My coding journey started way back when I was a kid obsessed with Minecraft. I wanted to make my own mods, but honestly, I gave up pretty quickly—turns out modding Minecraft is way harder than actually playing it. Luckily, I had a great math tutor who steered me in another direction. Fast forward to today, and I've somehow ended up with an Honours Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Toronto, double majoring in Computer Science and Mathematics.

But hey, I'm not here to write my memoir. I'm here to tell you why I'm a solid choice for your web development needs. I've been in the game for over 5 years (if you count only the "official" work). But if we're being real, I've been messing around with websites since high school—creating cringey fan pages and passion projects, which tacks on another 2 years of experience. So yeah, I've been doing this for a while!

Vancouver Web Studio was born after I saw too many small businesses relying on page builders like Wix, WordPress, and Squarespace to get their websites up and running. Don't get me wrong, I totally get why they're popular. If you're a small business owner, spending thousands on a fancy web design agency is often not feasible. And those agencies? Some tend to ghost clients or charge a small fortune for any little change.

But here's the catch: while page builders get the job done, they tend to come with strings attached. You might find yourself stuck wrestling with clunky UIs instead of actually working on your business. Plus, the code they generate is often a mess—meaning slow load times, SEO struggles, and more headaches down the road.

Imagine you need to send someone a simple text document. The easy way would be to, well, just send it. But with a page builder, it's like taking a screenshot of that document, pasting it into a new Word doc, converting that to a PDF, and then sending it. Yeah, it's not pretty, but that's what they do to your website code.

Now, I know what you're thinking—“Isn't David just bashing his competition so he can sell me on his service?” Fair question. But here's the deal: If I help you build a website that looks better, runs faster, and does more than your old one, all while cutting down the amount of data it sends to your visitors, I'd say I'm doing something right.

Let's make your website awesome, without the headaches. Ready to get started?

Sincerely,