East India · India
Custom website development in Siliguri
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 Siliguri businesses, quoted in INR from $200, typically live in 10 days.
What custom website development includes for a Siliguri 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 Indian client
| Starting price | From $200, quoted and invoiced in INR |
|---|---|
| Typical timeline | 10 days once content is supplied |
| Tax position | GST at 18% on your sales; my invoices are imported services under reverse charge |
| Data protection | the Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023 — resolved by the DPDP Act permits transfers except to notified countries, and the DPA records the basis |
| Payment rails available | Razorpay, PayU, Cashfree, and UPI — which now carries the majority of domestic transaction volume |
| My day in Siliguri time | 09:30–18:30 — about 8.5 hours of overlap |
Why this matters for India specifically
UPI changes the entire checkout design. An Indian store built around card fields first and UPI as an afterthought converts far worse than one built the other way round, and that is a layout decision, not a plugin.
How a Siliguri build is scoped before anything is written
Scope is fixed in writing before development starts, and the number in that document is the number on the invoice. For Siliguri projects that document lists every page, every form, every integration and every third-party account the site will touch — priced in INR, not converted at the end from something else.
The reason this matters more than it sounds: almost every dispute in web development is a scope dispute wearing a different hat. "Can you just add" is how a three-day build becomes a three-week one. Fixing scope up front does not stop you changing your mind; it makes the cost of changing your mind visible before you commit to it, which is the only honest way to run a fixed price.
Professional services in Siliguri
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 Siliguri.
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.
Images shipped at ten times the size they display
A hero photograph exported at 4000 pixels wide and displayed at 400 is the most common single cause of a slow page. The browser downloads all of it and then discards most of it. On a phone over mobile data that is several seconds spent waiting for pixels nobody will ever see.
The fix is generating each image at the sizes actually used, serving AVIF or WebP with a fallback, and setting explicit width and height so the layout does not jump while they load. It is mechanical work with a directly measurable result, which makes it the first thing worth doing on almost any Siliguri site.
What I am not claiming about Siliguri
- I have no office, postal address or phone number in Siliguri
- I cannot meet you in person, and if that is a requirement you should hire locally
- I am not claiming existing clients in Siliguri 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
Custom website development in Siliguri — common questions
- 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.
- Do you actually work with businesses in Siliguri?
- Yes, remotely. I work with Indian clients from Islamabad, quoting in INR and invoicing in INR. I have no office, address or phone number in Siliguri 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.
- How much does a website cost in Siliguri?
- A business website starts from ₹6,600 and goes live in about three days. An e-commerce build starts from ₹12,000 in around seven days, and a custom application from ₹17,000 in ten. Those are starting figures — the exact number is fixed in writing once scope is agreed, and it does not move after that.
- What currency will I be invoiced in?
- INR. Quotes, milestones and the final invoice are all written in INR so you are never comparing a converted figure against a local supplier's. Regarding tax: GST at 18% on your sales; my invoices are imported services under reverse charge.
- Will the site actually rank in Siliguri search results?
- The build handles what is technically controllable: crawlable HTML, correct headings, structured data, fast pages, a clean sitemap and Search Console set up on day one. Ranking also depends on your competitors, your domain's age and the links pointing at you, which no developer controls. Anyone guaranteeing a position is guessing or lying.
- What happens if I am not happy with the result?
- Work is delivered in milestones against a written scope, and you review each one on a staging URL before it is paid for. If the delivered milestone does not match the scope, it gets corrected before anything moves forward. That structure exists so disagreement is resolved at the stage it happens rather than at the end when it is expensive.
- 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.
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Other services in Siliguri
The full service detail — process, deliverables, what is excluded and the FAQ — is on the main custom website development page. Everything I build for Siliguri is on the Siliguri page, and every town in India is on the India coverage page.
Custom website development in Siliguri — get a fixed quote
Send the brief and you get a reply within one business day, priced in INR from $200. If custom website development is not what your project actually needs, I will say so.
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- Hours
- Mon–Fri, 09:00–18:00 PKT — overlaps 05:00–14:00 UK, 00:00–09:00 US Eastern
- Booking
- Booking projects from October 2026