Black & McDonald

We provide comprehensive web design, development, infrastructure, security auditing, and ongoing support for Black & McDonald and their subsidiaries. Our work ensures accessibility, robust security, and scalability for a dynamic portfolio supporting over $2.1 billion in annual sales.

As a trusted partner for Black & McDonald, a leading integrated, multi-trade service provider with over $2.1 billion in annual sales, we deliver comprehensive web design, development, infrastructure, and security solutions across their diverse portfolio of web properties and subsidiaries. Our scope of work includes: Accessibility Audits: Ensuring compliance with industry accessibility standards for a user-friendly and inclusive digital experience. Security Audits: Proactively identifying and addressing vulnerabilities to safeguard their online presence. Scalable Solutions: Designing and managing infrastructure to support growth and enhance performance. With Black & McDonald’s expanding operations and dynamic digital needs, we play a pivotal role in maintaining the integrity, functionality, and security of their online platforms, enabling them to focus on delivering exceptional service to their clients.

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Reporting

Our specialized reporting is a standout feature of our services for Black & McDonald, offering tailored insights into website performance, accessibility compliance, security audits, and maintenance activities. With custom dashboards and actionable summaries, our reports provide transparency and empower decision-makers to optimize digital assets, address vulnerabilities, and align web strategies with the company’s evolving needs and $2.1 billion operations.

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Strategy

We offer strategic planning and consultation services for everything from developing a project roadmap to establishing milestones through collaborative continuous improvement. We will work with you to identify all the needs, requirements, deadlines and expectations, to ensure the path to project completion is prudent and predictable.

We use industry standard techniques and best practices to manage our projects from start to finish.

Responsive

Developing a website that is responsive is no longer a new requirement, its mandatory. We use industry standard tools and best practices to incorporate framework and scaffolding to ensure your website responds on the many different screen widths across many different mobile and tablet devices.

Gone are the days of a “mobile only” website. We will design your site for desktop, mobile, tablet, portrait and landscape viewing. And it will be beautiful!

SEO

SEO Marketing and positioning can be an extremely complicated process. There are many constantly changing factors that play into the complete optimization of your businesses ranking and positioning in organic search engine results.

Shift8’s SEO services would be a definite asset to complement your web design and relaunch.

Technology

Using modern technologies to build robust web stacks with a unique case-by-case approach allows us to have the freedom to tailor make every solution from the ground up.

We utilize full stack frameworks and technologies that complement the collective experience among development teams. From the latest JS frameworks to PHP and Python based frameworks and everything in between, everything is considered and carefully evaluated from an full end-to-end perspective.

Web Development

Each project we encounter, large or small, typically will have custom requirements. Through analysis, due diligence and research we will formulate a concise development strategy where the appropriate technology, CMS or framework will be chosen that best suits the unique requirements from timeline to budget to integration and functionality.

We will work with you to develop a concise development plan. We can custom develop on top of an existing CMS or roll out a web framework from scratch.

Design

Shift8 provides high quality Web Design services to businesses in and around Toronto. We strive to provide a complete end-to-end design service to satisfy your unique web design needs and requirements.

We will be there every step of the way from the initial planning phase, to wireframe and mockups, to the project deployment and management until the completion and launch of your project including post launch maintenance and revisions.