creative design for
useful websites
Are you in need of a website but can’t be bothered becoming a web designer? ☻ Hey, that’s ok, help is a click away. Hi, I’m Kim, welcome to my boutique web design shop.
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creative design for
useful websites
Are you in need of a website but can’t be bothered becoming a web designer? ☻ Hey, that’s ok, help is a click away. Hi, I’m Kim, welcome to my boutique web design shop.
First, we discuss your situation at no charge and without commitments. Through a series of questions, we’ll sketch out your site special. It could be just for you or for your business.
Want a brand new site? We’ll discuss content. How much is ready to post (if any)? How much do you need to generate and how regularly? What sites do you like best, and would you like something similar?
Already have a site that isn’t working or is just out of date? Who’s hosting it and should that change?
Need content? I can recommend excellent writers I’ve worked with over the years. Only if you need it.
Once we’ve talked, I prepare an estimate for your custom website. Following a series of questions, your estimate isn’t a formula but is broken down by task and timeline.
Depending on the size of the job, it could take a few weeks up to a couple of months to complete. We’ll meet virtually every week, planning, revising and finalising the design. At the same time, we’ll develop the content. Lastly, we’ll build the site out and closely review it all before going live.
I prefer to work one-on-one with you to create a unique, customized WordPress website that’s easy to update.
A graphic designer since the late ‘80s; I graduated from George Brown College with a 3-year Diploma. I spent the first years of my career honing my craft around town in Toronto at Reactor Art and Design, Citytv and in the studio at Roche Macaulay & Partners while going to dance clubs, seeing bands, playing squash and having a grand time!
I spent the next hundred years working on my own business. My first venture was WOW Design Studio, opened in 1997. WOW stood for Working On Web. The idea was to continue doing graphic design for print but gradually steer the company, as you already read, to working on web design.
WOW’s first big piece of business, ad agency LOWE RMP, became an exclusive client and after the first year I took on a business partner. Things evolved.
Over 20+ years, we did loads of work for ad agencies and marketing companies: tons of print and digital ads, packaging design and artwork, logo design, subway dominations, digital bill boards, sexy mock-ups and mechanical artwork, youtube videos, fun animations and, yes, some websites. I did it all. That was the issue: More than ever, I wanted to focus just on websites.
So in 2019, I returned to school for a Web Design Certificate at McMaster University. Even with my decades of experiences, I knew there was just so much to learn to become an expert. Now here I am, a life-long learner focusing on Web Design.
Welcome to now. Web Solutions by Kim Dolan is my new boutique design agency. My desire is to help small businesses like yours succeed with useful and fantastic-looking websites.