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7 B2B Website Redesign Steps: 2026 Field Guide

A B2B website redesign in 7 steps for Canadian firms, from the numbers to record on day zero to the CRM wiring and buyer tests before launch, with a step filter and a break-even calculator.

7 B2B website redesign steps for Canadian firms. People rated the visual appeal of a web page within 50 milliseconds (Lindgaard and colleagues, 2006).

Published 15 April 2026 · Last updated and fact-checked 24 October 2026

Short answer: A B2B website redesign runs in 7 steps: measure the current site, name the audiences, map the buyer journey, pick the scope, place the proof, wire every form to the CRM, then test. Four test sessions give the best return per session (Nielsen and Landauer, 1993), and people rate a page’s visual appeal within 50 milliseconds (Lindgaard and colleagues, 2006).

Picture a producer who needs a communications expert on air in 90 minutes. She opens one consultancy’s site and gets a paragraph about the practice. The credential is further down. The topics sit inside a document. She books the next name on her list. A B2B website redesign exists to fix that moment, and most of them never look at it.

Producers like her are one of four audiences W Communications, a Seattle communications and speaking practice, had to serve from one homepage: media, clients, event bookers and readers. All four got the same paragraph. The fix was not a new color palette. It was a homepage with a separate path for each of them.

I am Joshua Jackai, a web designer in Vancouver, and I run Jackai Agency, the studio that quotes and builds the projects described here. This guide is how I run a B2B web redesign for better conversions, in the order I do it. Each step says what to measure, what to build and what I would skip. It is for owners and marketing leads at B2B firms of about 10 to 200 people in Vancouver and across Canada, on WordPress, HubSpot, Framer or Shopify, and every price in it is in Canadian dollars. I sell web design, so weigh my advice the way you would weigh any vendor’s. The time estimates are mine, from client work.

Key takeaways

  • Run 7 steps in order: measure, audiences, journey map, scope, proof, CRM wiring, testing. Without step 1, nobody can show whether the redesign worked.
  • Record 5 numbers on day zero, starting with leads per month by source, so the new site can be compared with the old one at 30, 60 and 90 days.
  • Test with 4 to 6 buyers before launch. Nielsen and Landauer put the best return per test at about four evaluations.
  • Snappy Kraken went from Figma to production on HubSpot CMS in 3 weeks for 6 pages, because the design system and copy were settled first.
  • Canadian projects add CASL consent on forms and prices in CAD. Mine run from CA$4,950 for 5 pages to CA$10,495 for 8 to 15 pages.
StepWhat it settlesYou hold at the endElapsed time (my estimate)
1. MeasureWhether the redesign workedDay-zero numbers in a file you own3 days
2. AudiencesWho the site is forExact buyer wording from interviews5 days
3. Journey mapWhich page answers which questionA table of questions, pages and next steps3 days
4. ScopeRedesign, rebuild or migrationOne scope, with a reason2 days
5. ProofWhere each credential sitsA proof inventory mapped to pages5 days
6. CRM wiringWhether leads arrive with a sourceForms that hand over lead, source and page5 days
7. TestingWhat breaks before buyers see itA fix list and a 30, 60, 90 day check5 days

What should a B2B website redesign actually change?

A B2B website redesign should change what a buyer can do on the site, not only how the site looks. If the new version has a better font and the same dead ends, you paid for a redesign and kept the problem. The order of the steps matters more than any single one of them.

For a B2B firm, “what a buyer can do” has a narrow meaning. A person who fits your client profile arrives, finds the answer to the question that brought them, sees proof that you have solved it before, and takes one next step that lands in your CRM with its source attached. Once your sales team agrees that person is worth a call, I count them as a qualified lead. That count is the number the whole redesign project is built to move.

Pirolli and Card (1999) describe people looking for information as foragers. They judge where to go next from the cues in front of them, such as link labels and headings, and shift their effort toward whatever promises the most useful information for the time spent. In my experience, a buyer who sees no cue for their question does not dig. They open the next site on their list.

Looks still count. In a study of 2,684 people judging live websites, Fogg and colleagues found design look was the feature mentioned most when people judged credibility, in 46.1% of comments.

