Web developer in Krishnanagar with the clay maker introduced first
I work as a web developer in Krishnanagar for clay makers, and every piece you make gets its own page. Each one is photographed so its real size is clear. Krishnanagar clay modelling has generations behind it, and collectors who buy it from far away choose the hand as much as the figure.
Overview
Where the price sits, and why
I put the price last on a clay maker's site, after your story and after the pieces.
By the time a collector reaches the price, they already know who you are and what went into the work. Then the number means something.
Each piece gets room of its own, with a line or two in your words about how it was made. A collector can read about one figure without scrolling past the rest.
What gets built here
What has to be right before a piece goes up
Four things we settle together, one at a time.
- 01Your story, in your words — how long you've worked with clay, and what you're known for.
- 02Each piece at its real size — a small figure and a large one look alike on a screen unless something in the frame shows the scale.
- 03How a fragile piece travels — the packing and the courier, written once so nobody has to ask by email.
- 04Commission work as a process — what you need from the buyer and the stages a piece goes through, instead of a price list.
What a scope from me looks like
A sample scope for a clay maker
If you only work to commission, the product pages drop out and a process page takes their place.
You decide which pieces open the site. I write the scope around them, one line at a time, and you strike out anything you do not need.
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
- The maker's own page first, the pieces after it
- 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
- Selling pieces from the site with payment and packing
- 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
- Bought links
- A launch before your sign-off
Where this runs over
Facts that come from you
I can't tell from a photograph who made a piece or how long it took, so I'll ask you for both. A date, a name and a line about the clay itself are often enough.
Packing is the one I'd ask you to settle early. Write down how a fragile piece is wrapped and which courier takes it before the first order comes in, not after something arrives broken.
What moves the number
What the cost depends on
The count of pieces at launch moves the figure most. Your own page, the one that introduces you, stays a single line in the scope whatever that count turns out to be.
- How many pieces are shown at launch
- How many photographs each piece needs before its size is clear
- Selling from the site now, or enquiries until phase two
- Whether your story runs to one page or several
Where this comes from
Building websites since 2017
I have been building websites since 2017. How that began, and who works beside me in the office now, is on the about page.
Nearby
Nadia, Ranaghat, Berhampore and the full list
Nadia district first, then Ranaghat and Berhampore.
FAQ
Clay makers' questions about the site
Decisions worth making before anything is built.
Should the website sell pieces, or bring enquiries?
- A clay maker's site starts with enquiries. Selling online needs payment built in, so a shop waits for phase two. When the shop does come, it is a smaller step, because every piece already has a page of its own.
How important are the photographs really?
- Clay photographs matter as much as the words, and each one is taken against a plain background, away from any lamp that tints the clay. On the staging link we hold every picture up against the real piece. Any photograph that makes a figure look different from the clay in your hand gets reshot before launch.
We work to commission. What should the site show?
- A commission site walks a buyer through how an order begins and what happens at each step after that, all in your words. Someone ordering personal, fragile work wants to understand that before asking the cost.
Can we change the design once we've seen it?
- You see the design on a staging link before anything is public, and you can ask for changes there. Colour and finish on clay are hard to judge on a screen, so you check them against the real pieces before launch. The site stays private until you say yes.
Next step
A few lines about you
Before we speak, write a few lines on how you came to clay and what you're known for. Those lines open your own page, the one a collector reads before any figure. The pieces that follow it are chosen together when we speak.
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