Why We Build Exclusively on Framer - and What That Means for Your Business

Every platform makes promises. Here's why we chose one and stuck with it.

Framer website design platform interface

Choosing one platform and knowing it deeply beats knowing five platforms loosely.

Most web designers work across multiple platforms, taking whatever project comes in and building it on whatever the client already has or whatever the budget allows. That approach makes sense from a sales perspective. It makes less sense from a quality perspective, and it’s not how Mint Websites operates.


Every site we build runs on Framer. That’s not a limitation - it’s a deliberate decision that affects the quality of the work and the experience of working with us, and it’s worth explaining directly.


Framer is a modern design and publishing platform built specifically for professional web design. It doesn’t rely on plugins for basic functionality, it handles hosting and performance natively, and the output is consistently fast, clean, and visually precise in a way that plugin-dependent platforms struggle to match. It was built by designers for designers, and that shows in what it produces.

Fast loading Framer website performance result

The practical benefit for a business owner is straightforward. A Framer site doesn’t accumulate technical debt the way a WordPress site does. There are no plugins to update, no conflicts to troubleshoot, no security patches to apply on a schedule. The site you launch is the site that keeps running without requiring ongoing technical maintenance from you or anyone else.

The editing experience is also more intuitive than most alternatives. Making simple changes - updating a phone number, swapping a photo, adding a new service - doesn’t require a developer. The visual editor works the way you’d expect a design tool to work, which means a business owner can handle small updates themselves without needing to understand code or navigate a backend that wasn’t built with non-technical users in mind.

The reason we chose one platform rather than working across several is that depth matters more than breadth in this kind of work. Knowing Framer completely, understanding its capabilities and its limits, knowing exactly what it can do for a specific type of business, produces better results than being competent across a range of platforms without being exceptional on any of them. Every client benefits from that accumulated experience, not just the ones who happen to want what we happen to know best that week.

Web designer working on a Framer website build

For Fort McMurray businesses, the choice of platform matters less than what the platform produces. What Framer produces consistently is fast, original, professionally designed websites that don’t require ongoing technical babysitting. That’s the outcome worth caring about, and it’s why we build on it exclusively.

Mint Websites builds custom Framer websites for Fort McMurray small businesses. Get in touch to see what that looks like for yours.