Winnipeg Web Design
Becker Design is in Saskatoon, a day’s drive west on the Yellowhead. Four Winnipeg addresses run on websites we built — an industrial safety company, a fastener distributor and two pizza restaurants on opposite sides of the city — and not one of them started as a Winnipeg project.
Four Winnipeg addresses, none of them ours
Northern Strands Winnipeg is on Keewatin Street — the Manitoba arm of a six-company group we’ve built for repeatedly, trading as Working From Heights. Fastener Warehouse runs its Manitoba branch on De Baets Street. Vern’s Pizza has two: McPhillips Street in the north end and St. Annes Road in the south. Every one of them hired us from somewhere else and brought Winnipeg along with them.
A day’s drive, and why nobody has ever made it
Home base
This page
Eight and a half hours is the point where you stop pretending a drive is part of the plan. So: our Winnipeg work is done remotely, and it has been for years.
Kickoff is a video call. The written content lives in a shared document, and how fast it fills in is the only genuine variable in your timeline. The build happens on a dev site — a private space on the web where the new website comes to life — and you get the link on day one, so you’re looking at the real thing in a browser rather than at slides about it. Feedback happens on the site itself. When it’s done we flip a switch at the domain.
The one thing distance actually costs you is casual photography. If a build needs pictures of a real yard or a real crew, we either plan a trip properly or you hire a Winnipeg photographer and we art-direct it. We’d rather say that than pretend a road trip is included.
After launch, hosting, updates, upkeep, backups, security, and support — six things, one bill, running quietly. Four Winnipeg addresses have been on that arrangement without incident.
Winnipeg is not short of web designers
It isn’t, and if what you want is a team you can sit down with — a brand session in a boardroom, a photographer on retainer, quarterly reviews in person — hire in Winnipeg. That’s a real service and we don’t offer it.
What we offer is narrower and, for a lot of businesses, more useful: one person who builds the thing himself, doesn’t hand your file to anybody, and is still looking after sites he launched years ago. Northern Strands didn’t come to us because we were nearby. They came because we’d already built for four of their sister companies and knew how the group fits together — and the Winnipeg operation got the same treatment from 780 kilometres away.
Mostly Saskatchewan, regularly not
14 years and hundreds of builds. Home is Saskatoon; the work has gone to Winnipeg, Calgary, Edmonton, Kelowna, Vancouver, Victoria, Toronto and Montreal. A few below.
The industries we’ve actually done this for
Three of these have a Winnipeg address behind them and we say which. Three don’t. The other nine industries we build for aren’t on this page, because there’d be nothing true to write under them.
- 01WINNIPEG — KEEWATIN ST
Construction companies — including the one on Keewatin
Northern Strands Winnipeg trades as Working From Heights and does fall-protection and industrial safety out of Keewatin Street. It’s one of six companies in that family we’ve built for, and the constellation is cross-linked so a customer who lands on one finds the others. More on construction websites.
- 02WINNIPEG BRANCH — DE BAETS ST
Mining and heavy industry — including a branch on De Baets
The Northern Strands group sells into mining and heavy industry, and Fastener Warehouse’s Manitoba branch on De Baets Street supplies the same world. Both sites are built around the questions procurement people ask first. More on mining and heavy industry.
- 03TWO WINNIPEG LOCATIONS
Restaurants — including two, north end and south
Vern’s Pizza runs McPhillips Street and St. Annes Road. Two locations in one city is a specific website problem: a hungry person has to land on the right one, on a phone, without thinking about it. More on restaurant websites.
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Contractors
Mesa Mechanical, NexGen, Stevenson Industrial, Cypress Sales — the trades are the biggest single slice of what we build, and all of it is Saskatchewan-side so far. More on contractor websites.
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Professional services
OptimaHR, Your Voice Consulting, ResearchFDI. Nothing Winnipeg-based yet. The problem is the same everywhere: getting a stranger to understand what you actually sell before they leave. More on professional services.
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Nonprofits
Pink Wig Foundation, Saskatoon Youth Orchestra, Shifting Ground. A board, a donor and a volunteer coordinator all wanting different things from one small site. More on nonprofit websites.
Four reasons a Winnipeg business calls Saskatoon
Out-of-province clients call for different reasons than local ones. These are the four we actually hear.
- 01
Somebody already recommended us
Most of our Manitoba work arrived sideways — a sister company, a supplier, somebody who saw a site they liked and asked who did it. That’s still how it mostly happens.
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Your locations fight each other
Two branches, two sets of hours, one website, and customers landing on the wrong one. It’s a structure problem and it’s fixable in an afternoon of planning.
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The site can’t answer a procurement question
If a buyer can’t find your certifications, your safety record and your capabilities inside a minute, you’re not on the list. That’s most of what heavy-industry web design actually is.
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Nobody’s minding it
Launched, handed over, forgotten. The maintenance is the part we treat as the job rather than the afterthought.
Questions we actually get asked
The Manitoba version — the first one comes up every time.
Why hire somebody in Saskatoon?
Usually you don’t go looking — somebody hands you our name. Beyond that: you get one person who does the actual work and doesn’t reassign your file, and a studio still looking after sites it launched years ago. If you want people in a boardroom, hire in Winnipeg and we’d say so.
Have you built anything in Winnipeg?
Four addresses across three clients: Northern Strands Winnipeg on Keewatin, Fastener Warehouse on De Baets, and Vern’s on both McPhillips and St. Annes.
Will you come out here?
For something that genuinely needs it, yes, planned properly. Not casually — it’s eight and a half hours and we’re not going to pretend otherwise or bill you for pretending.
We’ve got multiple locations. Does that complicate things?
It’s the single most common structural problem we solve. Vern’s has two here; the Northern Strands family has six across three provinces. It’s a planning question, not a technical one.
What happens after it launches?
We keep it. Hosting, updates, upkeep, backups, security, and support — that’s Enhanced Ongoing Services, and it’s how every site we build is looked after.
Tell us what you’re working on
Tell us what you do, how many locations you’re juggling and what keeps going wrong. You’ll get a written scope back with the features, the specs and the costs, and nothing on it is final until you say so. 306.292.7660.