Web Design for Lacombe Businesses
We're based in Red Deer, twenty minutes down Highway 2A. We build and host websites for businesses in Lacombe — proper WordPress sites, hosted in Canada, looked after long-term.
Close enough to sit down with you in person when that helps. And most Lacombe businesses we look at don't need convincing that reputation matters — they've spent decades building one. It's the website that hasn't kept up.
Lacombe has older businesses than most towns its size
That's not a throwaway line — it changes what the web work looks like.
Lacombe's downtown holds one of the strongest collections of heritage buildings on the prairies, with the Flatiron Building standing since 1904. That reflects a business community where many operators have been at it for decades, sometimes generations.
Which means the typical Lacombe business we look at isn't a startup with no website. It's a well-run company with thirty years of reputation — and a website somebody's nephew built in 2013. That's a different problem than starting fresh, and it needs handling differently.
The reputation is real and the site undersells it. Word of mouth in Lacombe is strong enough that plenty of businesses never needed their website to work hard. But the next generation of customers checks online first, and what they find doesn't match what everyone in town already knows about you.
Nobody knows who has the login. Very common. The domain is registered to someone who left in 2016, the hosting is on a credit card nobody recognizes, and there's a real fear that touching anything will break it. This is solvable, and it's worth sorting out before it becomes urgent.
It was built for a desktop. Sites from that era genuinely predate mobile-first design. They technically load on a phone; they're just miserable to use.
The content is stale in a way that reads as "closed." Old hours, a staff page with people who left, a copyright date from years ago. Visitors take that as a signal the business might not be operating.
What we do about it
Sort out ownership first. Before anything else, we make sure the domain is registered to you, you control it, and nobody else can hold it hostage. It's boring, and it's the most important item on the list.
Rebuild on WordPress, hosted in Canada. Fast, mobile-first, and structured so you can update your own hours and staff without calling anybody.
Keep what's working. If you've got thirty years of reputation, the site should lead with it. Long-standing businesses usually have better raw material than they realize — real photos, real customers, real history. That beats stock imagery every time.
Set up local search properly. A page for each service, help getting your Google Business Profile matching the site exactly, structured data, and the technical groundwork so people searching your trade plus "Lacombe" actually find you.
Then look after it. Hosting, updates, backups, and security are covered by the care plan, and small content changes come with it — anything bigger gets a quote first. No more wondering whether it's about to break.
What it costs
Most Lacombe business websites land between $1,000 and $4,000 to design and build, plus a hosting & care plan from $179/month covering hosting, security, updates, backups, and small changes. Fixed quote before any work starts.
If a rebuild isn't the right move for you yet, we'll tell you that instead of selling you one.
Being twenty minutes away actually matters
You can hire a web designer anywhere, and plenty of good ones work remotely from the big cities.
What you don't get from them is someone who will drive up, sit in your shop, see the work you actually do, and understand that the Lacombe market isn't the Calgary market.
We're on Highway 2A regularly. If an in-person meeting makes the project go better, we have one.
Free website review
Send us your web address and we'll send back a short, plain-language review of what's working, what isn't, and what we'd fix first.
Free, no obligation, no follow-up unless you want one. If your site is in good shape, we'll tell you that too.
Questions we hear a lot
Are you actually in Lacombe?
No — We're based in Red Deer, about twenty minutes south. We don't have a Lacombe office and we're not going to pretend we do. We work with Lacombe businesses and we'll come to you when it's useful.
What does a website cost?
Most small-business sites run $1,000 to $4,000 to build, plus a hosting & care plan from $179/month. Fixed price, quoted before anything starts.
We have a website but nobody knows who controls it. Can you help?
Yes, and it's more common than you'd think. We can usually trace where a domain is registered and what's needed to recover control. Sometimes it's a five-minute fix, sometimes a few weeks of paperwork. Either way, it's worth doing before the renewal lapses and somebody else buys your domain.
Can we update the site ourselves afterward?
Yes. We build on standard WordPress, and we'll walk you through the parts you'll actually want to change — hours, staff, prices, news. Anything more involved, email us — small tweaks are part of the care plan, and bigger changes are quoted fairly first.
Do you work with churches and nonprofits?
Yes, regularly. Small budgets, volunteer turnover, and needing a site a non-technical person can keep current are normal constraints in that world, and we build for them. There's a page with the details: Churches & Nonprofits.
Do you build real estate websites?
Yes — through PropertyConnector, our own platform for Canadian REALTORS®: live MLS® listings synced automatically from CREA's DDF®, map search, and feature sheets, fully hosted and managed. Details and pricing are on the PropertyConnector site.
Do you do more than websites?
Yes — IT consulting, including fixed-fee IT and cybersecurity audits for businesses that want to know where they actually stand, which comes up most often ahead of an insurance renewal.
Do you work in Blackfalds and Sylvan Lake too?
Yes — see Blackfalds and Sylvan Lake, or the main Red Deer page.
Ready to build something that works for you?
Tell us about your business and we'll put together a plan that fits — websites, real estate technology, and IT consulting.