Victoria, BC
Website design in Victoria, without the downtown price tag.
Custom websites for Victoria businesses, from $899 CAD plus $40 a month with hosting, domain and support included. We build up-island in Nanaimo, which is ninety minutes and no ferry away, and the saving on office overhead ends up in your quote instead of someone’s lease.
Why hire up-island for a Victoria website
Four honest reasons, including the one most designers would rather you did not think about too hard.
One call away, always
We are a small company by choice, and the thing we sell hardest is service. When you have a question, you reach the people who actually built your site, by one email or one phone call, and you hear back within a day, usually the same one. No ticket queue, no account manager relaying messages. And since we are just up-island in Nanaimo rather than across the country, it is nice to know we are close, even though most of our clients never need us in the room.
You are not paying for a downtown office
Victoria has real agencies with real offices and real staff, and their pricing reflects that whether or not your project needs any of it. We are two people up-island. The work that goes into the site is the same; the overhead loaded on top of it is not.
Built to be found, not just to look good
A site that never appears in search is a poster. Every build ships with the search groundwork already in it: clean page structure, fast loading on a phone, proper titles and descriptions, structured data and a sitemap submitted the week you launch. Not an upsell on a later invoice.
You can update it yourself
Change text and images directly on your live page: click the text, type the new version, save. No dashboard to learn, no waiting on us for a price change or a new photo, and no invoice for a five minute edit. For anything bigger we are one message away.
The number
What a Victoria website actually costs
Ours start at $899 CAD for the build, plus $40 a month covering hosting, your domain, SSL, backups, monitoring and support. One fixed price, agreed before anyone starts, and no hourly meter.
For comparison, a comparable small business site quoted by a Victoria agency commonly lands several thousand higher. That is not a knock on them. It is what an office, a sales team and account management cost, and someone has to pay for it.
We wrote up the whole Canadian pricing picture, including what the real ranges look like and what drives them, in how much a website costs in Canada. The full service and pricing list lives on our services page.
What we have actually built
A coffee roaster with a real online store. A counselling practice that left Squarespace. A Japanese import business, a food truck run from the owner’s phone, a city council campaign taking donations on two rails, and an accounting firm whose old site had been invisible to Google for years. Every build is written up properly, and the reviews are reproduced word for word.
Every one of those businesses reaches us the same way you would: one message, answered by the person who built their site. That is the part of the work you cannot see in a portfolio, and it is the part our reviews keep coming back to.
Recent work
VisitJunk Matters
Junk removal · Nanaimo
VisitMO Coffee
Online coffee store · Nanaimo
VisitHorizon Hues
Electrical contractor · Nanaimo
VisitMorky Auto Imports
Japanese imports · Parksville
VisitTherapeutic Value
Counselling · Nanaimo
VisitSherri Kozubal
Clinical hypnotherapy · Nanaimo
VisitIsle Air Chicken
Air-fried chicken · Vancouver Island
VisitCEVA Volleyball
Tournament platform · live scoreboards
VisitPaul Van Ryssel
Campaign website · Nanaimo
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.
Meet Sem and Phillip →Common questions
- Do you actually work with businesses in Victoria?
- Yes. We work with businesses across Vancouver Island, and Victoria is about ninety minutes down the highway from our base in Nanaimo. Everything runs by phone, email and video call, exactly the way it does for our up-island clients, and you get the same service either way: questions answered within a day by Sem or Phillip, the two of us who built your site.
- How much does a website cost in Victoria?
- Our websites start at $899 CAD plus $40 a month for hosting, updates and support, and the price is fixed and quoted before any work begins. Victoria agency quotes for a comparable small business site commonly land several thousand higher, and a good part of that difference is downtown office space and account management rather than a better website.
- Do we need to meet in person?
- Almost never, and most of our clients never have. Everything runs by phone, email and video call. The difference with Victoria specifically is that if a meeting genuinely matters, it is a drive rather than a flight or a ferry booking, so it is possible in a way it is not for a mainland client.
- Are you cheaper because you are not in Victoria?
- Partly, and we would rather say so than pretend the number is magic. We are two people working out of Nanaimo with no office lease, no sales team and no account managers, so there is far less overhead to cover before the actual work gets paid for. The build itself is not smaller. The business behind it is.
- Can you help with local SEO for a Victoria business?
- Yes. The search groundwork is built into every site we make: clean structure, fast load, proper titles, structured data and a sitemap that actually gets submitted. If you already have a site and need the local side sorted out, that is a separate one-time setup rather than a monthly retainer, and it has its own page explaining exactly what it covers. SEO in Victoria.
- How long does it take?
- Once we have your content, most sites are live in three to four days. That covers our website package; anything extra bought alongside it is quoted and scheduled separately. The slow part is almost never the build, it is waiting on text, photos and approvals.
Tell us about your Victoria business.
What you do, who you want to reach, and what your current site is getting wrong if you have one. You get a fixed written quote back, free, with no obligation attached to it. If we are not the right fit we will tell you and point you somewhere that is.