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Website maintenance and support in Dijon
Almost every website emergency I get called into was preventable and cheap to prevent: an expired domain, an unpatched plugin, a backup nobody had ever restored. Maintenance is not a subscription for reassurance — it is the specific set of checks that stop those three things from happening to you. For Dijon businesses, quoted in EUR from $45, typically live in ongoing monthly.
What website maintenance and support includes for a Dijon business
Fixed scope, agreed in writing before development starts. From $45, typically live in ongoing monthly.
- Core, plugin and dependency updates applied on staging first, then live
- Offsite backups taken on a schedule and test-restored quarterly, because an untested backup is a hope
- Security patching, plus header and SSL certificate checks
- Uptime and certificate-expiry monitoring, with alerts that reach a human
- Domain and hosting renewal watch — the single most common cause of a site going dark
- A monthly allowance of small content and layout changes, with anything larger quoted separately
- Search Console and analytics checked monthly for coverage errors and traffic anomalies
- A short written monthly report: what changed, what was found, what needs a decision
The terms for a French client
| Starting price | From $45, quoted and invoiced in EUR |
|---|---|
| Typical timeline | ongoing monthly once content is supplied |
| Tax position | VAT at 20%, reverse-charged |
| Data protection | the EU GDPR, enforced by the CNIL — resolved by a DPA with EU Standard Contractual Clauses |
| Payment rails available | Cartes Bancaires, Stripe, Lydia, and PayPal |
| My day in Dijon time | 06:00–15:00 — about 6 hours of overlap |
Why this matters for France specifically
The CNIL enforces cookie rules more aggressively than most EU regulators, and "refuse all" must be as easy as "accept all". A French site running a standard one-button banner is carrying a known, fineable defect.
Why Dijon 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 Dijon 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.
Education and training providers in Dijon
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 Dijon site has this problem, submit your own form from a phone on mobile data and see what actually arrives.
What I am not claiming about Dijon
- I have no office, postal address or phone number in Dijon
- I cannot meet you in person, and if that is a requirement you should hire locally
- I am not claiming existing clients in Dijon 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
Website maintenance and support in Dijon — common questions
- 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.
- Do you actually work with businesses in Dijon?
- Yes, remotely. I work with French clients from Islamabad, quoting in EUR and invoicing in EUR. I have no office, address or phone number in Dijon 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.
- How much does a website cost in Dijon?
- A business website starts from €75 and goes live in about three days. An e-commerce build starts from €140 in around seven days, and a custom application from €180 in ten. Those are starting figures — the exact number is fixed in writing once scope is agreed, and it does not move after that.
- What currency will I be invoiced in?
- EUR. Quotes, milestones and the final invoice are all written in EUR so you are never comparing a converted figure against a local supplier's. Regarding tax: VAT at 20%, reverse-charged.
- 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.
- How do you handle our customers' data under EU GDPR?
- Your customer data is governed by the EU GDPR, enforced by the CNIL, and sending it to a developer in Pakistan is a restricted transfer. That is resolved by a DPA with EU Standard Contractual Clauses, published on this site and pre-signed before you send an enquiry — not drafted after you ask about it.
- What payment methods can my Dijon checkout accept?
- For France: Cartes Bancaires, Stripe, Lydia, and PayPal. 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.
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The full service detail — process, deliverables, what is excluded and the FAQ — is on the main website maintenance and support page. Everything I build for Dijon is on the Dijon page, and every town in France is on the France coverage page.
Website maintenance and support in Dijon — get a fixed quote
Send the brief and you get a reply within one business day, priced in EUR from $45. If website maintenance and support is not what your project actually needs, I will say so.
- 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