Web development services in Montreal
Build a website or an application, improve an existing site, or have it maintained. Every service follows the same standards of performance, accessibility and security.
Where to start?
Six situations come up often, each with the service that answers it.
You are starting from scratch
WordPress in most cases. Shopify or WooCommerce for an online store, HubSpot if your marketing team already works in it.
Your site is slow
No need to rebuild everything: most slowdowns come from the theme, the plugins, the images and the scripts. Start by measuring a page with the free speed test.
Your site has had its day
It is hard to edit, or it no longer reflects what you offer. The redesign keeps the pages that already bring in traffic, with a redirect plan prepared before development.
You are torn between fixing and rebuilding
The audit tells you what to fix first, and what can wait. For a first look, our free tools analyze a page.
Your tools don’t talk to each other
A form that feeds your CRM, single sign-on, an AI assistant that reads your content. If you need a complete piece of software, that is a web application.
You want to hand off maintenance
Tested updates, backups and continuous monitoring. Changes are handled separately, from a block of hours.
A web development studio in Montreal
Digilia is a web development studio based in Montreal. We build WordPress sites, Shopify stores, HubSpot sites and Laravel applications for businesses and organizations in Quebec, across Canada and around the world. The same studio speeds up existing sites, leads redesigns and handles maintenance.
One point of contact
The person who replies to you builds your site. You never explain anything twice, and no request gets lost between a project manager and the code.
Quality included
Performance, accessibility (target: WCAG 2.2 level AA), security, technical SEO and Quebec’s Law 25 are part of every quote. Like a seatbelt, they are not options.
A site you manage
You edit your text, images and pages from the admin interface, without waiting for anyone. When needed, we are here to do it with you or for you.
Nothing is locked in
Domain name, hosting and accounts are in your name. For an application or an integration, so are the code and the repository.
In French and in English
Bilingual sites planned from the structure up, and communication in your team’s language.
AI, out in the open
It speeds up development, and the time saved shows on the quote. When it is used to write your content, we tell you.
Work across several services
Peripharm
Bilingual redesign, audit before launch, speed optimization and SEO in both languages.
- WordPress
Vigelia
SAML single sign-on with several identity providers on the Vigelia Academy (LearnDash).
- WordPress
- LearnDash
- SAML
Indyeva
Bilingual Shopify store, selling in Canada and the United States. New features added to the store, the cart and the orders, plus visual and technical changes to the theme.
- Shopify
- Liquid
What we do, and what we don’t do
Each project is estimated in hours, at $125 an hour, then sold at a fixed price in a detailed quote. Some prices are published: maintenance from $125 to $375 a month, a website audit from $625 to $2,500 and speed optimization from $625. You know the price before you commit.
It depends on the project. We design the mockups, or we develop the ones made by your designer or a partner designer. Either way, the design is approved with you before development, and accessibility (contrast, text sizes, keyboard navigation) is checked from the mockup stage.
Not ourselves. You know your field and your clients better than anyone: most of the time, you provide the text. If you prefer, we produce it with artificial intelligence, based on an analysis of your competitors and your positioning, in the vocabulary of your industry. You review and approve every text. Much of the text published today goes through AI without anyone saying so. We would rather tell you.
No. Technical SEO is included in every site: structure, metadata, structured data, speed and redirects. On an existing site, an audit checks it, and our free SEO checker analyzes a page. An editorial strategy followed month after month and link building are the job of an SEO specialist.
No. We set up the tracking your campaigns need: Google Tag Manager, GA4 and cookie consent that complies with Quebec’s Law 25. Campaigns and social media stay with your team or your marketing agency, and we are glad to work alongside them.
We favour a cross-platform web application that can be installed like an app (PWA). A single codebase runs on phones, tablets and computers, without going through the App Store or Google Play. If a native app is essential, we discuss it during scoping. See how we build web applications and SaaS.
We recommend a host suited to your site and your budget, then we configure it. The account and the invoice stay in your name, like the domain name: you can change providers without moving your site.
Yes, after reviewing the site, its theme and its plugins. Depending on what that shows, the site moves to maintenance, gets sped up or deserves a redesign. We tell you frankly which one, and why.
No. The studio is in Montreal and works remotely with businesses and organizations in Quebec, across Canada and around the world, in French as well as in English. We communicate by email and video call.
