Custom web development on a modern stack - Astro, React, TypeScript, edge workers - built for speed and longevity. Built from our Vancouver Island-aware studio for Nanaimo businesses, with local SEO, schema, and Core Web Vitals tuned for the way buyers in Nanaimo actually search.
Nanaimo is the gateway to mid-Island and the largest city north of Victoria - which makes it the natural service hub for a huge catchment of residential, commercial, and recreational customers. We build Nanaimo sites that capture that wider Island intent: ranking well for both Nanaimo and surrounding communities like Lantzville, Parksville, and Ladysmith.
We build on a modern stack that prioritizes performance and maintainability: Astro for content sites, React where interactivity earns its weight, TypeScript end-to-end, and edge deployment for global speed. The result is a site that loads instantly, is easy to evolve, and doesn't lock you into a hosting plan that gets more expensive every year.
Ferry-anchored search is a real pattern: 'near Departure Bay terminal' and 'walking distance from ferry' queries spike on weekends and convert at high rates. Mid-Island retirement communities drive heavy senior-friendly UX expectations - larger fonts, slower-paced motion, clear phone-first contact patterns.
Nanaimo is the Island's e-commerce shipping hub - Canada Post and major couriers all use it as their distribution anchor. Local-pickup e-commerce flows that integrate Departure Bay-friendly logistics consistently capture mid-Island customers that mainland operators can't fulfill quickly.
Best for: Companies with custom requirements - booking systems, calculators, member portals, multi-step quoting.
Charters, ferries, and Harbour-facing operators.
Servicing Island residential and commercial markets.
Regional medical hub with a growing senior population.
Outfitters, fishing guides, and Island adventure businesses.
A working sample of recent builds. Click through to read the brief, see the result, and click the live link.
Case 001 Custom cabin booking and member management webapp for the Mount Remo Backcountry Society — four non-motorized alpine cabins in the Terrace area of British Columbia. Members book short-term stays for backcountry skiing, mountaineering, and hut travel.
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Case 002 Commercial real estate brokerage and business buy/sell advisory across BC. Donates 50% of commissions to children's charities.
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Case 003 Registered psychotherapists and social workers offering counselling for anxiety, depression, trauma, ADHD, grief, and addictions in Brockville.
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Case 004 Canadian clean-tech company building diesel-electric hybrid trucks and EV conversion kits. Maker of Canada's first production hybrid-electric truck.
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Case 005 Railway safety training, industrial rail audits, track inspection, and derailment investigations across Canada. The modern solution to a timeless industry.
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Case 006 Hydrogen carbon cleaning equipment for automotive dealerships. Turn carbon cleaning into a high-margin service department offering.
Read the caseThe questions clients ask us most. Open one. We answer how we'd answer over coffee.
Yes. We've delivered development for Nanaimo businesses across marine & tourism, trades & construction, healthcare since 2014. Every engagement is run from our Vancouver Island-aware studio in Spallumcheen, BC - we know how buyers in Nanaimo search and what converts here.
Most Nanaimo development engagements land between $6,000 and $25,000 depending on scope. We give you a fixed-price quote inside one business day - no hourly meters, no scope creep, no surprises.
No. We're based in BC but ship for clients across Canada and into the U.S. In the Vancouver Island specifically we serve Nanaimo as well as Parksville, Ladysmith, Lantzville.
Most websites and development engagements launch in 4 to 6 weeks. We give you a fixed timeline up front and we hit it - including the discovery, design, build, and launch phases.
We don't outsource, we don't use templates, and we don't disappear after launch. Every project goes through the same four people who run the studio, and you own 100% of what we build - the code, the content, the domain, and the assets.
Local SEO is built into every development engagement: Nanaimo-targeted on-page optimization, schema markup tied to Nanaimo, BC, Google Business Profile setup, and Core Web Vitals tuning. Most clients see top-3 local pack movement inside 90 days.
Tell us about your Nanaimo development project. We'll respond inside one business day with a transparent quote and a realistic timeline.
