Web design agency for Montréal.

Both, and we are honest about which is right at the audit. A neighbourhood restaurant in the Plateau is French-first with English as a courtesy. A downtown law firm serving English-speaking clients in the financial district is the reverse. A clinic in Westmount might genuinely need both, equally weighted. Loi 96 has implications for any business operating in Québec, and we will not pretend otherwise. We do the build in the language your customers use first.

No. We are a Toronto studio that works across Canada. We have the language coverage to ship French content and we will tell you when something needs a Québec-based reviewer we do not have in-house. Translation should never be machine-only on a real business site, and we will scope a proper French pass into the project where it matters.

Service businesses where the website is doing lead-gen work. Restaurants in Mile End that need a clean menu page and a reservation flow. Dental and aesthetic clinics across the suburbs. Law firms downtown serving anglophone and bilingual clients. HVAC and contracting outfits across Laval and the South Shore. If the website needs to convert a visitor into a call or a booking, the rebuild pattern is the same.

Loi 96 strengthened the French-language requirements that already existed under the Charter of the French Language. A business operating in Québec has to publish its website in French, and an English version can only sit alongside a French one available on terms at least as favourable: the same pages, the same forms, just as easy to reach. Signs and advertising go further, where French has to be markedly predominant. Separately from the law, we give the French version its own indexed URLs, because a toggle that swaps text on one address leaves Google with one language to rank. The OQLF acts on complaints, and fines rose under Loi 96. We scope the French build properly at the audit stage, not as an add-on after launch.

Law 25 is stricter than PIPEDA on consent, on tracking, and on what the site has to publish. Consent has to be asked for each purpose separately, in plain language, and given expressly for sensitive information. Tracking that can identify or profile a visitor stays off until they switch it on. Every business, whatever its size, has a person in charge of privacy whose title and contact details go on the site. Serious incidents have to be reported to the Commission promptly, and fines can reach $25 million or four percent of worldwide turnover, whichever is greater. For most small businesses, the practical effect is the privacy policy, the consent language on every form, and the data-handling disclosures all have to be drafted to Law 25 standards from launch, not retrofitted later.

Parallel routes almost always. Two real URLs (one per language) with proper hreflang tags tell Google which page to serve to which search. A simple language toggle that swaps copy on the same URL leaves Google guessing and usually picks the wrong one. For Montréal specifically, where French traffic is the majority and English traffic is significant, parallel routes also make the Charter's test easy to meet, because the French version is a real destination available on the same terms as the English one. For anything bigger than a one-pager, parallel French and English routes are the only structure that ranks on both sides of the language line.

If you serve them and want to rank for them, yes. A homeowner in Brossard typing a service into Google sees Brossard results, not Montréal results, unless the site has a Brossard page in plain text. Greater Montréal sprawls across multiple suburbs on three sides of the island (Laval to the north, Longueuil and Brossard to the south, the West Island to the west) and each is its own search market. We build out one page per suburb you actually cover. Four or five dedicated suburb pages outranks one combined Montréal page every time.