“the ‘design look’ of the site was mentioned most frequently, being present in 46.1% of the comments,” wrote Fogg and colleagues in the Proceedings of the 2003 Conference on Designing for User Experiences.

A good look cannot rescue a page that answers the wrong question.

B2B website redesign guide graphic over the Snappy Kraken homepage rebuilt on HubSpot CMS
Snappy Kraken homepage on HubSpot CMS, a Jackai Agency build. Graphic generated with Higgsfield from a screenshot of the live page.

1. What should you measure before a B2B website redesign?

Measure five things before anyone opens Figma: leads per month by source, the visitor-to-lead rate per page, the page each lead converted on, mobile against desktop rates, and how many leads sales accepted. Without them, nobody can tell whether the redesign did anything at all.

Five numbers to record before a B2B website redesign: leads per month by source, visitor-to-lead rate per page, page of conversion, mobile against desktop rates, leads sales accepted. At Y Scouts, 166 of 938 visitors became leads, 17.7%, in the client HubSpot report.
Step 1: five numbers to record on day zero.
  • Leads per month, by source: organic search, paid, referral, email, social, direct, and AI assistants such as ChatGPT, each counted on its own
  • Visitor-to-lead rate per page: form submissions divided by visitors, for every page that carries a form or a booking link
  • Page of conversion: the page each lead converted on, which shows which pages do the work and which only collect traffic
  • Mobile and desktop rates: side by side, because a wide gap is where I look first for a form or layout problem
  • Sales acceptance: ask sales to mark the last 20 leads as worth a call or not, and keep that ratio as your quality baseline

If your CRM cannot tell you where a lead came from, fix that before the redesign project, not after. In my experience, attribution breaks in one of four places: untagged links, forms that drop the tags, no record of the page the lead converted on, and AI referrals lumped in with direct. My lead attribution case study walks through the chain. A good baseline looks like the Y Scouts figure in the client’s HubSpot report: 166 leads from 938 visitors on the Hiring on Purpose page, a rate per page with a count behind it.

Then export everything. On the W Communications redesign, no analytics survived the redesign, so that case study carries no before-and-after number. The pages are live. Their effect on inquiries cannot be shown. Export your analytics, form entries and Search Console history to files you own before the old site changes. Without that file, the redesign becomes a matter of opinion, because nobody can show what the old site was doing.

“Export your analytics, form entries and Search Console history to files you own before the old site changes.” Joshua Jackai, Vancouver web designer, stated in this guide.

2. Who arrives at the site, and what does each person need?

Find out who arrives by interviewing recent clients, reading the sales inbox and checking where people enter the site. Plan for more than one buyer: one professional-services homepage might serve a prospective client, a referral partner, a journalist and a job candidate at once.

Three interview questions for a B2B website redesign: what were you trying to get done, what nearly stopped you, what did you type into Google or ChatGPT. New themes stopped appearing within 12 interviews in one study (Guest, Bunce and Johnson, 2006).
Step 2: three interview questions and what each becomes.
  • Method: short interviews with recent clients, a read of the sales inbox, and a look at entry pages
  • Sample size: 6 to 12 interviews; Guest, Bunce and Johnson (2006) found the basic themes after 6 and no new themes after 12, in a study of 60
  • Three questions: what were you trying to get done, what nearly stopped you, and what did you type into Google or ChatGPT
  • Output: the exact words buyers used, which become headings and link labels

B2B buying is also a group decision. Johnston and Bonoma (1981) studied purchases of equipment and industrial services across 31 firms. They treated the buyer as a buying center: a group whose makeup shifted with the type of purchase and the structure of the firm. Your site has to answer the person who finds you and the colleagues they forward the link to.

“Group composition and interaction processes were examined for purchases of capital equipment and industrial services in 31 firms,” wrote Johnston and Bonoma in the Journal of Marketing, 1981.

On the W Communications and In Communications redesigns, four audiences arrived at one page: media, clients, event bookers and readers. Each redesign gave every audience its own path from the first screen. The W Communications homepage now names each group and sends it to a page built for it, so a producer never reads the paragraph written for a client.

How do you find your audiences? Talk to people. You do not need dozens of interviews. Guest, Bunce and Johnson (2006) found that new themes stopped appearing within the first 12 interviews in their study, and the basic themes were there after 6. Write down each person’s exact words. Those words become the headings and link labels in your buyer journey map.

the Snappy Kraken homepage before the rebuild
Before: the Snappy Kraken homepage before the rebuild.

