Web Development Company in Halifax

Codazz quotes fixed fee with an accessibility audit and SR&ED logs included rather than priced as a change order, and scopes each build rather than publishing bands. An Atlantic eCommerce build on Shopify Plus is an eight to fourteen week engagement with bilingual delivery, Canada Post and Purolator integration, and a custom theme. A research portal or program site for Dalhousie, Saint Mary's, or an Ocean Supercluster member adds bilingual editorial workflows and WCAG 2.1 AA certification. A marketing site for an Ocean Supercluster member or Halifax SaaS startup runs on Next.js with Sanity or headless WordPress. Halifax pricing sits well below Toronto because the Atlantic Canada cost basis is real, not marketing.

Yes when the project requires it — federally-funded program sites, Crown corporation work, Acadian community-facing properties (Université Sainte-Anne adjacent, federal Acadian programs), and Halifax retailers exporting into Quebec and New Brunswick markets. Our content models support parallel English and French nodes from day one, URLs follow standard /en/ and /fr/ patterns, and translation memory integrates with the Translation Bureau or a private LSP using XLIFF or TMX exchange. For non-federally-funded private-sector clients we make bilingual delivery optional but typically recommend at least French parity on key landing pages if the client sells outside Nova Scotia. Quality review goes against Termium Plus before launch when federal funding is in scope.

Federal-funded projects and Dalhousie and Saint Mary's portals are held to WCAG 2.1 AA conformance against the Treasury Board Standard on Web Accessibility for federal touchpoints, the Accessible Canada Act for federally-regulated sectors, and university accessibility policies that mirror AODA-equivalent expectations. Our delivery includes automated axe-core and Pa11y CI gates in every pull request, manual JAWS and NVDA testing, keyboard-only navigation audits, and a final certification report mapped clause-by-clause to WCAG 2.1 AA success criteria. For Atlantic eCommerce on Shopify Plus we extend the same testing to theme code and apps. The certification report supports US trade buyers asking for ADA Title III posture as well as Canadian accessibility expectations.

Yes — we build marketing and program sites for Ocean Supercluster member projects with the ISED reporting hooks the Supercluster program officer expects and the partner consortium visibility that funded projects have to maintain through the project lifecycle. We coordinate with the Supercluster's communications team on logo lockup, ISED acknowledgement language, and partner attribution. For projects with DFO (Fisheries and Oceans Canada), Canadian Hydrographic Service, or Marine Atlantic data feeds we handle licensing and acknowledgement language on the site. Sites are built on Next.js with Sanity or Contentful for editorial speed and ship with the SR&ED-aligned engineering log that the funded organisation needs for the technical narrative side of grant reporting.

Default hosting is AWS ca-central-1 (Montreal) or Azure Canada Central (Toronto), both of which keep data inside Canadian borders for PIPEDA and Nova Scotia FOIPOP compliance. The new AWS ca-west-1 (Calgary, launched 2024) is available as a second Canadian region for redundancy, which matters for Halifax operators serving Atlantic Canada and Western Canada users on the same property. For Vercel and Cloudflare Pages deployments we keep origin storage in Canadian regions and use Canadian edge nodes. For Atlantic eCommerce on Shopify Plus the hosting question is largely Shopify's responsibility, but we configure data residency, payment processing through Canadian acquirers, and PIPEDA-compliant consent on the front-end.

Yes — university research portal work, Ocean Frontier Institute project sites, Dalhousie Faculty of Computer Science lab pages, and Saint Mary's research centre microsites are common engagements. We coordinate with university web operations teams on brand standards, single sign-on integration (often Shibboleth or SAML against the university IdP), accessibility against the university's published policy, and bilingual delivery where the funding source requires it. Research data integration handles PIPEDA and Nova Scotia FOIPOP plus university research ethics board direction on what publishes publicly. For Ocean Frontier Institute projects we tie the marketing surface to the underlying research data store with a clear separation between public outputs and restricted access.

An Atlantic eCommerce site on Shopify Plus with bilingual delivery, custom theming, and Canadian carrier integration takes eight to fourteen weeks end-to-end. A Next.js marketing site with headless CMS, accessibility certification, and lead-gen integration takes six to twelve weeks. A research portal for Dalhousie, Saint Mary's, or an Ocean Supercluster member project takes twelve to twenty weeks depending on the depth of research data integration and federal funding reporting overhead. Federal-funded sites that require GCWeb proximity and full Official Languages Act parity extend to sixteen to twenty-two weeks. Across all of these we run two-week sprints with biweekly demos, accessibility gates on every push, and SR&ED-aligned engineering logs accumulating from kickoff.

Cost basis, time zone, and ocean tech depth. Atlantic Canada engineering rates run materially below Toronto and Vancouver, which is why insurance back-office, REDspace, IT Interactive, and Modest Tree have built durable practices here. Halifax also lines up well with European morning hours, which Atlantic-facing clients (seafood exporters into the EU, defence integration with UK and European primes through the Irving Halifax Shipyard supply base) find useful. And ocean tech — the Ocean Supercluster, COVE, the Ocean Frontier Institute at Dalhousie — is a genuine global edge no Toronto agency matches. Codazz extends that with a delivery model that runs AST and EST coverage from Edmonton and Chandigarh on fixed fee, not open hourly billing.