Web developer in Hooghly — when the old site still works
If your firm's site was made years ago and still brings in enquiries, tell me that first. As a web developer in Hooghly, I plan the rebuild around the pages already doing the work, so the new site starts with what the old one earned.
Overview
Mills, engineering and the trade around them
The riverside industry here sells to other businesses, not to passers-by.
The riverside industry here sells to other businesses — jute, engineering and the supply chains around them. A jute mill website is read by a buyer who orders by specification, so the figures go where that buyer looks first.
That buyer is comparing suppliers, and reads for what the firm makes, in what range and from which address. Plain pages with those facts in them carry the weight here. Where a firm runs more than one line, each with its own buyers, every line gets a page that speaks to them.
What moves the number
What raises the price, line by line
Every row is priced separately in the written scope, and the pricing method is set out in full.
| What changes it | Why |
|---|---|
| Search Console and analytics | already set up on the old site, or starting fresh |
| Mills, engineering or trading | which line leads the site |
| Product lines | how many need their own page, and how many share one |
| Photographs | the firm's own already, or still to be taken |
| Hosting | already in the firm's own name, or moved over as part of the work |
What changes the size of the job.
What a scope from me looks like
Every old page address, listed first
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
- A full redirect map from every old URL to its new equivalent
- 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 downloadable specification sheet, for the B2B side of the trade
- A second language, if buyers ask for one
- 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
- Publishing specifications I can't check against your own documents
Where this comes from
Is there work I can look at?
Yes. The projects page links to live builds, all of them open to look at before the first call.
What gets built here
Product lines, enquiries and the address
Built for a buyer who already knows the trade.
- Each product line under the name buyers order it by — a page of its own where the range is wide, a shared page where it's narrow.
- An enquiry form that lands in an inbox someone reads — routed to whoever at the firm handles orders today, and changed in the runbook when that person moves on.
- The firm's address in full, with the town named — so a buyer checking where an order ships from finds it without asking.
Nearby
Towns across the district
Hooghly's towns sit along the river.
FAQ
What a mill or trading house asks first
From old logins to who does the work.
We're a family firm that has traded for decades. Should the site say so?
- Yes, if your own papers back it. The year the firm started and what it has made since go in plainly, taken from your records rather than rounded, so a buyer dealing with the firm for the first time can see how long it has been trading and what it has supplied.
Can the old site stay up while the new one is built?
- Yes. The new site is built on a staging link while the old one keeps running, and the switch happens only after you've signed off the staging version.
Does it matter which town in Hooghly we're in?
- The town's name goes into the copy where a buyer would search for it, and that's the main difference it makes. If the firm has premises in two towns, both addresses go on the contact page.
We don't have the old logins. Does that hold anything up?
- No. Every page address on the old site can be read from outside, so the rebuild doesn't depend on them. Getting the domain back into the firm's name is handled with the registrar, using the firm's own documents.
Who does the work?
- The team I lead in the Kolkata, India office, plus around six people working remotely. I stay your contact from the first call to handover.
Next step
Send the address of the site you have now
Paste the address in when you book, and we'll go through the old site together on the call. Old analytics logins help as well, if anyone at the firm still has them. If the old site has an enquiry form, tell me whose inbox it sends to today.
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