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%.

How much does a website cost in Tijuana?

A business website starts from MX$1,400 and goes live in about three days. An e-commerce build starts from MX$2,700 in around seven days, and a custom application from MX$3,600 in ten. Those are starting figures — the exact number is fixed in writing once scope is agreed, and it does not move after that.

Do you actually work with businesses in Tijuana?

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 Tijuana 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 Tijuana 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.

Mexico · Mexico

Web developer in Tijuana

Websites, online stores and technical SEO for Tijuana 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 Tijuana 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, Tijuana 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 Tijuana 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.

What actually ships when a Tijuana project goes live

A handover for a Tijuana client is not a link and a login. It is the repository, the hosting account in your name, the domain registered to you, the payment provider account under your business, and a written record of every credential as it was created rather than dumped in one email at the end.

The test I apply is uncomfortable but correct: if I disappeared tomorrow, could another developer pick this up on Monday without calling me? If the answer is no, the handover is not finished. That standard is why the documentation takes a day I do not bill separately — it is part of the build, not an upsell.

Education and training providers in Tijuana

Course pages are the whole site. Each needs the outcome, the duration, the price, the prerequisites and the next start date visible without scrolling — and each needs to be its own indexable URL, because people search for the course, never for a training provider they have not heard of.

The recurring failure is a single "Courses" page listing twenty courses. It ranks for nothing because it is specifically about nothing. Twenty pages, each genuinely about one course, is more work and is the difference between a site that recruits and a brochure that sits there.

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 Tijuana 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 Tijuana

The honest version is that for a build specified in writing, developed on a staging URL you can open from your phone at any hour, and handed over with documentation, being in the same city changes very little about the finished site. What it changes is your recourse if things go wrong — and that is a fair thing to weigh, which is why the contract, the staging access and the escrow-style milestone structure all exist before you pay anything.

What I build for Tijuana 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 Tijuana

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

Tijuana web development — common questions

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%.
How much does a website cost in Tijuana?: A business website starts from MX$1,400 and goes live in about three days. An e-commerce build starts from MX$2,700 in around seven days, and a custom application from MX$3,600 in ten. Those are starting figures — the exact number is fixed in writing once scope is agreed, and it does not move after that.
Do you actually work with businesses in Tijuana?: 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 Tijuana 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 Tijuana 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.

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 Tijuana. 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 Tijuana?

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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