Web design in Nanaimo, by someone who lives here

Plenty of agencies have a page called “web design Nanaimo” and an office somewhere else. We are actually here, and our first clients were Nanaimo businesses: P3 Mechanical & Electrical, an HVAC and plumbing company, the Yankovska School of Rhythmic Gymnastics, and UPGREAT Home Renovations. All three sites are live, so you can open them on your phone and judge the speed for yourself.

Being local matters less for the code than for the conversation. A plumber in Harewood gets calls from people standing in a wet basement, searching on a phone with one hand. A gymnastics school gets parents comparing class times on a laptop after dinner. Those two sites should not look or work the same, and ours do not.

We also work up and down the Island the same way, with businesses in Parksville and Qualicum Beach to the north and Ladysmith to the south.

Most local searches here happen on a phone, and many end in a call without the person ever opening a website: they tap the number in the Google Maps listing. So our sites are built to back up the Maps listing, not compete with it. Same business name, same phone, same address, plus schema.org markup that tells Google which listing the site belongs to. If your business does not appear in the map results at all, start with why a business is missing from Google Maps.

The rest of the traffic comes from people comparing options. They open three sites from the results, look at each for a few seconds, and call the one that answered their question fastest. A roofer whose first screen says “roof repairs in Nanaimo, Lantzville and Nanoose Bay” next to a phone number that dials on tap has a better shot at that comparison than one that opens with a slideshow.

Ferry traffic counts too. People arriving at Departure Bay or Duke Point look up food, rentals and services before they have left the terminal, so tourism businesses near the harbour should treat their mobile site as the front door.

Our prices are published and the same anywhere on the Island. A one-page site is CAD $790. A Starter site of 1 to 5 pages is CAD $970 to $2,000. A Business site with 6 to 12 pages, service and town pages and local SEO foundations is CAD $2,500 to $4,500. Online stores start at CAD $4,500. The full breakdown, with care plans and add-ons, is on the pricing page, and the reasoning behind the numbers is in what a website costs in Nanaimo in 2026.

Already have a site that looks dated or never brings in calls? A website redesign keeps what works (your domain, your rankings, your best content) and rebuilds the rest. Moving off Wix, Squarespace or WordPress with rankings kept starts at CAD $300 on top of the build. For trades, our page on websites for contractors goes into the details.