Web Design in Oshawa & Durham Region
Websites, web development, and technical SEO for Durham businesses, from a developer who spent 25 years living in Oshawa.
I grew up in Oshawa and lived there for more than 25 years before moving east to Belleville, so this isn't a city I picked off a service-area map. I know Durham, how much it has changed, and what a local customer expects the moment a business website loads.
I'm Corby Wenzelbach. I've been building websites and web applications for more than ten years, for small local businesses as well as national associations. If you're searching for web design in Oshawa, a web developer in Ajax or Pickering, or technical SEO support for a Durham Region business, this is what I do.
If you're in Whitby, there's a page just for web design in Whitby. I also work with businesses in Toronto and the GTA, Belleville and Quinte West, and Kingston.
Web Design and Development for Oshawa & Durham Businesses
Durham is growing fast, and a lot of its trades, clinics, shops, and professional firms are working with websites that haven't kept up. Here's where most of my Durham Region work lands.
- Business sites that bring in calls and quote requests for Oshawa, Ajax, and Pickering companies
- Online stores with proper payments and inventory you control
- Membership platforms and custom web applications for Durham organizations
- Rebuilds for Durham businesses that have outgrown a template or a builder
- Technical SEO for sites that aren't turning up for the right searches
The Durham Industries I Build For
Oshawa has come a long way from being a one-employer town, and the range of businesses across Durham now is wide.
Automotive and industrial supply
Sites for suppliers to the auto sector and other manufacturers. Their buyers do their research before they call, so the site has to set out capabilities and certifications plainly, with a quote form rather than a checkout.
Trades and home services
A contractor working across Ajax, Pickering, and Clarington needs a site that shows jobs in each, so a homeowner in Bowmanville can see you've already worked near them.
Associations and community groups
Sports clubs, associations, and community groups that want registrations, renewals, and payments online instead of on paper and e-transfer.
Durham College and Ontario Tech ventures
Early-stage companies that need something they can launch quickly and change fast as the product changes. I keep the first version deliberately small so you're not paying for features before anyone has asked for them.
Retail and hospitality
Independent businesses in downtown Oshawa, Pickering, and Port Perry competing with chains that have far bigger marketing budgets.
Competing With Toronto Firms in Local Search
A common worry from Durham businesses is that Toronto competitors will always outrank them. In local search that's rarely true, because a business from outside the area can't fake being local.
What decides local rankings, all within your reach
- Service-area pages that say something about each town, rather than a list of city names stuffed into a footer
- A Google Business Profile that's properly filled out and kept current
- Reviews from your own customers
- Fast mobile pages
- Content that speaks to a Durham customer instead of to everyone
I build the on-site half of that.
The profile and the reviews are yours to run, and I'll go through both with you at launch.
How a Durham Project Runs
The person planning your project is the person building it.
Your questions get answered by the person who knows the code, and a decision you make goes straight into the build instead of waiting to be passed along.
When the site launches, the domain, the content, and the code are yours, and you can edit your own text, photos, and services without calling me. If you want the full picture on budgeting, read what drives the cost of a website.
Recent Work
A sample of recent builds, from my own web app to membership platforms for national organizations.
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Durham Region Questions
Can you fix the SEO on my current site without rebuilding it?
Often, yes. If the site underneath is sound, technical SEO work can deal with the usual problems: slow mobile pages, missing or duplicate page titles, pages Google hasn't indexed, broken redirects, and missing structured data. On WordPress and Shopify I can work at the code level. On Wix or Squarespace the platform controls the code, so there's less I can change, and I'll tell you that before you spend anything.
My business serves several Durham towns. Do I need a page for each?
Only for the towns where you want work and have something specific to say, like jobs you've done there or how you serve that area. A set of pages with the same text and the town name swapped doesn't help, and Google's spam policies treat pages like that as doorways. A few good pages do more than a dozen thin ones.
Can you help an automotive or industrial supplier?
Yes. Supplier sites often need a product or parts catalogue that's easy to search, spec sheets people can download, and a quote request form that collects what your sales team needs the first time. If you already keep product data in another system, I can connect the catalogue to it so nobody maintains it twice.
You're based in Belleville. Why hire you for a Durham project?
Where your developer lives matters less than whether they know your customers and build sites that work, and the portfolio shows the work. Most projects run remotely by email and video, and I'm happy to come out to Durham when meeting in person would help.
Do you work with Ajax and Pickering businesses too?
Yes. Ajax, Pickering, Clarington, and Bowmanville are all part of the same service area. Durham is one market in practice, even if the municipal boundaries say otherwise.