Websites That Fit

Your website is more than just a pretty face… It needs to help your visitors and customers take action. We provide web services to help you do that effectively.

Sophia Kelly has over two decades of experience helping charities and small businesses market themselves using web technology.

For more information call 604-813-7674 (M-F 10-6 PST).

Website Design and Optimization with Business Analysis
Website Design and Optimization with Business Analysis

Technology Tailoring website designs are characterized by their practical, effective designs, that take into account your audience and business needs.

Business Analysis = your website does what it is supposed to, period.

Your consultant combines knowledge and experience with knowing what questions to ask to uncover your customers needs as well as your organizational priorities. Then we make sure every page of your website is part of getting those needs and priorities satisfied.

Call 604-813-7674 to get started. 

Easy To Maintain, But You Don't Have To

These sites are quick and easy to keep up to date, allowing you to add information yourself if you wish.  You can create your own text, or contract us to do the writing as well. Maintenance services are also available to make sure your site remains healthy, backed up and well maintained.

Do you want to focus on your core business? 

Let us take it off your hands and complete the work professionally.

Are you a hands-on person?

Get training and support to make your website look and work how you want it to.

Websites Designed to Work Hard

We create websites that realize your goals: increase revenue, and spread information to your target audience. Services range from a tune up to a complete design overhaul. We won't try to sell you more than you need to get the job done. Design companies that lack business analysis may make a very pretty website - that does not achieve your goals. We want your new site to do more than look pretty. Every change is optimized to meet your business goals: more purchases, calls and emails from qualified customers or donors. Non-profits, if you need to spread key information to target populations, we will make sure your target visitors not only find and use what you provide, but that we can count them for reporting.

Imagine your ideal website

  • Professional looking - Clean, crisp and easy to use.
  • Designed with your marketing or operational goals first - So no tiny grey text your customers can't read, no matter how pretty it is...
  • Search Engine Optimized - If you build it right, the right people will come.

Imagine it easy…


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Website Malware Prevention, Upgrade, Monitoring and Backup Service
Website Malware Prevention, Upgrade, Monitoring and Backup Service
Tailored Tech offers a service that monitors your site to make sure it is up and running, free of malware, the software is kept up to date (which protects the site from becoming hacked) and backed up on a regular basis to an off site location. An experienced IT professional monitors the results and takes timely action to restore or protect your site as needed.
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Woocommerce Ecommerce Website Setup and Design
Woocommerce Ecommerce Website Setup and Design
WooCommerce is a plugin for wordpress that turns your website into an ecommerce online store. Tailored Tech sets up, design and maintains ecommerce websites using Woocommerce to make your website work for you and your business. Contact us to get started.
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Fix Your Website, Database or other IT System
Fix Your Website, Database or other IT System
Many of my clients come to me with a website  or other system that meets most of their needs but is missing something they want.  Did you buy a new website, database or software system and then realize it needs some changes to fit your needs? Or find you don't have the capacity to learn how to use it or set it up? I love tailoring existing systems and sites to fit you better. Let's talk about what you want and need and let me save you work and make the most of your investment. 
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Build Your Own WordPress Website Workshop
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Need a new website? Build your own from start to finish with expert instruction and support in this two day workshop. No programming knowledge needed.
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WordPress Website Setup and Maintenance
WordPress Website Setup and Maintenance
Let us set up a WordPress website built to grow as needed with your needs. We can train your staff to maintain it, or we can maintain it, keep it secure and make it easy for you.
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Email Administration and Support
Email Administration and Support
Avoid unproductive delays by giving your staff timely, competent and friendly assistance with their email. Help by phone or in person (in the Vancouver, BC area), no waiting on hold, with a person who is familiar with your setup and business needs.
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WordPress Training for Non-Profit Staff and Volunteers
Wordpress Training for Non-Profit Staff and Volunteers
Most organizations can get staff or volunteers prepared to insert and edit text, add images, change calendars, upload newsletters, and other routine tasks within 1-2 hours of customized training.
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Facebook Page Setup Services
Facebook Page Setup Services
Facebook is effective at reaching people over 40 with your business or event, particularly if people are more likely to buy or attend if they know someone who is also doing so.
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Build Your Own WordPress Website Workshop

