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Domains, Hosting and Email forEconomic Development

Give investors and entrepreneurs the facts they need to take the next step.

For municipal and regional economic-development offices, development corporations, and investment-attraction teams

Economic-development websites must turn broad community promotion into decision-ready information. Investors need current data, sites and opportunities, sector strengths, incentives, infrastructure, contacts, and a confidential path to discuss a project.

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Website planning and support

Plan your website. Get help when you need it.

Use the matching Economic Development workbook to shape your pages, and watch the contact video if you would like help from SaaSTech.

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Need help choosing your next step? This short video explains how to contact SaaSTech Servers. Use the page plan and downloadable guide below to plan your website.

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YOUR WEBSITE PLANNING GUIDE

Economic Development website workbook

A website-planning guide in editable Word and print-ready PDF, with an example page plan, sample wording and space to draft your own content. Adapt the fictional example and confirm the details for your business.

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Recommended structure

Give every page a job.

Start with this compact structure and add pages only when they answer a distinct visitor question.

Finished Why invest here example — privacy-cropped excerpt — **01 · Why invest here**Summarize the location advantage with evidence, priority sectors, infrastructure, workforce, and market access. Privacy-cropped excerpt; browser/editor chrome removed.

Finished Sites and opportunities example — privacy-cropped excerpt — **02 · Sites and opportunities**Publish available land, buildings, development areas, and opportunity profiles with ownership and update dates. Privacy-cropped excerpt; browser/editor chrome removed.

Finished Community data example — privacy-cropped excerpt — **03 · Community data**Present sourced population, workforce, transportation, utilities, taxation, and market information in a usable format. Privacy-cropped excerpt; browser/editor chrome removed.

Finished Business support example — privacy-cropped excerpt — **04 · Business support**Explain permits, incentives, financing referrals, startup resources, and the organizations involved. Privacy-cropped excerpt; browser/editor chrome removed.

Finished Contact the development team example — privacy-cropped excerpt — **05 · Contact the development team**Offer a named, discreet contact path for investment, expansion, site-selection, and succession enquiries. Privacy-cropped excerpt; browser/editor chrome removed.

Compare plans

Choose your Website Builder plan.

Compare current Canadian starting prices and popular features. Final promotions, taxes, currency, eligibility and terms are confirmed in the secure shop.

Suggested for Economic Development: Business Plus. It supports consultation requests, sector pages, reports, news, and professional communication while confidential project records remain in approved systems.

Best for Starter sites

Personal

C$8.99 / month

Professionally designed themes
Hosting, SSL and blog

Best for Business presence

Business

C$13.99 / month

Everything in Personal
PayPal and SEO

Suggested for this industryBest for Service businesses

Business Plus

C$20.99 / month

Social integration
Online appointments

Best for Selling online

Online Store

C$36.99 / month

Shopping cart and payments
Shipping and inventory

See what you can build

Explore the editor themes behind the Economic Development site.

These real Website Builder screens follow Prairie Horizon Development Alliance from guided setup to five finished pages. Current opportunities, sourced community data, coordinated business support and a discreet enquiry path help investors move from interest to a productive first conversation.

First setup

See how the Economic Development starter site begins.

Follow the guided sequence from category suggestions to an editable first draft for a fictional Saskatchewan development alliance.

Editor highlights

Turn the first draft into a decision-ready investment journey.

The editor connects a coordinated identity with current opportunities, sourced data, business support and a discreet project contact path.

Website Builder editor showing Prairie Horizon Development Alliance — privacy-cropped excerpt — **Coordinate the investment welcome**The editor connects the Prairie Horizon identity, local hero, evidence-first promise and primary action.

Website Builder page organizer for Prairie Horizon Development Alliance — privacy-cropped excerpt — **Keep the investor journey organized**Five focused pages separate the location case, opportunities, community data, support and contact path.

Website Builder section library beside the Economic Development site — privacy-cropped excerpt — **Add only decision-useful sections**Flexible layouts, reports, galleries and contact tools can be added where they help a project team decide.

Website Builder colour controls for Prairie Horizon Development Alliance — **Balance civic confidence and warmth**Deep blue and horizon gold coordinate the logo, navigation, photography and investment action.

See what you can build

Themes and Paint your site

Open the preview to explore the captured themes, logo variations and paint settings in the image viewer.

Selected colours

Compare Prairie Horizon across professionally designed themes.

Six sequential desktop captures cover the complete theme viewer using the selected deep-blue and horizon-gold palette.

