A vehicle wrap shop, a pizza shop, an auto body shop, a hockey program, a charity tournament, a community association, a contractor and an IT training provider. Different businesses with the same job to do: look right, load quickly, and make it easy for a visitor to become a customer.
Hand-built, every one No templates 5.0 from clients on Google
The long version: what each business needed, what got built, and what we would do differently next time.
Seven public pages, an organizer dashboard and live scores for a charity tournament, launched three days before puck drop.
Read the case study Auto bodyCase studyA one-page site for a NAPA-certified collision shop in Harrietsfield, serving Halifax and the wider HRM.
Read the case study RestaurantsCase studyA five-page takeout site for a Sackville Drive shop, where the menu, the deals and the open-now hours are the whole point.
Read the case study ContractorsCase studyBuilt by hand, then rebuilt as a WordPress theme the owner can edit without the layout moving.
Read the case study IT trainingCase studyStatic pages for a Halifax IT training provider, turned into an ASP.NET site with a searchable, filterable course catalogue.
Read the case studyNine small business websites, each one built around what the owner needs a visitor to do: request a wrap quote, order a pizza, register a team, book a course. The design changes because the job changes, but the foundation underneath is the same on all of them.
Commercial vehicle wraps and fleet graphics for Halifax, Dartmouth and Bedford, where the visitor is a business owner pricing one van or a whole fleet. The quote form sits in the hero and asks what they need in tick boxes before it asks for a name, so a written price comes back quickly.
General contracting, where the visitor is deciding whether to trust you with something expensive and slow to undo. The build leans on completed work, a clear service list, and a scope-first enquiry that gets the details a contractor actually needs before the first phone call.
A co-ed charity tournament in Bedford that funds mental health care for cancer patients at the QEII. The site has two jobs that pull against each other: fill every team spot while registration is open, then keep taking donations once the field is full. It says which one it is at the top.
A framing crew whose customers are homeowners and builders deciding who to trust with the skeleton of a building. It was built from scratch, then rebuilt as a custom WordPress theme so Aron can add jobsite photos himself without the layout moving. We handled the import and the backups, submitted the site to Search Console, and put the quote form on authenticated SMTP so enquiries land in the inbox rather than the spam folder.
A takeout shop where nearly every visit is somebody hungry, on a phone, deciding in under a minute. The menu had to be readable at a glance, the hours had to be impossible to miss, and calling had to be a single tap. Everything else got out of the way.
Not a brochure. An adult hockey program in Halifax wanted something players open on their phones between sessions, so the home page leads with the next games and the latest scores, and the marketing comes second. Players sign in with a one-time emailed code, no password, pick their team once to have it highlighted everywhere, and add every game to their calendar. It sounds like the two coaches who run it, not like a template.
An auto body shop whose customers arrive stressed, usually straight after an accident, and want to know two things: can you fix this, and do you deal with my insurer. The site answers both above the fold, then makes it obvious how to send photos and start an estimate.
IT training, where the visitor is comparing courses and wants to know what is covered, how long it takes, and whether it leads anywhere. Course information is laid out to be scanned side by side, and the enquiry asks the questions that let a real answer come back the same day.
A community association looking after a trail network, with two audiences that want opposite things: hikers who need the trail, the map and the conditions right now, and members and volunteers who need the organisation behind it. The structure separates the two so neither has to scroll past the other.
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