Web Design in Calgary
Websites for Calgary Businesses That Want to Grow
Web Design in Calgary
We can design and build a custom website for your growing business in Calgary or southern Alberta. Our in-house team plans, designs and codes each site to load quickly, meet accessibility guidelines and bring in the inquiries you want. The team is based in Toronto, and Calgary projects run over video.
Web design in Calgary’s business community
Calgary is home to the head offices of many of Canada’s energy companies, alongside a fast-growing technology sector, financial and professional services, agriculture, logistics and a busy small business community.
An engineering firm in the Beltline might need a site that reassures investors and recruits field staff at the same time. A Calgary software start-up has to explain its product to buyers who have never heard of it. We plan the pages around those audiences and the decision each one has to make.
Calgary web design projects we can take on
- Corporate and B2B websites that explain complex services in plain language.
- Recruitment and careers sections that make it easy for the right people to apply.
- Online stores built on WooCommerce or Shopify, planned around your catalogue and how customers order.
- Client portals and web applications, built by our development team and connected to the systems you already use.
Showing up when Calgary customers search
Most Calgary buyers start on Google, whether they want an oilfield services supplier or a dentist in Inglewood. Two things shape what they see first: the local results with their map and reviews, and the pages that answer the search most directly.
Every site we build gives you a strong start on both. Each service gets its own page with a title and headings written for the way people search, the address and service area match your Google Business Profile, and structured data tells search engines what the business does. After launch, our SEO service keeps that going with content, reviews and local listings, and shows you each month which searches are bringing in work.
Calgary and the surrounding area
We can work with organizations in Downtown Calgary, the Beltline, Inglewood and the Calgary business parks, as well as in Airdrie, Cochrane, Okotoks and across Alberta, including Edmonton.
Why us
Reasons to consider Blue Flamingo in Calgary
Your project stays with one team
From the discovery workshop to launch day, the same in-house designers and developers work on your site. You always know who is building it.
Built around your buyers
We start from what your customers, investors or recruits need to find, then design the pages to suit. No theme is bought in and adapted.
Quick pages, open to everyone
Sites are coded to load fast on a phone at a job site and to meet WCAG accessibility guidelines, with search basics like page titles and structured data in place.
Workshops over video
Our team works from Toronto, so workshops and design reviews for a Calgary project happen on video calls. When a key workshop would go better in the same room, we can travel to you.
Care after launch
Hosting, security updates and improvements stay with the people who built your site. Read about our care plans.
How we work
Our web design process
Five stages, the same on every project. You see and approve the plan, the layout and the design before anything is built, so nothing comes as a surprise.
01
Workshop
We start with a workshop, in person or over video, with the people who have a stake in the site. We look at what your current site does well and badly, who you need to reach, what they search for, what your competitors do, and the content the new site needs. You leave with a clear brief and a page plan.
02
Wireframes and prototype
Next we wireframe the key pages: plain layouts that settle what goes where before anyone thinks about colours. Once you’ve approved them, we design a clickable prototype in Figma, so you can try the site on a laptop or phone before a line of code is written.
03
Build
Our developers build the site in-house, most often on WordPress, or on Django and Python where the site is closer to an application. Every page is built to load quickly, work with a keyboard and screen reader, and give Google a clean structure to read.
04
Testing
We test as we go and again before launch: across browsers and devices, for speed and accessibility, and against the forms and integrations your business relies on. Your team then checks the site too, so the people who will use it every day sign it off.
05
Launch and beyond
We launch with redirects from your old addresses, analytics in place and a final round of checks. After that, the same team can host, maintain and improve the site on one of our care plans, so you always know who to call.
Care plans
Hosting and support after your Calgary site launches
Launch is the start of a website’s working life. Our WordPress care plans cover hosting, maintenance and support, and we already run more than 200 WordPress sites this way.
Secure, fast hosting
Kinsta’s managed hosting on Google Cloud, protected by Cloudflare.
