Every page starts as a grid: where the phone number goes, where the services go, what a customer sees first.
Then the words. I write them from our call, in your trade's own language, and set them to read on a phone.
Colour comes from the business: the van, the sign, the street. This plumber is navy and copper.
One piece of motion that belongs to the trade. For a plumber, copper pipe runs through the page.
And it is a real site you can open: Thamesview Plumbing, a sample for an invented Byron plumber. Yours starts the same way, free.
5Rivers Trucking is my family's company and the second real site is my own. The seven samples are invented London businesses I built to show range, each mixed from its own trade's colours.
Real client · Hamilton Road, London
My family's business, and the first thing I built: a public site that brings in quote requests, and the office app the company runs on behind it.
Writing and apps · dhillonshamsher.ca
Where I write about how large websites and the systems behind them fit together, and show the apps I make after hours.
Customers look for different things from each kind of business, and dentists, lawyers and therapists all work under rules about what their advertising may say. I've written up what each of these needs from its site. If yours is here, it's worth a read before we talk.
Every site gets the same formula. You only pay once you have seen your own homepage and want the rest.
Your websiteMixed to order · London, ON
| Step | When |
|---|---|
| 1A short callTwenty minutes on the work you want more of and the neighbourhoods you cover. | Day one |
| 2Your homepage, free to look atWithin a week you see your own homepage, built from your services, photos and reviews. | Within a week |
| 3Approve and buildReply to the written quote and pay a 50% deposit. The rest of the site usually takes two to three weeks. | 2–3 weeks |
| 4LaunchThe balance is due at launch. Add a Care plan if you want changes handled for you. | At launch |
Three sizes, priced in Canadian dollars and paid once. Hosting is free on every plan. The only running cost is your domain name, $15 to $25 a year paid straight to the registrar. You own it, and the site files are yours if you ever leave.
1–3 pages · 1 revision round
Home, services and contact, with the area you cover. Enough for a business that mostly needs to be found and called.
$499one-time
Start with a free preview4–6 pages · 2 revision rounds
A page for each thing you sell, so someone searching for that exact thing lands on it instead of your homepage.
$899one-time
Start with a free preview7–10 pages · 2 revision rounds
Service-area pages for the neighbourhoods you cover, a gallery of your work and your best reviews.
$1,399one-time
Start with a free previewMonthly and cancel anytime. Pay a year up front and get two months free.
$49/month
$99/month
I'm a web designer and developer, and I've spent years building websites for large companies. YXU Studio is where I do the same work for smaller ones, starting with my family's trucking business.
There's no agency behind me and no account manager. I take the first call, write the copy, build the site and make the changes after launch. I live in London, and the towns around it are close enough to meet in person. Further away, phone and email work just as well.
I'll reply within one business day and build a homepage preview for you to look at, free.