Websites that work as hard as you do

Why Live Dogs for web design

Live Dogs is a brand agency first, and that's exactly why our websites work. Most web shops start with a template and pour your content into it; we start with your identity — the story, colours, and voice we've either built with you or absorbed from what you have — and design the site around it. The result reads like your business, not like a theme 40,000 other companies bought.

We're based in Airdrie and we build for the businesses around us: trades, shops, and services with $1–2 million in revenue who need their website to actually produce work, not just exist. Being local matters here — we know what your customers search for, we can shoot photos at your shop, and when you call, a person you've met answers.

And because we believe websites are a service rather than a one-time stunt, we price them like one. Hosting, updates, and care are part of the monthly rate. You'll never discover your site is three years out of date and be quoted a five-figure rebuild — it just keeps getting tended, like anything alive.

There's a mission behind the model, too: we aim to help 24 small businesses refresh their brand and visibility by the end of 2026. A website is usually where that visibility becomes measurable — calls booked, quotes requested, directions tapped. So we treat your site as the working end of your brand, the place where recognition finally turns into revenue, and we hold it to that standard every month you're with us.

Your website is your online building — and it shows when the builder cut corners.

What web design includes, in detail

Every Live Dogs website is custom-designed and fully responsive — it works on the phone in your customer's pocket first, because that's where most of Airdrie is browsing. We architect pages around what you want visitors to do: call, book, request a quote. Then we build it clean and fast, because speed is a ranking factor and slow sites bleed customers.

Web Design Basic ($299–$499/month) covers complete web design with hosting and ongoing updates. Web Design + adds the assets that lift a site from good to convincing: a professional photo session ($1,000–$2,500), colour palette, and custom icons. Web Design Max brings e-commerce ($99–$999/month), a CMS for blogging ($49–$499/month), copywriting, and web animation for the businesses ready to sell and publish online.

Search optimization is baked in, not bolted on: proper page structure, local keywords, fast load times, and the technical details — titles, descriptions, structured data — that help Google understand exactly what you do and where you do it.

Behind the design, the technical work is done properly: semantic structure so search engines understand every page, responsive layouts tested on real phones, image optimization so pages load fast on rural connections, and analytics wired in so you can see what's working. We register your business correctly with Google, connect your reviews, and keep the site's content fresh — because Google rewards tended sites and quietly buries abandoned ones. It's unglamorous work, and it's exactly why our clients' sites keep climbing while template sites stall.

And when your business changes — new service, new crew, new town — the site changes with it inside your monthly rate. Growth shouldn't trigger a renegotiation; it should just show up on the website that same week, looking like it was always planned.

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