Web designer & developer in Vancouver, BC.
I build durable websites and custom software for Vancouver small and medium businesses — from the professional services hubs around Gastown, Yaletown, and downtown to neighbourhood operators in Mount Pleasant, Kitsilano, Kerrisdale, and East Van. Fixed-price websites, scope-per-engagement apps, launched in two weeks.
Vancouver is a market of two kinds of SMB.
Half the Vancouver small-business world is downtown or downtown-adjacent: agencies, consultancies, law firms, accountants, tech startups, real estate practices. They’re sophisticated buyers — they’ve seen agency pitches, they know what a $15k build looks like, and they have a clear sense of what they’re paying for. The other half is neighbourhood operators: retailers on Main Street, studios in Mount Pleasant, restaurants in Kits, dentists in Kerrisdale, trades across East Van. Less used to agency pitch language, but no less demanding about results.
Both halves share a common problem: the Vancouver web-design market is thick with $15k agency builds that look beautiful at launch and then ossify. You end up with a gorgeous site nobody on your team can update, on a CMS that costs a designer to touch, and in eighteen months you’re having the rebuild conversation again. The whole market has been conditioned to treat this as normal.
It isn’t. A Five-Year Website is built on modern infrastructure specifically so your team can update copy without a developer, so small design tweaks don’t cost $400, and so the site is still running fast in 2030. Priced at $4,500 fixed for a focused marketing site instead of $15k for the same outcome with three meetings and a project manager. Same quality bar — very different overhead structure.
What works
- Neighbourhood-targeted local SEO — “accountant Gastown,” “dentist Kitsilano,” “real estate Kerrisdale” — not generic Vancouver catch-all.
- LocalBusiness schema pointing at your actual Vancouver address and service area.
- Reviews funnelled cleanly through the site into Google Business Profile — Vancouver customers are more review-driven than FV.
- Internal linking that distinguishes downtown service pages from neighbourhood pages where you genuinely serve both.
- Mobile-first, because most Vancouver search happens on commutes, not at desks.
What doesn’t
- Generic “BC” or “Canada” targeting when your customers are specifically in Vancouver.
- Overpriced agency-template sites that the next six Vancouver agencies are also selling.
- Blog content written for traffic rather than for your actual customer’s questions.
- Monthly SEO retainers on sites that just need one solid round of technical fixes.
- Copy that reads like it could apply to any city, anywhere. Vancouver customers notice.
Most Vancouver businesses also serve the Fraser Valley.
Customers in Burnaby, Richmond, North Van, or a second location further east in the Valley. If your business has a regional footprint, the site and schema should reflect that honestly. See the Fraser Valley hub for the broader regional picture, or the individual Metro pages for Burnaby, Richmond, and North Vancouver.
Can a Vancouver small business really get a proper website for $4,500?
Yes. The $15k–$25k range you see quoted by Vancouver agencies covers studio overhead — creative director, account manager, project manager, designer, developer, QA, billable hours across all of them. I charge for the work itself, not the layers. You still get a custom design on your brand, a modern Next.js build, proper SEO foundation, and a clean handover — just without the agency apparatus. Bigger scopes (lots of pages, e-commerce, multilingual) are scoped on top.
I'm based downtown — do you meet in person?
Sure, when it's useful. Kickoff and launch reviews are often nicer in person — coffee on Main Street, a walk-through at your office. Day-to-day build time is more productive async: daily preview links beat meetings for showing progress, and neither of us wastes time on calls that a link would replace. If you want a weekly standing meeting, an agency will be a better fit than a one-person practice.
Do you work with Vancouver tech companies or is this just for traditional SMBs?
Both. I've built B2B SaaS marketing sites, pre-seed startup landing pages, and customer portals for small tools teams. The distinction that matters isn't industry — it's whether you want a focused, small-team engagement (yes, good fit) or an agency-scale operation with multiple stakeholders and months of discovery (no, not a fit).
Running a business in Vancouver?
20 minutes on the phone. Tell me what you are building and where your current site or tool is letting you down. I reply within one business day with a scope, a price, and a timeline — or a straight answer about why I am not the right fit.
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