Need a new website for your small business, community non-profit or club on a budget?   Build your own WordPress website from start to finish with expert instruction and support in this two day workshop. No programming knowledge needed. Taught in Vancouver, Canada

DIY WordPress Website Course

  • Walk in with photos and text and walk out with a completed website, optimized to achieve the goals of your business or non-profit group, for a fraction of the cost.
  • You’ll understand how your website works and be able to maintain it yourself.
  • Includes a delicious catered lunch and networking with other participants.

This two day course will guide you step by step through the process of creating your own website to suit your business or non-profit. You will learn and practice the skills to create a website that markets your services and invites action.

  • Set up a hosting account,
  • Create a web marketing strategy,
  • Make and implement design decisions,
  • Customize a template to fit  your brand,
  • Create and edit pages, and add pictures and video.
  • Learn how to maintain and back up your own site.

This workshop is small, with lots of individual attention, and where possible is organized by industry or focus to facilitate networking among classmates over lunch.

Two days are available, with most of the setup done as a group on the first day, with optional individual work with support on the second day.

Cost: $300

Prerequisites / Requirements: Laptop (bring your own or rent), basic computer literacy and proficiency with common computer software, such as the ability to edit a word document or send and email with an attachment.

Contact us for more detail at 604-813-7674  or email sophia@goodthingsbetter.com

Class size is limited to 8, so register now to reserve your spot.

Upcoming Courses

Busy on these dates? Let us know and we’ll put a list together for other dates.

  • November 14-15 (Thursday-Friday) Vancouver 9am – 5pm
  • December 13-14 (Thursday-Friday) Vancouver 9am- 5pm

Specialty Courses

  • For Therapists in Private Practice
  • For Entrepreneurs
  • For Non-Profit Staff
  • Custom course for your staff, group, club, conference or organization team

Add On Services

Professional photography: Get professional head shot photos taken for your website that build confidence in your brand. If shot prior to the course, photos will be delivered ready for the web to incorporate into your website during the workshop.

Professional writing, copy editing and proofreading: Need proofreading or copy editing for the text of your site? Need someone to write web-ready text for your site? Writing, editing and proofreading services are available both in advance of the workshop (so you’re all ready to go) and editing and proofreading services available afterward. Hourly or per word cost applies.

Can you do some (or all) of it for me?

Do you need something too fancy for an introductory workshop? Do you have a lot of pages or images to upload? No problem! You can create the basic structure, make the design choices  you want and we can take it from there, or we can build it for you from the ground up. WordPress customization, design and content creation services are available, along with monthly backup and upgrade services to keep your site safe.

Fine print:

The resulting website will be a WordPress website, from one of your choice of several pre-selected well-designed, mobile-ready templates. You will customize and set up your chosen template during the course. You will type in or paste in your own text, and upload your own images, or purchase and upload stock images.  Additional customization, and programming and design services beyond the scope of the course is available for an additional charge. If you do not already have a web hosting service, you will set that up during the first portion of the course. A credit card or PayPal account will be required to pay for these services, which are not included in course cost.

Websites That Fit

Website Design and Optimization with Business Analysis

Technology Tailoring website designs are characterized by their practical, effective designs, that take into account your audience and business needs.

Business Analysis = your website does what it is supposed to, period.

Your consultant combines knowledge and experience with knowing what questions to ask to uncover your customers needs as well as your organizational priorities. Then we make sure every page of your website is part of getting those needs and priorities satisfied.

Call 604-813-7674 to get started. 

Easy To Maintain, But You Don’t Have To

These sites are quick and easy to keep up to date, allowing you to add information yourself if you wish.  You can create your own text, or contract us to do the writing as well. Maintenance services are also available to make sure your site remains healthy, backed up and well maintained.

