What currency will I be invoiced in?

TRY. Quotes, milestones and the final invoice are all written in TRY so you are never comparing a converted figure against a local supplier's. Regarding tax: VAT at 20%.

How much does a website cost in Istanbul?

A business website starts from ₺2,700 and goes live in about three days. An e-commerce build starts from ₺5,100 in around seven days, and a custom application from ₺6,800 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 Istanbul?

Yes, remotely. I work with Turkish clients from Islamabad, quoting in TRY and invoicing in TRY. I have no office, address or phone number in Istanbul 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 Istanbul 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.

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.

Turkey · Turkey

Web developer in Istanbul

Websites, online stores and technical SEO for Istanbul businesses — built remotely from Islamabad, quoted in TRY, scoped in writing before anything starts.

If you are searching for a web developer in Istanbul, you are probably at one of two points: an existing site that stopped producing enquiries, or no site and a business that has outgrown a social media page. Those are different jobs with different prices, and conflating them is how people end up paying for a rebuild when a fix would have done.

What working with a Turkish client actually changes

These are the terms that differ by country rather than by town. They apply to every business in Turkey, Istanbul included, and they are the substance of what this page is claiming.

Quoted and invoiced in	TRY — never a converted figure presented at the end
Tax position	VAT at 20%
Your customers' data sits under	KVKK, the Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698
Lawful transfer mechanism	KVKK restricts transfers abroad and explicit consent or a KVKK undertaking is required
Checkout can realistically use	iyzico, PayTR, and Stripe — with instalment plans expected on larger baskets
My day, in Istanbul time	07:00–16:00 — about 7 hours inside a normal working day

One thing worth knowing about building for Turkey

Instalments are a normal expectation on Turkish card purchases, and the number of instalments is shown on the product page rather than at checkout. A store that hides it until the last step loses the consideration entirely.

What actually ships when a Istanbul project goes live

A handover for a Istanbul client is not a link and a login. It is the repository, the hosting account in your name, the domain registered to you, the payment provider account under your business, and a written record of every credential as it was created rather than dumped in one email at the end.

The test I apply is uncomfortable but correct: if I disappeared tomorrow, could another developer pick this up on Monday without calling me? If the answer is no, the handover is not finished. That standard is why the documentation takes a day I do not bill separately — it is part of the build, not an upsell.

Education and training providers in Istanbul

Course pages are the whole site. Each needs the outcome, the duration, the price, the prerequisites and the next start date visible without scrolling — and each needs to be its own indexable URL, because people search for the course, never for a training provider they have not heard of.

The recurring failure is a single "Courses" page listing twenty courses. It ranks for nothing because it is specifically about nothing. Twenty pages, each genuinely about one course, is more work and is the difference between a site that recruits and a brochure that sits there.

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 Istanbul site is being redesigned by anyone, ask to see that map. If it does not exist, that is the entire risk in one document.

Hiring a developer who is not in Istanbul

The honest version is that for a build specified in writing, developed on a staging URL you can open from your phone at any hour, and handed over with documentation, being in the same city changes very little about the finished site. What it changes is your recourse if things go wrong — and that is a fair thing to weigh, which is why the contract, the staging access and the escrow-style milestone structure all exist before you pay anything.

What I build for Istanbul businesses

Fixed-scope, fixed-price, quoted in TRY. The full list is on the services page.

E-commerce website development I build online stores end to end — catalogue, cart, Stripe checkout, order emails and the technical SEO that gets them found. Six of the fifteen sites I have shipped are e-commerce builds, and every one of them takes real payments. From $150 · 7 days Technical SEO audits and implementation Most SEO audits hand you a 60-page document and an invoice. I am a developer first, so I find the problems and then fix them in the codebase — crawlability, indexation, schema, Core Web Vitals, and whether AI answer engines can read your site at all. From $80 · 3 days Business website development Most small business websites fail at one job: turning a stranger who searched for your service into a phone call. I build the version that does — three days, mobile-first, live on your own hosting, with the enquiry form tested before anybody sees it. From $80 · 3 days Custom website development 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. From $200 · 10 days Web application development A website presents information. An application does work — it holds state, enforces rules, and produces something at the end. Most businesses that need the second one are running it on a spreadsheet nobody is allowed to sort, and paying for that in errors rather than in software. From $200 · 10 days

What I am not claiming about Istanbul

A location page is the easiest place on a website to imply something untrue, so here is the other side of it plainly:

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

Istanbul web development — common questions

What currency will I be invoiced in?: TRY. Quotes, milestones and the final invoice are all written in TRY so you are never comparing a converted figure against a local supplier's. Regarding tax: VAT at 20%.
How much does a website cost in Istanbul?: A business website starts from ₺2,700 and goes live in about three days. An e-commerce build starts from ₺5,100 in around seven days, and a custom application from ₺6,800 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 Istanbul?: Yes, remotely. I work with Turkish clients from Islamabad, quoting in TRY and invoicing in TRY. I have no office, address or phone number in Istanbul 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 Istanbul 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.
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.

Also covering Turkey

Same terms, same currency, same process — these are the other Turkey towns with a page here.

Where this page sits

This page covers Istanbul. Every other town in Turkey is listed on the Turkey coverage page, and the full worldwide list is at all locations.

Before you enquire: pricing is published rather than quoted on request, how I work covers the process end to end, the work page lists live client sites you can open, and vendor information answers the procurement questions.

Building something in Istanbul?

Send the brief and you get a reply within one business day — questions or a scoping call, quoted in TRY. If it is not a project I should take on, I will say so then rather than after a deposit.

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