Website design for Gananoque businesses, built for the season swing

Gananoque runs on a season. A website that only works in July is quiet for nine months of the year.

The obvious Gananoque customer is the Thousand Islands visitor: the boat tours, the Shorelines Casino crowd, everyone driving the Parkway looking for a place to eat or stay. That's real, and it's worth building for. It's also easy to build a site so tourist-facing that it forgets the town still has a population that lives here in February and needs the same services everyone else does.

What a seasonal site actually needs

In peak season, May through October, the job is speed and a clear way to book: your hours, your availability, and a next step that works without you picking up the phone during your busiest week. In the off-season, the job changes. The same site needs to answer "are you even open" without making a visitor dig for it, because a wrong answer in January costs you a customer who checks once and moves on.

Starter fits most of the year-round shops

A seasonal business doesn't need a five-page build to answer the two questions that matter: are you open, and can I book. Most Gananoque businesses fit Starter for that alone. Grow earns its keep once booking gets busy enough that you want it handled online, in the peak months, without a phone call for every reservation.

A local resource worth knowing

The 1000 Islands Gananoque Chamber of Commerce, at 10 King Street, covers Gananoque and the surrounding township. It's a genuinely useful place to plug into if you're building or growing a business here, whether or not you ever hire me. Napanee is a different kind of build, industrial corridor and historic downtown, if that's closer to home.

Common questions

Can you build online booking for the busy season?

Yes. That's part of Grow or Complete, worth having in place by the May long weekend, not partway through the season.

What does a website cost?

There are three sizes. Starter runs $1,800, Grow runs $3,200, and Complete runs $5,500, with the full breakdown on the home page.

Do I own the site when it's done?

Yes, at every size. The domain gets registered in your business name, the hosting account is in your name, and the logins are yours.

Tell me what your season actually looks like and I'll tell you which size fits, usually the same day. Call 613.480.1345, or email [email protected] if that's easier.