Brand and site, shipped in five days.
"I gave Dylan our brief on a Monday and we were live by Friday. The phones started ringing the week after. We've sent two friends to him already."
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Edgar ArabianWilson Arabian Realty
Independent web design studio · Toronto
Websites that earn
their keep.
I'm Dylan. I design and rebuild websites for businesses and personal brands across the GTA. New builds and redesigns only. No templates, no bloat, no agency theatre.
01 · How it works
Simple. Direct. Done.
I don't run a six-week discovery phase. The whole engagement, from first call to launched site, fits in three steps and under a week.
01Talk
One call. No deck.
30 minutes on Zoom. I ask what your business does, who buys from you, and what isn't working. You leave with a clear sense of what I'd build and how long it would take.
02Build
Design + ship in code.
You see real screens, not Figma mockups. Two rounds of revisions baked in. The site is built directly in code so what you review is what goes live.
03Launch
Live + 2-week warranty.
I deploy to your domain, set up analytics, and stay on for the first two weeks to fix anything that comes up. After that, monthly support is optional.
02 · Why DJ Designs
Built for owners who want a site that works.
If you've worked with a "design agency" before, you know the drill: six-week discovery phases, pretty mockups, and a final deliverable that doesn't match what was scoped. That's not what happens here.
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No agency theatre.
No six-week discovery phase. No 40-page brand audit. No kickoff workshop with sticky notes. One conversation, one proposal, one person doing the work. The whole engagement fits in three steps.
Three steps, one inbox↯
Less than a week, end to end.
Most marketing sites ship in under seven days from kickoff. No drawn-out discovery, no committee reviews. You see real screens day one, revise twice, and we launch.
Day-one preview link⌥
Built in code, not Figma.
Every review happens on a real working site, not a flat mockup. What you see is what ships. Feedback is faster: Slack a screenshot, the change is live the same day.
No mockup-to-code drift⌁
One person on the build.
You email me. I reply. No project manager, no junior designer "handed the file," no chain of inboxes. The person designing the site is the person building it.
Direct line, every step⤓
You own everything.
You own the code and the domain. Host it yourself or let me host it on my server, your call. No proprietary CMS lock-in, nothing rented. If we ever stop working together, the site goes with you.
No platform tax⏻
Two-week post-launch warranty.
I stay on for the first two weeks after launch to fix anything that comes up: copy tweaks, broken forms, a button on the wrong page. After that, monthly support is optional, never required.
No surprise bills
03 · Services
Three things. Done well.
I design new websites, redesign existing ones, and rewrite the SEO on sites that should be ranking but aren't. Every new build ships with SEO baked in, and light branding (logo, type, colour) bundles in when you need it.
01
Website design
Who this is for
New businesses, fresh launches, or anyone who's never had a real site, just a Linktree, an Instagram, or a placeholder Squarespace someone set up in 2019.
What you get
- ↳Custom design from scratch. No themes, no page-builders
- ↳Hand-coded, mobile-first, sub-second load times
- ↳SEO foundation: schema, meta, semantic HTML
- ↳Domain, hosting, and analytics set up the day we launch
02
Website redesign
Who this is for
Businesses with a site that's losing them leads: slow, dated, mobile-broken, or just not matching the quality of the work behind it. Sub-week rebuild, your URLs preserved.
What you get
- ↳Audit of what's working, what isn't, and where leads are leaking
- ↳Full visual rebuild aligned to your brand
- ↳Content migration + URL preservation so SEO doesn't break
- ↳Side-by-side launch. Your old site stays up until the new one is ready
03
SEO rewrite
Who this is for
Sites that look fine but aren't ranking. The copy is decent, the design is OK, but Google can't tell what the page is about, structured data is missing, and the performance score is mediocre. A targeted fix without rebuilding the whole site.
What you get
- ↳Full audit: what's working, what's broken, what search engines can't see
- ↳Page titles, headings, meta, and on-page copy rewritten for search clarity (no keyword stuffing)
- ↳JSON-LD schema added so you show up in rich results and Knowledge Panel
- ↳Performance + AI-search readiness: Core Web Vitals, llms.txt, semantic structure for ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews
04 · Recent work
The proof, plainly.
Three sites I've designed and built, on three different briefs. Every screenshot below links to the live build. Click through and judge it for yourself. References available on request.
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Brand + site · launched
Wilson Arabian Realty
A partner-team rebrand for two top-producing GTA agents. Editorial layout, listing showcase, story-led about page.
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Time to interactive
TeeAgain
Used golf balls, sold in tiers. Custom product grid, transparent grading system, clean checkout flow.
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3 decades
Of craft, on one page
Paul's Tailors
A neighbourhood tailor with three decades of repeat clients. Quiet, confident, easy to book.
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5 days
Brief to live site
Mississauga Custom Suits
Peter Parvez has been hand-cutting suits at Square One for 27 years. New site with services, story, and a one-step booking flow built around the in-person fitting experience.
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05 · Reviews
The proof, in their words.
Three quotes from the three clients I've shipped sites for this year. References available on request, every project linked above has a real human behind it I can put you in touch with.
Three questions. Five days. Done.
"Other agencies wanted six weeks just to scope the project. Dylan asked three questions, sent a one-page proposal, and shipped a site I'm proud to send clients to."
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Paul TanPaul's Tailors, Toronto
Stopped looking like a scam.
"The site loads faster than anything else in our category. We stopped getting 'is this a real store?' emails the day we switched. Cart abandonment dropped too."
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Jaden KimTeeAgain, Founder
27 years of work, finally online.
"I had photos, a list of services, and a Square One address. Dylan turned that into a real website in under a week. The booking form means I'm not chasing Instagram DMs anymore."
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Peter ParvezMississauga Custom Suits
06 · FAQ
Questions, answered honestly.
The six questions that come up on almost every first call. If yours isn't here, email me and I'll answer it in a sentence.
01 How do you ship a site in under a week? +
Tight scope, no committee, code reviews instead of mockup reviews. Most projects don't actually need six weeks; they need one person making decisions and shipping. I keep the brief small, the feedback loop on the same day, and skip the agency theatre.
02 What if I need changes after launch? +
First two weeks of free fixes after we go live. Copy tweaks, broken forms, a button on the wrong page, anything. After that, monthly support is optional, never required. Most clients don't need it.
03 Can you redesign a WordPress, Squarespace, or Shopify site? +
Yes. I'll migrate your content, preserve your URLs so SEO doesn't break, and run the new site side by side with the old one until launch day so nothing goes dark in the meantime.
04 Do you handle hosting? +
Either way works. If you want to host it yourself, you get the code and deploy it to your own Vercel, Netlify, or whatever you prefer. If you'd rather not deal with it, the site lives on my server and I keep it patched and online. You always own the domain, and the code is yours regardless.
05 What if I don't have a brand yet? +
I can help with that. Light branding (logo, type, colour) bundles into the website project, adds two or three days to the timeline. If you need a full brand system with stationery, packaging, and printed collateral, I'll point you at a brand-specialist friend who does that side of things properly.
07 · Get in touch
Tell me about your project.
A few sentences is enough. I read every message and reply within a day, usually faster.
Direct line. No gatekeepers.
You email me. I reply. The person designing your site is also the person building it, and the person you message at 9pm on a Tuesday when something breaks.
Emaildylan@djdesigns.ca
BasedToronto, ON · GTA & remote
HoursMon–Fri · 9am–6pm ET
BookingMay 2026 · 2 slots open