Capitale-Nationale and Lévis
Website design in Quebec City for Capitale-Nationale businesses
A new site, or an existing one brought up to date, for businesses in Quebec City and Lévis. The work is done from our office in Trois-Rivières, and we hit the road when a meeting around a table moves the project along faster than a call.
Website design for a Quebec City business covers the design, the copy, local SEO and Law 25 compliance. OKTO Solutions does this work remotely from Trois-Rivières, 129 km away via Highway 40, and travels to the Capitale-Nationale or to Lévis when an on-site meeting is useful.
The local context
What does a Quebec City business website need to deliver?
In the Capitale-Nationale, a lot of businesses sell to clients who check before they call. An insurer, a government department or a prime contractor reads a supplier’s website the way it would read a file. It wants to know who answers, what is offered and where the information left in a form ends up. A dated site, one that drags on a phone or says nothing about privacy, loses the call before it is ever made. The page also has to come up when someone types a service followed by “Quebec City”, “Sainte-Foy” or “Lévis”, and it has to be clear enough for an answer engine to quote it. Those two jobs are not in conflict. A page that states plainly who you are, what you offer and where you work reassures a careful buyer, and it is also the page that search engines and answer engines read most easily.
- One page per service, written for searches made in Quebec City and Lévis
- Contact details and the form one click away, on a phone as on a computer
- A visible privacy policy, with the name of the person in charge
A title that names the service and the city, on a fast page.
By industry
What should a website show by industry, in Quebec City and Lévis?
Insurance, professional services and technology carry a lot of weight on the north shore. In Lévis, it is manufacturing and retail. Visitors are not looking for the same thing from one industry to the next, so the site should not be the same either.
| Type of business | What the visitor checks | What the site has to show |
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| Brokerage firm or supplier to the insurance industry | How carefully the information entrusted to it is handled | An up-to-date privacy policy, short forms, precise service pages. |
| Professional services firm working with government departments | The expertise and the people behind the mandate | A team page, one page per practice area, an English version where it applies. |
| Studio or young technology company | The product, in a few seconds | A clear product page, a demo, a careers page for hiring. |
| Clinic or laboratory | The services offered and how to book an appointment | Online booking, forms that ask only for what is needed. |
| Retailer or service business in Sainte-Foy or Beauport | The hours, the address, the phone number | A clickable number at the top of the page, a Google business profile kept current, recent reviews. |
| Manufacturing shop in Lévis | What the shop can make and how to ask for a price | Technical sheets, a quote request, a careers page. |
The full list of what we build, online stores and client portals included, is on the website design for SMBs page.
Each address on the old site leads to its new page. None of them ends in an error.
Modernization
How do you modernize an existing site without losing your rankings?
Plenty of Quebec City businesses have a site that is showing its age but still ranks for a few searches. They hesitate to rebuild it, afraid of dropping out of the results. The risk is real. It almost always comes from the same oversight: the addresses change and nobody redirects the old ones. So we work in reverse. The complete list of addresses is drawn up before the first sketch, and each one gets its destination in the new site. Copy that works, images and articles are carried over. On switchover day, the old site stays ready to take its place back, then we replay every address to confirm it lands in the right spot.
- Every old address redirected to its new page
- The French and English versions follow, each on its own side
Law 25
What does a website need to comply with Law 25?
Law 25 applies as soon as a business collects personal information, and a contact form collects it. When your clients are insurers or public bodies, it is often the first thing they look at. Here is what every site we deliver includes.
Cookie consent
A banner that leaves the choice to the visitor. No tracker starts before they say yes.
The privacy policy
Written in plain language, reachable from every page, and kept current when the site changes.
The person in charge
Their name and how to reach them are displayed, as the law requires.
Lean forms
We ask only for what is needed to reply. The less you collect, the less you have to protect.
A company’s compliance goes beyond its website. The incident register, the retention policy and the rest are explained on the page what Law 25 requires of a Quebec small business.
Remote and on site
How does a project work when the team is in Trois-Rivières?
OKTO has no office in Quebec City. Our only office is in Trois-Rivières, 129 km away via Highway 40, which is under two hours on the road. A website builds very well remotely, and the drive is short enough that an in-person meeting is easy to plan.
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First call
By video call. We look at your current site, your customers and the searches you want to win in Quebec City or Lévis.
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Scoping, on site if needed
If several people have to agree on the content, we come up to see you. Scope and schedule are then put in writing.
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Mockup on a preview address
The home page and one service page, in your colours, with real copy. You comment from your office, we make the changes.
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Build and carry-over
The pages are built and checked on phone, tablet and computer. The old site’s content is recovered and its addresses redirected.
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Launch
The switchover happens in one move. The sitemap is submitted to Google and Bing the same day.
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Follow-up
The site is hosted on our servers, backed up and monitored. Changes are requested by email or by phone.
The cost of a project is set after scoping, never before. The page on how a quote is put together explains the approach.
The website, and the IT that goes with it
The domain, the email and the site can all be looked after by the same team.
Questions and answers
Frequently asked questions about website design in Quebec City
Do you have an office in Quebec City?
Do we have to meet in person to get a website built?
My site already ranks on Google in Quebec City. Will I lose my spot if I rebuild it?
Do you also build websites for businesses in Lévis?
Does a simple contact form mean my site has to comply with Law 25?
Send us your website address
We look at it and tell you what we would keep, what we would change and what that involves. The first meeting happens over video, and a visit to Quebec City or Lévis is planned afterwards if the project calls for it.
Reviewed by Antonio Pazzi, president of OKTO Solutions · updated