Most small business websites get replaced every 18 months. They were built cheap, built generic, or built on platforms that fall apart the moment your needs change. The Five-Year Website is built on modern, boring-in-a-good-way infrastructure — Next.js, Vercel, proper schema markup — that will still be running fast in 2030. Priced so a Vancouver or Fraser Valley small business only buys one website per half-decade.
Custom Next.js site on your domain. Mobile-perfect, accessibility-checked (WCAG 2.1 AA), Core Web Vitals in the green (LCP under 2 seconds, CLS under 0.05). Built to look current five years from now — no trend-chasing, no theme-of-the-moment decoration that dates in six months.
Technical SEO from day one: schema markup (LocalBusiness, Service, FAQPage where relevant), proper meta structure, sitemap, canonical tags, internal linking graph, and a target keyword map scoped to your market. Not a bolt-on, not an upsell — the foundation the site sits on.
Full handover on day one: repo in your GitHub, domain in your name, Vercel and CMS accounts under your email. Your team updates copy through a simple interface without calling me. No lock-in, no retainer trap, no "only we can maintain it" clause buried in the contract.
Every Five-Year Website runs on the same modern stack: Next.js for the front end (React, server-rendered for SEO), Vercel for hosting (global edge network, instant rollbacks, automatic HTTPS), and your own CMS for copy edits. No WordPress plugin roulette. No proprietary builder that ships a 2MB JavaScript bundle on every page load. No template theme that will be abandoned in eighteen months.
Performance is measurable and measured: Core Web Vitals in the green, Lighthouse 95+ mobile, accessibility WCAG 2.1 AA. The site is mobile-first (most of your customers will find you on a phone), tested at 360px up to 1440px, and served with modern image formats automatically. Schema markup is built into the foundation so Google understands what each page is about — LocalBusiness, Service, FAQPage, Breadcrumb, Organization.
The result: a site that still loads fast on a 3G connection in the Fraser Valley, a site that ranks because the foundation is clean, and a site that does not need a rebuild in 2028 because nothing about it becomes obsolete.
The Five-Year Website starts at $4,500 CAD fixed price, with no retainer or hourly billing. That covers the full build: design, development, SEO foundation, handover, and 30 days of post-launch support. Additional scope — significantly more than a handful of pages, multilingual content, or e-commerce — is quoted on top before we start, so there are no surprises after the invoice is signed.
Most small business websites get replaced every 18 months — not because the business outgrew them, but because they were built on fragile platforms, template themes that got abandoned, or growth hacks that stopped being maintained. The Five-Year Website is built on modern, boring-in-a-good-way infrastructure — Next.js, Vercel — that will still be running fast and secure in 2030. You buy one website per half-decade instead of three.
Custom design on your brand, a fully responsive Next.js front end on your domain, technical SEO foundation (schema markup, sitemap, meta structure, target keyword map), Core Web Vitals in the green, WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility, a CMS for copy edits, analytics, and full handover of code, domain, and infrastructure. Post-launch I am available for 30 days for questions, edits, and fixes.
Yes — completely, on day one. The source code lives in your GitHub, the domain is registered in your name, the Vercel and Supabase accounts are provisioned under your email. If we part ways tomorrow, nothing breaks and nothing hides behind me. No lock-in, no retainer trap, no proprietary "platform fee" you cannot escape.
Custom. Specifically, Next.js — the React framework behind most modern SaaS dashboards and marketing sites. WordPress and Webflow are the right answer for specific cases (a heavy blog-driven content operation, or a pure no-code shop) but for a small business that wants a fast, long-lived marketing site, a custom Next.js build is faster, more secure, more search-friendly, and genuinely your property. I will tell you honestly if I think WordPress or Webflow is a better fit for your situation.
30 days of post-launch support is included — copy edits, small design tweaks, fixing anything that surfaces in the wild. After that, your team updates copy through the CMS without calling me. If you want a bigger change three months later (new section, new feature, rebrand refresh), we scope it as a separate fixed-price engagement. No forced retainer.
Yes. Most clients arrive with rough copy or a clear idea of what they want to say but no time to write it. I draft or polish page copy as part of the scope — included for the main 5–8 pages of a typical marketing site. Heavier copy lifts (ongoing blog content, case studies, long-form sales pages) are scoped on top.
Yes. Local SEO is built into the Five-Year Website foundation — LocalBusiness schema, proper meta structure, a target keyword map scoped to your geographic market (Vancouver, the Fraser Valley cities, wherever you serve), and internal linking that signals topical authority. I am a Vancouver- and Fraser-Valley-based developer who takes small business local SEO seriously. For deeper work on existing sites, see the SEO Audit service.
20 minutes on the phone. I listen, ask a few sharp questions, and leave you with a scope and a price by end of day — not a sales pitch.
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