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25 Years of Service

 

When we started in 1999, when you could spend tens of thousands of dollars on a fancy website, our idea was to create a website building software that would make it easy for people who didn’t know anything about programming and barely anything about computers to set up and update their own simple website. We did it and helped hundreds of small businesses across Canada get up and running with their own website.

Now, more than 25 years later we’ve helped more than 5,000 small businesses in every province and territory in Canada in over 800 cities and towns and in every industry imaginable.

Our website service has changed a lot over the years. We found that most businesses are too busy to update their website themselves and would rather have us just take care of it. Now they just call or email with changes and we take care it – usually within a day or two. We also take care of their email accounts, domain names, hosting, and SEO.

In 2011, we switched to the WordPress platform for building and managing websites for our customers. More than 40% of all websites are built with WordPress now so there’s a huge development community helping us make our customers’ websites better and better. As of 2024 we’ve built more than 2,500 WordPress websites!

We’ve recently gone a step further and have built our own Managed WordPress Hosting platform. Now we can host our own customers’ websites on a system fine-tuned for WordPress, optimized for lightning fast page-load speed, with 24/7 security monitoring and automatic nightly backups, and enabled for easy WordPress core, theme, and plugin updates.

Our head office is still in Winnipeg, and we have addresses in Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver, Toronto, Halifax, and Montreal. Not a customer yet? You can switch to Websites.ca for free!

Looking forward to another 25 years,

John Hart
Co-Founder
Websites.ca Web Design

Our Team

John Hart

John Hart

Co-Founder

One of our co-founders, John is originally from Winnipeg and now lives in Montreal with his wife and daughter. He spends his time figuring out what small businesses need, how to deliver those services, and managing our team. 

 

Ryan Desmarais

Ryan Desmarais

Sales

Ryan Desmarais lives in Winnipeg with his wife. Ryan loves that he works with different types of businesses from different industries all across the country. Customers ask for Ryan because he’s been with Websites.ca for over 20 years. Ryan enjoys playing rec hockey, softball, and soccer and fixes/builds computers in his spare time.
Sean Corbett

Sean Corbett

Marketing

Sean Corbett lives in the Okanagan, and has been handling our sales and marketing for over 10 years. He is an author, filmmaker, and wine enthusiast. He also writes for our blog and email newsletter, and has hosted and produced over 35 episodes of the Websites.ca Talk podcast.
Nara Munro

Nara Munro

Design

Nara has been with Websites.ca for over 10 years. She lives in Eastern Ontario with her husband and daughter, and knows the struggle of rural internet service. When she isn’t designing websites you will find her cooking or practicing her photography.

Stephanie Haderer

Stephanie Haderer

Onboarding

Onboarding and Support Specialist, Stephanie is a University of Manitoba graduate living in Winnipeg. Second to Super Meat Boy, nothing satisfies her more than troubleshooting or sorting out a DNS mess.

Paul Renault

Paul Renault

Design

Paul works in Winnipeg. He is a fine arts graduate and web design expert with over 20 years experience. When he’s not building websites he’s out at the dog park or spinning a favorite jazz record.
Isaias Garcia & Jessica Paiva

Isaias Garcia & Jessica Paiva

Design

Isaias & Jessica are Toronto-based web designers and co-founders of I&J Designs, a small web and graphic design boutique. When not working you’ll find them exploring inside open world video games, because the real world is scary enough as it is. Check out their work at www.ijdesigns.ca

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