Do you want to focus on your core business? 

Let us take it off your hands and complete the work professionally.

Are you a hands-on person?

Get training and support to make your website look and work how you want it to.

Websites Designed to Work Hard

We create websites that realize your goals: increase revenue, and spread information to your target audience. Services range from a tune up to a complete design overhaul. We won’t try to sell you more than you need to get the job done. Design companies that lack business analysis may make a very pretty website – that does not achieve your goals. We want your new site to do more than look pretty. Every change is optimized to meet your business goals: more purchases, calls and emails from qualified customers or donors. Non-profits, if you need to spread key information to target populations, we will make sure your target visitors not only find and use what you provide, but that we can count them for reporting.

Imagine your ideal website

  • Professional looking – Clean, crisp and easy to use.
  • Designed with your marketing or operational goals first – So no tiny grey text your customers can’t read, no matter how pretty it is…
  • Search Engine Optimized – If you build it right, the right people will come.

Imagine it easy…

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Websites That Fit

Website Malware Prevention, Upgrade, Monitoring and Backup Service

Just as you need to back up data on your computer and protect it from viruses, you need to back up your website’s design and information so that it is not lost in case of problems.

Websites live on web servers that you rent space from, usually on a yearly contract. They are continuously connected to the internet, and so vulnerable to attack from hackers, viruses, or accidents like deleting or messing up content and design.

For an affordable monthly retainer, Sophia Kelly of Tailored Tech will monitor your site to make sure it is up and running, free of malware, software is kept up to date (which protects the site from becoming hacked) and backed up on a regular basis to an off site location. Usually the first to know something is wrong, she takes timely action to restore or protect your site as needed.

The service includes restoring your site from backup as required up to once per month, with additional restores available for a small fee. Other technical services are available as required as well, such as email backup and administration, website design updates, or adding additional features to your site.

You will emailed a report on a quarterly or yearly basis detailing the upgrades and monitoring work performed to keep your site safe.

Our basic service is designed for WordPress websites, including Woocommerce ecommerce sites. Please inquire for other site types, or pricing for several sites at once.

Contact us now to get set up to protect your site and keep your business running smoothly at sophia@goodthingsbetter.com or 604-813-7674 (Vancouver, Canada)

Websites That Fit

Woocommerce Ecommerce Website Setup and Design

WooCommerce is an open source e-commerce plugin for WordPress. It is designed for small to large-sized online merchants using WordPress. Tailored Tech sets up, design and maintains ecommerce websites in Vancouver, Canada.

Do you sell products online? Are you already using Woocommerce but need help getting it set up the way you need it? Do you need help optimizing it to do the best job displaying and selling your products?

Do you have a wordpress website for your business but want to expand into selling physical or virtual products or information online?

Tailored Tech can make your site work for you and your business needs.

Call now to get started: 604-813-7674

Websites That Fit

WordPress Website Setup and Maintenance

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A simple, flexible, affordable WordPress website that looks great.  Help making it fit your clients, donors and constituents and encourage them to take action to buy, donate or inform themselves.  Affordable. Customizable. Training for your staff to keep it up to date and support when you need something a little fancier or would prefer to have help.

We can set up online donation, event calendaring and registration, private areas for your staff information, member only information areas, custom forms to collect information you need, and display information your clients need.

Let Sophia Kelly set up a website built to grow as needed with your needs.  Let us make it easy for you.

WordPress Website Maintenance

Do you have an existing WordPress website you need help with? We can maintain it, update the content, run regular security updates and backups to protect your site against hackers.

We also provide search engine optimization (SEO) and marketing assistance. Let’s make a website for your organization that is tailored to help clients make the decision to buy from you, learn from you or support you.

Monthly flat rate subscriptions, and as-needed rates.

Call Sophia Kelly at 604-813-7674

Email Administration, Websites That Fit

Email Administration and Support

Email AdministrationMy clients and their staff can call or email me during business hours whenever they need help.

