Web developer in Kano

A working site for a Kano business is a smaller and more boring thing than most agencies will sell you. Fast pages, honest copy, a form that works on a phone, and structured data so search engines can read what you do. There is no fifth thing. The budget saved by not buying the fifth thing is better spent on photography.

One thing worth knowing about building for Nigeria

Paystack and Flutterwave replace Stripe entirely here, and their webhook and refund behaviour differs enough that a store ported from a Stripe build will fail in specific, predictable places. I port those properly rather than stubbing them.

Why the Kano quote lists exclusions as well as inclusions

Every quote I send names what is not included as explicitly as what is. Copywriting from scratch, photography, logo design, ongoing content, paid advertising and third-party licence fees are the usual ones. A quote listing only inclusions is not cheaper — it is the same price with the arguments deferred to later.

This is unpopular at the proposal stage and it is the reason fixed prices hold. Someone comparing three quotes for a Kano project is usually comparing three different scopes without realising it, and the cheapest one is very often the one that excluded the most while saying the least.

Property, lettings and estate agencies in Kano

Property sites live or die on search and filtering. A listing grid that cannot be filtered by the three things buyers actually care about — price, bedrooms, area — sends people to the portals, and once they are on a portal you are competing on fee with every other agency in Kano.

The technical half is feed handling: listings usually arrive from a CRM in a format designed two decades ago, and keeping the site, the portals and the window cards in agreement is where the real work sits. It is worth doing properly, because a property still showing as available after it is let generates the angriest phone calls in the business.

Structured data that is missing, wrong, or quietly lying

Schema markup is how a search engine reads what a page means rather than only what it says. Missing it costs you rich results. Getting it wrong is worse: marking up review stars you do not have, or a LocalBusiness at an address that is not yours, risks a manual action rather than a ranking.

Every page I build carries schema matching what is actually on it and nothing beyond that. The restraint is deliberate — this page uses Service and areaServed rather than LocalBusiness, precisely because there is no physical presence in Kano to assert.

Hiring a developer who is not in Kano

The question worth asking a remote supplier is not "where are you" but "what happens if you vanish". My answer is the handover: the repository, the hosting and the domain are in your name from the first week, not the last. Any competent developer in Kano could take over the project mid-build without calling me, and that is the only guarantee that means anything at this distance.

What I am not claiming about Kano

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 Kano
• I cannot meet you in person, and if that is a requirement you should hire locally
• I am not claiming existing clients in Kano 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

Kano web development — common questions

Do you actually work with businesses in Kano?

Yes, remotely. I work with Nigerian clients from Islamabad, quoting in NGN and invoicing in NGN. I have no office, address or phone number in Kano 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 Kano?

A business website starts from ₦120,000 and goes live in about three days. An e-commerce build starts from ₦230,000 in around seven days, and a custom application from ₦310,000 in ten. Those are starting figures — the exact number is fixed in writing once scope is agreed, and it does not move after that.

Can you migrate my Kano 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 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.

How do you handle our customers' data under Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023?

Your customer data is governed by the Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023, and sending it to a developer in Pakistan is a restricted transfer. That is resolved by a DPA meeting the NDPC adequacy or safeguards route, published on this site and pre-signed before you send an enquiry — not drafted after you ask about it.

What payment methods can my Kano checkout accept?

For Nigeria: Paystack, Flutterwave, and Interswitch — Stripe does not serve Nigerian entities directly. 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?

NGN. Quotes, milestones and the final invoice are all written in NGN so you are never comparing a converted figure against a local supplier's. Regarding tax: VAT at 7.5%.

Where this page sits

This page covers Kano. Every other town in Nigeria is listed on the Nigeria 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.