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NEW Design Co.

Websites and SEO at the speed of AI, with a designer's eye on every pixel.

I'm Mark Lucas, a web designer in Oliver, BC, with 20+ years on the web. AI handles the research, the first drafts and the checking. I handle everything you will notice.

A curved staircase and hallway finished in wide grey oak plank
A Desert Solace counsellor at his desk, ready for an online session
Work 1 / 3
Martennial ContractingMulti-family framing · Calgary, AB
How it works

Most of building a website is not design. It is research, first drafts, and checking, then checking again.

Machines are now very good at that part, so I let them do it in hours instead of weeks. Then I do what a machine can't: decide what your site is for, how it should look, and whether every sentence sounds like you.

  1. 01

    Listen

    AINothing yet.
    MarkA call with you: what the site is for, and who it has to win over.
  2. 02

    Research

    AIReads your competitors and what people in your area search for.
    MarkPicks what matters and drops the rest.
  3. 03

    Draft

    AIFirst drafts of copy, page titles and descriptions.
    MarkSets the structure and the order of every page.
  4. 04

    Design

    AISizes and compresses images, drafts alt text.
    MarkLayout, type and colour. Chooses every image.
  5. 05

    Edit

    AIFlags gaps, repeats and hard-to-read lines.
    MarkRewrites anything that sounds like a machine. You approve.
  6. 06

    Test

    AIChecks speed, accessibility and links on every page.
    MarkTests on a real phone and fixes what feels off.
  7. 07

    Care

    AIWatches the site every day and flags changes.
    MarkSigns off, launches, and answers when you call.
Never the AI

Your photos, your story, your prices, and anything a customer needs to trust. Those come from you, and they stay yours.

Work 01

Desert SolaceA counselling site that feels calm at 11 p.m.

Four counsellors, one quiet place to start. I replaced a heavy page-builder template with a hand-coded theme where every word stays editable, so people who are struggling get a page that loads at once and reads clearly on a phone.

Mobile speed
57 → 98of 100
Accessibility
100
Pages
30+
Rebuild in final review · launching soon
The Desert Solace rebuild on a phone, scrolling from the headline 'Step into the shade' down to the counsellors
Work 02

Martennial ContractingFraming crews, shown at full scale.

A multi-family framing company in Calgary. The site leads with their own drone footage and crew photos, because nothing sells a framer like the buildings going up, and it stays fast on a site supervisor's phone.

Mobile speed
95of 100
Based in
Calgary
The Martennial Contracting site on a phone, scrolling through their mission, crew and projects
Work 03

Origin Wide PlankFrom sample to doorstep.

A flooring supplier in Langley with a showroom, a van and a floor visualizer. The site walks people from choosing a sample to delivery at the door, and keeps up on a phone in the middle of a renovation.

Mobile speed
94of 100
Based in
Langley
The Origin Wide Plank site on a phone, scrolling from 'Clearing your path to a new floor' to their delivery van
Measured

Speed is the first thing a visitor notices, before they read a word.

Google's Lighthouse test scores a page from 0 to 100 on a mid-range phone over a slow connection. 90 and up counts as good. These are my clients' sites, tested this month.

Desert Solace, old sitepage-builder template
57
Desert Solace, rebuildhand-coded theme · 3 runs
97–99
Martennial Contractingmartennial.ca
95
Origin Wide Plankoriginwideplank.com
94

Shaded band = Lighthouse's "good" range, 90 to 100. Mobile performance scores, measured October 2026. Scores move a few points between runs; the rebuild shows its range.

Prices

Start free. Pay for what you pick.

  • A

    Free site audit

    A plain-language report on your site's speed, search visibility and phone experience, with the five things to fix first. In your inbox within a day.

    Free
  • B

    Fix sprint

    I fix what the audit found, then send a before-and-after report. One time.

    $1,500–2,500one time
  • C

    Launch

    A fast, good-looking site on a proven design in about two weeks. Up to six pages, copy drafted by AI and approved by you, one round of changes.

    $2,900fixed price
    Reserve a Launch spot · $725 + GST $725 deposit plus 5% GST ($761.25) holds your start date. The rest is due at launch. Secure checkout by Stripe.
  • D

    Studio

    A site designed around your business: discovery, strategy, custom design, build and launch. Photography and video quoted separately.

    From $6,500
  • E

    Care

    Hosting, updates, backups, security and uptime checks, and a one-page report each month. Starts the day your site launches.

    $150a month
  • F

    Care + Growth

    Everything in Care, plus monthly search work: a new page or article, your Google Business Profile, and a ranking and traffic report.

    $400a month

Canadian dollars, before GST. Every site includes Care from launch.

Free site audit

Send me your address. I'll tell you what's slowing it down.

  • 01Speed and phone test on your key pages.
  • 02How you show up in local search, next to your competitors.
  • 03The five fixes that matter most, in plain language.

You keep the report whether or not you hire me. I'll walk through it with you on a call if you like.

Questions

Plain answers.

Will you get me to number one on Google?

No one can promise that, and I won't. Technical fixes can show within weeks. Rankings and traffic usually take three to six months. You get the numbers every month, so you can judge for yourself.

Who writes the words on my site?

The AI drafts, I edit every line, and you approve it before anything goes live. If a sentence doesn't sound like you, it changes.

Who owns the site?

You do. The content, the design files and the domain are yours. If you leave, I hand it all over.

Launch or Studio: which do I need?

If you need a good site soon and your needs are standard, choose Launch. If your business needs a site shaped around how you work, or you sell a lot online, choose Studio. The free audit usually makes it clear.

Why is Care included with every site?

A site that isn't updated and backed up gets slow, and eventually gets hacked. Care keeps what you paid for working, and the monthly report shows you what it is doing.

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