Web design for Vancouver small businesses: fast, bilingual, and easy for AI search to read

These platforms serve different needs well. Wix is excellent for a simple brochure site with no budget. Shopify is the right call for standard e-commerce if your product catalog is straightforward and you don't need custom logic. WordPress works for content-heavy blogs if you're comfortable managing plugins and updates. The tradeoffs: all three are slow by default (Wix and WordPress in particular score poorly on Core Web Vitals without significant engineering), they're targets for plugin-based security exploits, and none produce the structured semantic markup that AI engines need to cite your business. If you want a premium enterprise presence that is fast on mobile, integrates custom AI features or complex workflows, and is structured for AI engines to read—you need a custom-coded React application. It's the difference between buying a suit off the rack versus bespoke tailoring.

Yes. We handle the complete lifecycle. We deploy your application onto global edge networks (Vercel or AWS CloudFront) so you don't have to run servers yourself. Domain setup, SSL certificates, performance monitoring, and security updates are all managed. Care plans start at CA$99/month and cover hosting, backups, monitoring, security updates and a monthly allowance of changes; the three plans are on the pricing page.

A site of up to 5 pages (Starter) takes 3 to 5 weeks from kickoff to launch, a Growth site 5 to 8 weeks and a Pro site 8 to 12 weeks. A website build costs CA$2,800–15,000 in three plans, all in English and Chinese: Starter CA$2,800, Growth CA$7,500–10,000 and Pro CA$11,000–15,000. You start with a paid 2-week proof of concept (CA$800), credited in full if you continue, and get a written quote before any build. All projects include GEO structured data, Core Web Vitals testing and mobile responsiveness; visitor analytics can be added to the quote if you need it. Full details are on the pricing page.

Yes, and these three things reinforce each other. A fast, well-structured site improves your Google Business Profile ranking. Structured data on your site feeds AI engines directly. We offer an optional bundle—web design + Google Business Profile optimization + GEO/AEO content strategy—that addresses all three visibility surfaces together.

Not necessarily a full rebuild, but the site does need to work for AI engines as well as Google. More people now ask ChatGPT or Perplexity for recommendations, and those engines favor clearly structured content and proper markup. We cannot promise any engine will cite you, but we can make sure your site is readable and citable. That structure also tends to help Google rankings.

Yes. Every effect gets a performance budget, heavy assets load late, phones get a lightweight fallback, and we check Core Web Vitals after launch. See the motion section above.