Poland · Poland
Web developer in Katowice
Websites, online stores and technical SEO for Katowice businesses — built remotely from Islamabad, quoted in PLN, scoped in writing before anything starts.
There is a version of this conversation where you are sold a brand refresh, a content strategy and a six-week discovery phase. For most Katowice businesses that is not the constraint. The constraint is that the site is slow, the phone number is hard to find and nobody has looked at the analytics in a year. Fixing those three is cheaper and works faster.
What working with a Polish client actually changes
These are the terms that differ by country rather than by town. They apply to every business in Poland, Katowice included, and they are the substance of what this page is claiming.
| Quoted and invoiced in | PLN — never a converted figure presented at the end |
|---|---|
| Tax position | VAT at 23%, reverse-charged |
| Your customers' data sits under | the EU GDPR |
| Lawful transfer mechanism | a DPA with EU Standard Contractual Clauses |
| Checkout can realistically use | BLIK, Przelewy24, PayU, and Stripe |
| My day, in Katowice time | 06:00–15:00 — about 6 hours inside a normal working day |
One thing worth knowing about building for Poland
BLIK is a six-digit code generated in the banking app and it is how a large share of Polish buyers pay. It has no real analogue in a Western checkout, so it needs designing in rather than appending to a card form.
Accessibility on a Katowice build, and why it is not optional
Keyboard navigation, real contrast ratios, form labels that are actually associated with their inputs, and alt text that describes rather than repeats. None of it is expensive when built in from the start and all of it is expensive to retrofit, which is the entire argument for doing it in the first pass.
The commercial case is simpler than the legal one: a site that a screen reader can navigate is a site that a search engine can parse, because both are reading the same semantic structure. Accessibility work and technical SEO overlap far more than either discipline usually admits, and in Katowice the same build serves both.
Hospitality and venues in Katowice
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 Katowice 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 Katowice 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.
Hiring a developer who is not in Katowice
A Polish business hiring outside Poland is usually doing it for price, and price is the least interesting reason. The more durable one is availability: a one-person supplier answers you directly rather than through an account manager who has to check. That is an advantage on a small project and a genuine liability on a large one, which is why I turn down projects that need a team.
What I build for Katowice businesses
Fixed-scope, fixed-price, quoted in PLN. The full list is on the services page.
What I am not claiming about Katowice
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 Katowice
- I cannot meet you in person, and if that is a requirement you should hire locally
- I am not claiming existing clients in Katowice 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
Katowice web development — common questions
- 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.
- Will the site actually rank in Katowice 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.
- Do you provide ongoing maintenance after launch?
- Thirty days of snag fixes are included after launch at no extra cost — anything that does not work as specified gets fixed. Beyond that there are monthly plans for updates, backups, monitoring and small changes. They are optional and cancellable; a site handed over properly does not require a retainer to keep running.
- Can you fix my existing site rather than rebuild it?
- Often, yes, and it is usually the cheaper answer. Speed problems, a broken mobile layout, a form that silently fails or missing structured data are all fixable on the site you already have. I will tell you which of the two you need after looking, and a rebuild only gets recommended when the fix would cost more than starting again.
- What hours will you be available to us in Katowice?
- My working day lands at 06:00–15:00 in your time, which is roughly 6 hours inside a normal Katowice working day. In practice you can raise something in the morning and have it answered the same morning, and a scheduled call is easy to place at a civilised hour for both of us.
- How long does a Katowice project actually take?
- Three days for a business site, seven for a store, ten for a custom application. That holds because the process is fixed rather than improvised and because your content exists on day one. What stretches a build is almost never the code — it is waiting for copy, logos and photographs, so those are requested before the clock starts.
- What payment methods can my Katowice checkout accept?
- For Poland: BLIK, Przelewy24, PayU, and Stripe. 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.
Also covering Poland
Same terms, same currency, same process — these are the other Poland towns with a page here.
Where this page sits
This page covers Katowice. Every other town in Poland is listed on the Poland 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 Katowice?
Send the brief and you get a reply within one business day — questions or a scoping call, quoted in PLN. If it is not a project I should take on, I will say so then rather than after a deposit.
- Response
- Replies within 1 business day
- 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