3. How do you map the buyer journey to real pages?

A useful buyer journey map is a table, not a poster. Each row is a question a real buyer asks, roughly in order, and the page that answers it. Every row gets a page, and every page gets one primary next step. A page with no row has no job.

Buyer journey map template: five stages from problem to committee, each with the buyer question, the page that answers it and one next step.
Step 3: a buyer journey map with one row per question.
  • Rows: one per buyer question, in the buyer’s own words
  • Pages: one page that answers each row, named by the question it answers
  • Next step: one per page, worded the same way everywhere it appears
  • Cut list: pages with no row, removed before anyone designs them

Lemon and Verhoef (2016) describe customers meeting a firm through many touchpoints, across several channels, over time.

“Customers now interact with firms through myriad touch points in multiple channels and media,” wrote Lemon and Verhoef in the Journal of Marketing, 2016.

That is why your site cannot assume everyone starts on the homepage. Here is the shape I use for a professional-services firm:

StageWhat the buyer is askingPage that answers itOne next step
ProblemIs this problem common, and what causes it?Blog post or guideRead the related service page
OptionsWho solves this, and how do they do it?Service pageRead a case study
ProofHave they done this for a firm like mine?Case studyBook a call
RiskWhat does it cost, how long does it take, what if it fails?Pricing or process pageBook a call
CommitteeCan I send this to my boss without explaining it?Case study or about pageForward the link

“If buyers ask about price and no page answers it, the buyer journey breaks at the point where they were ready to talk.” Joshua Jackai, Vancouver web designer, stated in this guide.

Use your buyers’ words for headings and link labels. A menu item called “Solutions” gives a forager nothing to follow. “Accounting for dental practices” does, if that is how your buyers describe the job. The map also shows which pages to skip, and I would cut those from the redesign project before anyone designs them.

Ask sales for the last ten questions prospects raised on calls and add any that have no row yet. Those gaps are usually where a buyer stalled, and a single new page that answers one of them often does more for lead quality than a restyled homepage does. Add that page to the map with its own row and next step, so the fix is tracked like every other page.

4. Do you need a redesign, a website rebuild or a migration?

Pick the lightest scope that fixes the problem. Redesign the pages on the current platform if it works, rebuild on a design system if marketing cannot publish without a developer, and migrate only if the platform blocks something you need, such as CRM forms or page speed.

Four situations and the lightest scope for each: redesign templates, rebuild on a design system, migrate from CA$2,500, or no redesign. Snappy Kraken went from Figma to production in 3 weeks for six pages.
Step 4: four situations and the lightest scope for each.
  • Redesign: new templates and rewritten key pages on the current platform
  • Rebuild: a design system the in-house team can edit without a queue
  • Migration: a new platform, with or without a redesign, from CA$2,500 for migration only
  • No redesign: when the pages convert and the problem is visitors, so content and search work instead
SituationWhat I would doWhy
The platform is fine, the pages do not convertRedesign the templates and rewrite the key pages on the current platformFastest path, and URLs and tracking can stay put
Marketing cannot publish without a developerA website rebuild on a design system the team can editEvery future page ships without a queue
The platform blocks what you need, such as CRM forms or page speedA migration to a new platform, with or without a redesignWorking around a platform limit gets more expensive every year
The pages convert, there just are not enough visitorsNo redesign; content and search work insteadA new site will not add visitors on its own

The second row is the one firms underrate. Snappy Kraken is a B2B FinTech SaaS that sells marketing systems to financial advisors, and its marketing team owned a roadmap bigger than it could build. That website rebuild took six pages from Figma to production on HubSpot CMS in 3 weeks, bound to a design system, so the in-house team can edit and ship pages without a designer.

The work influenced 7 figures of ARR (annual recurring revenue). That figure is influenced, not attributed: sales, pricing and product all moved in the same period, and the case study does not separate them. I would rather show you the caveat than a cleaner number.

Pick the platform your team already uses. If marketing lives in HubSpot, a HubSpot CMS redesign keeps forms, workflows and reporting in one place. On WordPress, a WordPress website redesign usually costs less than moving. If URLs will change, the redirect plan is its own job, covered in website migration without losing SEO.

