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

Your customer data is governed by the EU GDPR, supervised by the Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens, and sending it to a developer in Pakistan is a restricted transfer. That is resolved by a DPA incorporating the EU Standard Contractual Clauses, published on this site and pre-signed before you send an enquiry — not drafted after you ask about it.

What payment methods can my Haarlem checkout accept?

For Netherlands: iDEAL above all else, plus Mollie, Stripe and SEPA. The right combination depends on your average basket and your customers, and picking wrong is expensive — the payment method a buyer expects but cannot find is one of the most common reasons a checkout is abandoned at the final step.

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 21%, reverse-charged.

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.

Do you actually work with businesses in Haarlem?

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

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.

Can you migrate my Haarlem 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.

Netherlands · Netherlands

Responsive web design and development in Haarlem

Responsive is not a feature to add at the end. A layout designed at 1440px and squeezed down produces a phone experience that technically works and practically loses enquiries — tap targets too close together, a form that fights the keyboard, and a call button below three screens of hero image. For Haarlem businesses, quoted in EUR from $80, typically live in 3 days.

What responsive web design and development includes for a Haarlem business

Fixed scope, agreed in writing before development starts. From $80, typically live in 3 days.

Mobile-first layouts designed at 360px and widened, rather than desktop layouts compressed
Fluid type and spacing scales so nothing is pinned to a handful of arbitrary breakpoints
Tap targets at 24px minimum with real spacing between them, per WCAG 2.2
Images served as AVIF and WebP with correct srcset and explicit width and height attributes
Forms with correct input types and autocomplete, so phone keyboards behave
Tables and wide content that scroll inside their own container instead of breaking the page
Tested on a real handset over mobile data, not only in a resized desktop browser
Core Web Vitals verified in the field after launch, including Cumulative Layout Shift

The terms for a Dutch client

Starting price	From $80, quoted and invoiced in EUR
Typical timeline	3 days once content is supplied
Tax position	VAT at 21%, reverse-charged
Data protection	the EU GDPR, supervised by the Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens — resolved by a DPA incorporating the EU Standard Contractual Clauses
Payment rails available	iDEAL above all else, plus Mollie, Stripe and SEPA
My day in Haarlem time	06:00–15:00 — about 6 hours of overlap

Why this matters for Netherlands specifically

iDEAL accounts for the majority of Dutch online payments. A Netherlands store that leads with card fields and buries iDEAL is losing conversions at the last step for no reason other than build order.

What happens in the first 48 hours of a Haarlem build

Nothing is designed on day one. The first two days are spent on the things that decide whether the build succeeds: what the site is for, which single action matters most, who the visitor actually is, and what content genuinely exists versus what is assumed to exist. That last one is where most timelines quietly break.

By the end of it you have a written scope, a sitemap, a price in EUR and a date. If any of those four look wrong to you, that is the cheapest possible moment to say so — before a line of code exists. Projects that go badly almost always skipped this and started with a homepage mockup instead.

Hospitality and venues in Haarlem

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 Haarlem venue never appears for searches naming the dishes it serves. Menus belong in HTML.

A mobile layout nobody tested on a real phone

Desktop-first builds fail in predictable places: a navigation menu that cannot be closed, a table forcing the whole page sideways, tap targets too close together, and a sticky banner sitting over the button. Each one is invisible on a laptop and each one loses customers.

Most visitors to a Haarlem small business site arrive on a phone, so I design at phone width first and widen from there. That ordering is not a stylistic preference — it is the only way the small screen gets the attention the majority of your traffic deserves.

What I am not claiming about Haarlem

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