Web developer in Lagos

If you are searching for a web developer in Lagos, 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.

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.

Accessibility on a Lagos 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 Lagos the same build serves both.

Retail and e-commerce in Lagos

A store is judged at the checkout, not the homepage. For Nigeria that means the payment methods have to match what people actually use — Paystack, Flutterwave, and Interswitch — Stripe does not serve Nigerian entities directly — and the cart has to survive a slow connection and a page refresh. Most abandoned baskets are not indecision; they are a checkout that broke and gave no reason why.

The second issue is stock truth. A product page saying "in stock" when it is not costs you the sale and the customer, and the fix is unglamorous plumbing between wherever your stock actually lives and the storefront. That is worth a day of work far more than the product photography carousel is.

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 Lagos 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 Lagos

Currency is worth being blunt about. Quoting a Nigerian client in NGN and then invoicing something else at a rate that moved is a way of raising the price quietly, and it is common enough that you should ask any overseas supplier about it directly. The number agreed at scoping is the number invoiced, and exchange-rate movement is my problem rather than yours.

What I am not claiming about Lagos

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

Lagos web development — common questions

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 Lagos?

My standard day lands at 05:00–14:00 your time — about 5 hours of genuine overlap with a normal Lagos working day. That is enough for one reliable daily window rather than constant back-and-forth, so Lagos projects run on written updates plus one scheduled call a week.

Will the site actually rank in Lagos 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.

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.

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%.

How long does a Lagos 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.

Where this page sits

This page covers Lagos. 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.