Question 1

Which technologies do you use for custom projects?

Accepted Answer

Laravel for back-ends and admin panels (Filament), React and Next.js for front-ends, MySQL/PostgreSQL databases, and Flutter or React Native for mobile apps. Everything is delivered with source code and hosted on our infrastructure if you wish.

Question 2

What is the difference between a landing page and a website?

Accepted Answer

A landing page is one page built for one action, with no menu pulling visitors elsewhere. A website is a set of pages that explains a whole business and serves visitors who arrive with different questions.

Question 3

What is a CMS and do I need one?

Accepted Answer

A CMS is an admin area that lets non developers change text, images, products and pages without touching code. You need one if content changes often and you want to make those changes yourself.

Question 4

How do I make my website accessible?

Accepted Answer

Start with five things: readable colour contrast, alt text on meaningful images, full keyboard operation, headings in order, and form fields with real labels. Each one also helps search engines understand the page.

Question 5

What is a multilingual website and how should I build one?

Accepted Answer

A multilingual website serves the same content in more than one language, each on its own URL such as /ar/ and /en/. Give every language a permanent address, link the versions with hreflang, and write each version natively rather than translating word for word.

Question 6

How do I migrate content to a new website without losing SEO?

Accepted Answer

Export a full list of your current URLs, map every one to its new address, and put permanent 301 redirects in place on launch day. Keep titles and content intact, resubmit the sitemap, then watch coverage and impressions for a month.

Question 7

How do I add online payments to a custom website?

Accepted Answer

You need a merchant account with a payment provider approved for your activity, an integration that sends the customer to the provider's hosted page, and server side confirmation that the money arrived. The hosted page is the default: card data never touches your site.

Question 8

How do I add WhatsApp to my website?

Accepted Answer

Three different things are called adding WhatsApp: a click to chat link, a floating chat widget, and the WhatsApp Business API. The link is free and takes minutes; the API brings approval, message templates and a per conversation cost.

Question 9

What is an API and when does my project need one?

Accepted Answer

An API is a controlled doorway that lets one system read or change data in another without a person retyping it. You need one when the same information is being entered twice by hand, or when another system has to read or change something your site owns.

Question 10

Which hosting does my custom application need?

Accepted Answer

Answer six questions before you look at any plan: what the application is built with, whether it needs background workers, how spiky its traffic is, whether it needs its own database, who patches the operating system, and what growth looks like.

Question 11

What is a headless website and should I build one?

Accepted Answer

A headless website splits the system that stores your content from the code that displays it, and the two talk over an API. It is the right answer for one content source feeding several products, or a very large site, and the wrong answer for most brochure sites and ordinary stores.

Question 12

Template or custom build: which is right for my business?

Accepted Answer

For most small businesses a good template build is the right answer. A custom build earns its cost only when the business is genuinely not standard.

Question 13

What do I need to maintain after my website launches?

Accepted Answer

Six things need an owner after launch: updates, tested backups, renewals, accurate content, working links and forms, and speed. The quiet failures cost most.

Question 14

What is an MVP and should I start with one?

Accepted Answer

An MVP is the smallest build that gives a real user real value and teaches you something true. Not a cheap version, not an unfinished one.

Question 15

How do I connect my website to my ERP or CRM?

Accepted Answer

An integration is a contract about data: which system owns each piece, which way it flows, and what happens when the two disagree. Decide that first.

Question 16

How does a web development project work with PikyHost?

Accepted Answer

Seven stages: discovery, quote, design approval, development, review on a private link, launch, then handover with optional maintenance. You approve each stage before the next one starts.

Question 17

Who owns my website code and domain after the project?

Accepted Answer

Ownership is whatever your written agreement says, so settle it before the work starts. As a rule, the domain should be registered in your company name, the hosting account should be yours, and you should receive the source code, the design files and every login at handover.

Question 18

How do I request changes after my website is live?

Accepted Answer

Send one written request per change, with the exact page URL, what you want changed, and the final text or image. Small fixes are usually maintenance; anything that adds a page, a feature or an integration is new scope and needs its own quotation.

Question 19

What do I need to prepare before a website project?

Accepted Answer

Prepare your domain and hosting details, logo and brand files, final text for every page, rights-cleared images, a page and feature list, and access to any existing site or tools.

Question 20

What should I check before my website goes live?

Accepted Answer

Before launch, confirm SSL is active on every page, forms and payments reach a real inbox, the site works on a phone, speed is acceptable, analytics is installed, the sitemap and robots file allow indexing, old URLs redirect instead of 404, backups run, contact details are correct, and the legal pages exist.

Question 21

How do I give my developer access safely?

Accepted Answer

Never share your main cPanel or client area password. Create a separate FTP account for files, a separate WordPress user with the smallest role that fits the job, and a separate database user if needed, then remove all of them the day the work ends. Keep the domain registration and the billing account in your own name.

Question 22

How do I make my website load fast on mobile?

Accepted Answer

Serve images at the size the phone actually displays, cut the number of third party scripts, and load only the fonts you use. Then test on a real phone on mobile data, not on your office Wi-Fi, because that is the connection your customers are on.

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