Selected-colour Website Builder theme previews for Prairie Horizon Development Alliance, group 1 — **Chosen-colour themes 1**The same Economic Development content compared across professionally designed themes with the selected brand palette.

Selected-colour Website Builder theme previews for Prairie Horizon Development Alliance, group 2 — **Chosen-colour themes 2**The same Economic Development content compared across professionally designed themes with the selected brand palette.

Selected-colour Website Builder theme previews for Prairie Horizon Development Alliance, group 3 — **Chosen-colour themes 3**The same Economic Development content compared across professionally designed themes with the selected brand palette.

Selected-colour Website Builder theme previews for Prairie Horizon Development Alliance, group 4 — **Chosen-colour themes 4**The same Economic Development content compared across professionally designed themes with the selected brand palette.

Selected-colour Website Builder theme previews for Prairie Horizon Development Alliance, group 5 — **Chosen-colour themes 5**The same Economic Development content compared across professionally designed themes with the selected brand palette.

Selected-colour Website Builder theme previews for Prairie Horizon Development Alliance, group 6 — **Chosen-colour themes 6**The same Economic Development content compared across professionally designed themes with the selected brand palette.

Default styles

See every theme with its original styling.

Six matching captures repeat the complete theme sequence with Use default styles enabled.

Default-style Website Builder theme previews for Prairie Horizon Development Alliance, group 1 — **Default-style themes 1**The same content shown with each theme's original colours, typography, navigation and button treatment.

Default-style Website Builder theme previews for Prairie Horizon Development Alliance, group 2 — **Default-style themes 2**The same content shown with each theme's original colours, typography, navigation and button treatment.

Default-style Website Builder theme previews for Prairie Horizon Development Alliance, group 3 — **Default-style themes 3**The same content shown with each theme's original colours, typography, navigation and button treatment.

Default-style Website Builder theme previews for Prairie Horizon Development Alliance, group 4 — **Default-style themes 4**The same content shown with each theme's original colours, typography, navigation and button treatment.

Default-style Website Builder theme previews for Prairie Horizon Development Alliance, group 5 — **Default-style themes 5**The same content shown with each theme's original colours, typography, navigation and button treatment.

Default-style Website Builder theme previews for Prairie Horizon Development Alliance, group 6 — **Default-style themes 6**The same content shown with each theme's original colours, typography, navigation and button treatment.

Paint your site

Choose the right balance of clarity, colour and contrast.

Seven wide desktop views keep the Home preview and complete colour controls together while moving sequentially from Light through Colourful to Dark.

Prairie Horizon Development Alliance at Website Builder Paint slider position 1 of 7, light — **Paint position 1 of 7 · Light**Desktop capture 1 of 7, moving the same home page sequentially from Light through Colourful to Dark while keeping the complete colour controls visible.

Prairie Horizon Development Alliance at Website Builder Paint slider position 2 of 7, light toward colourful — **Paint position 2 of 7 · Light toward colourful**Desktop capture 2 of 7, moving the same home page sequentially from Light through Colourful to Dark while keeping the complete colour controls visible.

Prairie Horizon Development Alliance at Website Builder Paint slider position 3 of 7, colourful with a light base — **Paint position 3 of 7 · Colourful with a light base**Desktop capture 3 of 7, moving the same home page sequentially from Light through Colourful to Dark while keeping the complete colour controls visible.

Prairie Horizon Development Alliance at Website Builder Paint slider position 4 of 7, colourful midpoint — **Paint position 4 of 7 · Colourful midpoint**Desktop capture 4 of 7, moving the same home page sequentially from Light through Colourful to Dark while keeping the complete colour controls visible.

Prairie Horizon Development Alliance at Website Builder Paint slider position 5 of 7, colourful with a dark base — **Paint position 5 of 7 · Colourful with a dark base**Desktop capture 5 of 7, moving the same home page sequentially from Light through Colourful to Dark while keeping the complete colour controls visible.

Prairie Horizon Development Alliance at Website Builder Paint slider position 6 of 7, dark toward colourful — **Paint position 6 of 7 · Dark toward colourful**Desktop capture 6 of 7, moving the same home page sequentially from Light through Colourful to Dark while keeping the complete colour controls visible.

Prairie Horizon Development Alliance at Website Builder Paint slider position 7 of 7, dark — **Paint position 7 of 7 · Dark**Desktop capture 7 of 7, moving the same home page sequentially from Light through Colourful to Dark while keeping the complete colour controls visible.

Earn confidence

Proof customers can evaluate.

