Web design · Toronto

Websites for the places people walk into.

I build sites for cafés and small shops. The hours are right, the menu has prices, and someone who has never been can find your door.

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The Cafe Forêt website, showing the café interior full of plants behind the headline Second floor. Different world.
Cafe Forêt, Toronto Open the case study

01 Work

02 What you get

A site that answers the questions people phone you to ask.

Every build includes these. They are the things a café owner actually gets asked about, and the things most small-business sites get wrong.

01Hours that stay right

Open or closed right now, in Toronto time, plus the holiday change you made last week.

02A menu people can read

Every item and every price in one place, filterable, and it prints cleanly for the counter.

03Directions that work

A map, the nearest transit, and the part everyone forgets: how to find your actual door.

04Google agrees with you

Your name, address, phone and hours match everywhere, written in the structured data search engines read.

05Fast on a phone

One page, your own photos, no page builder loading half a megabyte of scripts before the first word appears.

06Yours to keep

The domain is registered in your name and the files are yours. You are not renting your own website.

03 A quick check

How is your site doing right now?

Eight things a small-business site should do. Tick the ones yours already does. Nothing leaves this page until you press the button, and the result just fills in the message below so you do not have to write it.

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Tick whatever applies. Most sites I am asked to look at score three or four.

04 How it works

Four steps, about three weeks.

01

A short call

Twenty minutes. What do people phone you to ask? That list becomes the site.

02

Research, then two directions

I read your reviews, your photos and your Instagram, then come back with two concepts and a recommendation. You pick one.

03

Build

Your real photos and your real prices. I test it at eight screen sizes and hand you a list of everything I checked before you see it.

04

Launch, then look after it

Domain registered in your name, site live, and edits when the menu changes. You are never stuck with a site you cannot update.

05 About

One person, start to finish.

I design and build the whole site myself, so the person who takes your call is the person writing the code. No account manager, no handoff, no ticket queue.

I work with cafés and small shops in Toronto. These places already do the hard part well. The website should just make it easy for someone to find you, see what you sell, and know you are open.

I care about the boring parts other people skip: the address matching Google, the page loading on a slow phone, the menu being editable when your supplier changes a price.

06 Contact

Tell me about your place.

Send a few lines about your shop and what is not working. I reply to everything, usually the same day.

This form is a demo until the endpoint is connected. Until then, email is the fastest way to reach me.

Thanks, that came through.

I will read it properly and reply, usually the same day. If it is urgent, phone me.