- Web application firewall and DDoS defence
- SSL encryption plus content served from a CDN
- Production, staging and development copies of your site
Updates and monitoring
A daily, weekly and monthly routine keeps the site healthy.
- Uptime and security checked daily, backups automated
- Critical plugin updates and malware scans every week
- Automated visual checks on important pages
- Monthly updates, database tidy-ups and error reviews
Support from developers
Ask for a fix or an improvement and a developer picks it up.
- Developer-led support through tickets
- Work prioritized and owned from request to release
- A dashboard of traffic, rankings and site health
AI services
AI tools for Calgary companies
Calgary firms handle a lot of repeat work: quotes, scheduling, document requests and customer calls. These four AI services can take some of that load. Our team builds them, and developers test each one before it goes live.
AI-Assisted Development
Get internal tools and custom systems built in less time, with AI speeding up the work and experienced engineers in charge of quality.
- Fast prototypes of apps, tools and workflows
- CRM and operations systems built for your processes
- Developers validate everything AI helps produce
- Secure release, support and continued improvement
AI Chatbots
Chatbots that know your services, documents and tone of voice, built into your website and the systems behind it.
- Trained on your own pages and documents
- Website support that also qualifies leads
- Quick answers from manuals and reference documents
- Connections to your CRM and workflows
AI videos
Video for your website and social channels, made faster and at lower cost with AI-assisted visuals and a proper production process.
- Script, storyline and storyboard development
- New visuals made from your existing photos and assets
- Motion graphics trimmed for each social platform
- Voiceover, music and a balanced final soundtrack
AI Voice for Call Handling
Voice assistants that answer the phone, ask the right questions and book appointments in a natural, conversational way.
- Incoming calls answered in plain conversation
- Bookings and scheduling during the call
- Qualification and routing to the right team
- Reminder calls and follow-up messages, automated
Showcase
Case studies
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SkyService
Read the case study: SkyServiceFirst-class digital transformation for Canada’s largest private jet company
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Volaris Group
Read the case study: Volaris GroupA digital home for a global software acquirer
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CloudX
Read the case study: CloudXInnovative award winning marketing for a groundbreaking telecoms start up
From concept to final product, our experience was nothing short of exceptional.
Adam Shirley
It Doesn’t Taste Like Chicken Inc.
FAQs
Web design in Calgary: your questions
Do we need to meet in person?
No. Our team is based in Toronto, and a Calgary project runs over video from the discovery workshop to launch. If a key workshop would work better face to face, we can travel to Calgary for it. We have a business address in Calgary, but no staff or meeting space there.
Do you work with energy and industrial companies?
We’d welcome that work. An energy or industrial site has to explain technical services clearly to customers, investors and future employees, with the security and reliability a corporate site needs, and that is how we would plan it.
How is a Calgary website project priced?
We price each project on its scope: the pages, features, integrations and content involved. Once we understand that, you receive a fixed quote in Canadian dollars, itemized line by line, before anything starts. Budget ranges are a fair topic for the first call.
When could our new site be live?
Most of our projects run three to six months from the kickoff workshop to launch. Fewer pages can mean a shorter project, while e-commerce or connections to other systems can add weeks. The schedule is agreed at the start and we work to it.
Will our design be original?
Yes. We design your site from a blank page around your brand and audience. With no bought theme underneath, the code stays lean and pages load quickly.
Does a new website help with search rankings?
It gives you the right base: fast pages, clean structure and headings, metadata, structured data, and redirects so the rankings your old pages earned carry over. Moving up for competitive Calgary searches usually takes ongoing work, which our SEO and pay per click services cover.
Do you offer hosting and maintenance?
Yes. Our care plans combine managed hosting with security monitoring, backups, regular updates and ticketed developer support, all from the team that built your site.
Do you build on WordPress?
Most of our sites are WordPress, custom designed and coded by our team. Stores are usually WooCommerce or Shopify, and for portals or tools beyond a website we build custom web applications.
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What happens next?
Once you submit the form, one of our experts will contact you to set up a meeting to clarify your requirements and build a quote. We can sign an NDA if you need us to.
