Why your site should look like this.
This page isn't a sales pitch. It's a plain-English look at what your current website is doing well, what it's doing poorly, and what Launchpad would change if you gave us the green light.
- Your website is down right now
Type sweetonionbistro.ca into a phone today and you do not get your site. You get a Squarespace "Website Expired" page. Every link a customer taps, every search result, lands on a dead end. People who cannot find your menu or your number just go somewhere else.
- You were paying every month for it
Squarespace charges a monthly fee, usually around twenty-three to forty-nine dollars, whether the site is working or not. With Launchpad it is $250 once, you own it, and there is no monthly bill to lapse and take the site down with it.
- The menu was never easy to find
Your signature dishes, the Pickle Parm Fries, the lamb skewers, the butter chicken bowl, deserve to be the first thing people see. This preview puts the whole menu on one scrollable page with jump buttons at the top, and calls out the dedicated gluten-free fryer that sets you apart.
- Two locations, no clear way to choose
You run Byron and Wortley Village, but a visitor needs both addresses, both phone numbers and directions in one tap. This preview lays out both locations cleanly with tap-to-call and a directions button for each.
- It works, but it blends in
The site does the job, but nothing about it makes someone stop and say “this place looks great.” You're doing the work, the site just isn't showing it off.
- Squarespace charges you every single month
And the day you stop paying, your website disappears. You don't own it, you rent it, forever. For most small businesses that's $300 to $500 a year, just to have a website exist.
- A site that does not expire
You own it outright. No monthly subscription that can lapse and pull your website offline the way it is offline today.
- Your full menu, brunch and the GF fryer up front
Every category on one page, the signature plates highlighted, and a clear note that you keep a dedicated gluten-free fryer. That last detail brings in customers other restaurants turn away.
- Reserve, find and call in one tap
A Call to Reserve button in the header, the hero and the footer, both locations with directions, and live music Wednesdays and karaoke Fridays where people will actually see them.
- A site that actually looks like a real business
Modern design that matches how your business actually feels, not a clicked-together template that looks like everyone else's.
- Works perfectly on phones
Most people looking for you are on a phone. This site is built for phones first, then tablets, then laptops, in that order.
- Everything you already have, better organized
Your hours, your services, your photos, your prices, your booking link, your menu, all of it, in one clean place that people can actually find.
- Fast, secure, and runs itself
Hosted on Cloudflare, the same network that powers Shopify and Discord. Always online, always secure, always fast. No plugins to update.
- You own it. Pay once. Forever.
$250 one time. No monthly fees for hosting. No subscription. No lock-in. The site is yours to keep, forever.
$250. One time. Yours forever.
You pay once. You own the website. Hosting is $0 per month. No monthly fees, no subscription, no surprise renewal email. If you ever stop using Launchpad, nothing happens, the site stays yours.
The monthly fees you'd be paying elsewhere.
Most website builders charge you every single month. The day you stop paying, your website is gone. Here's what that actually looks like over a year:
Your site can be live by tomorrow.
Call or email Launchpad Media and we will deploy this preview to your own domain in under 24 hours. No long contracts. No back and forth. Pay when it is live.