Skilled trades run deep in White Sands: 18.8% of working-age adults have a trades certificate. Those numbers say a lot about what a White Sands business website needs to do. Our CA$119 plan covers the website or online store, your domain, email and hosting, ready within 3 business days on a temporary link.
No setup fee: you only pay the CA$119 monthly fee after you approve your website.
The local picture in White Sands
Homes without usual residents include cottages and seasonal properties. If part of your trade comes from their owners or guests, your White Sands website should show seasonal hours, what you offer in each season and how to reach you by email.
Around White Sands
Within a short drive of White Sands: Rochon Sands (4.3 km), Bashaw (16 km), Stettler (18 km), Donalda (21 km) and Alix (26 km). Red Deer is 71 km to the west. If you work in Bashaw or Rochon Sands as well, the site can say so on a service area page.
Rochon Sands (97 residents) and Bashaw (848) are the closest neighbours with their own page. In Rochon Sands, 92.9% of households own their home; in White Sands, 100.0%.
Who is searching in White Sands
100.0% of households live in single-detached houses. Before-and-after photos speak to homeowners.
About three in ten people in White Sands is 65 or older. Text that is easy to read and a visible phone number and email make a difference.
60.7% of the people in White Sands were born in Alberta. A short story about the business builds trust quickly.
Population and households in White Sands
With a median age of 60.0 (Alberta: 38.4), the population of White Sands is older than Alberta overall. White Sands has 82 occupied private dwellings; 100.0% are owned by the people living in them.
A few more figures
- Residents per square kilometre: 108.1
- Trades certificates (ages 25 to 64): 18.8%
- Residents aged 85 and over: 2.9%
- Private dwellings: 304
White Sands against the provincial average
On the share of children, White Sands (14.3%) compares with 19.0% for the province as a whole. The share of residents aged 65 and over is 28.6% in White Sands and 14.8% in Alberta.
Running a business website from White Sands: the rules
A website does not need a special licence, but the business behind it follows the usual rules. A few that come up often:
- Consent is at the heart of Canada’s anti-spam legislation (CASL): express consent means someone has agreed, verbally or in writing, to receive a commercial electronic message from you, and senders should be ready to provide proof of that consent. Canada’s anti-spam legislation
- Under Canadian competition law, it is against the law to make materially false or misleading representations to promote a product, service or business interest, and the law also prohibits the unauthorized use or distortion of tests and testimonials. Competition Bureau
General information, not legal advice. Each link goes to the official page, where the details for your situation are.
Three steps to a website for your White Sands business
Since 2008, Aria has been setting up websites, domains and business email for small companies. For a business in White Sands, that means the same CA$119 plan as anywhere else in Canada, with your material and your questions going by email.
- Fill in the sign-up form at cadastro.ariaserv.com; it takes about 5 minutes.
- Within 3 business days, the whole site is on a temporary link, built on a proven template with your brand.
- Once you say it is ready, you pay the first month and we publish it on your domain.
A price change or a fresh photo: email it in and our team updates the site, included in the fee.
- A business website or an online store, for the same monthly fee
- Your own domain: bring the one you have, or we help you pick one
- Email on your domain: unlimited accounts, 5 GB in total, webmail and spam filtering
- Hosting, an SSL certificate and a daily backup
- Text, photo and price updates whenever you email us
- Ready within 3 business days on a temporary link
What business owners in White Sands ask us
Most of my customers are seasonal. Is a website still worth it?
Yes. Send us the dates and hours for each season by email and we keep the site current; it is included in the plan.
Can I have an email address with my business name?
Unlimited accounts on your domain, within 5 GB of total storage, plus webmail and spam filtering, all in the CA$119 plan.
Which platform do you use?
On the Aria Platform, which is built on WordPress and set up by our team, so you get a professional site without dealing with the technical side.
How long until my website is ready?
Within 3 business days of receiving your material, the website is ready on a temporary link. It goes live on your domain after you approve it and the first monthly fee is paid.
I already own a domain. Can I keep it?
If you have one, keep it: we point it to the website. If not, say so in the sign-up and we sort out the options with you by email.
Do we need to meet?
No meetings needed: we talk by email at support@ariaserv.com, and you see the full website on a temporary link before approving it.
Do I pay anything to get started?
No. No setup fee: you only pay the CA$119 monthly fee after you approve your website. No long-term contract. You can stop the service whenever you need to.
Let's build your White Sands website
Send your logo and photos once you have signed up; the temporary link follows within 3 business days.
- Census figures for White Sands: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census of Population, data tables 98-10-0002 to 98-10-0458. Reproduced and distributed on an 'as is' basis with the permission of Statistics Canada.
- Locations: Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Geographical Names Database (CGNDB), contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada; distances are straight-line.
- Figures are the latest official releases when this page was written; distances are straight-line.