Sipp Vodka
Website design and build for product discovery and retailer lookup, plus separate launch creative for Sipp N'Soda and You Bet!
Made in Calgary
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Calgary web design + development
Strategy, design and engineering, aligned from day one.
Answered straight
Websites for Calgary businesses, from strategy and copy through design, development and launch. One in-house team, with the scope, price and timeline agreed before work starts.
From strategy through launch
Website design and build for product discovery and retailer lookup, plus separate launch creative for Sipp N'Soda and You Bet!
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Website and service content for a mobile aircraft-detailing business in Western Canada. Owners can review treatments, see past work and request a quote for their aircraft.
Website design and copy for online training, nutrition and wellness coaching. The site explains the program and takes prospective clients straight to checkout.
The Calgary research
Every web design agency in Calgary claims local expertise. We measured the Calgary web, published the numbers, and build against them.
Speed
We pulled 152 Calgary small business sites and measured load speed. 124 returned usable data, and 71% of those came back Slow or Painful. Cheap template builds are where most of that number comes from, and speed is the first thing we fix.
Read the studyAI search
Same 152 sites, run through the free AEO audit we use on clients. 123 returned a usable score, and not one hit the Strong tier. Every Calgary site we ship starts on the right side of that: clean URLs, structured data, metadata, sitemap, and copy an answer engine can quote.
Read the studyWho we build for
Trades and home services, restaurants and cafes, fitness studios, professional services, retail, real estate, and DTC ecommerce. Most arrive after outgrowing a template or a web design company that handed back a site they could not edit. The studio is headquartered in Calgary, and we also build for Edmonton. If your current site loads slowly, does not rank, or has not sent a lead in months, a redesign usually pays back faster than a new build.
For technical architecture, commerce, integrations and migrations, see Calgary web development. For a live result, see the Precise Detailing case study: 38 inquiries in 13 weeks, 82% for $750+ work.
Six kinds of business have their own page, detailing and PPF shops, aviation services, videographers and filmmakers, window cleaning companies, spirits brands and craft breweries.
What Calgary clients say
Named Calgary client reviews sit on our Google Business Profile, not on a page we control. Read them on the reviews page, and see the range of work in the portfolio.
“They helped build my website from the ground up and made the whole process easy/stress free. Communication was solid… very attentive to detail.”
“Meridian 15 built us a great website and made the whole process really easy. Super happy with how everything turned out.”
Before we build
Every build is quoted to its scope rather than read off a rate card. A short call, the scope in writing, then one fixed number and a timeline before anything starts. What drives that number, page count, ecommerce, integrations, and custom motion, and what every build includes are on the web design services page. For the Calgary breakdown by project type, read the Calgary web design cost guide.
Foundational SEO and AEO ship with every build, and the ongoing work is on SEO and AEO, with the Calgary-specific work on Calgary SEO and AEO services. If you want the ads run against the new site, that starts on Calgary Google Ads or Calgary Meta ads.
Keep what works
A full redesign in 4 to 6 weeks.
A redesign beats starting over when there is something worth keeping: rankings, real traffic, brand equity, or copy that already converts. Building from zero throws that out and resets the SEO clock to nothing. Start over completely only when the foundation itself is the problem, wrong platform, content nobody can find in Google, or a brand that has changed entirely since the site launched.
On a redesign, content, redirects, and SEO equity carry over. We audit the existing site first: what pages rank, what content converts, where the backlinks point. Every existing URL gets mapped to a matching redirect so ranking pages keep their equity instead of dropping into 404s when the new site goes live, and analytics history stays continuous instead of resetting to zero.
A full redesign of an existing Calgary site ships in 4 to 6 weeks, the faster end of the 4 to 8 week band a build of that size normally takes, because the content, structure, and brand direction are already known going in. Smaller redesigns move faster still.
A redesign is scoped the same way a new build is: what stays, what gets rebuilt, and what the site has to do better than the one it replaces. Ecommerce replatforms carry more scope than a content site, and a full redesign is quoted to that scope after a short audit call.
The process
Tell us what you're trying to do. No formal brief needed.
We reply within one business day, then agree the deliverables, fee and timeline in writing.
We confirm the start date and delivery milestones before work begins.
We review the work against the brief. Ongoing support and further improvements are scoped separately.
Before you call
Strategy, copywriting, design, hand-coded build, and the SEO foundations: clean URLs, structured data, metadata, sitemap, and performance work. Photography and video are available when the site needs them. Every project is quoted per scope after a short call, as one fixed number with a timeline, so there are no surprise line items mid-build.
Simple Calgary sites launch in 2 to 4 weeks from kickoff. A one page site can go live in about a week. Larger brand and ecommerce builds run 4 to 8 weeks or longer depending on scope. You will get a clear timeline in your proposal before any work starts.
We choose the architecture around what the business needs to run. That may be a purpose-built front end, a headless CMS, Shopify for commerce, or an established platform when the internal team needs a specific workflow. Performance, integrations, content operations and long-term ownership drive the decision.
Yes. Every site we ship gets foundational SEO included: clean URL structure, relevant structured data, metadata, sitemap, robots rules, and performance work. We also make content clear, attributable, and crawlable for answer systems. Ongoing SEO and AEO retainers are available separately for competitive search markets and continued visibility monitoring.
Yes. Redesigns start from a stronger base than a new build because we already have copy, brand, and analytics data to work from. We start with a conversion audit on the existing site, identify what is working, and rebuild around the parts that drive leads. A full redesign of an existing site ships in 4 to 6 weeks.
Launch is the start of the work, not the end. Every Calgary site gets a 30 day post-launch revision window included in the build. Optional retainers after that cover hosting and maintenance, content and SEO, or full-service growth across web, SEO, and paid. Each is quoted to the site and the goal, and none are required to own and run what we built.
Your next website
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