Dated and sourced community data
Named development contacts
Current property and opportunity information
Clear public, private, and partner roles

Be discoverable

Help the right customer find you.

Build focused pages for priority sectors and investment opportunities.
Use stable web pages for key data, with reports available as supporting downloads.
Review statistics and property information on a documented schedule.

Find your domain

It all starts with a name.

Try a .ca, or leave out the ending and we’ll help you find one that fits. The live search confirms current availability and pricing.

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Country and regional domain help

Explore country-code and regional domain endings with dedicated SaaSTech help articles. Registration rules and availability vary by registry and are confirmed in the secure storefront. Select an ending to open its specific help article in a new tab.

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Where SaaSTech fits

Use services to support the plan—not define it.

The website strategy comes first. These services provide a practical foundation and can be adjusted for the business.

FOUNDATION

Domain registration

Choose a short, memorable name that belongs to the business and can be used for both the website and email.

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Website Builder Business Plus

It supports consultation requests, sector pages, reports, news, and professional communication while confidential project records remain in approved systems.

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Microsoft 365 Business Professional

Use the business domain for email, calendars, meetings, Office apps, and organized customer communication.

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Compare plans

Choose your Microsoft 365 plan.

Compare current Canadian starting prices and popular features. Final promotions, taxes, currency, eligibility and terms are confirmed in the secure shop.

Suggested for Economic Development: Business Professional. The guide uses Office apps, business email, calendars and organized documents together. Choose a lighter plan for roles that only need email or browser-based tools; confirm the features and number of users needed before ordering.

Best for Professional email

Email Essentials

C$8.99 / month

10 GB mailbox
Sync and shared calendars

Best for Larger mailbox

Email Plus

C$9.99 / month

50 GB mailbox
Sync and shared calendars

Best for Cloud teamwork

Online Business Essentials

C$15.99 / month

Office web apps and 1 TB
Meetings plus 50 GB email

Suggested for this industryBest for Full Office apps

Business Professional

C$22.99 / month

Apps on up to 5 devices and 1 TB
Meetings plus 50 GB email

Grow intentionally

Advanced options when the business is ready.

These are selective next steps—not requirements for launching the website.

Larger teams

Compare Professional Email

When many staff members mainly need branded mailboxes, compare Professional Email before assigning Microsoft 365 to everyone. Reserve Microsoft 365 for roles that benefit from Office apps, meetings, shared calendars, and collaboration tools.

Review this option →Improve what works

Review the next customer step

Use customer questions and enquiry feedback to identify one useful improvement. Update the relevant page, test it on a phone and compare results before adding more features.

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TEMPLATES AND RESOURCES

Ready to use with Microsoft 365

Download templates branded for Prairie Horizon Development Alliance. Complete the fields in Word or the input cells in Excel, or print the forms and planners for handwriting. Website workbooks also include a print-ready PDF. Adapt the example branding and details for your own business.

**Investment enquiry brief**Prairie Horizon Development Alliance · Word document preview. Download the editable file below.

Download Word .docx · 89 KB

**Site and opportunity worksheet**Prairie Horizon Development Alliance · Word document preview. Download the editable file below.

Download Word .docx · 89 KB

**Project follow-up tracker**Prairie Horizon Development Alliance · Excel workbook preview. Download the editable file below.

Download Excel .xlsx · 58 KB

**SaaSTech website planning workbook · Page 1**SaaSTech Servers · Word document preview. Download the editable file below.

Download Word .docx · privacy-safe copy Download PDF .pdf · print-ready · privacy-safe copy

SaaSTech example templates, not official Microsoft templates. Keep confidential records in your approved private systems. These files do not connect to Website Builder or submit information.

Put the services to work

Small systems that make a real business easier to choose.

These examples connect the technology to everyday customer and team needs in economic development.

01Domain

Create a credible home for investment information

Use a recognizable development domain across opportunity profiles, reports, trade events, property signs, and staff email.

02Website

Make community data decision-ready

Connect sector strengths, sites, workforce, infrastructure, incentives, and sourced statistics to a named development contact.

03Microsoft 365

Coordinate projects discreetly

Use managed identities, meetings, calendars, and working documents while confidential project records remain in approved systems.

Before going live

Launch like a customer is already waiting.

□Test every form, phone number, email link, and primary button on a phone.□Confirm the domain, business email, opening hours, and service area are accurate.□Compress large photographs and write useful alternative text for meaningful images.□Ask a customer or colleague to complete the main task without instructions.□Verify every statistic, incentive, property listing, partner role, and confidentiality statement with the responsible economic-development office.

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