Case Study

Sacred Medicine Ways

Indexed by how the reader feels
Sacred Medicine Ways is Sachi’s practice: Indigenous healing, wisdom and ceremony, shared through writing, workshops and one-to-one sessions. The site is arranged around what brings somebody to it, rather than around a list of things to book.
IndustryHealthcare
ServicesWeb Design & Development
PlatformWordPress, PHP, MySQL +5 more
The Sacred Medicine Ways website shown on a laptop and a phone
The Challenge
People arrive at a practice like this carrying a feeling rather than a shopping list. They are depleted, or stuck, or holding something heavy, and they are looking for somebody who sounds as though they understand it before they look at what can be booked. A menu of services answers a question these visitors have not asked yet.
  • Visitors arrive from a feeling, not a product
  • A menu of services answers the wrong question
  • The subject asks for care in every word
  • This is teaching and ceremony, not treatment
  • Many readers are not ready to book anything
  • The practitioner is the practice
  • Writing is what people actually arrive for
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A Look at the Finished Work

Our Solution
The writing is the front door. Articles are gathered by the state a reader recognises in themselves, and by the part of life it touches, so somebody can find their own words before they find anything to book. Ceremonies, feasts and fasts get a page that explains them. Sachi’s own story sits one plain link away, and the mailing list is the step for a reader who is not ready.
  • Articles gathered by what a reader is feeling
  • Separate sections for body and for mind
  • Ceremonies, feasts and fasts on one page
  • Sachi's own story one plain link away
  • A mailing list for readers who are not ready
  • Sessions and workshops simple to ask about
  • No claim about outcomes anywhere on the site
  • Plain typography, and nothing that hurries
A page from the Sacred Medicine Ways website: sacredmedicineways.com/site/articles/
  • Writing first

    The articles are the door

  • Found by feeling

    Gathered by what is felt

  • A step short of booking

    The list, if now is too soon

  • The practitioner shown

    Sachi's story, plainly

Outcomes

What Changed After Launch

  • A reader finds their own words

    Writing is indexed by the state somebody recognises in themselves, so the first click is recognition and not a price.

  • Teaching carries the site

    The articles do the explaining, which suits a practice where trust has to come well before anybody asks for anything.

  • There is a step before booking

    A reader who is not ready can join the list, so an interest is not lost in the gap between a first visit and a decision.

  • Sachi publishes directly

    Articles and ceremony dates are posted by the practitioner, so the site keeps pace with the practice instead of trailing it.

Client Feedback

What Sacred Medicine Ways Says

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Technology Stack

Built With a Modern Stack

The platform, languages and tools the finished site runs on.
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How much does a professional website cost?

Cost follows scope rather than page count alone: how many templates need designing, whether you need ecommerce or third-party integrations, and how much of the content we write for you. A brochure site for a local firm and a multi-language store connected to an ERP are very different projects. We scope each one individually and give you a fixed written quote in Canadian dollars — scope, milestones and timeline included — before any work starts, so there are no mid-project surprises.

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A typical business website takes four to six weeks from kickoff to launch. Ecommerce builds usually run six to ten weeks, and custom web applications longer depending on integrations. The biggest variable is not development — it is content and feedback. Projects move fastest when one person on your side can approve copy and design. You get a milestone schedule up front and a staging link you can review at any point.

Can you redesign our existing website without losing our Google rankings?

Yes, and protecting what already ranks is part of the process rather than an afterthought. We audit the current site first — traffic, best-performing pages, backlinks and technical issues — then keep the URLs that already earn visits and build a redirect map for anything that has to change. Content and metadata carry across, and we watch Search Console for the first few weeks after launch so anything unexpected gets caught early.

Will my website work properly on phones and tablets?

Yes. Every site we build is mobile-first: we design the phone layout before the desktop one, because that is where most of your visitors will arrive. We test on real iOS and Android devices as well as in the browser, checking tap targets, form usability, image weight and load time over a mobile connection — not just that the layout reflows. Responsive design is included in every build, never a paid extra.

Can I update the website myself after launch?

Yes. We build on WordPress so editing a page feels closer to editing a document than writing code. At handover you get a walkthrough recorded for your team plus a short written guide covering the things you will actually do: changing text and images, adding pages, publishing posts and swapping a promotion. If you would rather not touch it at all, that is what our maintenance plans are for.

Do you provide hosting and domains?

Yes, we can host your site, and we are equally happy to work with hosting you already have. Our managed setup includes an SSL certificate, LiteSpeed caching, a Cloudflare CDN, daily off-site backups, malware scanning and uptime monitoring. You keep ownership of your domain and DNS either way — so if you ever move providers, the site and its data come with you.

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