Website Design & Digital Systems, Napanee ON
Website Design & Digital Systems in Napanee, Ontario
Your site looks fine, but it isn't bringing in calls or bookings, and some customers may find it hard to use.
Proof it works
- Ride Guide downloads
- 270+
- Web traffic growth (YoY)
- +50% (4,000+ visitors)
- Social media views (YoY)
- +300%
Greater Napanee is growing, and people new to town look you up online before they pick up the phone. Your website should make that easy for them, and for the customers who've known you for years. Every site is designed and built by me, along with the booking, forms and tracking behind it.
Easy for every age
The 2021 census counted more than a quarter of Greater Napanee residents at 65 or older. Big readable text, buttons that are easy to tap and a phone number right at the top make a site easier for them, and for everyone else. All of that is part of WCAG 2.2 AA, the accessibility standard every one of my sites is built to.
Ready for the new households
The province is putting nearly $35 million into the town's wastewater plant to make room for 4,000 new homes. Every family that moves in will need a dentist, a hairdresser and someone to fix the furnace, and plenty of them will look at your website before they call. If it answers their first questions, what you do, where you are and how to book, you're the one they call.
If you sell to the County
Lennox & Addington's accessibility plan for 2026 to 2030 says the County will ask suppliers to show they understand accessibility when they bid. If you go after County work, a website that already meets the standard is an easy way to show it.
What the law asks of you
It depends on headcount. Businesses with 50 or more employees have a website rule to meet. Between 20 and 49, there's a compliance report due December 31, 2026, about customer service. Fewer than 20, and there's no report. How the rules change with business size →
What this looked like for HEET
For HEET's national home energy tour, I built and ran the website myself, with an interactive map of every stop, to AODA accessibility standards, alongside the tour's marketing in 16 communities. See the HEET case study →
Based in Kingston, I work with Napanee businesses remotely: no local office, no handoffs, the same person for strategy through delivery.
Not sure the AODA website rule applies to you? Here's what applies at each business size →
Full scope, service boundaries, and more proof: Websites & Digital Systems →
Questions
- Our site is old. Do we need to start from scratch?
- Not always. Sometimes a few fixes, like making it work properly on phones and putting your contact details up front, get you most of the way there. I'll look at it first and give you an honest answer.
- Is my business big enough for the AODA website rule to apply?
- It starts at 50 employees, counting full-time, part-time, seasonal and contract staff. Below that it doesn't apply, though you still need to provide information in an accessible format when someone asks.
- The Town and County have accessibility plans. Do I have to follow them?
- No. Those plans cover the Town's and the County's own services and websites. Your rules come from the province and depend on your size.
- Do you need to be in Napanee to build our site?
- No. I work from Kingston, about 35 minutes down the 401, and everything from planning to launch is done remotely. The person you first talk to is the one who builds your site.
- How much does a website cost?
- A four-page site starts at $1,600 plus HST, fixed price, and I write the words and build in accessibility at no extra cost. Five pages with a blog and portfolio you can edit yourself start at $2,000. Hosting, photography and online booking are extra.
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