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