Besançon website creation for shops and tradespeople

I work with businesses in every district of Besançon, La Boucle and its historic centre, Battant on the other bank of the Doubs, Chaprais, Saint-Claude, Montrapon, Palente and Orchamps, Saint-Ferjeux, Bregille, Velotte and Planoise, the most populated district of the city. The towns of Grand Besançon Métropole are covered the same way, from Saint-Vit to Saône and from Thise to Avanne-Aveney, through École-Valentin, Miserey-Salines, Pirey, Franois, Chalezeule and Beure. A company in Planoise or in the Châteaufarine retail zone doesn't present its access the way a boutique on the Grande Rue does, where parking and the tram come up on the very first page.

The centre of Besançon lives on small shops, the Grande Rue and the rue des Granges are its main streets, and the Grande Rue lines up around a hundred shops, bookshops, cheese shops, designer boutiques, down to the Passages Pasteur. Battant is home to craft workshops, galleries and fine food shops, and the place de la Révolution holds the market twice a week. The city is also still the home of watchmaking and microtechnology, with 406 companies in the sector counted by Grand Besançon Développement. Building trades complete the picture, with tradespeople in construction and renovation based in every district and in the surrounding towns.

Take a cheese shop on the Grande Rue as an example. Its site would have a home page with the shopfront, the hours and how to arrive by tram, one page per product family, regional cheeses, platters for parties and companies, grocery items, a page explaining its stall at the place de la Révolution market with the days and hours, and a phone ordering page for platters, without a complex online shop. That structure lets the site appear for "cheese shop Besançon" and for "cheese platter Besançon" with two pages that each answer a different question.

A joiner in Saint-Claude or a heating engineer in Pirey gets a different structure, one page per service, one page per town served, Besançon, Châtillon-le-Duc, Miserey-Salines, Pouilley-les-Vignes, with photos of real jobs and a page describing how a quote works. I also handle website creation in Dijon for businesses that work across Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, and I can plan one page per city from the start rather than adding them later outside the plan. The business zones of Palente and Les Tilleroyes have their service companies too, and for them the site is first of all a calling card shown to other companies.

Everything starts with an hour long conversation, in Besançon if you prefer to meet, or on a video call from Paris or Montreux, where I live. I need to understand your business, your customers, your areas and what makes you different, then to receive your photos, your prices and your texts if any exist. The site is then designed and coded for you, with no purchased template and no page builder, and no two clients ever get the same site. More than sixteen years of code and OceanWP, a WordPress theme I created that passed five hundred thousand installs, explain that standard.

You receive a complete first version, with every page, text and image, and you review it the way a customer would see it. You point out what's wrong, a word, a photo, the order of the pages, and I correct until you approve. The site then passes a check on speed, accessibility and technical SEO before going live, because a site that takes four seconds to load on a phone in the tram between Planoise and the station has already lost its visitor. That check is the same for every site, whichever plan you choose.

The site is live less than 48 hours after the order, depending on how fast you review, on a domain name registered in your name. The code belongs to you from day one and you can ask for a full export, free, within fifteen days, even during the twelve month commitment, after which the plan can be cancelled any month with one month's notice. Your text and image changes are delivered within two working days, and the monthly traffic report lands in your inbox every month. The pricing and what it includes is detailed on the pricing page.