion-focused stores with clean technical foundations that scale as the business grows.
Vancouver-area businesses with Vancouver Island connections
Businesses with ties to or interests on the Island
Vancouver-area businesses with Island clients, Island suppliers, or seasonal operations that span the strait. The geographic familiarity matters here — I understand both markets, which most Vancouver agencies don't.
Case study: Victoria Jazz Society and TD JazzFest
Victoria Jazz Society runs TD JazzFest, the largest annual jazz festival on Vancouver Island, with tens of thousands of attendees across ten days of programming at venues ranging from intimate club settings at Hermann's Jazz Club to mainstage shows at the Royal Theatre. They needed a digital infrastructure that could handle festival-scale ticketing during peak weeks without buckling, support year-round content management for shows and education programs, and centralize the operational data that runs the organization day-to-day.
I rebuilt jazzvictoria.ca on WordPress with custom WooCommerce Box Office ticketing integration, then went deeper. I architected an end-to-end e-commerce system that connects Stripe and WooCommerce webhooks into a unified Airtable order pipeline, handles race conditions between simultaneous payment events, and reconciles ticket inventory in real time. On top of that, I built and maintain the Society's interconnected CRM ecosystem — the Box Office sales database, the membership management system, and the volunteer coordination database that runs festival staffing.
The result, per the Society's Administrative and Operations Manager: a 10% increase in ticket sales for the 2025 signature festival, content refreshes that take hours instead of days, and a database backend the team manages themselves without calling me for routine work.
Full case study at /portfolio/victoria-jazz-society. It demonstrates the depth of technical work I take on for organizations with real revenue and real complexity on the line.
10% increase in 2025 signature festival ticket sales
Case study: The 2030 Barclay rezoning campaign
2030 Barclay was a Fairfield-area civic campaign opposing a proposed rezoning application on Denman Street. The campaign needed a fast-turnaround website that could mobilize neighbourhood opposition, capture email signups for ongoing outreach, and integrate with a highly targeted Google Ads and social media campaign — all inside a tight municipal review timeline that left no room for the typical web project pace.
I built a custom WordPress archive using ACF and custom post types for the campaign's public documents, set up taxonomy-based filtering and date-based sorting, implemented a Pre-Deferral auto-tagging system that surfaced the most relevant documents during the active review period, and integrated a quick email-send function that let residents contact their council member in a single click.
The result was a community victory. The rezoning application was deferred — a meaningful win for the West End of Denman, and a direct demonstration that the campaign's digital infrastructure translated into measurable civic action.
Full case study at /portfolio/stop-2030-barclay. It demonstrates I handle pressure projects with real-world outcomes that matter to actual neighbourhoods, not just websites that look nice.
Rezoning application deferred — direct community impact
What it costs and how it works
Most agencies hide their pricing. I don't.
Discovery call (free, 30 minutes). We talk about your business, what isn't working with your current site, what success would actually look like. No pitch, no pressure. If we're not a fit, I'll say so.
Custom builds and services: $1,000 to $12,000. Smaller targeted projects — landing page rebuilds, focused SEO setups, single-purpose marketing sites — land at the lower end. Full custom websites with complex integrations, e-commerce builds, or multi-system architectures sit higher. I provide a fixed quote after the discovery call, with milestones and clear deliverables.
SEO services from $800/month. Ongoing local SEO and content work for businesses ready to invest in long-term ranking. Standalone SEO audits start at $1,200.
Most websites launch in 4 to 8 weeks from kickoff. Faster is possible for tighter scopes. Custom integrations or complex builds run 8 to 12 weeks.
Every new site includes a 30-day support window. Beyond that, monthly maintenance plans start at $150/month — for the businesses that want someone who'll actually answer when something breaks.
No surprise invoices, no vague "starting at" pricing that triples by the time you sign.
Frequently asked questions
- Aren't you in Victoria, not Vancouver?
Yes. My office is in Victoria. I work with Vancouver-area clients regularly, with most project work happening via video calls and shared documents. The ferry to Vancouver is straightforward when an in-person meeting genuinely moves the work forward, and I'll make that trip when it matters. Most Vancouver clients find that the working relationship is the same as if I were based in Yaletown, just with lower overhead.
- How long does a Vancouver business website take to build?
Most projects launch within 4 to 8 weeks from kickoff. Simple service-business sites can be 4 weeks. Custom integrations or e-commerce builds typically run 8 to 12 weeks.
- Do you do SEO for Wix or Squarespace sites?
Yes, but with limits. SEO works best on platforms with full technical control. If you're on Wix or Squarespace and serious about ranking in the Vancouver market, I'll often recommend a WordPress migration as part of the engagement. We discuss it on the discovery call.
- How long until my website ranks on Google in Vancouver?
Local ranking typically takes 3 to 6 months of consistent SEO work after launch. Vancouver is a more competitive market than Victoria, so ranking timelines often skew toward the longer end of that range — but the technical SEO foundations that come standard in every build still put you ahead of most direct competitors.
Services I offer Victoria businesses
Most Vancouver-area clients need more than one service to compete locally. Here's the full toolkit:
Ready to talk?
Book a free 30-minute discovery call. No pitch, no pressure — just an honest conversation about whether I'm the right fit for your Vancouver-area business.