Website guides for Niagara small businesses
Short, specific answers to the website questions a Niagara business owner actually runs into. No filler, no monthly-retainer pitch.
A small business asks each of these questions about once, gets whatever answer is nearest, and moves on. Each guide below answers one of them properly, and says plainly when the answer is "you don't need me for this."
Who writes these guides
You get the same person every time: I'm Christopher Ross, I run Niagara Web Design from Fort Erie, and I've been building for the web since 1996. Each guide answers a question a small business owner is likely to run into before they hire anyone. If you'd rather have me build the site, the price is fixed before we begin and starts at $2,500.
What pages does a small Niagara business site actually need?
Four pages: home, about the work, one or two service pages, contact. Here is what each one does, when a fifth earns its place, and why an abandoned blog costs you.
What to photograph for your small business website, and how
Ten shots, all taken with a phone, cover a shop, a trade or a marina. Here is what to point the phone at, where to stand, and how to make the files web-ready.
Do I need a website if I already have a Facebook page?
The page is enough for the customers who already know you. Here is the test for whether strangers can find you, when Facebook alone is fine, and what to carry over when it isn't.
DIY website builder or hire a Niagara web designer?
When a builder is the right call, when it starts costing you jobs, and the one signal that tells a Niagara owner it is time to hire.
Building a website for a Niagara business that sells across the border
What changes on a Niagara business website when half the customers are in Buffalo: currency labels, forms that take a ZIP code, town names and a clear border policy.
What should a Niagara small business website actually cost?
Starter is $2,500 and the largest size is $9,000, one time, in Canadian dollars. What moves the number, and what to watch for in a vague quote.
Why your phone number needs to be tappable in the first screenful
The customer most likely to call you today has one free hand. Whether the call happens can come down to one link and where you put it.
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