How do you handle our customers' data under state patchwork — CCPA/CPRA in California?

Your customer data is governed by a state patchwork — CCPA/CPRA in California, plus Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut and Texas equivalents, and sending it to a developer in Pakistan is a restricted transfer. That is resolved by a DPA with the sub-processor disclosure those state laws require you to publish, published on this site and pre-signed before you send an enquiry — not drafted after you ask about it.

Who owns the website when it is finished?

You do, completely. The domain is registered in your name, hosting sits in your account, the code lives in a repository you control, and any payment provider account is opened in your business name. Credentials are handed to you as they are created rather than at the end, so you are never locked out of your own site.

What currency will I be invoiced in?

USD. Quotes, milestones and the final invoice are all written in USD so you are never comparing a converted figure against a local supplier's. Regarding tax: state sales tax on your own sales; my invoices are services exported from Pakistan and carry no US tax.

How much does a website cost in Birmingham?

A business website starts from $80 and goes live in about three days. An e-commerce build starts from $150 in around seven days, and a custom application from $200 in ten. Those are starting figures — the exact number is fixed in writing once scope is agreed, and it does not move after that.

Do you actually work with businesses in Birmingham?

Yes, remotely. I work with American clients from Islamabad, quoting in USD and invoicing in USD. I have no office, address or phone number in Birmingham and will not pretend otherwise. If your project needs someone physically present, hire locally — I will say so in the first reply rather than after a deposit.

Do I need to provide the content and images?

Content, yes — you know your business and I do not. I will restructure and edit what you send so it reads for the web, and I will tell you where a section is missing. Photography is worth paying a local photographer for; stock images of people in offices are recognisable as stock and quietly cost you credibility.

Can you migrate my Birmingham site without losing rankings?

Yes, and the redirect map is the whole job. Every existing URL is mapped to its new equivalent with a 301 before launch, and anything with no equivalent goes to the closest relevant page rather than the homepage. Sites lose rankings in migration because that mapping was skipped, not because migration is inherently risky.

Southeast · United States

Custom PHP and MySQL application development in Birmingham

When an off-the-shelf plugin does not fit the business, I build the thing that does — booking systems, client portals, quote calculators, admin dashboards, and integrations with whatever API you already depend on. For Birmingham, Alabama businesses, quoted in USD from $200, typically live in 10 days.

What custom php and mysql application development includes for a Birmingham business

Fixed scope, agreed in writing before development starts. From $200, typically live in 10 days.

Database design and schema, documented rather than improvised
Application build in PHP with a MySQL backend
Admin interface built for the people who will use it daily
Role-based access control where more than one person logs in
Third-party REST API integrations
Transactional email via PHPMailer with proper SPF/DKIM alignment
Input validation, prepared statements and CSRF protection throughout
Written handover documentation — you are not dependent on me to keep it running

The terms for a American client

Starting price	From $200, quoted and invoiced in USD
Typical timeline	10 days once content is supplied
Tax position	state sales tax on your own sales; my invoices are services exported from Pakistan and carry no US tax
Data protection	a state patchwork — CCPA/CPRA in California, plus Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut and Texas equivalents — resolved by a DPA with the sub-processor disclosure those state laws require you to publish
Payment rails available	Stripe, ACH via Plaid for larger invoices, and Shop Pay or Apple Pay at checkout
My day in Birmingham time	00:00–09:00 — a shifted window is agreed in writing instead

Why this matters for United States specifically

Most US small-business sites lose money at the same place: a contact form that asks for a phone number before it has earned one. American buyers self-serve further down the funnel than UK ones, so I push pricing and scope earlier on US builds.

Why the Birmingham quote lists exclusions as well as inclusions

Every quote I send names what is not included as explicitly as what is. Copywriting from scratch, photography, logo design, ongoing content, paid advertising and third-party licence fees are the usual ones. A quote listing only inclusions is not cheaper — it is the same price with the arguments deferred to later.

This is unpopular at the proposal stage and it is the reason fixed prices hold. Someone comparing three quotes for a Birmingham project is usually comparing three different scopes without realising it, and the cheapest one is very often the one that excluded the most while saying the least.

Professional services in Birmingham

Accountants, solicitors, consultants and agencies sell judgement, which cannot be photographed. What converts instead is specificity: the sectors you actually work in, the size of client you actually serve, and named people with real biographies. A professional services site full of stock imagery and the word "bespoke" is indistinguishable from every competitor in Birmingham.

Practically, the site's job is qualification rather than lead volume. Publishing your minimum engagement size loses you enquiries and saves you hours, and almost every practice I have built for concluded afterwards that it should have done it sooner.

Structured data that is missing, wrong, or quietly lying

Schema markup is how a search engine reads what a page means rather than only what it says. Missing it costs you rich results. Getting it wrong is worse: marking up review stars you do not have, or a LocalBusiness at an address that is not yours, risks a manual action rather than a ranking.

Every page I build carries schema matching what is actually on it and nothing beyond that. The restraint is deliberate — this page uses Service and areaServed rather than LocalBusiness, precisely because there is no physical presence in Birmingham to assert.

What I am not claiming about Birmingham

I have no office, postal address or phone number in Birmingham
I cannot meet you in person, and if that is a requirement you should hire locally
I am not claiming existing clients in Birmingham specifically — my live work is listed on the work page and you can check it
Nothing on this page is a guarantee of search rankings, which no developer can honestly offer