Professional Web Development Services
Beautiful, visually appealing websites are just the beginning. Our web design company in Guelph focuses on user experience, building custom journeys that guide your target audience and boost website traffic.
Your website is the core of your marketing funnel. Channels like social media and email lead visitors there, making it the most important step in turning traffic into leads. With SEO friendly web design, fast page load times, and optimized site speed, we help search engines understand your content and rank you higher on SERPs
Update Your Website & Drive Results
Websites have been the starting point for almost every new business and a core component of marketing strategy since the mid-1990s. Every legitimate business has at least one landing page online. No matter how simple or complex your business is, a great website can be the difference between sinking or sailing in the business world.
A great website is visually appealing, functional, and user-friendly. To achieve this, it should be SEO friendly, with relevant keywords, internal links, and important pages that support your SEO strategies. Fast page load times and optimal site speed are essential, as they keep users engaged. Additionally, ensuring search engines understand your content is key to ranking higher in search engine results pages (SERPs).
Whatever you sell, a great website is the best way to achieve business success in today’s competitive digital landscape.
Why A New Website Is The Best Investment You Can Make
Investing in a new website enhances user experience, boosts search engine visibility, and builds trust with your audience. A modern website is essential for showcasing your brand, products, and services while driving website traffic and conversions, ultimately helping your business thrive
No matter what you’re selling, your website is the foundation of your online presence. However, many common website platforms, like Squarespace, Wix, and even WordPress (when built with page builders), can limit your marketing effectiveness. They often lack the customization and optimization needed to maximize your site’s performance. A professionally designed website, optimized with SEO strategies, relevant keywords, and internal links, will better support your business goals and drive results.
How Web Development Fits into Our Approach
We create websites that guide users through a carefully designed journey.
Our clients choose the best technology for their online presence, and our web design team builds a clickable prototype for your team to test and provide feedback. Once approved, our developers bring your new site to life, ensuring it supports your marketing funnel.
But our work doesn’t stop once your website is live. We continue to support your online efforts with quarterly marketing sprints aimed at driving traffic from across the web. Based on your unique needs, we recommend various services and adjust our strategies using real-time data and analytics. Whether it’s web design, SEO optimization, content marketing, social media promotion, or paid advertising, our ongoing efforts are tailored to help your website attract visitors and turn them into loyal customers.
Why Choose Topsite for Your Web Development and Marketing Needs?
Topsite started out as a website company, and they’re still our bread and butter. A great website is the foundation of just about every successful marketing campaign we’ve run. Our website design and development teams work closely with our strategists to build websites that look great and function well.
We ensure your website becomes a powerful cornerstone of your online presence. Our team doesn’t just create beautiful websites; we optimize them for performance, user experience, and conversions. Your website will not only reflect your brand but also engage visitors, drive leads, and support your broader marketing goals.
Our Process
Plan
We’ll meet with you to discuss your vision for either a new website or to redesign an existing one.
Design
Our design team will take your ideas and create a captivating design that matches your needs.
Review
You will review the initial design and make any adjustments. We will collaborate until you are happy with the final design.
Develop
Our development team will build a functioning website that you will review and adjust until it fits your vision.
Delivery
We will launch and host your site to ensure that it is always running as smoothly as possible.
Web Development Resources
Frequently Asked Questions
Learn more about web development and our services.
How much does a new website cost?
How long will it take to develop my new website?
Can I write the content for my new website?
Are there maintenance costs for my new website?
Will my new website be mobile friendly?
When do I pay for my new website?
I have a strict website budget, are there low-cost options?
Will my website be built in WordPress?
What if I want to update my website in the future?
How much does a new website cost?
The cost of a new website can vary widely depending on your needs. There’s a lot that goes into it; developing the strategy, including a UI/UX design and custom User Journey, creating the written and visual content, designing each webpage and creating a clickable prototype, reviewing all of our work with you, and finally completing the development work takes time and effort.
We aim to be paid for the value we create for our clients, so although the cost of a new website might feel steep up front, our clients typically see a return on their investment within the first 6-12 months. This amount only grows over the 5-10 year lifespan of the website, especially when paired with professional marketing work.
How long will it take to develop my new website?
Typically, we aim to have website projects complete in 8 weeks. The size of your website will affect the time it takes to build. A small website might be completed in under a month. A larger website with more complex functionality may take several months.
There are a lot of moving parts when building a website. Your initial input on design decisions and content creation (and the time it takes to get that feedback) can often slow things down. We provide a clear timeline ahead of starting the project to help prepare for this.
Can I write the content for my new website?
Yes you can. Although, for several reasons, this is not something we usually recommend.
Our standard process is to meet with you and obtain the information we need to design, develop and write an amazing new website. Sticking to this process allows our team to work efficiently and produce the best results. Our in-house content specialist will write content for your website that speaks to search engines and also encourage conversion actions developed through years of building websites for a wide variety of organizations.
Are there maintenance costs for my new website?
This depends on whether you host your website on our server.
If you host with us: All of our website hosting clients receive 24/7/365 support. We are responsible for your website functionality, speeds, up-time, back-ups and security. No additional fees are required to maintain or perform small updates to your website. Learn more about our website hosting services here.
If you host elsewhere: If we do not host your website on our server, we do not have the access needed to guarantee proper maintenance. You and your website hosting provider are responsible for the functionality, speeds, up-time, back-ups and security of your website.
Will my new website be mobile friendly?
Yes. Mobile optimization is an often-forgotten part of building a website. We commonly speak with potential clients who have already paid good money for a website, only to realize that it doesn’t work on their phone. Data shows that these days, most people search with their mobile device first before switching to a computer if they’re legitimately interested.
