Who owns the website when it is finished?

You do, completely. The domain is registered in your name, hosting sits in your account, the code lives in a repository you control, and any payment provider account is opened in your business name. Credentials are handed to you as they are created rather than at the end, so you are never locked out of your own site.

What currency will I be invoiced in?

CAD. Quotes, milestones and the final invoice are all written in CAD so you are never comparing a converted figure against a local supplier's. Regarding tax: GST/HST at 5–15% depending on province — my invoices are zero-rated exports and carry no Canadian tax.

How much does a website cost in Quebec City?

A business website starts from C$110 and goes live in about three days. An e-commerce build starts from C$210 in around seven days, and a custom application from C$270 in ten. Those are starting figures — the exact number is fixed in writing once scope is agreed, and it does not move after that.

Do you actually work with businesses in Quebec City?

Yes, remotely. I work with Canadian clients from Islamabad, quoting in CAD and invoicing in CAD. I have no office, address or phone number in Quebec City and will not pretend otherwise. If your project needs someone physically present, hire locally — I will say so in the first reply rather than after a deposit.

Do I need to provide the content and images?

Content, yes — you know your business and I do not. I will restructure and edit what you send so it reads for the web, and I will tell you where a section is missing. Photography is worth paying a local photographer for; stock images of people in offices are recognisable as stock and quietly cost you credibility.

Can you migrate my Quebec City site without losing rankings?

Yes, and the redirect map is the whole job. Every existing URL is mapped to its new equivalent with a 301 before launch, and anything with no equivalent goes to the closest relevant page rather than the homepage. Sites lose rankings in migration because that mapping was skipped, not because migration is inherently risky.

Do you build on WordPress or something custom?

Whichever the project justifies. WordPress when you need to edit content constantly and want a familiar admin. A static build when speed and security matter more than a plugin ecosystem. Custom PHP and MySQL when the logic is genuinely yours. The choice is explained in the quote with its trade-offs, not presented as a foregone conclusion.

Quebec and Atlantic Canada · Canada

Landing page design and development in Quebec City

A landing page is not a short website. It is one page with one job, and everything that does not serve that job is actively costing you — a navigation bar on a paid landing page is a set of exits you paid for the click to reach. For Quebec City businesses, quoted in CAD from $40, typically live in 2 days.

What landing page design and development includes for a Quebec City business

Fixed scope, agreed in writing before development starts. From $40, typically live in 2 days.

One page, one conversion action, agreed in writing before the design starts
Above-the-fold offer and call to action visible on a phone without scrolling
Conversion-focused structure: problem, proof, objection handling, action
Form or booking flow with server-side validation and spam protection that is not a CAPTCHA wall
Sub-second render on 4G — no framework runtime, no render-blocking third-party scripts
Conversion tracking wired up, so the page can be judged rather than admired
Thank-you page and confirmation email, because the flow does not end at submit
A/B-ready structure if you intend to test variants later

The terms for a Canadian client

Starting price	From $40, quoted and invoiced in CAD
Typical timeline	2 days once content is supplied
Tax position	GST/HST at 5–15% depending on province — my invoices are zero-rated exports and carry no Canadian tax
Data protection	PIPEDA federally, with Quebec Law 25 layered on top if you have Quebec customers — resolved by a written DPA naming Pakistan as the processing location, which PIPEDA requires you to disclose to your own customers
Payment rails available	Stripe, Interac e-Transfer for deposits, and Moneris where an existing merchant account has to stay
My day in Quebec City time	00:00–09:00 — a shifted window is agreed in writing instead

Why this matters for Canada specifically

Quebec Law 25 caught a lot of Canadian sites out: consent has to be explicit and granular, and the default cookie banner most agencies drop in does not meet it. I build the consent layer properly rather than bolting on a plugin.

What actually ships when a Quebec City project goes live

A handover for a Quebec City client is not a link and a login. It is the repository, the hosting account in your name, the domain registered to you, the payment provider account under your business, and a written record of every credential as it was created rather than dumped in one email at the end.

The test I apply is uncomfortable but correct: if I disappeared tomorrow, could another developer pick this up on Monday without calling me? If the answer is no, the handover is not finished. That standard is why the documentation takes a day I do not bill separately — it is part of the build, not an upsell.

Education and training providers in Quebec City

Course pages are the whole site. Each needs the outcome, the duration, the price, the prerequisites and the next start date visible without scrolling — and each needs to be its own indexable URL, because people search for the course, never for a training provider they have not heard of.

The recurring failure is a single "Courses" page listing twenty courses. It ranks for nothing because it is specifically about nothing. Twenty pages, each genuinely about one course, is more work and is the difference between a site that recruits and a brochure that sits there.

A redesign that quietly deleted the rankings

The classic disaster: a new site launches, looks far better, and organic enquiries fall off a cliff within a fortnight. The cause is almost always identical — the URLs changed and nothing was redirected, so every page that had accumulated years of authority now returns a 404.

Preventing it is a redirect map built before launch: every old URL to its closest new equivalent with a 301, and anything without an equivalent pointed at the nearest relevant page rather than the homepage. If your Quebec City site is being redesigned by anyone, ask to see that map. If it does not exist, that is the entire risk in one document.

What I am not claiming about Quebec City

I have no office, postal address or phone number in Quebec City
I cannot meet you in person, and if that is a requirement you should hire locally
I am not claiming existing clients in Quebec City specifically — my live work is listed on the work page and you can check it
Nothing on this page is a guarantee of search rankings, which no developer can honestly offer