Hi There, I'm Brendan!

I'm a web developer and designer based out of Toronto, Ontario. With 20 years of experience in different areas of business management, marketing, and computer development, and the constant changing of the digital landscape and how it is impacting us all, I figured I would start this blog to let other know the different ways that we are able to stay within budget and relavent with our projects.

I'll be covering a handfull of different topics, primarily relating to web dev, coding, software, and other digital related themes as this goes, hopefully you can take some information from this blog!.

Canadian Web Services

With the current climate in Canada, and a growing distrust of our neighbours to the south, many of us are now opting for Canadian products in stores, and Canadian alternatives for out day to day needs. A plethora of online services exist to help you develop your online presence, in conjunction with what I offer as a solely Canadian owned business. I have listed below I variety of businesses and services that can help you with your digital goals.

Funio.com is a Web Hosting and Domain Name registrar website based out of Verdun, Quebec, offering a local option to the likes of GoDaddy and Squarespace. I personally used Funio.com to register my Domain Name, and the process was streamlined and affordable, with a .CA extension coming in at $13.99 / year, .COM costing $23.99 / year, and .NET $24.99 / year. They have multiple other extensions available at various price points depending on your needs, including .INFO, .ORG, .SITE, and more. They offer web hosting for an additional cost, varying upon which service you feel most comfortable with. Alternatively the ability to run through a repository to prevent any additional costs is also available, and very easy to achieve through documentation provided by your preferred host.

Another Quebec based service, Worktree is a Canadian owned code forge and DevOps platform that is a full-featured Git collaboration with a solid documentation page to help those new to using repositories for their coding / collaboration needs.