Website creation in Paris

I work with businesses across all twenty arrondissements of Paris, on both banks of the Seine. In practice that means a workshop in Batignolles in the 17th, a boutique in Montmartre in the 18th, a practice near Passy in the 16th, a restaurant by the Buttes-Chaumont in the 19th, shops in Ménilmontant and Belleville in the 20th, Vaugirard in the 15th or Montparnasse in the south. Each neighbourhood has its own search habits, and the site uses the words your customers actually use when they talk about their corner of Paris, which is rarely the official district name.

I also cover the towns that touch Paris, because a tradesperson in the 20th works in Montreuil and Bagnolet, and a shop in the 15th gets customers from Issy-les-Moulineaux and Vanves. The site can therefore speak about Boulogne-Billancourt, Montrouge, Ivry-sur-Seine, Vincennes, Pantin, Saint-Denis, Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine, Clichy, Levallois-Perret or Neuilly-sur-Seine, depending on where you really go. I do this by naming the towns you serve, never by pasting a list of places to fool Google, because that habit always ends up hurting the site that tries it.

The trades I meet most in Paris fall into the four big sectors of the craft economy tracked by the Chambre de métiers et de l'artisanat, meaning food, services, manufacturing with the art crafts, and building. According to the 2024 figures published by the CMA Île-de-France, Paris has 64,507 craft businesses, the highest count of any department in the region. The city's 2023 census also notes growth in food shops, bike shops, fitness and body care businesses and second hand clothing stores, all of which live on customers from their own neighbourhood and therefore on being found there.

Take an electrician based in the 20th who also works in Montreuil and Bagnolet. The site would have a home page that says in one sentence what he does and where, a page for "électricien Paris 20" with response times and call out fees, one page for Montreuil and one for Bagnolet, a page about bringing an electrical panel up to standard with photos of real jobs, and a contact page with a call button that works on a phone. Each page answers one precise search, and that's what makes it show up when someone in the neighbourhood needs a repair the same evening.

It starts with an hour together, in your shop or workshop in Paris if you'd rather meet in person, or on a video call if that's easier to fit in. I note what you sell, who calls you, where your customers come from, what sets you apart from the shop across the street and the questions people ask you every day. You don't have to write anything, I leave with your photos, prices and opening hours, and I take care of the words, in French and in English if you need both.

I then design and code a complete first version of the site, drawn for your business without a template or a page builder. You read it at your own pace, you tell me what's missing or what sounds wrong, and I adjust until you're comfortable with every page. Before it goes live the site passes a check on speed, accessibility and technical SEO, because a site that loads slowly on the mobile network in the metro loses customers before they've read the first line.

The site usually goes live less than 48 hours after the order, and the delay depends mostly on how fast you review. From then on, hosting, daily backups, security monitoring and technical updates run without you having to think about them, and every text or image change you ask for is delivered within two working days. You get a monthly report on traffic and uptime, and you can reach me directly, without going through a support desk or a ticket queue.