Can you migrate my Nuneaton 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 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.

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.

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.

What currency will I be invoiced in?

GBP. Quotes, milestones and the final invoice are all written in GBP so you are never comparing a converted figure against a local supplier's. Regarding tax: VAT at 20% once you are registered — my invoices are outside the scope of UK VAT and you account for them under the reverse charge.

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.

Do you actually work with businesses in Nuneaton?

Yes, remotely. I work with British clients from Islamabad, quoting in GBP and invoicing in GBP. I have no office, address or phone number in Nuneaton 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.

Midlands · United Kingdom

Website maintenance and support in Nuneaton

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 Nuneaton businesses, quoted in GBP from $45, typically live in ongoing monthly.

What website maintenance and support includes for a Nuneaton 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 British client

Starting price	From $45, quoted and invoiced in GBP
Typical timeline	ongoing monthly once content is supplied
Tax position	VAT at 20% once you are registered — my invoices are outside the scope of UK VAT and you account for them under the reverse charge
Data protection	UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018 — resolved by a pre-signed DPA with a completed UK International Data Transfer Addendum
Payment rails available	Stripe, GoCardless for Direct Debit, and Klarna or Clearpay where basket sizes justify it
My day in Nuneaton time	05:00–14:00 — about 5 hours of overlap

Why this matters for United Kingdom specifically

UK local search is the most saturated in the English-speaking world, so a merely competent site does not win the job — the quote form does. Every UK build I ship is specified around the enquiry step first and the homepage second.

What actually ships when a Nuneaton project goes live

A handover for a Nuneaton 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.

Retail and e-commerce in Nuneaton

A store is judged at the checkout, not the homepage. For United Kingdom that means the payment methods have to match what people actually use — Stripe, GoCardless for Direct Debit, and Klarna or Clearpay where basket sizes justify it — 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.

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 Nuneaton 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 Nuneaton

I have no office, postal address or phone number in Nuneaton
I cannot meet you in person, and if that is a requirement you should hire locally
I am not claiming existing clients in Nuneaton 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