Web Development
Full-lifecycle web development, from design and rapid prototypes through content management, gated areas, single sign-on and user accounts.
Design + Build
A Web Development Company Built for the Full Lifecycle
One team from the first conversation to long-term support, so the people who designed the thing are the people who know why it works the way it does.
We start with a prototype you can click through rather than a specification you have to imagine. It is faster to change your mind on a prototype than on a build.
That includes custom web application development for nonprofits and social service organizations, and for founder-led companies that have grown past the point where ad hoc technology decisions hold. As a web development agency based in Ontario and working mostly by remote, we take on organizations across Ontario, the rest of Canada and further afield. Accessible website development is part of that from the first prototype: accessibility and performance are treated as requirements, not a pass that happens after the design is already locked in.
The Problems We Solve
Every small change needs a developer
A typo, a new page, a swapped image: each one waits in a queue. Your team can see what is wrong but cannot fix it without booking developer time.
Pieced together from different hands
A freelancer built the design, someone else wrote the code, a third person set up hosting. When something breaks, no one owns the answer.
A site that has become an application
You now need logins, member areas and roles. The platform you started on was built for brochures and is straining under the weight.
The build stalled or the team moved on
The launch slipped, scope drifted, and after go-live the people who built it moved on. You are left maintaining something you do not fully understand.
What You Get
When a Website Builder Stops Being Enough
Website builders are good at what they are for, and if one is genuinely the right call for you, we will say so. We come in when a site has to do more than publish pages: a website with member accounts and single sign-on against the identity system you already use, roles and permissions, or content shared across several sites or into an application.
A move off a platform you have outgrown is the other common trigger.
Built Headless, Edited Like a Builder
The sites we deliver are headless: the content management system your team edits in is separate from the website your visitors see. Editors get what a website builder promises, a place to change words, images and pages without a developer, while the site itself stays out of reach of the editing screen.
Editing cannot break the site
Content lives in its own editing interface, and layout and code are not reachable from it. A text change cannot take a page down.
No third-party plugin stack
Features are built into the site rather than assembled from third-party plugins, so there is no outside update waiting to break something and no abandoned plugin to work around.
Fast pages
Pages are prepared ahead of time and served ready-made rather than assembled on every visit.
A smaller attack surface
The editing system is not the public website, so the public site exposes far less to attack and the editing screens stay behind your logins.
Redesign without re-platforming
Content is stored as structured content, separate from how it is presented. The site can be redesigned or extended without migrating everything again.
Content that goes further
The same content can feed more than one destination: this site, a second site, or an application you run.
Who Owns What
A website is only worth building if someone still knows how to run it a year later. Here is who owns what, and who maintains a website after launch.
| Question | Where it stands |
|---|---|
| Who owns the code and the data? | Your data is yours, without qualification. The contract states ownership of the code explicitly rather than leaving it implied, so it is not worked out after the fact. |
| How is security handled after launch? | Data is encrypted in transit and at rest, access is scoped to what each role needs, and security patches and dependency updates go out on a schedule rather than when something breaks. Backups run continuously and the restores are tested. |
| Can we ask for new features after launch? | Yes. We keep a roadmap you can see and prioritize it with you, so what ships on launch day is where it starts. |
How It Is Priced
We do not publish rates, because the figure depends on scope. The engagement opens with a paid discovery of fixed scope, so you see the plan before committing to anything past it. From there you get a fixed proposal for the build itself, with the number in it before work starts.