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?

EUR. Quotes, milestones and the final invoice are all written in EUR so you are never comparing a converted figure against a local supplier's. Regarding tax: VAT at 23%, with my invoices reverse-charged to you as the recipient.

How much does a website cost in Bray?

A business website starts from €75 and goes live in about three days. An e-commerce build starts from €140 in around seven days, and a custom application from €180 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 Bray?

Yes, remotely. I work with Irish clients from Islamabad, quoting in EUR and invoicing in EUR. I have no office, address or phone number in Bray 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 Bray 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.

Do you build on WordPress or something custom?

Whichever the project justifies. WordPress when you need to edit content constantly and want a familiar admin. A static build when speed and security matter more than a plugin ecosystem. Custom PHP and MySQL when the logic is genuinely yours. The choice is explained in the quote with its trade-offs, not presented as a foregone conclusion.

Leinster · Ireland

Custom website development in Bray

A template is the right answer more often than developers like to admit. This page is about the times it is not — when the thing your business does has a shape no theme author anticipated, and forcing it into one costs more in permanent workarounds than building it properly would have cost once. For Bray businesses, quoted in EUR from $200, typically live in 10 days.

What custom website development includes for a Bray business

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

A written specification agreed before any code, including what is explicitly out of scope
Custom data model designed around your business logic rather than a theme author’s assumptions
Hand-written PHP 8 and MySQL — no page builder, no multi-purpose theme, no plugin stack to maintain
Front end in Tailwind CSS with Alpine.js only where interaction genuinely needs it
Admin interface a non-technical person can operate without a training course
Technical SEO built in during the build rather than retrofitted afterwards
Source code in a repository you own, with deployment and rollback documented
30 days of snag fixes after go-live

The terms for a Irish client

Starting price	From $200, quoted and invoiced in EUR
Typical timeline	10 days once content is supplied
Tax position	VAT at 23%, with my invoices reverse-charged to you as the recipient
Data protection	the EU GDPR, supervised by the Irish Data Protection Commission — resolved by a pre-signed DPA incorporating the EU Standard Contractual Clauses
Payment rails available	Stripe, SEPA Direct Debit, and Revolut Business for smaller recurring plans
My day in Bray time	05:00–14:00 — about 5 hours of overlap

Why this matters for Ireland specifically

Ireland is small enough that a niche site can own its category nationally rather than fighting city by city, which changes the keyword strategy completely — I build Irish sites for national reach first, county second.

Accessibility on a Bray build, and why it is not optional

Keyboard navigation, real contrast ratios, form labels that are actually associated with their inputs, and alt text that describes rather than repeats. None of it is expensive when built in from the start and all of it is expensive to retrofit, which is the entire argument for doing it in the first pass.

The commercial case is simpler than the legal one: a site that a screen reader can navigate is a site that a search engine can parse, because both are reading the same semantic structure. Accessibility work and technical SEO overlap far more than either discipline usually admits, and in Bray the same build serves both.

Hospitality and venues in Bray

Restaurants, cafés, hotels and venues are judged on four things a visitor looks for immediately: today's opening hours, the menu or rate as a readable page, real photographs of the actual room, and how to book. Everything else on a hospitality site is decoration arranged around those four.

The PDF menu deserves its own warning. It is invisible to search engines, unreadable on a phone without pinch-zoom, and it is the most common reason a Bray venue never appears for searches naming the dishes it serves. Menus belong in HTML.

The contact form that silently fails

The most expensive bug on a small business website makes no noise at all. A form posts, shows a thank-you message, and the email never arrives — usually because the host's mail function is unauthenticated and the receiving server drops it without a bounce. The business concludes demand fell.

The fix is authenticated SMTP with SPF, DKIM and DMARC configured on the sending domain, plus a database write so a submission survives even when delivery fails. If you are unsure whether your Bray site has this problem, submit your own form from a phone on mobile data and see what actually arrives.

What I am not claiming about Bray

I have no office, postal address or phone number in Bray
I cannot meet you in person, and if that is a requirement you should hire locally
I am not claiming existing clients in Bray 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