I help over the phone, send detailed instructions by email, or come to your office to sort things out in person. Save time and money with local support and no waiting on hold. (In person help available in or near Vancouver, Canada) 

I create new accounts, administer passwords and quotas, help with backup, forwarding and out of office responses. I can also help that fiddly problem with your email reader, or help you set up rules to automatically sort your email. 

Whether you use (or want to use) Office 365, Gmail for Business or POP email with email readers like Outlook and Thunderbird, let me make it easy for you to do your job. We can take care of  assigning addresses, permissions  and passwords, backup and archiving, assisting with setup on your users phones, tablets and desktops, and providing support as needed. We can make sure email accounts are secured when staff turnover happens, and that old emails are archived. 

Avoid unproductive delays by making sure your staff have timely, competent and friendly assistance in setting up, managing and using their email accounts, no matter the type of device or platform. Let us take care of any and all technical headaches so you can do what you do best.

Packages and as-needed support available.

Call 604-813-7674 now to get started.

Custom Training, Websites That Fit

WordPress Training for Non-Profit Staff and Volunteers

WordPress allows for websites to be set up inexpensively and maintained by volunteers or non-technical staff. Tailored Tech has worked with many non-profits who would like to maintain their own content on their website, training volunteers or staff to complete edits.

Most organizations can get staff or volunteers prepared to insert and edit text, add images, change calendars, upload newsletters, and other routine tasks within 1-2 hours of customized training.

Want to do it yourself most of the time, but need extra help from time to time? No problem! Telephone and email support plans are available and affordable for the help you need, right when you need it.
You can opt for professional setup or assistance on an as-needed basis or a monthly plan, in addition to professional backup and updating services to make sure your website stays secure and free from hacking.

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Fix Your Website, Database or other IT System

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Many of my clients come to me with a website  or other system that meets most of their needs but is missing something they want.  Did you buy a new website, database or software system and then realize it needs some changes to fit your needs? Or find you don’t have the capacity to learn how to use it or set it up?

I love tailoring existing systems and sites to fit you better. Let’s talk about what you want and need and let me save you work and make the most of your investment.

Considering spending a bunch of money on a new website, email system or file storage system? Let me look over the options for you and advise you on what will fit your people and needs best, for the right price. With 20 years of experience, I can help prevent wasted money and effort that comes from the wrong choice or implementation.

Common things people ask me to add to their sites:

  • Search engine optimization
  • Online donations or membership renewals
  • Adding calls to action to  help clients do what you want them to do with the site.
  • Reworking site design to fix issues you’ve discovered when using it
  • Solving that setup issue or change you just couldn’t figure out how to do and couldn’t find in the manual
  • Providing training or documentation for staff on the new system, specific to your business.
Websites That Fit

Facebook Page Setup Services

Are you a business-owner with a website that could benefit from customer word of mouth and testimonials? Are you promoting an event that people are more likely to attend if they know their friends are going? Are you a charity or non-profit who would like to get your message out using social media?

Tailored Tech is offering an affordable package to get you started with social media. Call us now at 604-813-7674 to get started.

Facebook Setup Services Package

Facebook allows you to take word of mouth promotion online. A Facebook fan page allows you to build a following of ‘fans’ on facebook. When your fans interact with your Facebook Page, stories linking to your Page can go to their friends via Facebook’s news feed. As these friends interact with your page, news feed keeps driving word-of-mouth to a wider circle of friends. Facebook is one of the older social media platforms, and is a good choice for businesses wanting to reach women and people over 40.

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  • Set up your Facebook account.
  • Set up a Facebook Business Page.
  • Add information you supply to the Business Page.
  • Give you advice (personalized for your organization) on how to use Facebook going forward.

Ongoing administration and content services available at reasonable rates.

Call Tailored Tech now at 604-813-7674 (10am -6pm weekdays, PST).

To get started, call Tailored Tech now at 604-813-7674 (10am -6pm weekdays, PST).