How much does it cost to update an existing website instead?

Updating an existing site costs less than a redesign because the templates, URLs and tracking stay. For a B2B firm, I start with the CA$995 audit to find the few pages that carry the leads, then fix those pages on the current platform as a smaller job than a custom B2B build, which starts at CA$7,450.

If the platform has to change but the design can stay, a migration without a redesign starts at CA$2,500. If the problem is reporting rather than pages, Lead Source Reporting is CA$2,600 and leaves the design alone. A full redesign only makes sense when the pages themselves are the reason buyers leave.

5. Where does the proof go, and how many next steps should a page have?

Put each piece of proof beside the doubt it answers, and give each page one primary next step. Before any layout, I build a proof inventory of every case study, dated client result, credential, nameable client and review, then assign each item to the row of the journey map where it answers a doubt.

Four-part flow for placing proof: inventory, doubt, placement, one next step. People rated the visual appeal of a home page within 50 milliseconds (Lindgaard and colleagues, 2006).
Step 5: from proof inventory to one next step.
  • Proof inventory: case studies, client results with dates, credentials, clients you may name, reviews
  • Placement: each item beside the doubt it answers, never on a separate results page
  • Next steps: one primary action per page, plus one quieter option
  • First-screen test: show it to a buyer for a few seconds, then ask what you sell and to whom

Placement matters because first impressions form fast. Lindgaard and colleagues (2006) found people rated the visual appeal of a home page within 50 milliseconds, and those ratings closely matched the ones they gave after 500 milliseconds.

“visual appeal can be assessed within 50 ms, suggesting that web designers have about 50 ms to make a good first impression,” wrote Lindgaard and colleagues in Behaviour and Information Technology, 2006.

A buyer has formed a view of the page long before paragraph four. Proof on a separate results page nobody visits does no work.

“Proof on a separate results page nobody visits does no work.” Joshua Jackai, Vancouver web designer, stated in this guide.

On the W Communications biography page, the strongest fact sat below several paragraphs of story. That fact was a credential: former Starbucks senior vice president. The redesign moved it to the top, ahead of the narrative. Same credential. Same practice. It now sits where the reader is still deciding.

Next steps follow the same logic. Snappy Kraken’s old homepage repeated its main action four times in four different phrasings, so each version read like a separate choice. The rebuild uses one action, in identical words, down the page. In field and lab studies by Iyengar and Lepper (2000), people were more likely to buy jam or chocolates when offered 6 options than when offered 24 or 30. That is a consumer result, not a B2B one, so I use it as a reason to test one next step per page rather than as a law.

Is there really a 3 second rule in website design?

Not as a measured number. I have not found a peer-reviewed study behind a fixed three seconds. The nearest research points to something faster: Lindgaard and colleagues (2006) found a first visual judgement inside 50 milliseconds, and it held when people looked for ten times longer.

So I treat the “3 second rule” as shorthand for one practical test. Show the first screen to someone who fits your client profile for a few seconds, then ask what you sell and to whom. If they cannot say, the first screen needs work before anything lower on the page does. My working rule is one primary next step per page, plus a quieter second option for people who are not ready yet, such as reading a case study. Not a chatbot, a newsletter pop-up, a demo button and a phone number, all fighting for the same screen.

the Snappy Kraken homepage I rebuilt on HubSpot CMS, live in 3 weeks
After: the Snappy Kraken homepage I rebuilt on HubSpot CMS, live in 3 weeks.

6. How do you connect every page to the CRM?

A B2B website redesign that adds forms without wiring them builds a brochure with input boxes. Every page in the buyer journey that asks for something should hand the lead to your CRM with its source, the page it converted on, and a follow-up that runs without anyone remembering it.

