About Parachute

We are Toronto web designers.

Over the last 23 years, we have refined our web design process through experience and invaluable opportunities to work with businesses of all shapes and sizes across nearly every industry imaginable.

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Toronto Web Design Company

The company we Keep


“Parachute is a real pleasure to work with, and they’re always able to make magic happen! I’d recommend their work to anyone looking for a reliable web team with a creative eye.”

Danielle Sanford,Digital Media Manager, The JUNO Awards

“It was critical for our website to serve as a foundation for our growing brand and Parachute guided us through the process to create a beautiful site on time and on budget.”

Timothy Jones,General Manager, Boomerang Health powered by SickKids

"Parachute is hands down the best web design agency I've worked with. Enormously thorough and attentive, incredible at managing the complex details. Everyone is just ON IT!"

Elizabeth Lista,Communications Director, MD Beauty Clinic

“Parachute took the lead and made time to explain and explore with us to ensure our team was on board with all ideas put forward for approval. I would highly recommend Parachute!”

Elizabeth Lachowski,Manager Communications & Business Transformation

“We researched several prominent design firms – Parachute was the natural choice. A super talented bunch, fast and a pleasure to work with!”

Shauna Mercy,Marketing Manager, integrate AI

Website design in Toronto since 2003.

Jay Eckert, RGD, CDP, founded Parachute Design Group Inc. in Toronto, Ontario, in 2003. For the first five years, he handled every project solo, from strategy through design and development. In 2008, he began building a team. Today, Parachute operates with 6 designers and 6 developers across Canada and the United States.

Jay holds dual professional accreditations: Registered Graphic Designer (RGD) through the Association of Registered Graphic Designers of Ontario, and Certified Design Professional (CDP) through Design Professionals of Canada (DesCan), formerly the Graphic Designers of Canada. He leads creative direction and SEO strategy on every Parachute project, overseeing more than 400 website deployments and 80 brand identity programs since founding the agency. Jay has also served as an expert witness specializing in web design, web development and UX design in federal court for the Competition Bureau of Canada.

Under Jay’s direction, Clutch has recognized Parachute as a top web design agency, top web development company, top WordPress developer, and top design agency in Canada for nine consecutive years. The agency maintains a 4.9 rating across 34 verified client reviews on Clutch and an A+ rating with the Better Business Bureau.

Parachute’s client roster includes the JUNO Awards (Canada’s Music Awards), SickKids, the Government of Ontario, McMillan LLP, Intact Insurance, Bond Brand Loyalty, Polar, and Precision Nutrition. Jay was profiled in Swagger Magazine for his contributions to the Canadian web design industry.

Jay specializes in custom WordPress development, conversion rate optimization, search engine optimization, and generative engine optimization (GEO). He is the sole author of Parachute’s web design blog, publishing research and analysis on WordPress, SEO, AI search visibility, and web performance. Read Jay’s articles.

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400+

Websites deployed

80+

Brand identity programs

600+

Client engagements

2003

Founded

RECOGNITION

Our industry awards and accolades.

Winner of the 2024 Canadian Marketing Award for Design and Communications, and a Clutch top-ranked web designer in Canada for 9 consecutive years.

Jay Eckert, CDP, Design Professionals of Canada
Jay Eckert, RGD, Association of Registered Graphic Designers
What we do

Web design that makes an impact.

Our team of Toronto web designers have two simple goals; optimise every user‘s experience, and create success for our clients.

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Web Design

Engaging website design built upon rock solid strategy that responds to user behaviour and environment offering an optimized browsing experience for all of today’s common devices.

Custom WordPress

WordPress is the world’s most popular content management system because it’s flexible and easy-to-use. With our tailored development we’re confident that you’ll love WordPress too

Open Source

WordPress is open source, and so is much of what we build around it. We extend it with custom PHP development and open-source integrations, so your site does exactly what your business needs.

eCommerce

We build online stores on WooCommerce, the most flexible commerce platform for WordPress. Our strategy and user experience design turn your catalogue into a store that is easy to shop and easy to manage. If your business already runs another commerce system, we connect your new site to it.

Branding

We rely on our creative design process developed over more than 20 years of professional design experience to deliver custom logo design and branding on time and on budget.

Graphic Design

Reinforce your new website design or logo with professionally hand-crafted brochures, reports and other marketing materials to create a uniform and consistent brand experience.

Let’s make something.

Approaching design can be a complex undertaking without the right experience. Our Toronto web design team can help you plan and execute your next project.

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