I work with businesses of every size, from the shop round the corner to a group of companies. If you are not sure which service you need, write to me: the first answer is free.
A website is not there to look nice: it is there to get you found by the people already looking for you, and to answer the phone on your behalf. Most of the people who could become your customers search on Google from a phone, in the evening, while they are making up their mind. If they do not find you, or they find a page that will not load, they go to the next one.
Websites and online shops
I build brochure sites, sites with a blog and online shops, with WordPress, WooCommerce and Shopify. Eleven sites built, and the thing I hear most often at handover is that they did not expect to be able to update it themselves.
The order matters: first you work out who is looking for you and what they need to read, then you design. Done the other way round you get a handsome site that brings nobody in.
Before talking about pages: what does somebody who needs you type into Google, and what do they find today. That is what decides how many pages you need and what goes on them.
Almost always fewer than you imagined. Five pages done properly beat fifteen filled in for the sake of filling them, and cost a third as much.
I write them, or rewrite them with you. This is the part that decides whether Google finds you, and no amount of design makes up for it.
Colours, photos and typefaces chosen for what you actually do, not a bought theme left exactly as it came. If the photos do not exist, we work out how to get them.
Most of the people looking for you arrive on a phone: the site gets checked there first and on a computer afterwards, not the other way round.
Certificate, speed, sitemap, Search Console, Google Business profile. The site is findable from day one, it does not get «put in front of people» six months later.
At handover I show you how to change text, photos, opening hours and prices. A site that needs me every time an opening time changes is a badly built site.
If you need to sell online it is WooCommerce when the shop lives inside your own site and you want to keep everything in house, or Shopify when you would rather not think about servers and maintenance. I set up the catalogue, payments, shipping and invoicing, and I teach you to add a new product yourself.
Where I work. My base is in Abruzzo, on the Adriatic coast of Italy, and I work remotely for clients in Italy and abroad. For a website the first meeting in person changes a lot, so I travel for it when the distance makes sense. One job I do often: people who come from abroad to open or run a business in Italy, where half the paperwork and half the suppliers only speak Italian.
After handover the site needs keeping in order: updates, backups, security. If you would rather not think about it, there is maintenance and support. And if what you need is not a website but a system that handles orders, shifts or stock, have a look at web app development.
The first one you can open and look at. The second is a website that doubles as the front door to a platform: the case study explains how it was built.
It starts at 1,000 euro for a brochure site of a few pages, and the price goes up with the number of pages and with what the site has to do. Before quoting, though, I look at how you work: it often turns out that the right project is smaller than you had imagined, and in that case I say so.
A five-page brochure site in two or three weeks, if the text and the photos arrive. A bigger site or an online shop in five or six weeks. The part that stretches the timeline is almost never the code: it is the content.
It is indexable from the start: text written around the searches people actually make, titles and descriptions written by hand, sitemap, Search Console and structured data. Ranking, though, takes weeks or months, and anybody who promises you first place in a fortnight is not telling the truth.
Yes, and it is included: at handover we spend half an hour together at the computer and you learn to change text, photos, opening hours and prices. I leave you written instructions as well.
Yes, with WooCommerce inside WordPress or with Shopify, depending on how much you want to manage yourself. I set up the catalogue, payments, shipping and electronic invoicing, and I teach you to add the products.
No. My base is in Abruzzo, in central Italy, and I work remotely for clients in Italy and abroad, in English, Spanish or Italian. For a website I do recommend a first meeting: in person when the distance allows it, by video call otherwise. Two situations I deal with often are people from abroad opening a business in Italy, and Italians running a business abroad.
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