Our developers are Google Mobile First certified, meaning that your website isn’t just “mobile friendly”, but looks pixel-perfect on all devices. From the largest desktop screen to the small smartphone, and every screen size in between.
It’s worth noting that as a crucial piece of every website project, mobile development requires additional time and effort, which contributes to the overall cost of your project.
When do I pay for my new website?
We typically follow a 50-50 or 50-25-25 payment structure. 50% of the overall project cost is paid as a deposit before work can begin, with the remaining 50% to be due in either one or two instalments depending on the size and depth of the project.
For certain projects, we may also create a custom payment plan. The total cost of your project can be split in up to 10 monthly payments. Contact us to learn more about this program.
I have a strict website budget, are there low-cost options?
Yes, we have a few different pricing options available. We realize a new website is a big investment for smaller businesses, and we strive to ensure that we are an professional option for those businesses.
As we are a small business with our own overhead, we are only able to engage in projects which at a minimum will cover our expenses. The depth and duration of our projects can sometimes price out smaller clients. In this case, we may choose to offer a more flexible payment plan if we see potential in your business. If we decide to bend our policies, we expect to see an absolute commitment to our agreement.
Will my website be built in WordPress?
It depends! WordPress is our go-to content management system. It’s the most popular website platform in the world, and it’s open-source software creates endless opportunities for functionality. But it might not be the right fit for you.
We choose a platform that suits the custom needs of your business. If you are building an ecommerce website, we might recommend Shopify. Or if a high-speed website is essential to your business, we might build it in a JS React framework. However, in most cases, we will build your website in WordPress using a WordPress theme that our developers created themselves.
What if I want to update my website in the future?
Our support team is always available to help implement any future updates to your website. You are also provided with access to the backend of your website. This means you can post blogs, update text and images, or make other small changes to your website.
Frequently Asked Questions
Learn more about web development and our services.
How much does a new website cost?
The cost of a new website can vary widely depending on your needs. There’s a lot that goes into it; developing the strategy, including a UI/UX design and custom User Journey, creating the written and visual content, designing each webpage and creating a clickable prototype, reviewing all of our work with you, and finally completing the development work takes time and effort.
We aim to be paid for the value we create for our clients, so although the cost of a new website might feel steep up front, our clients typically see a return on their investment within the first 6-12 months. This amount only grows over the 5-10 year lifespan of the website, especially when paired with professional marketing work.
How long will it take to develop my new website?
Typically, we aim to have website projects complete in 8 weeks. The size of your website will affect the time it takes to build. A small website might be completed in under a month. A larger website with more complex functionality may take several months.
There are a lot of moving parts when building a website. Your initial input on design decisions and content creation (and the time it takes to get that feedback) can often slow things down. We provide a clear timeline ahead of starting the project to help prepare for this.
Can I write the content for my new website?
Yes you can. Although, for several reasons, this is not something we usually recommend.
Our standard process is to meet with you and obtain the information we need to design, develop and write an amazing new website. Sticking to this process allows our team to work efficiently and produce the best results. Our in-house content specialist will write content for your website that speaks to search engines and also encourage conversion actions developed through years of building websites for a wide variety of organizations.
Are there maintenance costs for my new website?
This depends on whether you host your website on our server.
If you host with us: All of our website hosting clients receive 24/7/365 support. We are responsible for your website functionality, speeds, up-time, back-ups and security. No additional fees are required to maintain or perform small updates to your website. Learn more about our website hosting services here.
If you host elsewhere: If we do not host your website on our server, we do not have the access needed to guarantee proper maintenance. You and your website hosting provider are responsible for the functionality, speeds, up-time, back-ups and security of your website.
Will my new website be mobile friendly?
Yes. Mobile optimization is an often-forgotten part of building a website. We commonly speak with potential clients who have already paid good money for a website, only to realize that it doesn’t work on their phone. Data shows that these days, most people search with their mobile device first before switching to a computer if they’re legitimately interested.
Our developers are Google Mobile First certified, meaning that your website isn’t just “mobile friendly”, but looks pixel-perfect on all devices. From the largest desktop screen to the small smartphone, and every screen size in between.
It’s worth noting that as a crucial piece of every website project, mobile development requires additional time and effort, which contributes to the overall cost of your project.
When do I pay for my new website?
We typically follow a 50-50 or 50-25-25 payment structure. 50% of the overall project cost is paid as a deposit before work can begin, with the remaining 50% to be due in either one or two instalments depending on the size and depth of the project.
For certain projects, we may also create a custom payment plan. The total cost of your project can be split in up to 10 monthly payments. Contact us to learn more about this program.
I have a strict website budget, are there low-cost options?
Yes, we have a few different pricing options available. We realize a new website is a big investment for smaller businesses, and we strive to ensure that we are an professional option for those businesses.
As we are a small business with our own overhead, we are only able to engage in projects which at a minimum will cover our expenses. The depth and duration of our projects can sometimes price out smaller clients. In this case, we may choose to offer a more flexible payment plan if we see potential in your business. If we decide to bend our policies, we expect to see an absolute commitment to our agreement.
Will my website be built in WordPress?
It depends! WordPress is our go-to content management system. It’s the most popular website platform in the world, and it’s open-source software creates endless opportunities for functionality. But it might not be the right fit for you.
We choose a platform that suits the custom needs of your business. If you are building an ecommerce website, we might recommend Shopify. Or if a high-speed website is essential to your business, we might build it in a JS React framework. However, in most cases, we will build your website in WordPress using a WordPress theme that our developers created themselves.
What if I want to update my website in the future?
Our support team is always available to help implement any future updates to your website. You are also provided with access to the backend of your website. This means you can post blogs, update text and images, or make other small changes to your website.
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