East India · India
Web developer in Siliguri
Websites, online stores and technical SEO for Siliguri businesses — built remotely from Islamabad, quoted in INR, scoped in writing before anything starts.
Most sites I am asked to look at in Siliguri are not badly built. They are badly prioritised — enormous effort on the parts nobody reads and none on the parts that decide whether someone gets in touch. The fix is rarely more work; it is the same work pointed somewhere else.
What working with a Indian client actually changes
These are the terms that differ by country rather than by town. They apply to every business in India, Siliguri included, and they are the substance of what this page is claiming.
| Quoted and invoiced in | INR — never a converted figure presented at the end |
|---|---|
| Tax position | GST at 18% on your sales; my invoices are imported services under reverse charge |
| Your customers' data sits under | the Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023 |
| Lawful transfer mechanism | the DPDP Act permits transfers except to notified countries, and the DPA records the basis |
| Checkout can realistically use | Razorpay, PayU, Cashfree, and UPI — which now carries the majority of domestic transaction volume |
| My day, in Siliguri time | 09:30–18:30 — about 8.5 hours inside a normal working day |
One thing worth knowing about building for India
UPI changes the entire checkout design. An Indian store built around card fields first and UPI as an afterthought converts far worse than one built the other way round, and that is a layout decision, not a plugin.
Why Siliguri sites are built to be edited by you
A site you cannot update is a site that decays. Prices go stale, staff leave, the opening hours are wrong for six months. So the parts of a Siliguri build that change often — text, images, prices, opening hours, team members — are editable by you without touching code or paying me.
That is a design decision with a cost: it takes longer to build an editable block than a hard-coded one. It is worth it because the alternative is a maintenance dependency that benefits me and not you, and a developer whose income depends on you being unable to change your own opening hours is not aligned with your interests.
Healthcare and clinics in Siliguri
Clinics carry a compliance weight most businesses do not. Appointment forms collect health information, which is a special category under Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023, and it cannot be emailed to a generic inbox or written to a plain-text log. That constraint has to shape the build rather than be bolted onto it afterwards.
Beyond compliance the deciding factor is reassurance: practitioner names, registrations a patient can verify, honest pricing, and what actually happens at a first appointment. Anxiety is why people delay booking, and a site that reduces it outperforms one that merely looks modern.
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 Siliguri 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 Siliguri
A Indian business hiring outside India 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 Siliguri businesses
Fixed-scope, fixed-price, quoted in INR. The full list is on the services page.
Priced for Siliguri specifically
What I am not claiming about Siliguri
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 Siliguri
- I cannot meet you in person, and if that is a requirement you should hire locally
- I am not claiming existing clients in Siliguri 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
Siliguri web development — common questions
- 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 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 Siliguri 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.
- Can you migrate my Siliguri 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.
- Do you actually work with businesses in Siliguri?
- Yes, remotely. I work with Indian clients from Islamabad, quoting in INR and invoicing in INR. I have no office, address or phone number in Siliguri 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.
Also covering East India
Same terms, same currency, same process — these are the other East India towns with a page here.
Where this page sits
This page covers Siliguri. Every other town in India is listed on the India 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 Siliguri?
Send the brief and you get a reply within one business day — questions or a scoping call, quoted in INR. 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