New websites
from $1,500
Business websites, designed and built around your business, custom-coded and yours to edit. Landing pages $750.
Compare the websites Web design / Vancouver Island, BC Custom web design
Custom web design
for Vancouver Island.
I am an islander, and I build custom websites for island businesses. Designed properly, coded by hand, and easy for you to update yourself.
Recent clients
The local option
One designer,
One designer,
the whole
island.
I grew up on Salt Spring and I am now in my fourth year of software engineering at UVic in Victoria. Everything I have built is for a business on this coast: a bakery in Campbell River, a health clinic in Fernwood, builders and excavators on Salt Spring, a grocer on Pender Island, a clothing designer in Lund, a painter, a cleaning company, a B&B. Same coast, same designer, start to finish.
The usual alternative is an agency on the mainland you never actually meet, where your project is handed between people and a small change means a support ticket. Here you deal with the person who wrote the code. I answer the phone, I know the ferries, and I know what it costs a business here to be hard to find online.
Every site is custom-coded rather than assembled from a template, fast and secure by default, and handed over with a dashboard so you update it yourself without waiting on me.
Get a free previewWhere the
work is.
The towns I work in most, each with its own page and local projects.
Victoria
A health clinic in Fernwood, a cleaning company serving the whole city, and a painter with a print shop.
Web design in VictoriaSalt Spring Island
Six island businesses, from builders and excavators to a spa, a B&B, and a musician.
Web design in Salt Spring IslandCampbell River
A thirteen-year-old bakery site in Willow Point, rebuilt and live inside a week.
Web design in Campbell RiverWhat I offer.
For Island businesses: a new website, help with the one you have, or looking after it once it's live. Every price is fixed before any work starts.
Your existing site
from $40 an hour
Keep the site you have. Start with a free AI report, then the Google & AI setup at $500, or updates and fixes by the hour.
See how I can helpAfter launch
Free hosting
The care plan is optional: unlimited small changes to your site, same-day replies and monitoring, $39 a month. Or run it yourself from your dashboard.
See after launchWhat clients say.
Every review on Google is five stars. Here are twelve of them, word for word, beside the site each client got.
★★★★★
Owen at OBdesign has showcased numerous exceptional qualities and skills while working on my app.
I wholeheartedly endorse him for his remarkable intuition in identifying requirements, his attentive listening to clients' desires and needs, and his ability to deliver outstanding work that surpasses my expectations, achieving a level of quality that is truly superior.
Visit the live site
Built for island
businesses.
Lund, BC
A slow-fashion designer's site on her own domain, with every piece at its live Square price and her blog at its old addresses.
Business website
Pender Island
A five-page site for a family-owned grocer, written for visitors planning their trip, from the ferry to Picnic Park.
Business website
Vancouver Island
The iPhone app and landing page for a map of Vancouver Island's farm stands, food trucks and markets, now on the App Store.
Custom web applications
Salt Spring Island
A first website for a Salt Spring excavating and septic company, built around photographs of their own jobs and a dashboard they update themselves.
Websites for the trades
Salt Spring Island
A nine-page rebuild for a Salt Spring spa after its old WordPress site was hacked, with booking, a shop, and a journal the owner runs herself.
Online booking and shops
Salt Spring Island
A warm new home for a three-room garden B&B, built to win direct bookings instead of paying the platforms their cut.
Landing page
Salt Spring Island
A first-ever website for a builder, with every project photographed and organized into its own gallery clients can browse.
Websites for the trades
Campbell River
Replacing a beloved Willow Point bakery's 13-year-old WordPress site with a warm, six-page custom build, live within a week.
Business website
Victoria
Rebuilding a multidisciplinary Fernwood clinic's outdated site into a calm, modern home for six therapies, fully self-editable by the owners.
Landing page
Salt Spring Island
The first website for a custom home builder, later rebuilt in custom code so the work could be shown by type, location, and year.
Websites for the trades
Victoria
A six-page site for a Victoria cleaning company, moved off an old WordPress install and built around the booking system they already run on.
Business website
Victoria
A painter's site moved off a template artist platform and rebuilt around her four collections, events and art cards.
Landing page
Salt Spring Island
An online presence for a pianist, vocalist, and composer whose career spans jazz, soul, blues, and classical.
Business website
Tell me about your business.
I'll build a free preview of the top of your new homepage from what's already public, usually within a week, and send it with the price. Nothing to prepare, and no obligation to go ahead.