We live in a digital age, and in 2020 the online marketplace demands a strong iron-clad digital presence... your presence, your brand and your online identity is encompassed by your company's website. Possessing a powerful modern web design and web development within this digital age is absolutely paramount to the success of your business in 2020.

Ask yourself, does your website represent you and your brand effectively? Does your website provide your customers with well-designed and enjoyable user experience? Is your website built fast? Is your website responsive to compete with the trend of more and more of your customers using mobile devices to shop online? If you answered no to any of these questions, or even have doubts about any of these crucial questions about your business' website, then you may be putting your business in a dangerous and potentially catastrophic position.

No better example of this was found in a recent survey revealing that a staggering 63% of Canadians admitted they will NOT buy from a company that has a poorly designed website! Think about that for a moment...

If your website is not designed and developed well in 2020, then you may be losing up to 63% of your potential customers, instantly! This is business suicide in today's marketplace.

Maximize your business online. Separate your business from your competition. Provide your value customers with the best user experience, so that you can maximize the potential of your business and ultimately your sales! Let 2020 be the year that you give your customers, and your brand a truly kickass website that has been design and developed the right way.

Our holistic approach features a full team of local Toronto-based web developers, designers, SEO experts, marketing experts, branding gurus, content writers, and online advertising professionals who are all committed to helping you advance your business to the highest degree.

We provide elite custom web development services to ensure that your website is attractive, modern, fast, highly secure, responsive, search engine friendly, and built to compete in today's ultra-fast digital marketplace!

It’s the process of basically drawing a site that looks fantastic and then uploading it to the Internet. Artistic and business ideas turn into a functional reality. It’s essentially business art that needs web development.

Custom website development is the code that is coded for you, and no one else.

Design choices like colours, layouts, images, and fonts are not simply a matter of what looks cool. As a matter of fact, they are made to solve the problems and meet the goals decided in your website strategy.

In reality, custom websites are not expensive. If done wisely, the money that you invest in a custom website will save you time and make you money.

It can range from a few days to a few weeks. It basically depends on how quickly you can send us all the materials we need such as your photos and textual content for your website such as information about your company, services or products, testimonials and anything else you want to put up on your website. Once we deliver a first version of your website (password protected so that only you can see it online) then it might take another few days or weeks for revisions.

Web design is a tricky industry when it comes to prices and costs because it can range from very cheap to very expensive. As a client, we feel your pain trying to navigate costs and figure out how to budget for it! Our prices are listed above and are based on which package you're interested in. We're quite transparent and honest about our pricing, unlike many web design agencies who prefer to keep it hidden and basically make up a price when you call them, based on how much they think your business can afford to pay :). Based on our research, costs for a simple static website can range from $500 to $20,000 depending on which company you speak with. Crazy huh? Why such a humongous difference, you ask? It's because there are several ways to design a website.

Here is what you want to know when you're talking to a web design agency in Toronto or anywhere else:

Question #1: are they designing the website from scratch or using a pre-existing theme? This is especially true if they are using WordPress, Joomla, Drupal or any other CMS. Designing a website from scratch takes much longer than using a pre-existing theme, but the advantage is that you end up with a 100% unique layout that doesn't exist anywhere else.

Question #2: is the agency designing the website in-house or outsourcing the design and development of it? It's way cheaper to hire web designers in New Delhi or Karachi than it is in Toronto.

Question #3: is the agency or company you're working with offering professional advice when it comes to what how your website should be designed for maximum conversion rates and ROI or are they simply executing your orders without offering their expertise? That's a big one. We at Little Dragon Media will bluntly tell you if we feel like your idea sucks, and will recommend best practices to ensure that your website brings you business. Our goal is for your website to pay for itself basically. If your website is not bringing you any new business, we won't be happy. Be careful if you choose an agency that simply asks you to provide a mockup and executes it without offering advice or feedback.

Or is it better to design a website from scratch? If it's a static website, we recommend using WordPress for your web design project. The reason 80%+ of ALL new websites in the world use WordPress is because it's easy to use/maintain and gives you a lot of flexibility when it comes to how your website looks and behaves. Now, if you want to have an e-commerce website, we also recommend Shopify which is even easier to use and maintain, but gives you less flexibility than WordPress, and unlike WordPress which is free, Shopify has a monthly cost to it. We recommend avoiding other CMS'es such as Joomla or Drupal because they're more complex to use and less popular in general.

Yes, there's your domain name and web hosting. We at Little Dragon offer FREE hosting and domain name if you also buy a web maintenance package from us, which includes malware protection, daily backups, uptime monitoring and core security updates to ensure your website is always online and doesn't get hacked. If you choose NOT to buy a web maintenance package, budget an additional $150 per year for domain and hosting which you'll buy from an external company such as GoDaddy, Hostgator or any other reputable company.

The solution is completely subjective, and both have their own pros and cons. If you’re on a time crunch or you have a limited budget, a template will be the superior choice.

On the other hand, if you want something that doesn’t look like anyone else’s or your site needs really special or complex features, go for a custom website.

In practise, building a custom website can be time-consuming and frustrating, unless you are an experienced developer. It involves a huge amount of work. If you want to build a website from scratch, then get ready for spending a massive amount of time on the website. It could be wiser to focus on other aspects of your business than spending most of your time on web development.

We feel your pain! We totally understand that there are a lot of options in this city and that you might be struggling to choose the right one for your business. The reality is that it depends on many things, such as reputation/reviews, price, previous work examples and how comfortable you felt with them on the phone. You also want to make sure you hire a local Torontonian company and not a company that "pretends" to be here but outsources all their services offshore.

You want to be able to speak to the developers directly and not have to deal with communication or time zone issues. Check the agency's reviews and ratings online from its previous clients too. It never hurts to speak to a few different companies before making a decision. We at Little Dragon Media are totally transparent when it comes to our physical location, and you can find our prices, reviews and examples of our work on our website as well. Nothing is hidden! We're confident about our abilities and are one of the rare companies that have a 100% satisfaction or money back policy.

Little Dragon Media offers an extensive 30-day website warranty and maintenance policy for the solutions we build and host. If after 30 days you’re not completely satisfied with your new site, we’ll either keep working on it until you’re happy, or refund your money, no questions asked.