How do you handle our customers' data under EU GDPR?

Your customer data is governed by the EU GDPR, supervised by the Irish Data Protection Commission, and sending it to a developer in Pakistan is a restricted transfer. That is resolved by a pre-signed DPA incorporating the EU Standard Contractual Clauses, 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?

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 23%, with my invoices reverse-charged to you as the recipient.

How much does a website cost in Castlebar?

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.

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 hours will you be available to us in Castlebar?

My standard day lands at 05:00–14:00 your time — about 5 hours of genuine overlap with a normal Castlebar working day. That is enough for one reliable daily window rather than constant back-and-forth, so Castlebar projects run on written updates plus one scheduled call a week.

How long does a Castlebar project actually take?

Three days for a business site, seven for a store, ten for a custom application. That holds because the process is fixed rather than improvised and because your content exists on day one. What stretches a build is almost never the code — it is waiting for copy, logos and photographs, so those are requested before the clock starts.

Connacht and Ulster · Ireland

Website redesign and modernisation in Castlebar

The most common way a redesign goes wrong is not the design. It is that the new site ships with new URLs, no redirect map, and traffic that took four years to build disappears in a fortnight. Preventing that is a checklist, not a talent, and it is included here rather than sold as an extra. For Castlebar businesses, quoted in EUR from $120, typically live in 5 days.

What website redesign and modernisation includes for a Castlebar business

Fixed scope, agreed in writing before development starts. From $120, typically live in 5 days.

Full crawl of the existing site before anything changes, so nothing is lost by accident
A URL-by-URL redirect map, in a single hop, tested before launch and again after
Modernised responsive design built mobile-first, on the content you already rank for
Content migration with headings, internal links and metadata preserved deliberately rather than by luck
Core Web Vitals brought inside the thresholds during the rebuild — images, fonts and render path
Structured data rebuilt to match the new page types
Post-launch indexation check: Search Console coverage, sitemap resubmitted, 404s monitored
30 days of snag fixes after go-live

The terms for a Irish client

Starting price	From $120, quoted and invoiced in EUR
Typical timeline	5 days once content is supplied
Tax position	VAT at 23%, with my invoices reverse-charged to you as the recipient
Data protection	the EU GDPR, supervised by the Irish Data Protection Commission — resolved by a pre-signed DPA incorporating the EU Standard Contractual Clauses
Payment rails available	Stripe, SEPA Direct Debit, and Revolut Business for smaller recurring plans
My day in Castlebar time	05:00–14:00 — about 5 hours of overlap

Why this matters for Ireland specifically

Ireland is small enough that a niche site can own its category nationally rather than fighting city by city, which changes the keyword strategy completely — I build Irish sites for national reach first, county second.

What happens in the first 48 hours of a Castlebar build

Nothing is designed on day one. The first two days are spent on the things that decide whether the build succeeds: what the site is for, which single action matters most, who the visitor actually is, and what content genuinely exists versus what is assumed to exist. That last one is where most timelines quietly break.

By the end of it you have a written scope, a sitemap, a price in EUR and a date. If any of those four look wrong to you, that is the cheapest possible moment to say so — before a line of code exists. Projects that go badly almost always skipped this and started with a homepage mockup instead.

Hospitality and venues in Castlebar

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

A redesign that quietly deleted the rankings

The classic disaster: a new site launches, looks far better, and organic enquiries fall off a cliff within a fortnight. The cause is almost always identical — the URLs changed and nothing was redirected, so every page that had accumulated years of authority now returns a 404.

Preventing it is a redirect map built before launch: every old URL to its closest new equivalent with a 301, and anything without an equivalent pointed at the nearest relevant page rather than the homepage. If your Castlebar site is being redesigned by anyone, ask to see that map. If it does not exist, that is the entire risk in one document.

What I am not claiming about Castlebar

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