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WordPress design, build and optimisation in Guwahati

Most WordPress sites are slow because of how they were built, not because of WordPress. I build lean themes without page-builder bloat, so the site stays quick, ranks properly, and you can still edit it without calling a developer. For Guwahati businesses, quoted in INR from $80, typically live in 3 days.

What wordpress design, build and optimisation includes for a Guwahati business

Fixed scope, agreed in writing before development starts. From $80, typically live in 3 days.

The terms for a Indian client

Starting price From $80, quoted and invoiced in INR
Typical timeline 3 days once content is supplied
Tax position GST at 18% on your sales; my invoices are imported services under reverse charge
Data protection the Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023 — resolved by the DPDP Act permits transfers except to notified countries, and the DPA records the basis
Payment rails available Razorpay, PayU, Cashfree, and UPI — which now carries the majority of domestic transaction volume
My day in Guwahati time 09:30–18:30 — about 8.5 hours of overlap

Why this matters for India specifically

UPI changes the entire checkout design. An Indian store built around card fields first and UPI as an afterthought converts far worse than one built the other way round, and that is a layout decision, not a plugin.

Accessibility on a Guwahati build, and why it is not optional

Keyboard navigation, real contrast ratios, form labels that are actually associated with their inputs, and alt text that describes rather than repeats. None of it is expensive when built in from the start and all of it is expensive to retrofit, which is the entire argument for doing it in the first pass.

The commercial case is simpler than the legal one: a site that a screen reader can navigate is a site that a search engine can parse, because both are reading the same semantic structure. Accessibility work and technical SEO overlap far more than either discipline usually admits, and in Guwahati the same build serves both.

Hospitality and venues in Guwahati

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

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 Guwahati 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 Guwahati

WordPress design, build and optimisation in Guwahati — common questions

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 Guwahati 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.
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 Guwahati?
My working day lands at 09:30–18:30 in your time, which is roughly 8.5 hours inside a normal Guwahati working day. In practice you can raise something in the morning and have it answered the same morning, and a scheduled call is easy to place at a civilised hour for both of us.
How long does a Guwahati 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.
What payment methods can my Guwahati checkout accept?
For India: Razorpay, PayU, Cashfree, and UPI — which now carries the majority of domestic transaction volume. 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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WordPress design, build and optimisation in Guwahati — get a fixed quote

Send the brief and you get a reply within one business day, priced in INR from $80. If wordpress design, build and optimisation is not what your project actually needs, I will say so.

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