Once launch day is over, a website nobody looks after keeps showing the old phone number long after the business has changed it. Here the person who builds yours keeps it up to date every month, and the domain is in your name from the start.
Three kinds of site get built here: a company website for the buyer who checks you before calling, an online store that takes orders while you work, or a course platform that sells your lessons. Each one is built for the phone first, because Penang searches on a phone.
The domain is registered in your name on day one. Nobody can take the site from you, and there is no additional charge for your own source files.
A great looking website can still be shelved on page 35 of Google. Yours goes live ready for Google to read. Climbing the results is SEO services in Penang, a separate job with its own page.
The price of the site is agreed before a page is built, so it never turns into roadblock after roadblock. You pay ~RM 820 to start ($200), then a fixed monthly for your type of site. Every payment comes off the agreed price, and nothing runs past 24 months. Cancel any month and everything is handed over.
What the site itself costs follows its size. A four-page site at $1,000 is $49 a month. An eight-page site at $1,500 and a WooCommerce store at $1,990 are both $99 a month. Rather pay once? Half when the work starts, half when the site goes live.
Shopify’s own plan is paid to Shopify.
Included every month: one domain in your name, managed hosting and backups, and unlimited content edits.
The full picture for the country is in what a website costs in Malaysia.
Eleven sites have been built and delivered, and every one of them is still live. Three of them, with what each one had to do. See all eleven sites →
The most common Penang problem is not a missing website. It is an old listing, a different phone number and a site that has not moved since the business did.
Name, address and phone identical across the site, the listing and every directory that already has you. It is unglamorous and it is most of the win.
Web design in Penang for George Town shops and restaurants, Bayan Lepas suppliers and mainland businesses in Butterworth and Seberang Perai. Website design, the Google listing and the local search work, handled by the same person.
“Our local SEO improved — we are now top 3 on Google Maps. Members book through the website, and support is always available.”
“Our old website was years behind the business. Daniel rebuilt it from scratch and now runs our SEO — one point of contact, and things move without chasing.”
Here, a business website is ~RM 820 to start and then ~RM 200 a month, billed in USD as $200 and $49. Both come off the price of the site, which is agreed before anything is built: a four-page site is $1,000. An online store on WooCommerce is ~RM 405 a month, and a course platform is $149. Nothing runs past 24 months, or you can pay once, half up front and half at launch.
For a company site, a store or a course platform, yes. The person on the call designs the site, builds it and answers your edits afterwards. There is no switching project managers halfway through, so nobody new has to learn your business. Only a small number of projects run at a time, which is what keeps that true. The eleven sites on the work page were built this way, and all of them are still running.
About two weeks is the average for a company website, and an online store lands around the same. A course platform runs longer than either. What moves the number is the type of site. Your own timeline goes to you in writing before anything starts, next to the price agreed for the site, so neither one turns up as a surprise halfway through.
Sites here are built English-first. A full Chinese version of every page, kept in step with the English one month after month, is not something that gets built here. What you get instead is one English site built for how Penang searches, on a phone, and kept current by the person who built it. If your buyers read in Chinese, tell me on the call before anything starts.
The work runs remote and the reply comes the same day, which is how the Malaysian sites on the books are looked after. If somebody sitting in George Town is part of what you need, say so early and I will point you to someone local.
Usually yes, and it is often the first thing worth doing — before any redesign. A corrected profile can move you in the map pack while the new site is still being built.
Yes. The work is the same wherever the business sits: one honest service area, said the same way on the site and on the profile.
The same build, looked at from the angle you came in on.
One call. I will tell you what I would change first, what it costs and how long it takes, including when the honest answer is that you do not need a new site.
