Fixed price
Affordable web design that does not look it.
Custom-built websites from $899 CAD, one time, with everything it takes to run one for $40 a month. Not a template, not a page builder, and not a teaser price with the real one waiting behind a sales call. The numbers are public.
Where the affordability comes from
A low price is either a structure or a trap. Here is the structure, so you can tell the difference when you shop around.
No office to pay for
Agencies bill you for their downtown lease, their account managers and their sales team, none of which touch your website. This studio is one person on Vancouver Island with a very good toolchain, and the price reflects what the work costs rather than what the overhead costs.
No hourly meter running
Hourly billing rewards slowness and punishes questions. Every build here is a fixed price quoted up front, so efficiency belongs to you rather than being a threat to the invoice.
A stack that does not waste money
The sites are built on modern infrastructure that costs little to run and almost nothing to keep fast. No bloated page builder licences, no plugin subscriptions, no platform tax passed on to you.
Who you’d actually be working with
Every site we ship is designed and built by the two of us, no subcontractors and no account managers in between. That structure is the price.
Meet Sem and Phillip →The difference
Affordable is not the same word as cheap
Cheap cuts the invisible work. A cheap site is a template filled in fast: no SEO groundwork, no speed work, stock photos, and hosting that holds your site hostage when you try to leave. It costs less on day one and more every day after, because a site nobody finds is a decoration.
Affordable keeps the work and cuts the overhead. Every site here ships with the groundwork that makes it findable: proper titles and structure, structured data, fast loading on a phone, a submitted sitemap, and your local search basics tied in. The full list of what is in the build is published on the pricing page, next to the numbers.
The proof is checkable: every site in the case studies was built at these prices, for real businesses, and the reviews are reproduced word for word. Affordable that cannot show its work is just cheap with better marketing.
Common questions
- How can custom web design be this affordable?
- Structure, not shortcuts. There is no office, no account manager and no sales commission inside the $899 CAD, just the build. The stack we use costs very little to run, and fixed pricing means we get faster with every site instead of billing slower. The work is the same work that costs four figures more at an agency, minus the parts of an agency that are not work.
- What does $899 actually include?
- A custom-designed site built for your business, not a template with your logo dropped in. Mobile-first layout, fast loading, the SEO groundwork done properly, legal pages, and a site you can edit yourself. The full breakdown is on the pricing page, in public, because affordable should be checkable.
- Is it a template?
- No. Every site is designed from your business: your colours, your photos, your customers, your one thing that competitors do not have. Templates are how cheap providers hit their price. We hit ours by keeping overhead near zero, which leaves the design work honest.
- Are there hidden costs afterwards?
- One number, and you see it before you start: $40 CAD a month, which is the whole running cost. Hosting, your domain, SSL, backups, monitoring and small updates are all inside it. No renewal surprises, no support invoices, no upsells scheduled for month three.
- What about really cheap website builders?
- DIY builders are genuinely the affordable option if your time is free and the result only needs to exist. The honest tradeoffs: the monthly platform fees quietly pass the custom price within a couple of years, the site is rented rather than owned, and the SEO groundwork mostly does not happen. We wrote up the comparison without the scare tactics, so you can decide with real numbers.
- Is affordable web design worth it for a small business?
- A website is worth it when it earns more than it costs, which for most service businesses means one or two new customers a year. Affordable pricing just lowers that bar. The mistake worth avoiding is not spending too little, it is paying monthly forever for a site that cannot rank or convert, at any price.
See what $899 gets your business.
Tell us what your business does and what you have now, even if that is nothing. You get a fixed quote and a plain answer about what the site should do for you. If a DIY builder honestly fits your situation better, we have been known to say so.
“Super happy with my experience! Super friendly, knowledgeable, and paid attention to all wants and needs! The whole process felt smooth and stress-free. Highly recommend to anyone looking for quality work and great service :)”