Vishvajeet Shukla
Loading page content…The same six steps whether you are in Jaipur, Morbi or anywhere else. No account managers, no status meetings that exist to fill an hour, and no invoice that arrives larger than the estimate.
Who buys from you, how they find you now, and what a good month looks like. If a website is not the thing that moves those numbers, I will say so on this call rather than after you have paid for one. That conversation costs nothing and it has ended a fair number of projects before they started.
Pages, features, who supplies content and photographs, and what is explicitly out of scope. The estimate is fixed against that document, so the number does not move halfway through unless you change the scope. If you do want to change it, we price the change rather than argue about what was implied.
You get a link to a working staging site from the first week and it updates as the build progresses. Feedback while it is being built is cheap; feedback after launch is not. This is also where most people realise what they actually wanted, which is why the link goes up early.
Not just a laptop. A mid-range Android on a throttled connection, because that is what a real visitor is holding. This is the step most builds skip and where most post-launch complaints come from — a site that felt fast in an office and does not on a district-town connection.
Domain pointed, sitemap submitted, Google Business Profile checked, analytics running. You get the logins to everything on day one, in your own name, not mine. Email is untouched throughout, because it is separate from website hosting.
Anything broken gets fixed at no cost for a month. After that you can take a maintenance arrangement or call me only when you need something. Both are fine, and neither is a subscription you forget to cancel.
I do not publish a price list, because a fixed number for "a website" is how projects end up either overpriced or quietly cut short. What I will do on the first call is tell you roughly where your requirement sits and whether it is worth doing at all.
Three things move the number more than anything else: how many pages genuinely need writing, whether products or listings have to be manageable by you afterwards, and whether payments are involved. Design polish, animation and clever effects move it far less than most people expect.
If your budget is small, the better use of it is usually clear content, real photographs and a fast, simple site — not a bigger build with nothing left over for the things that actually convert a visitor into an enquiry.
And if the honest answer is that a website will not move your numbers, you will hear that instead of a quote. A well-maintained Google Business Profile and decent photographs beat a mediocre website for a good number of local businesses.
It depends on scope, and anyone quoting a figure before understanding yours is guessing. A straightforward business site is a different exercise from a catalogue with three hundred products or a store with payments. After a scoping call you get a written estimate with the scope fixed, so the number does not move mid-project.
A business site is usually three to five weeks and a catalogue site four to eight. The slow part is almost never the code — it is content, photographs and decisions arriving from your side. Projects where those are ready in advance finish noticeably faster than ones where they are not.
You do. The domain stays in your name, the hosting account is yours, and the code is handed over. There is no arrangement where I hold the site hostage to a monthly fee — if you want to move to another developer later, everything you need goes with you.
Only if you are in Jaipur and want to. Everything else runs over calls, WhatsApp and a shared preview link, which is faster for both of us than scheduling meetings for updates. Where a visit genuinely adds something — a factory or product shoot — it gets planned into the scope rather than assumed.
With an agency you usually get an account manager, and the person writing your code is someone you never speak to. Working directly means requirements do not degrade in translation and decisions happen the same day. The trade-off is honest: an agency has more hands, so if you need five people working in parallel, an agency is the better fit and I will say so.
Then the first job is measuring it rather than replacing it. Frequently the problem is one step — a slow product page, a checkout asking too much, everything living on a single page that cannot rank — and fixing that costs a fraction of a rebuild. I will tell you which it is, including when the answer is that you do not need a new site.
A short call, an honest answer about whether it is worth building.
