Frequently Asked
Questions

• The ideal client for Yas is a medium to large business with a marketing team that’s able to dedicate several hours of collaboration with us throughout the content, design, and development processes.
• We’re also excited about working with smaller clients or startups who are hungry for success and highly motivated.

• Absolutely not. We work with driven clients who are willing to be heavily involved in our process. We believe that the correct level of strategy can’t be reached with a “do it for me” solution, so this is extremely important to us.

• We generally handle payment in 50% up front, 30% before development, and the last 20% at the time of launch.

• A strategy-driven multi-page website from Yas starts at $8,000 and will depend on your unique needs and wants.

• Yes! We prefer to have our initial meetings with you and your team face to face to ensure maximum understanding as we develop your strategy. If location and schedules are an issue, we can also supplement our process with video meetings.

• Absolutely! We’re a fast-growing team who prides ourselves in our lightning-fast response times and ability to work flexibly with your schedule.

• We set up Google Analytics with every project we complete, which provides you with information about clicks, conversions, bounce rate, etc.

• Our most involved clients can turn their website projects around in approximately 6-8 weeks, but we’re willing to take as much time as you need to get your content and design ideas in order.

The difference between an attractive website design and a results-driven website comes down to strategy. The right fit for you will be the person or team who can best incorporate your values, brand, sales strategies, etc. into a compelling client journey built to reach a goal.

• We currently have employees stationed in Saskatoon and Vancouver, but we’ve also met with clients in person or via video call all across Canada.

• During our design process, we limit the discussion to two rounds of revisions. This is to ensure that:

1. Your feedback is all together and none of it gets missed
2. That the project doesn’t go over-budget due to simple changes back and forth. 

• Changes to text and images can be made freely and easily by you at the end of the development process.

• You can, but you may be putting yourself at a huge disadvantage. Before recent changes to Google, things like the client journey and search engine optimization weren’t huge considerations. These days, your content needs to cater to Google’s algorithms or they won’t show you to their searchers.

• In our initial consultation, we’ll work with you to narrow down the pages you’ll need based on criteria like your goals, what your target audience is looking for, and your expected client journey. Of course, we’ll offer our industry insights on what’s necessary to reach your goals, as well as how each page works.

• For the designers at Yas, visuals are inspired by minimalism, simplicity, and European aesthetic. However, finding the perfect fit for your content, strategy, and customer use-cases is our top priority.

• Yes and no. There are certain pieces like “custom post types” that are hard-coded to format a certain way to keep your design consistent; these sections are a little more rigid. However, regular content and image sections (90% of the website layout) can be edited easily in the visual builder.

• Absolutely not. WordPress is an open-source CMS, which means anyone around the world can develop their own custom plugins. What this means for you is that we can design and develop everything you need without having to reinvent the wheel.
• WordPress is known to some as a “template” platform, and it can definitely be used that way, but we use WordPress for our custom development because of its security and flexibility for our clients.

• All websites we build, including our own, are created in WordPress using a visual builder called Elementor. This ensures that we have the freedom to create any custom design our clients require, but that the end product is as easy as possible for you to make changes and updates to.

• Yes, we’ve partnered up with Sik Pics here in Saskatoon to ensure our clients get the best quality for their photograph and video needs.

• Yes, we can meet to discuss all aspects of your branding including logos, fonts, colors, style guides, and communication guides.
• Our designers are equipped to help you with any and all of these branding projects.

• Yes, we can meet to discuss your needs, as well as help you analyze and optimize your own SEO, Google Ads, Email Marketing, and/or Social Media efforts.

We plan for a 1-hour training session for all of our projects. Feel free to bring as many people as you like.

• Every website that we create has a 60 day included warranty that covers all bugs and errors

• Our hourly billable rate is $150/h, billed to the ¼ hour.

• You may choose to continue using your current service provider. The benefit of hosting with us is that we’ll have quick and easy access to your website’s files and database, should you require us to make a quick change or update.

• Yes, we use dedicated and secure cloud servers.