Four-part flow from tagged click to form to CRM record to automatic follow-up. The Y Scouts Hiring on Purpose funnel converted 166 of 938 visitors, 17.7%.
Step 6: lead, source and page into the CRM.
  • Source: the channel and campaign tags carried from the click into the CRM record
  • Page: the page the lead converted on, stored on the lead
  • Form fields: a name, a work email and one question about the project
  • Follow-up: an automated first reply and a task for sales, so nothing waits on memory
  • Reporting: Lead Source Reporting sets this up in two weeks with no design change

Y Scouts, an executive search firm in Scottsdale, had strong content and no path from it. The blog and the HubSpot CRM ran as two separate systems, so a reader who arrived from a post had no next step that reached the CRM. I wired every blog post into a HubSpot blog-to-lead-gen flow and built three lead-capture pages: Hiring on Purpose, the Executive Interview Guide and Role Visioning.

The Hiring on Purpose funnel converts visitors to leads at 17.7% (166 of 938), measured in the client’s own HubSpot. Across Q3 2025, the work contributed to marketing-qualified leads rising from 17 to 30 and scheduled demos from 22 to 37. That quarter also ran a short-form video program cut from interviews already on file, so the site is one contributor, not the cause.

“A B2B website redesign that adds forms without wiring them builds a brochure with input boxes.” Joshua Jackai, Vancouver web designer, stated in this guide.

Keep the forms short and plain. Seckler and colleagues (2014) applied 20 form guidelines to forms taken from real company websites in an eye tracking experiment with 65 people.

“improved web forms lead to faster completion times, fewer form submission trials, and fewer eye movements,” wrote Seckler and colleagues in the CHI 2014 proceedings.

For a first contact, I ask for a name, a work email and one question about the project. Everything else can wait for the call.

7. How do you test the new site before and after launch?

Test a B2B website redesign with buyers, not with the people who built it. Give four to six people who match your client profile a task from the buyer journey map, such as “find out whether this firm has worked with a company like yours, then book a call.” Watch them try. Do not help.

Five pre-launch checks and a 30, 60 and 90 day comparison with day zero. In one model of 11 studies, four evaluations gave the best benefit to cost ratio (Nielsen and Landauer, 1993).
Step 7: pre-launch checks and the 30, 60, 90 day comparison.
  • Every form: submit it on a phone and on a laptop, then confirm the lead lands in the CRM with its source and page
  • Every next step: click each one from each audience’s path
  • Old URLs: each one either still works or redirects to its closest new page
  • Analytics events: each form submission and booking fires once, not twice
  • Speed: test on a real mid-range phone over mobile data, not only on office Wi-Fi

Small tests give the best return per session. Nielsen and Landauer (1993) modeled 11 studies and found that problem discovery follows a predictable curve.

“we estimate that 16 evaluations would be worth their cost, with maximum benefit/cost ratio at four,” wrote Nielsen and Landauer in the CHI ’93 proceedings.

Run a few sessions, fix what they find, then run a few more. After launch, compare against the day-zero numbers at 30, 60 and 90 days. B2B sales cycles often run longer than a month, so a single month of data can point the wrong way.

How do you redesign a website without losing SEO?

Keep every URL that ranks, and give every URL that has to change a permanent redirect to its closest new page. That one rule protects most of the search traffic a B2B site has earned.

Before the build, I export the list of pages that get impressions in Google Search Console and mark each one keep, merge or redirect. On launch day, I check each old URL by hand, submit the new sitemap and request indexing for the pages that matter most. Google’s guide to site moves with URL changes sets out the same steps from Google’s side. I also keep the content that ranks. A page that loses the paragraphs Google was quoting can drop even when its URL is unchanged. Then decide who keeps publishing once the redesign project ends. At Y Scouts, when publishing paused in Q4, YouTube views fell back to 483 a month. A website rebuild is a starting line. The publishing rhythm after it is what holds the numbers.

How much does a B2B website redesign cost in Canada?

A B2B website redesign with me costs from CA$4,950 for a five-page small business site, from CA$7,450 for a custom B2B site and from CA$10,495 for a marketing site of 8 to 15 pages, each as a fixed quote set by scope and platform. Prices below are in Canadian dollars, from my October 2026 price table.

