Services by need

Start from what you are trying to do

Local web design across Niagara, a new site or store, care and speed and security for the site you already have, accessibility work, a learning platform, or training your team. Each one has a page that gets straight to it, and the towns are first because that is what people here search for.

Delivery work is fixed price against a written scope. Hourly is $275 CAD with a twenty hour minimum. Ask for a number

Niagara

Local web design across Niagara

A website built for your town and the people who actually search for it, from Fort Erie and Welland to St. Catharines, Grimsby, and Lincoln.

  • Web design across Niagara

    WordPress and training for Niagara businesses, from someone who lives here

    WordPress development, team training and onsite consulting for businesses across Niagara, from someone who lives and works here in Fort Erie.

  • Fort Erie website design

    Fort Erie websites, built by someone who lives here

    A Fort Erie website built and supported by a developer who lives here. Senior WordPress web design, no agency runaround, no template you outgrow.

  • Welland website design

    Welland website design that looks current and loads fast

    Welland website builder and WordPress developer, twenty minutes away. I design, build, and support your site after launch. Custom, not a template.

  • St. Catharines website design

    St. Catharines website design that keeps working after launch day

    Website design in St. Catharines built to keep working after launch day: real trust signals, mobile first, and under three seconds to load.

  • Niagara Falls website design

    Niagara Falls website design: when your clients aren’t tourists

    Web design for the Niagara Falls businesses behind the tourism economy: professional services, healthcare and training. Website built to work all year.

  • Port Colborne website design

    Port Colborne website design for a town with a season

    Web design for Port Colborne businesses that have a season: right hours, clear answers, and inquiries that survive the off-months. Fort Erie based.

  • Niagara-on-the-Lake website design

    Web design in Niagara-on-the-Lake, built for guests who book before they arrive

    Website design for Niagara-on-the-Lake inns, wineries and Queen Street shops whose guests book weeks ahead. Free 20-minute call, honest answer first.

  • Grimsby web design

    Grimsby web design, from someone who grew up here

    Grimsby web design and website design from someone who grew up here, building WordPress sites for businesses found in town and across Niagara.

  • Lincoln website design

    Lincoln website design for Beamsville, Jordan and Vineland

    A Beamsville shop, a Jordan tourism business and a Vineland grower each need different web design. One local developer who knows the difference.

  • Thorold website design

    Thorold website design for both sides of the canal

    Thorold has two economies on one canal: heavy industry and a heritage downtown. Web design for the site each one actually needs. Fort Erie based.

  • Pelham website design

    Pelham website design that gets you found under Fonthill too

    Web design for Pelham businesses whose customers search for Fonthill instead. Get the name, the map listing and the service pages working together.

  • Wainfleet website design

    Wainfleet website design that makes you the obvious local choice

    Web design for Wainfleet farms, farm-gate sellers and lakeshore businesses. Light enough for rural connections, findable on the searches that matter.

  • West Lincoln website design

    West Lincoln website design for Smithville and rural business

    In a small rural township, being the obvious local choice beats chasing volume. Web design for Smithville and West Lincoln farm and trades businesses.

Build

Websites, online stores, and custom builds

A new site, a WooCommerce store, a custom plugin, a newsroom build, or a migration off a platform you have outgrown.

  • WordPress development

    WordPress that doesn’t fight you when the requirements change

    Custom WordPress builds, plugins, REST APIs, and Gutenberg blocks from a developer working since 2007. $275/hr CAD, scope built to fit your budget.

  • WooCommerce development

    WooCommerce development for a store that has to sell, not just launch

    WooCommerce development for stores that need to actually sell: senior architecture from a developer who's built on WooCommerce since the WooThemes era.

  • Custom WordPress plugin development

    Custom WordPress plugins for the thing no off-the-shelf plugin does

    Custom WordPress plugins built to WordPress.org standards, by a developer credited on five directory plugins. $275 CAD/hr, 20 hour minimum engagement.

  • Newspaper website development

    Newspaper website development built for how a newsroom actually works

    Newspaper website development from a developer who shipped WordPress across eleven newspaper mastheads at one of Canada's largest news networks.

  • WordPress migration

    WordPress migration without the downtime and broken links

    I plan WordPress migrations before touching DNS, so you don't lose traffic, links, or rankings moving hosts, platforms, or restructuring URLs.

Keep it running

Care, speed, security, and SEO

Keep the site you have fast, secure, findable, and maintained, or find out what is holding it back with an audit.

  • WordPress care and maintenance

    Your WordPress site is maintained. Or it was. Nobody checked.

    Monthly WordPress care that keeps your site fast, secure, and online without you thinking about it. Full AI-use disclosure, from a developer working since 2007.

  • WordPress speed optimization

    WordPress speed optimization your visitors actually feel

    WordPress speed optimization from a senior developer: tiered engagements from a $1,250 audit to an $8,250 five-day fix, with measured before-and-after results.

  • WordPress security hardening

    WordPress security hardening, done before a breach forces it

    Tier-laddered WordPress security hardening: an audit, an audit plus remediation engagement, or a monthly retainer, so hardening doesn't rot six months later.

  • WordPress site audit

    A WordPress site audit that tells you what to fix first

    A fixed scope WordPress site audit for $2,200 CAD: performance, SEO, security and code quality reviewed by a senior developer, delivered in five business days.

  • Technical SEO

    Your site ranks for your name and nothing else

    Your site ranks for your name and nothing else. I fix the technical SEO holding your WordPress site back, so the pages you publish start showing up.

  • Accessible design and AODA compliance

    Accessible website design and AODA compliance, done right

    Real web accessibility is built in, not bolted on with a widget. WCAG 2.2 AA from the first commit, plus honest AODA audits and remediation.

Learn

Learning and team training

Train your team on the tools they already use, or build an LMS that makes the learning stick.

  • Team training

    Team training that is not a slide deck adapted overnight

    Training built for the software your team actually uses, taught by someone who builds with it. Not a generic deck relabelled the night before.

  • WordPress training for teams

    WordPress training so your team stops waiting on a developer for simple edits

    Team WordPress training so staff stop waiting on a developer for every simple edit, taught onsite or remote and tailored to your actual site.

  • LearnDash builds

    LearnDash builds where the learning actually sticks

    An LMS built the way adult learners actually work, not one that launched, disappointed everyone, and never got touched again. LearnDash done properly.

  • Learning management systems

    Learning management systems your team will actually use

    WordPress LMS builds for organizations that take training seriously, from a developer with 22 years in instructional design and WordPress engineering.

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Before you ask

Common questions

How much does a project cost?

Delivery work is quoted at a fixed price against a written scope, so the number does not move once you have agreed it. Hourly work is $275 CAD an hour with a twenty hour minimum.

Do you work outside Niagara?

Yes. The town pages exist because local searches are how people here find a developer, but most engagements run remotely and always have. Publishers, colleges, and manufacturers have hired me from across Canada and the United States.

How long does a website take?

A small business site is usually four to six weeks from signed scope to launch. What moves that date is almost never the build. It is waiting on copy, photography, and the one approval nobody scheduled.

Which of these do I actually need?

If you are not sure, that is what the twenty minute call is for. Bring the problem rather than a specification, and I will tell you honestly if it is smaller than you think, or if it is not my lane at all.

Not sure which of these fits your situation?

Every engagement starts with a conversation, not a contract. Tell me what you are dealing with and I will point you to the right starting place, even if that turns out not to be me.