Web design in Fredericton, for an audience that reads before it calls.
The capital runs on government, two universities and the businesses that serve both, which produces a customer who compares three or four options carefully before picking up the phone. That is the person your site has to satisfy, and it changes what belongs on the page.
Downtown to Oromocto $800 to build Then $99/mo
What a Fredericton search actually returns.
Search for a trade or a service here and you get a short page of local names, a couple of provincial chains, and several businesses whose sites were last touched years ago. The gap between the top result and the fifth is mostly a matter of who bothered.
Downtown, the north side, Devon
Oromocto, New Maryland, Hanwell
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Choosing a Fredericton web design company, agency or developer.
Searches here split three ways: a web design company, a web design agency, or a web developer. They are different kinds of business, and the right one depends on what you actually need built.
A web design agency
A team with a designer, a developer and a project manager, usually quoting several thousand dollars for a small site and four to eight weeks to deliver it. That is worth paying for a large site, a full brand overhaul or a marketing retainer that genuinely needs several people. For a five-page site for a contractor, a clinic or a shop, a large share of the fee pays for coordination between the people involved.
A freelancer
One person, often good and often cheaper, and often fitting your project around a full-time job or the next client. Before you sign, ask who hosts the site, who answers when something breaks in month seven, and whether you own the files and the domain when the work is done.
A web developer
The right call when the job is software rather than pages: a client login, a booking tool, a quote estimator, or a connection to your accounting or scheduling system. Plenty of Fredericton businesses search for a developer when what they need is a well-built website, and plenty search for a designer when the real job is development.
Where this studio sits
One person who does both halves. Websites are $800 to design and build, then $99 a month, and are usually live inside two weeks. Development work, such as a client portal or web app or the quote estimator in the Lead Machine, is scoped and priced in writing before it starts. The guide to choosing a web design company lists the questions worth asking whoever you talk to, including us.
Everything we build, wherever you are in the region.
Seven services, each quoted in full before the work starts. Websites are $800 to build and $99 a month to run. Repairs, audits and profile setups are one-time work on sites somebody else built.
Custom websites
A site designed around the way your business wins work, written by hand so it loads fast and reads clearly.
See the service For trades$399/moThe Lead Machine
Quote estimator, automatic text-back within seconds, and every enquiry landing in one owner dashboard.
See the service Local search$199 one-timeGoogle Business Profile setup
Categories, service area, hours and photos filled in properly, so you show up in the map pack for your town.
See the service Search$349 one-timeSEO audit
A read of what is wrong on the site you already have, in priority order, with the fixes carried out rather than listed.
See the service SpeedFrom $299Site optimization
Images, scripts and page weight brought under control, measured before and after on a phone rather than a laptop.
See the service Custom buildQuotedPortals and web apps
Client logins, member areas and booking tools, scoped and priced in writing before a line of it is built.
See the serviceSites already earning for businesses around the province.
A pizza shop, an auto body shop and a hockey program. Different businesses with the same job to do: look right, load quickly, and make it easy for a visitor to become a customer.
The parts of greater Fredericton, and how each one searches.
A page that names the places you actually cover competes with a handful of businesses rather than with everyone in New Brunswick. Here is how the area breaks down.
Nearby markets have their own pages: Woodstock NB web design up the valley, Saint John web design down the river, and Moncton web design to the east. Quoting jobs rather than selling from a shelf? The Lead Machine adds an instant estimator and an owner lead dashboard, with pages for HVAC, plumbing, electrical, landscaping and general contracting.
Questions from Fredericton owners.
What comes up on a first call from the capital, answered without the sales pitch.
Q.01How do you compare to the web design companies in Fredericton?
Most local firms quote a five-page site somewhere in the low thousands, take four to eight weeks, and hand the work to whoever is free that month. Ours is $800 to design and build, then $99 a month to run, usually live inside two weeks, and built start to finish by the person you spoke to. The trade-off is real: one builder means one schedule, so there are weeks when the next start date is a fortnight out.
Q.02Do you work with Fredericton businesses from a Halifax studio?
Regularly, and the provincial line makes no practical difference to the work. Scope, drafts and launch run on phone, email and a shared preview link, and Fredericton is a four-hour drive if a meeting genuinely earns itself. What matters more is that the copy names your streets and your towns rather than the province.
Q.03Can you build the site in English and French?
Yes. You get a matched set of pages in both languages with a language switch, and Google is told which version belongs to which audience. Translation comes from you or a translator you trust, because machine-translated copy reads as machine-translated to exactly the people it was meant to reach.
Q.04We sell to government departments. Does that change the site?
It changes what goes on it rather than how it gets built. Buyers checking whether you are credible want to see scope, capability, references and a clear way to reach a person, so those get their own space instead of being buried under a gallery. The price and the timeline stay the same.
Q.05Do you do web development as well as web design?
Yes. Most Fredericton jobs are websites, but the same person builds the development work too: client portals, member areas, booking tools, quote estimators and connections to the systems you already use. Websites have fixed prices. Development is scoped and quoted in writing first, then billed in stages.
Want to see how your Fredericton business shows up today?
Send your business name and the parts of the city and valley you serve. We will look at what your site and your Google listing are each doing now, and say plainly which of the two is costing you more.
Most enquiries get a reply the same day, usually within a couple of hours.