Small business web design · Halton & the GTA

Web design for small businesses
across Halton & the GTA.

Custom, mobile-first websites that turn local visitors into customers - built by a Halton team since 1999. Choose your city below, or call us to talk it through.

25+Years in business
100%Halton-local team
FixedTransparent quotes
NoLong-term contracts

Websites that work as hard as you do

A good website is the hardest-working member of your team. We design and build custom sites for small businesses that are fast, mobile-first, easy to update, and built to bring in local customers - not templates you’ll never grow into.

We build on both custom HTML and WordPress, set up online stores, and ship every site with the on-page SEO foundations it needs to rank. You own everything, and there are no long-term contracts.

What goes into every build

Custom design

Designed around your brand and your customers, not a recycled theme - clean, fast, and mobile-first.

WordPress builds

Flexible WordPress sites you own outright and can update yourself - new builds, redesigns, and migrations.

E-commerce stores

Sell online with WooCommerce or Shopify - catalogue, payments, and Ontario tax and shipping done right.

SEO-ready

Every site ships with the on-page SEO foundations - clean structure, schema, speed - so it can rank.

What small business web design
actually costs in Ontario

Nobody publishes numbers, which makes it impossible to know whether a quote is fair. Here are ours, with the reasoning attached.

Starter package - $999 flat

Three pages of your choosing, custom designed rather than dropped into a template, mobile-first, with a working contact form, on-page SEO foundations and analytics connected. Launched in two to three weeks. The right spend for a new business, a trade, or anyone whose current site is a Facebook page. Extra pages are $175 each. See the $999 starter package →

Template build - from $1,500

A step up from the starter package: a well-configured WordPress site on a solid theme, up to about five pages, mobile responsive, contact form, on-page SEO foundations, launched in two to three weeks. The right spend for a new business or a single-service company that mainly needs to look credible and take a call. A template built properly beats a custom site built carelessly, every time.

Custom build - $3,000 to $6,000+

Layout and structure designed around your services rather than a purchased theme, up to about ten pages, full on-page SEO, schema markup, analytics and Search Console configured, two rounds of revisions. Worth it when you have several services to organise, multiple locations or service areas to rank for, or a brand that needs to look different from the competition.

E-commerce - from $4,000

WooCommerce or Shopify, product catalogue setup, payment gateway, Ontario tax and shipping rules configured properly, inventory, mobile-first checkout, and staff training. The variable is catalogue size and how much integration your existing systems need.

Fixes and upgrades - hourly or flat rate

Broken forms, slow load times, security warnings, mobile layouts falling apart, a developer who disappeared. We audit first and tell you honestly whether it needs a rebuild or three specific fixes. Quite often the answer is the fixes.

Full breakdown of what everyone charges is in our Ontario website cost guide. Every quote is fixed-fee and itemized in writing before any work starts. No hourly meter, no surprise invoices, no long-term contract.

What separates a good build
from an expensive one

Mobile-first, genuinely

The phone layout gets designed first and the desktop version follows, rather than a desktop design squeezed down until it fits. Most small business traffic in Ontario arrives on a phone, so that's where the design starts. We test on real devices and a throttled connection, not a browser window dragged narrow.

Fast, because speed is a ranking factor

Compressed images, minimal scripts, no bloated page builders stacked forty plugins deep. Google's Core Web Vitals feed your rankings directly, and a slow site loses positions it should be winning. We check them before launch, not after a client complains.

Yours outright

You own the files, the database, the domain and the hosting. No proprietary CMS, no platform licence you have to keep paying, no rebuild from scratch if you decide to work with someone else. This matters more than most people realise until the day it matters a lot.

Built to be found

Every site ships with the on-page SEO foundations: proper heading structure, unique titles and meta descriptions, schema markup, XML sitemap, Search Console and Analytics connected. Ranking takes ongoing work, but the foundations shouldn't be a separate invoice.

Web design in your city

We build websites for small businesses right across Halton, Peel, Dufferin and the western GTA. Jump to your city for local details and pricing.

Selling online? See e-commerce web design, or the city pages for Oakville and Mississauga. Running a restaurant? See restaurant web design in Mississauga. Need the site looked after once it's live? See website maintenance and hosting.

Worth reading first

Four guides written for business owners about to spend money on a website.

Let’s talk about
your project.

Tell us a bit about your business and we’ll follow up with a free, no-obligation consultation and a fixed-fee quote - usually within one business day.

Email info@fatdogmedia.ca Call 416-892-7774

No spam. No long-term contracts. Just a conversation.