Web design and development in Quebec City

WordPress suits a team that publishes often and wants to edit most of the site itself. Its choice of plugins gives you ways to add features, though someone needs to keep it updated for security. It is worth deciding who will take responsibility for those updates before choosing it.

A custom-coded site, such as one built with Next.js, suits a company that wants fast pages and a design without template limits. Your team should be comfortable asking a developer to make structural changes. That distinction matters when you expect to change the layout, not just update the words on a page.

A hosted builder such as Wix, Squarespace or Webflow can suit a small site that its owner wants to run alone. The trade-off is less control over code and speed; moving away later can mean rebuilding the site. We recommend WordPress or a custom build after learning how your team works, including what you expect to publish and who will maintain it.

Quebec's Charter of the French language requires commercial publications on websites to be in French. We design the French pages as part of the sitemap and page layouts, so you can prepare the content for those pages as part of the project.

If you want to send commercial electronic messages, Canada's anti-spam rules affect the sign-up flow. We set up a form to collect consent and route enquiries, and include the sender's identity, current mailing address and an unsubscribe mechanism in the message setup.

A few practical materials will help us understand the work and the decisions ahead.

• Your main goal, such as calls or quote requests, and who handles each enquiry.
• Case studies, testimonials and client logos you have permission to show, gathered in a folder.
• Domain, hosting, email, analytics and Search Console logins, or the name of whoever holds them.
• Photos of your team, premises and finished work; arrange a photo shoot ahead if you need one.
• Sites you like and dislike, with a short reason for each choice.
• Your logo files, brand colours and fonts, or a note that they still need creating.

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  Reviewing only on a large screen

  Check every page on a phone before approving the design.

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  Leaving real copy until the end

  Put actual headings and paragraphs into the layouts as they are designed, so changes in text length do not break them later.

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  Letting someone else register your accounts

  Hold the domain and hosting accounts in your business name and grant access to the people doing the work.

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  Leaving search checks until launch

  Check page titles, the sitemap and any indexing block left over from development before the site goes live.