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Independent design & search studioRichmond Hill, OntarioRemote · English & Chinese

Designed to stand out.Built to be found.

Websites and search foundations for small and growing businesses, from restaurants and clinics to studios and trades. Remote collaboration in English and Chinese.

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For small businesses

Your customers should seewhat you offer,how it fits their needs,and how to get in touch.

Restaurants, clinics, salons, trades, studios and professional services need the same basics: services and prices explained clearly, a site that works on a phone and an obvious next step. For a first site or a rebuild, we agree the pages, languages, integrations and handover before work starts.

English and Chinese, remotely

Based in Richmond Hill, Ontario, we work through shared previews and written feedback. You supply and confirm the services, prices and content permissions.

Design

A first website or a focused rebuild for your business. We shape the information, visual direction and agreed enquiry or booking route, then review the pages together on a working preview.

  • A visual direction that fits your business
  • Service information and layouts for phones
  • English and Chinese content when agreed
  • Website ownership and a documented handover
WebsitesBrand communications

Search

Search work starts with what you offer and where you serve. We review the agreed pages, improve their structure and record the changes. Rankings and AI recommendations are not guaranteed.

  • Clear service and service-area pages
  • Titles, internal links and indexing checks
  • English and Chinese language-page checks
  • Structured data that matches your business
  • Agreed measures and a record of changes
Search foundations

Systems & care

Keep services, prices and hours current as your business changes. We work from an agreed update list, check the contact and booking paths, and record each change. Larger work is quoted separately.

  • Optional self-editing in a CMS
  • Scheduled, scoped content updates
  • Contact and booking-path checks
  • Version history and rollback
Website care

What you can count on

Each figure links to the page where you can check it. No traffic, ranking or revenue claims.

From the first conversation
to launch and after.

  1. Listen

    We start with your business, your visitors and the one action that matters most. An existing site or a rough list is enough.

  2. Direction

    One coherent direction for type, imagery, structure and voice, shown early and decided together.

  3. Build

    Pages that work on every screen, the included languages and agreed integrations, reviewed on a working preview.

  4. Launch

    Search checks and a documented handover, with editing and ongoing care agreed separately.

How we work togetherStarting prices and scope

From the journal

Practical writing on design, bilingual websites and being found. Every article is published in English and Chinese.

All articles

  1. Design & experience

    A restaurant website that turns mobile visits into confident bookings

    14 min read

  2. Website planning

    Clear salon pricing is part of the design

    5 min read

  3. Local search

    A service-area page needs more than a different city name

    5 min read

Have somethingworth signalling?

Tell us what you are making and who needs to find it. Write in English or Chinese.

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