The story
Context & problem
A small business's website is its first impression and often its best salesperson, yet the usual offer is a template that loads slowly, fails a screen reader and leaves out the legal pages. More than half of visitors leave a site that takes three seconds to load.
I set up Bigdan Web as a PFA to offer the opposite: a site built for the business it represents, fast and accessible from the first commit, and easy for the owner to keep running.
What I did
- Four services: website design and development, e-commerce, custom software, and written audit reports.
- One process for every client: discovery, planning, build, review, then ongoing support and maintenance.
- Every client site starts from my own Next.js starter, so privacy, accessibility and SEO are in place on day one.
- Shipped client work such as the Futterfarm FFB online store, and concept sites for a restaurant, a sushi bar and an interior studio.
Decisions & trade-offs
Under a second, not under three. The target for every site is a load under one second, measured with Core Web Vitals. It rules out heavy page builders and most third-party widgets; the gain is the visitors who would have left.
Accessibility and SEO from the first commit. WCAG 2.1 AA, semantic HTML, structured data and sitemaps go in as the site is built, not bolted on after launch. It costs time up front and saves a rebuild later.
An audit can be the whole job. Some clients need a plan more than a new site. The audit report scores performance, security and GDPR issues by severity, so they can fix it themselves or hand it to me.
Outcome
- A typical website goes from first call to launch in three to six weeks.
- Clients get the legal notice, privacy and cookie pages and GDPR-compliant consent with the site, not as an extra.
- Maintenance continues after launch: updates, performance monitoring and fixes.