Web developer in Cooch Behar — stays and guides near the palace
A stay or a guide near the palace and the old town gets three plain things first from me as a web developer in Cooch Behar. Each room is shown as it is. The distance to the palace is stated plainly. Open dates are on the site, not in an email. I'd start there, whatever else the site grows into.
Overview
How big the site should be
I size the site to the business in front of me. A small stay needs pages it can look after itself. Every extra page is one more thing to correct when a room changes. A site sized for a bigger business only gives a small stay more pages to keep current.
A farm business sells another way. Its buyers come by referral and already know the name. They'd rather check the details than browse. So I'd keep that site small, and I say so on the call, before the scope is written.
Rooms, distance, dates
In that order, before anything else a guest reads. An honest photograph and a real distance come ahead of any design touch.
- 01
Each room, photographed honestly
a guest should recognise it when they walk in - 02
How far things really are
the palace and the old town, in your own words - 03
Which dates are free
shown on the site, so a guest never has to write and wait
What gets built here
Your part of the job
This part I can't write for you. Once it reaches me, the writing and the build are mine, and you check both on the staging link as they take shape.
- What a guest can book — the rooms or the guiding you offer, as you sell them today.
- How you describe the place — the way you'd tell a guest on the phone what is close by.
- How a guest reaches you — the number to ring, and who answers it.
What a scope from me looks like
Scoping a small stay, line by line
Included
- A written scope: every page and feature as its own line, agreed before work starts
- Design to build, reviewed on a staging URL that stays open the whole project
- Mobile first — checked on a real phone
- Domain, hosting and every account created in your name from day one
- A page for each room, with its own photographs
- Basic on-page SEO: titles, descriptions, headings, sitemap, Search Console connected
- A runbook at handover: how to edit it, what renews and when
Phase two
- Online booking that holds a room for the guest
- A product list for a farming business
- Ongoing SEO once the site has traffic to read
- A maintenance plan once the site is live
- Logo and brand design, quoted separately from the build
Not doing
- Guaranteed rankings
- Deciding what you may let or sell — the site states what you tell me
Where this runs over
Worth starting before the build
Neither of these is code. Both can start alongside the design, and the pages are built around them as each piece arrives. They depend on you rather than on me, so they're started first.
- Room photographs a guest can trust, and a few of the old town — I build around them while they're being taken
- The site and your Google listing agreeing — the same address, phone number and opening times in both
What moves the number
Four lines that move the figure
The figure follows how much site you need, line by line.
- Pages — how many rooms and services need one of their own
- Open dates — a simple list you update, or a booking calendar later
- Photographs — what exists today, and what still has to be shot
- The Google listing — whether the details on it are already right
Nearby
Further along the map
Nearby places first, then the wider offer.
FAQ
Questions before a first scope
Short answers here; the rest is easier to talk through.
Why does the Google listing have to match the site?
- The Google listing and the site have to match because a guest may see either one first. If the phone number or the address differs between them, the guest doesn't know which to trust. I check both before launch, and you keep them in step afterwards.
Is a farm business website worth it when buyers come by referral?
- A small farm business website is worth having, as long as it stays small. Someone who got your name from another buyer still wants to check that you're real and what you sell. A few correct pages do that. I'd advise against building more.
Does a business outside Cooch Behar town get a different build?
- A business anywhere in Cooch Behar district gets the same build. What changes is the directions a guest needs. Nobody in my Kolkata, India office knows the way to your door, so the directions go up in your words, unedited.
How do we get started?
- A first scope starts from one call and whatever material you already have. The build begins once you've agreed the scope in writing, and you check it on a staging link as it goes.
Next step
Start from what's online today
On the call, we go through whatever a guest can see of you online now. I'll point out what's missing, and the scope starts from there.
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