Do you actually work with businesses in Aberdeen?

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 Aberdeen 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 Aberdeen 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.

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 Aberdeen 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.

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.

Scotland · United Kingdom

Website speed and performance optimisation in Aberdeen

A Lighthouse score on a developer laptop with fibre broadband is not a measurement of your site — it is a measurement of the laptop. The work here is judged on field data from real visitors on real phones, which is also the data Google actually uses. For Aberdeen businesses, quoted in GBP from $80, typically live in 4 days.

What website speed and performance optimisation includes for a Aberdeen business

Fixed scope, agreed in writing before development starts. From $80, typically live in 4 days.

Field-data baseline from Chrome UX Report where your traffic supports it, plus throttled lab testing where it does not
Largest Contentful Paint work: the actual LCP element identified, then preloaded, resized and served in a modern format
Interaction to Next Paint work, which usually means shipping less JavaScript rather than reordering it
Cumulative Layout Shift eliminated: dimensions on media, reserved space for embeds, metric-matched font fallbacks
Render path fixed — critical CSS, deferred non-essential script, and third-party tags audited for what they cost
Image pipeline: AVIF and WebP with correct srcset, and lazy loading applied below the fold only
Caching and compression configured at the server, including long-lived immutable assets
A before-and-after report with the numbers and the method, so you can reproduce it rather than trust it

The terms for a British client

Starting price	From $80, quoted and invoiced in GBP
Typical timeline	4 days 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 Aberdeen 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 Aberdeen project goes live

A handover for a Aberdeen 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 Aberdeen

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.

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 Aberdeen 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.

What I am not claiming about Aberdeen

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