Aponia is a web agency founded in Gatineau. We design and build websites for businesses and organizations across Gatineau and the Outaouais: business websites, online stores, WordPress sites and redesigns. Since 2015, our team has delivered more than 400 projects, including several for organizations you’ll recognize from around here. This page covers how we work and what we’ve built for the region. For the full picture of what we do, see our web design and development page.
Foundations, municipalities, school boards: well-known organizations from the region have trusted us with their websites since 2015. You’ll probably recognize a few below.
Custom design and features your team can easily manage themselves, from small edits to new pages.
Stores built to sell in Canada and abroad, with a catalog you manage without a developer.
Rebuild an aging or slow website into a modern one, without losing the SEO you’ve earned.
Tell us about your project and we’ll help you figure out the next step.
You see what we’re building before it becomes expensive to change. Here’s how a project runs, from the first call to launch and beyond.
Étape 1
We dig into your goals and what’s already working, then turn it into a clear plan. If you have a site today, we look at your data before deciding what to keep. Then comes design: sitemap and mockups of the key pages. You approve the mockups before we build anything, while changes are still quick and easy to make.
Étape 2
Our developers build the site from the approved mockups: design integration, content, forms and features. When a feature doesn’t exist as a plugin, or a plugin would slow the site down, we code it from scratch. The result stays fast and easy to maintain.
Étape 3
Before launch we test the site on phones, tablets and desktops, check every form, and set up redirects if you had a site before. Then we train your team so they’re self-sufficient from day one. After launch we stay available: monitoring, security updates, backups and small content edits. It’s probably why 94% of our clients come back for more.
A website can look great without generating results. Visitors arrive, then leave without taking the action you needed. Everything starts from a clear goal: sell, collect donations, book appointments, receive applications. We define that goal with you, then design the site around it. Here’s what that looks like in practice.
We don't bolt SEO on after launch. Page structure and features are planned from the start so Google and AI tools understand every page. That pays off in Gatineau, where competition on local searches is still reasonable. A local business that does things right can rank without an outsized ad budget.
Gatineau lives in French and English. More than half the sites we build are bilingual, with separate URLs and SEO for each language, so both versions rank on search engines. And since Law 96, the French version needs to be taken seriously by any business serving Quebec customers.
Our sites are fast at launch, because performance should never be an afterthought. Security basics are in place on every project. If you'd like, we can host your site on our infrastructure in a Canadian data center, with continuous monitoring.
It's your website, not ours. We build on WordPress so your team can edit pages, swap images and add content without a developer. Training is free at launch. You're never stuck with a vendor.
Every page has a job: move the visitor closer to the action that matters to you. We design the journeys, forms and calls to action around that goal, then measure what works. That's how we approach web design, in Gatineau and everywhere else: a site can be beautiful, but it has to be useful first.
Our sites can be built to WCAG standards. We've developed solutions for the deaf-blind community, hands-on experience few agencies have. For the region's public and parapublic organizations, that's often a requirement, not an option.
Whether you’re starting from scratch or your current site has run its course, we can help, in Gatineau or anywhere in the Outaouais.
Want more before reaching out? Here’s the essential: the local market, our experience with the region’s organizations, and the kinds of projects we take on.
A lot of businesses around here search “web design Gatineau” or “Gatineau web agency” and end up with firms in Toronto or Montreal. Aponia was founded in Gatineau in 2015.
Working with an agency founded in your own city means advice from people who already know your market: a bilingual clientele, buyers on both sides of the river, and public organizations with requirements of their own.
Foundations, municipalities, school boards, community organizations: a good share of our work in the region comes from the public and parapublic sector. These organizations arrive with requirements many agencies discover mid-project and we know up front: WCAG accessibility, bilingualism, Law 25 compliance and, often, a formal RFP process.
The Fondation Santé Gatineau, the Municipality of Val-des-Monts and the Western Quebec School Board have all been through it before you. If you’re preparing an RFP or a requirements document, send it over: we respond to them regularly and we’ll tell you quickly whether we’re the right fit for your project.
Clinics, contractors, manufacturers, shops, accounting and engineering firms: the private sector makes up the other large share of our clients in the region. The challenges are different, usually standing out on Google, generating calls and quote requests, and selling online. The process is simpler too. UrbanMop is a good example: the company cleans homes and offices across Gatineau and the Ottawa area, nearly every job starts with the online quote form we built, and we still run their SEO. Another example, in a completely different field: Restaurant Antonyme in Gatineau wanted to showcase its dishes while keeping control of a menu that changes weekly. Their team now updates it themselves.
Every organization needs something different. A clinic, a manufacturer, a foundation and a school board in the Outaouais don’t need the same website. That’s exactly what we work out together on the first call.
Generally 6 to 10 weeks from first call to launch. Complex projects can take longer. Most of our clients see a first deliverable within two weeks. We give you a clear timeline up front, and we stick to it.
Yes. We offer monitoring, security updates, backups and content edits. We can also host your site in a Canadian data center, with an SSL certificate and twice-daily backups. You stay free: the site is yours and your team is trained to run it.
Yes. We regularly respond to RFPs from public, parapublic and non-profit organizations in the region. Send us your requirements document and we’ll tell you quickly whether we can bid.
Yes. Our team is in Gatineau and works in English and French every day, so we serve businesses in Ottawa and Eastern Ontario as easily as those in the Outaouais. More than half the sites we deliver are bilingual, with separate SEO for each language. We also take on projects across Quebec and Canada.
Want to connect? Fill out the form and we’ll get back to you.
"*" indicates required fields