Can you migrate my York 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.

Do you actually work with businesses in York?

Yes, remotely. I work with British clients from Islamabad, quoting in GBP and invoicing in GBP. I have no office, address or phone number in York 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.

What currency will I be invoiced in?

GBP. Quotes, milestones and the final invoice are all written in GBP so you are never comparing a converted figure against a local supplier's. Regarding tax: VAT at 20% once you are registered — my invoices are outside the scope of UK VAT and you account for them under the reverse charge.

How much does a website cost in York?

A business website starts from £65 and goes live in about three days. An e-commerce build starts from £120 in around seven days, and a custom application from £160 in ten. Those are starting figures — the exact number is fixed in writing once scope is agreed, and it does not move after that.

How do you handle our customers' data under UK GDPR?

Your customer data is governed by UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018, and sending it to a developer in Pakistan is a restricted transfer. That is resolved by a pre-signed DPA with a completed UK International Data Transfer Addendum, published on this site and pre-signed before you send an enquiry — not drafted after you ask about it.

Yorkshire and the North East · United Kingdom

Landing page design and development in York

A landing page is not a short website. It is one page with one job, and everything that does not serve that job is actively costing you — a navigation bar on a paid landing page is a set of exits you paid for the click to reach. For York businesses, quoted in GBP from $40, typically live in 2 days.

What landing page design and development includes for a York business

Fixed scope, agreed in writing before development starts. From $40, typically live in 2 days.

One page, one conversion action, agreed in writing before the design starts
Above-the-fold offer and call to action visible on a phone without scrolling
Conversion-focused structure: problem, proof, objection handling, action
Form or booking flow with server-side validation and spam protection that is not a CAPTCHA wall
Sub-second render on 4G — no framework runtime, no render-blocking third-party scripts
Conversion tracking wired up, so the page can be judged rather than admired
Thank-you page and confirmation email, because the flow does not end at submit
A/B-ready structure if you intend to test variants later

The terms for a British client

Starting price	From $40, quoted and invoiced in GBP
Typical timeline	2 days once content is supplied
Tax position	VAT at 20% once you are registered — my invoices are outside the scope of UK VAT and you account for them under the reverse charge
Data protection	UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018 — resolved by a pre-signed DPA with a completed UK International Data Transfer Addendum
Payment rails available	Stripe, GoCardless for Direct Debit, and Klarna or Clearpay where basket sizes justify it
My day in York time	05:00–14:00 — about 5 hours of overlap

Why this matters for United Kingdom specifically

UK local search is the most saturated in the English-speaking world, so a merely competent site does not win the job — the quote form does. Every UK build I ship is specified around the enquiry step first and the homepage second.

Why York sites are built to be edited by you

A site you cannot update is a site that decays. Prices go stale, staff leave, the opening hours are wrong for six months. So the parts of a York build that change often — text, images, prices, opening hours, team members — are editable by you without touching code or paying me.

That is a design decision with a cost: it takes longer to build an editable block than a hard-coded one. It is worth it because the alternative is a maintenance dependency that benefits me and not you, and a developer whose income depends on you being unable to change your own opening hours is not aligned with your interests.

Healthcare and clinics in York

Clinics carry a compliance weight most businesses do not. Appointment forms collect health information, which is a special category under UK GDPR, and it cannot be emailed to a generic inbox or written to a plain-text log. That constraint has to shape the build rather than be bolted onto it afterwards.

Beyond compliance the deciding factor is reassurance: practitioner names, registrations a patient can verify, honest pricing, and what actually happens at a first appointment. Anxiety is why people delay booking, and a site that reduces it outperforms one that merely looks modern.

A redesign that quietly deleted the rankings

The classic disaster: a new site launches, looks far better, and organic enquiries fall off a cliff within a fortnight. The cause is almost always identical — the URLs changed and nothing was redirected, so every page that had accumulated years of authority now returns a 404.

Preventing it is a redirect map built before launch: every old URL to its closest new equivalent with a 301, and anything without an equivalent pointed at the nearest relevant page rather than the homepage. If your York site is being redesigned by anyone, ask to see that map. If it does not exist, that is the entire risk in one document.

What I am not claiming about York

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