Salt Spring Island
A six-page site for a family-run garage on Salt Spring Island, lettered like the door of the owner's tow truck, with a page for each kind of work and an appointment request that goes straight to the shop.
Business website
Custom websites I've built for real businesses across Vancouver Island, the Gulf Islands and the rest of BC, and a few sites I look after.
New websites
Sixteen sites, each designed for its business and live on its own domain, run by its owner.
Salt Spring Island
A six-page site for a family-run garage on Salt Spring Island, lettered like the door of the owner's tow truck, with a page for each kind of work and an appointment request that goes straight to the shop.
Business website
Pemberton, BC
A six-page site for a cedar log country house on Ivey Lake near Pemberton, rented only as a whole house, with its Vrbo calendar on the site and both ways to book beside it.
Business website
Nelson, BC
A one-page site for a jeweller on Baker Street in Nelson, built around the five jewellers who have kept the shop since 1896, with its own pieces and a free custom design consultation.
Landing page
Lund, BC
A site on her own domain for a slow-fashion designer in Lund, BC, with a page for every piece at its live Square price, custom orders, and her blog at its old addresses.
Business website
Pender Island
A five-page site for a family-owned grocer on Pender Island, written for visitors planning their trip, with the drive from the ferry and seasons that switch themselves.
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.
Business website
Salt Spring Island
Replacing a hacked, decade-old WordPress site with a nine-page home for a Salt Spring spa: booking, shop, retreats, 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 on Salt Spring Island, built to win direct bookings instead of paying the platforms their cut.
Landing page
Salt Spring Island
The first-ever website for a Salt Spring Island builder, with every project photographed, organized into its own browsable gallery, and put in front of clients.
Business website
Campbell River
Replacing a beloved Campbell River bakery's thirteen-year-old WordPress site with a warm, six-page custom build (bread schedule, story, and all), live within a week.
Business website
Victoria
Rebuilding a multidisciplinary Fernwood clinic's outdated site into a calm, modern home for six therapies, edited by the clinic's own team.
Landing page
Salt Spring Island
Designing the first website for a custom home builder on Salt Spring Island, built to showcase craftsmanship and bring in qualified project inquiries.
Business website
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 Salt Spring Island musician: pianist, vocalist, and composer spanning jazz, soul, blues, and classical.
Business website
Updates and fixes
Sites someone else built that I look after by the hour.
Salt Spring Island
A Salt Spring Island company's WooCommerce shop for solar science kits, made into one store for every country, with prices in Canadian or US dollars and checkout tested in 22 countries.
Website updates and fixes
Salt Spring Island
A printmaking society's WordPress site: show entries and emails that reach the right people, a move to a new Canadian host, and the domain in the society's own name.
Website updates and fixes
Victoria
A Victoria gym's Wix site: 34 old pages cleared without breaking a link, search basics set up, a new contact form and a Group Fitness page.
Website updates and fixes
Every review on Google is five stars. Three of them, word for word.
Working with Owen on the Maid in Victoria website was honestly one of the best business decisions we've made.
We worked with Owen to build our business website, and the entire experience was outstanding from start to finish.
Owen was brilliant. He held my hand and was incredibly patient and helpful.
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.