Web developer in Atlanta: one site for your regulars and the conference crowd
Web developer in Atlanta, working from Kolkata, India: I design and build websites for hospitality businesses and B2B firms. Somebody in town for a conference has no idea which side of the city you're on. They search, read a few lines and choose. So the first screen I build gives them your address, your opening hours and one clear way to book.
Overview
What a phone shows first
A line about same-day bookings or walk-ins sits right beside the button, for anyone wondering whether they can get in today.
The button you most want tapped is the largest on the first screen, and the only one there. A booking button goes in only if you take bookings. Otherwise, it's a button to call.
Further down the page, there's room for the work itself: real photographs and plain descriptions of what you offer, for anyone weighing the quality before they come.
Selling to other firms as well
Whether other companies buy from you is a question I'll put early on a call. If they do, a capability page for their buyers joins version one, and it's among the first pages designed.
Two audiences
A regular and a visitor want different answers
One site serves both. On a phone, the visitor's answers sit higher up.
A regular
- Knows the way already
- Reads reviews to judge how good the work is
- Can come back another day if today doesn't suit
A visitor in town for a conference
- Needs the street address and a way to find the door
- Checks whether you're open today
- Has to fit you in before the trip ends
What a scope from me looks like
What version one includes
Included
- A written scope: every page and feature as its own line, agreed before work starts
- Design to build, reviewed on a staging URL that stays open the whole project
- Mobile first — checked on a real phone
- Domain, hosting and every account created in your name from day one
- Address, opening hours and a call or booking button on the first mobile screen
- A capability page for B2B buyers comparing suppliers
- Basic on-page SEO: titles, descriptions, headings, sitemap, Search Console connected
- A runbook at handover: how to edit it, what renews and when
Phase two
- A booking or reservation system, once enough of the trade is visiting to justify one
- A page for each extra address, with its own hours
- Ongoing SEO once the site has traffic to read
- A maintenance plan once the site is live
- Logo and brand design, quoted separately from the build
Not doing
- Guaranteed rankings
Design sits inside the same scope. You approve how each page looks before I start building it.
What moves the number
Six choices that change the size of the job
Each of these adds lines to the scope, and each one is your call. None of them is required for the first version to launch.
- A booking or reservation system at launch, or later
- A capability page, if B2B buyers are part of the trade
- New photographs of the premises, or ones you already have
- A WhatsApp link alone, or a full contact form as well
- A second address with its own hours
- How many services get their own page
Where this comes from
Can an Atlanta business reach me?
I lead each project myself, and the work is shared among three developers, a designer and three SEO specialists in the Kolkata, India office, plus around six people working remotely. Reaching an offshore web developer is a fair worry. The team works on your schedule, in your time zone.
My record is 900+ projects since 2017, and the US share of it comes in at 600+ projects for US clients. Reviews from the clients who agreed to be quoted are on the project list.
Nearby
Related US pages: Dallas and Washington, DC
The Dallas page covers B2B sites written for a vendor reviewer, and the Washington, DC page a site held to a named accessibility standard.
FAQ
Hospitality and B2B sites, in practice
Hospitality here means any business a customer walks into, from a restaurant to a salon.
Can the site carry a second address?
- A second address gets its own page and its own opening hours, as a phase-two item. Version one leads with your main address and the button beside it.
Is a booking system worth building at launch?
- A booking system earns its place at launch when customers already ask to reserve before they arrive. Until then, the call button and WhatsApp cover it, and the booking system waits in phase two, already named in the scope.
What happens to the site after launch?
- After launch, the site is yours to run. The runbook covers changing the opening hours or adding a page, and if you want my team to handle updates, that's what the maintenance plan covers.
Does a B2B firm need a different kind of site?
- A B2B firm needs one page that a restaurant can skip. That page states what you deliver and in what volume, written plainly enough that a buyer putting a shortlist together can forward it to colleagues as it stands. It also names the volumes you can handle and the areas you deliver to, so a buyer can tell at a glance whether you fit.
What does the design need from the business?
- Photographs of your premises and your work, either ones you already have or new ones you arrange. The layouts are drawn from those, the phone version first and the desktop one second. Where you've already got a logo and colours, the layouts use them as they stand.
Will the site show up in local searches?
- Version one carries the on-page SEO: titles, descriptions, headings and a sitemap, with Search Console connected so you can see which searches bring people in. Where the site ranks is Google's call, and that doesn't change after launch.
Next step
What your customer mix tells me
Your mix of customers is what I size version one from. I'd like to hear it from you directly, because a trade that's mostly walk-in customers and one that's mostly companies end up with different home pages.
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