Jackai Agency, my Vancouver studio, prices every B2B website redesign by scope:

  • Website audit, before any build: CA$995 over one week, credited in full if a build starts within 30 days
  • Small business website, 5 pages on tested sections: CA$4,950 on Framer or CA$5,950 on WordPress, live 2 to 3 weeks after your content arrives
  • Custom B2B website, up to 5 pages: from CA$7,450 on Framer, CA$8,950 on WordPress, CA$9,350 on Shopify and CA$9,700 on HubSpot
  • Marketing site, 8 to 15 pages: from CA$10,495, over 4 to 6 weeks
  • Migration with a rebuild, 5 pages: from CA$9,200
  • Migration only, no redesign: from CA$2,500
  • Lead Source Reporting: CA$2,600, over 2 weeks

Every redesign project gets a fixed quote with two revision rounds per phase, and you own the site, the domain and the hosting. You can build an exact number with the pricing calculator.

What can go wrong on a B2B website redesign?

The risks I see most often are not design risks. Analytics and form data can fail to survive the move, as happened on W Communications. Delays come from copy and case studies more often than from code on my projects, so name one owner for content before the build starts. A launch without tracking means leads arrive and nobody can say which page or channel sent them. Scope creep by committee is the fourth: tie every request to a row in the buyer journey map, or park it for phase two.

Here is what I would not do. I would not start from a competitor’s homepage, or add a chatbot because a competitor has one. I would not rewrite every page when a handful carry most of the leads. And I would not call it finished on launch day, because the day-90 numbers are the only ones that show whether it worked.

How long does a B2B website redesign take?

A small B2B redesign of about five pages takes 2 to 3 weeks of build time once the content is ready; a marketing site of 8 to 15 pages takes 4 to 6 weeks. The calendar usually runs longer than the build, because content and approvals take more time than code.

Snappy Kraken is the fastest B2B project I can point to: six pages from Figma to production on HubSpot CMS in 3 weeks, because the design system and the copy were settled before the build started. On most projects, the wait is for case studies, client approvals and someone to sign off the headline.

B2B website redesign in Canada by scope: audit 1 week CA$995; small business site 2 to 3 weeks from CA$4,950; custom B2B site from CA$7,450; marketing site 4 to 6 weeks from CA$10,495; migration with rebuild from CA$9,200
Time and fixed price by scope, from my price table, October 2026. Canadian dollars.

Three things shorten a redesign more than anything I do in the build. Name one person who can approve copy. Collect the case studies and client permissions in week one. And agree the buyer journey map before anyone designs a page, so the design is not reopened every time a stakeholder sees it.

How often should you redesign a B2B website?

Redesign a B2B website when the numbers say the site is costing you leads, not on a fixed calendar. A site that converts well and only looks a little dated needs updates to its pages, not a new design. Any one of four signals is a reason to scope a redesign.

The signals I look for are practical. Your offer or your buyers have changed and the site still describes the old ones. Marketing cannot publish a page without a developer. The visitor-to-lead rate on phones sits well below desktop. Or nobody can say which channel sends the leads that close. A competitor launching a new site is not a signal.

Between redesigns, I would rather see a B2B firm update its key pages every quarter: new proof, new questions from the sales inbox, fresh prices. Keeping the key pages current delays the point where a full redesign is needed.

Can AI redesign an existing B2B website?

AI can draft layouts and copy for an existing site quickly, but it cannot tell which pages carry your leads or what your buyers doubt. Use it to speed up the work, not to decide what the redesign should change. The measured speed gain comes from writing tasks, not redesign work.

In a preregistered experiment with 453 college-educated professionals, Noy and Zhang (Science, 2023) found that people given ChatGPT took 40% less time on writing tasks, and their work was rated 18% higher in quality.

“the average time taken decreased by 40% and output quality rose by 18%,” wrote Noy and Zhang in Science, 2023.

I use AI tools the same way on redesign projects: first drafts of section copy, alternative headlines, and code for repeat page sections. What AI does not have is your data. It has not read your sales inbox, it does not know which case study closed the last three deals, and it cannot see that phone visitors leave at the form. Steps 1, 2 and 6 of this guide are the ones a tool cannot do for you, and they decide whether a redesign brings in more qualified leads.

What is different about a B2B website redesign in Vancouver and Canada?

For a B2B website redesign in Vancouver or anywhere in Canada, three things change: forms that add people to email lists need consent that meets Canada’s anti-spam law, prices and proof should speak to Canadian buyers, and firms selling into Quebec should plan French pages early.

