One Website. Every Audience.
Reach more people with a website that speaks their language. We design and develop bilingual and multilingual websites that are easy to navigate, simple to manage and consistent across every language, from English and French sites to platforms in several languages.
Why It Matters
A good multilingual website feels as if it was designed for each language, not translated after the fact.
Adding a language switcher is the easy part. The real work is making every version as clear and usable as the original: the same design and features in each language, menus and pages that make sense in that language, and translated content organized so visitors land on the right page.
It also has to work for the people running it and the people searching for it. That means content your team can manage in each language, pages that work just as well on a phone, and a structure search engines understand, so each language can be found on its own.
What We Build
From a second language on an existing site to a platform built for several, this is the work we take care of.
Websites in English, French and additional languages, with the same navigation, design and functionality in every version.
Clear, accessible language selection that takes visitors to the content they need in the language they choose.
Language-specific pages, menus and content managed through WordPress or the EB Media CMS, set up for your project.
Language-specific URLs, translated titles and descriptions, hreflang annotations and a structure search engines can follow.
Contact forms, calls to action and other features that work properly in each language.
Where your current platform allows it, we can add a second language without a complete redesign.
Our Work
From industrial businesses to community organizations, we’ve helped clients make their websites accessible to people who speak different languages.
See All Our Work
A complete English and French website for a steel pipe distributor serving Ontario, Quebec and Alberta, with French pages at their own addresses, translated page titles and a language switcher in the header.
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A Hamilton community organization whose site includes an automatic translation tool in more than ten languages, from Arabic and French to Somali and Ukrainian, so people can read about its services in their own language.
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A long-running Hamilton charity whose site offers an automatic translation tool in more than ten languages, including Arabic, Chinese, Somali and Vietnamese, so people can find programs and support in the language they prefer.
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A multilingual website helps you share information clearly, make your content easier to reach and connect with people who prefer another language.
WordPress or EB Media CMS
We build multilingual sites on WordPress or the EB Media CMS, depending on what your project needs, so the platform fits your organization rather than the other way around.
A widely supported platform with established multilingual tools, a good fit when portability and a large ecosystem matter.
Our own platform, developed to fit how your team works. Language features are built for each project, so you get the structure you actually need.
Multilingual SEO
Search engines treat each language as its own set of pages. A clear structure helps them show people the version in their language.
hreflang helps search engines serve the right version; it isn’t a ranking boost, and translation alone doesn’t guarantee higher rankings. Automatic translation widgets help visitors read a page, but they generally don’t create pages search engines can index in each language.
FAQ
Languages, adding French, managing content, translation, search and cost. If yours isn’t here, the form at the bottom of the page reaches us directly.
A bilingual website supports two languages, usually English and French in Canada. A multilingual website supports more than two. The planning is much the same; the difference is how many versions of your content need to be created and kept current.
Often, yes. It depends on the platform your site is built on and how it is structured. We review the site first and tell you whether a second language can be added cleanly or whether a rebuild would serve you better.
Yes. We set up the content management system so your team can update pages, menus and content in each language. On WordPress that means a multilingual setup suited to your site; on the EB Media CMS, the language features are built around how your team works.
We build the website; the translations usually come from you or a translator you trust, so the wording is approved by your organization. If you need help arranging translation, we can talk about it as part of the project. For less formal needs, an automatic translation tool can let visitors read your site in more languages, like the ones on the Wesley and Mission Services websites.
We give each language its own URLs, translated titles and descriptions, and hreflang annotations so search engines can match people with the right version. That gives each language a fair chance to be found, but no one can guarantee rankings: content quality and competition still matter.
It depends on the number of languages and pages, who is providing the translations, the functionality involved and the platform. We’ll give you a clear quote once we understand the project.