Web design in Kelowna, built to get you recommended.

Four to six weeks from kickoff to launch for a full custom site. A single landing page is faster. It runs in three stages. First a thirty minute call where you tell me the business and the goal, and I tell you straight what the site needs and what it costs. No pitch, no obligation. Then I build it: I hand-code the site, write the copy, set up the local SEO and page structure, and capture smartphone photos at your location if you want them. Then you go live, after you have seen it and signed off. The part that actually decides the timeline is not the code. It is how fast you get me the things only you have: your service list, the prices you want published, the details and names that go on the site, and access to your domain and Google Business Profile. Businesses that have that ready tend to land at four weeks. Businesses still deciding what they want to say tend to land at six or later. A smartphone content visit adds a day rather than a week. It is practical web content captured on a Galaxy S23 Ultra, not a professional camera shoot. There is no queue you sit in either. Your project is not routed to a junior, so weeks two through five are build time rather than waiting time.

A builder like Wix or Squarespace, or WordPress with a page builder on top, gives you a drag and drop editor sitting on a large amount of code you never asked for. That code loads on every single visit. On a phone, on Okanagan cell service, that is the difference between a customer waiting and a customer leaving. I hand-code every site with Next.js. No page builder, and no template that a thousand other businesses are also running. The page ships the code it needs and nothing else, which is why these sites score well on PageSpeed instead of merely looking fine on a desktop in the office. The second difference is what a machine can read. Structured data has to be correct and specific for search engines and for the AI tools that now hand out recommendations. Builders emit generic markup because they cannot know what your business is. Hand-coding means the page states plainly what you do, where you do it, and what it costs, in a format those systems actually parse. The third difference is lock-in: a builder site is tied to the builder, and leaving means rebuilding. A hand-coded site is yours to keep. The honest trade-off is that a builder lets you rearrange your own page at midnight. With me you text me the change instead, and it is included in the care plan.

Yes. When it goes live it is yours to keep. There is no lock-in, and no proprietary editor holding the design hostage. That is a real difference from a builder platform. A Wix or Squarespace site exists only as long as the subscription does. The design belongs to them, the export is partial at best, and leaving means rebuilding from scratch. Because your site is hand-coded rather than assembled inside somebody else's product, there is nothing structurally stopping you from taking it elsewhere. Hosting is the part people mix up with ownership, and here the two are separate. The $29 a month care plan covers hosting, backups, security, and any small edit you text me. If you would rather handle your own changes, hosting on its own is $170 a year. Either way you are paying for a service, not renting your own website back from me. Your domain should be in your name. If it is currently registered to a previous developer, say so on the first call and we will work out how to move it. The same goes for your Google Business Profile, which often turns out to still be attached to an agency the business stopped working with years ago. You also see the design before you commit. No big deposit and no runaround. If it is not right, we make it right.

I do, if you want me to. The care plan is $29 a month and covers hosting, backups, security updates, and small edits. A small edit means new hours, a price change, a staff photo, a seasonal banner, another service added to the list. You text me and it gets done. There is no ticket queue and no support portal to log into. If you would rather run it yourself, hosting on its own is $170 a year and you make your own changes. Larger feature work is quoted per scope: a booking system, a store bolted onto an existing site, a customer portal. It gets quoted before it starts, so it is never a surprise on an invoice. This matters more than it sounds, because the most common way a local website dies is neglect. The hours go stale, the phone number changes, a service gets dropped and nobody updates the page. Google notices and so do customers, and a site that used to bring in calls quietly stops. Sites that get touched regularly hold up better than sites that launch and are never opened again. You are also not calling a stranger when something breaks. The person who built the site is the person who answers, at 604-817-1069.

Ask four questions, and pay attention to how quickly you get straight answers. First, ask to see real local sites they built. Not concepts, actual live addresses you can click. Then check whether they still look current or whether they look like a template from 2017. A designer whose newest work is four years old is showing you what you will get. Second, ask whether SEO is part of the build or sold later as an extra. If local SEO is a separate line item that appears after launch, the site was not built to be found in the first place, and you will pay twice to fix that. Third, ask who takes the photos. If the answer is you, a large chunk of the work just landed back on your desk, and most businesses never get around to it. That is how sites end up launching with stock images of somebody else's shop. Fourth, ask who actually does the work. An agency comes with account managers, junior designers, and rent, and all of it is inside your quote. For a restaurant or a trades company that overhead rarely shows up as a better result. Someone who does the work himself, comes to your shop, and answers his own phone is usually the safer bet. Prices here run roughly $2,500 to $8,000 at an agency. Mine are $1,950 one time, or $900 for a single landing page.