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Web developer in Puebla

Websites, online stores and technical SEO for Puebla businesses — built remotely from Islamabad, quoted in MXN, 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 Puebla 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 Mexican client actually changes

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

Quoted and invoiced in MXN — never a converted figure presented at the end
Tax position VAT at 16%
Your customers' data sits under the Federal Law on Protection of Personal Data (LFPDPPP)
Lawful transfer mechanism a DPA with the privacy notice disclosure the law requires you to publish
Checkout can realistically use Stripe, Mercado Pago, OXXO for cash, and SPEI transfers
My day, in Puebla time 22:00–07:00 — which barely touches your working day, so a shifted window is agreed in writing instead

One thing worth knowing about building for Mexico

OXXO lets customers pay cash at a corner shop against a reference number, and it remains a large share of Mexican e-commerce. A store that only takes cards is unavailable to a substantial part of the market.

Accessibility on a Puebla 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 Puebla the same build serves both.

Hospitality and venues in Puebla

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

The contact form that silently fails

The most expensive bug on a small business website makes no noise at all. A form posts, shows a thank-you message, and the email never arrives — usually because the host's mail function is unauthenticated and the receiving server drops it without a bounce. The business concludes demand fell.

The fix is authenticated SMTP with SPF, DKIM and DMARC configured on the sending domain, plus a database write so a submission survives even when delivery fails. If you are unsure whether your Puebla site has this problem, submit your own form from a phone on mobile data and see what actually arrives.

Hiring a developer who is not in Puebla

A Mexican business hiring outside Mexico 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 Puebla businesses

Fixed-scope, fixed-price, quoted in MXN. 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 Puebla

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

Puebla web development — common questions

Do you actually work with businesses in Puebla?
Yes, remotely. I work with Mexican clients from Islamabad, quoting in MXN and invoicing in MXN. I have no office, address or phone number in Puebla 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 Puebla 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.
How do you handle our customers' data under Federal Law on Protection of Personal Data (LFPDPPP)?
Your customer data is governed by the Federal Law on Protection of Personal Data (LFPDPPP), and sending it to a developer in Pakistan is a restricted transfer. That is resolved by a DPA with the privacy notice disclosure the law requires you to publish, published on this site and pre-signed before you send an enquiry — not drafted after you ask about it.
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?
MXN. Quotes, milestones and the final invoice are all written in MXN so you are never comparing a converted figure against a local supplier's. Regarding tax: VAT at 16%.

Also covering Mexico

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

Where this page sits

This page covers Puebla. Every other town in Mexico is listed on the Mexico 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 Puebla?

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

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