Consent first. Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL) requires consent before you send commercial electronic messages, and an express consent request has to say why you are asking, who is asking and how to reach them, and that the person can withdraw consent. In practice, I give every form that feeds a newsletter or nurture sequence an unticked consent box and record the consent with the lead in the CRM. A contact form that only answers the enquiry is a different case; ask your counsel where your forms sit.

Then the buyer. A Vancouver or Toronto buyer reading US-dollar prices has to do the conversion and wonder about tax and exchange. I quote in Canadian dollars and lead with Canadian proof where I have it. Advisor Websites, a Vancouver SaaS company for financial advisors, saw organic traffic rise 58% and MQL conversion rise 28% from a replay library and opt-in templates. That was a content and conversion build rather than a full redesign, so I read it as evidence for the proof and CRM steps.

If you sell into Quebec, decide early whether the site needs French pages, and ask counsel how the Charter of the French Language applies to your business. Adding a second language after launch means a second round of copy, design checks and redirects. I work from Vancouver on Pacific time, which suits firms across Western Canada and the US West Coast. My Vancouver web design page sets out what I build and for whom.

Compare the 7 redesign steps and filter by problem

This table lets you sort the 7 steps by the problem each one fixes. Pick a problem, and the table hides the steps that do not address it. The time ratings are my own estimates from client work, not measured data. Clear the filter to see all 7 steps again.

The seven redesign steps, the problem each fixes, elapsed time and what you hold at the end
StepProblem it fixesElapsed time (my estimate)You hold
1. MeasureLeads, reporting3 daysDay-zero numbers in a file you own
2. AudiencesWrong audience5 daysExact buyer wording from interviews
3. Journey mapDead ends, unanswered questions3 daysQuestions, pages and one next step each
4. ScopeOverspending, wrong platform2 daysOne scope with a reason
5. ProofLow trust5 daysProof inventory mapped to pages
6. CRM wiringLeads with no source5 daysForms that hand over lead, source and page
7. TestingLaunch surprises, lost traffic5 daysFix list and a 30, 60, 90 day check

Work out how many leads the redesign must add

Enter the price of the project, the value of an average deal and the share of qualified leads that close. The tool divides the price by the value of one lead and shows how many extra qualified leads pay for the project. The defaults are placeholders, with the price taken from my October 2026 price table.

Leads the redesign must add to pay for itself. Defaults are placeholders, not benchmarks.

B2B website redesign FAQ

These are the questions Canadian buyers ask me most before a redesign quote, answered in the same terms as the 7 steps and the prices in this guide. Each answer stands alone, so you can read only the one you need and skip the rest.

Can I keep my domain and hosting during a B2B website redesign?

Yes. The domain stays the same, and on most projects the hosting can too. You own the site, the domain and the hosting at the end of the project, and the new site goes live on the same address once it passes testing and redirects are checked.

Do I need a new platform to redesign my B2B website?

Usually not. If marketing can publish on the current platform and it supports your CRM forms and page speed, I redesign on it. A move is worth it only when the platform itself blocks something you need, and then a migration is priced on its own from CA$2,500.

Who should own a B2B website redesign inside the company?

A B2B website redesign needs one owner who can approve copy and settle disagreements, usually the head of marketing. Sales should review the buyer journey map. In my experience, projects with three equal owners run late, because every disagreement waits for a meeting. Name one person for content delivery.

What should I have ready before asking for a redesign quote?

For a B2B website redesign quote, have four things ready: your leads by source for the last six months, the pages that carry them, your platform and CRM, and the case studies you may publish. With those, a fixed quote usually takes one call and a follow-up email.

Do you take B2B redesign projects outside Vancouver?

Yes. I work remotely with B2B firms across Canada and in the US. Canadian projects are quoted in Canadian dollars, and the process is the same wherever the client is. I work on Pacific time, so calls with eastern clients are booked in the morning.

Where should your B2B website redesign start?

Start with the pages that already carry your leads. That is the job of my CA$995 Website Audit. In one week, I read your analytics and funnel page by page and hand you a ranked list of what is costing you leads, with the reason for each item, plus a free AI Visibility Report.

The document is yours whether or not you hire me. If you go ahead with a build, the fee is credited against it (terms on the offers page). The result is a short list of what to change first, in order. Book the CA$995 Website Audit. To see how answer engines read your site first, run the free AI visibility report.

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