The Fourth Imprint
WEBand what it is for.
We have spent three years making things people keep. A novel. Books written for one child at a time. Programmes that go into classrooms. This is the fourth: websites for people whose work deserves to be found.
Built by a studio that publishes
Whitby, Ontario
Durham Region & the GTA
Chapter One
A website is the only part of your practice that works while you sleep.
Most of the people who will ever consider hiring you will meet a page before they meet you. They decide in under ten seconds, on a phone, usually while doing something else. That page is either doing the work of a good first impression or quietly undoing it.
We build for independent professionals: practices where one person's judgement is the product, and where trust has to be established before a conversation ever starts.
while you sleep
Chapter Two · The Process
Wireframe, system, build, live.
Four stages, in this order, every time. Nothing starts before the one before it is settled in writing.
Wireframe
Structure before decoration. Where the eye goes, in what order, and what it must reach.
Design system
Type, colour and spacing fixed once, so every page after the first is consistent and quick.
1<section class="services"> 2 <h2>Notarize a document</h2> 3 <p>Mobile, across Durham 4 Region.</p> 5 <a class="book" 6 href="/book"> 7 Book an appointment 8 </a> 9</section>
Build
Written by hand at phone width first. This is real markup from the site in the next panel.
Live
A certificate in your name, a clean cutover, and every form proved with a real submission.
Chapter Three · The Work
GetNotarizedNow, live four weeks early.
A licensed paralegal offering mobile notary services across Durham Region needed a site that could take bookings, explain a regulated service without overclaiming, and be trusted by people who are usually having a difficult day. It launched on day six of a thirty-five day window.
“Clean, professional, and easy to navigate. I was especially impressed by his organization and the level of detail he brought to every step.”
Latoya Wallace · Director, GetNotarizedNow
Chapter Four · Investment
What it costs, printed plainly.
Our neighbours in Durham Region publish their prices too, and several start under a thousand dollars. We are not the cheapest and are not trying to be. What the difference buys is a site somebody wrote, checked and measured, by a studio that has spent three years making things for people who were not being written for.
The Essential
- Up to six pages, written by us
- Built for a phone first
- Usable with a screen reader or keyboard
- Forms proved with real submissions
- A security certificate in your name
The founding rate lowers where the price starts, not the scope. From CA$3,500 for our next two clients; where a project lands inside the range still depends on how many pages the work needs and what has to be wired in. After those two it is gone, because by then we will have the work to show instead.
The Professional
- Everything in The Essential
- As many pages as the work needs, agreed in writing
- A second language built in rather than bolted on
- Booking or client intake wired in and tested end to end
- A published speed target we hold ourselves to
The Site Audit
CA$99 for the first five audits, then CA$150. Unlike a build, the audit is one fixed price whoever you are and whenever you book it. The founding five are cheaper because we are still gathering the before-and-after proof.
Then we keep it running.
Every build is handed over complete and yours. Care is optional, it can start at any time, and nothing here is a lock-in.
Care
- We check every page three times a day, so we know it is down before your customers do
- Security headers re-checked and the certificate renewed, so the padlock never expires
- Domain renewal reminders, so nobody loses a domain to a missed email
- A monthly health check: a short note saying the site is fine, or what we fixed
- Thirty minutes of changes a month, turned around in five business days
Care Plus
- Everything in Care
- Two hours of changes a month, turned around in 48 hours
- A broken link sweep, so we find them before a customer does
- Booking and payment tested end to end rather than assumed
- A quarterly written report and a visitor summary, in plain numbers
Good work deserves to be found.
Let's talk
Tell us what you are trying to fix.
A first conversation costs nothing and we will tell you honestly whether we are the right people for it. If we are not, we will say so.
culturacanvasstudios@gmail.com