Web design in Flanders, by city and province

In East Flanders we work closest to home, and most of our clients are there. The overview of the province is on web design in East Flanders.

A province with three economies: tourism at the coast, manufacturers in the centre and export to France in the south. The overview is on web design in West Flanders.

Flanders is Dutch-speaking, and most of your customers will search, call and buy in Dutch. Brussels is officially bilingual, French and Dutch, and English is everywhere in its business life. If you moved here, or your company works in English, four questions come up in every city.

The differences between the Dutch of Flanders and of the Netherlands matter too: a site written in the Netherlands reads foreign to a Fleming. More in Dutch vs Flemish.

No Flemish city pays for a website directly. Where there is money, it goes to setting up, a shop front or starting out, and an opening almost always needs a new site too. Only Brussels has a grant that can pay for a website.

Check every grant with the city itself before you sign: rules change, and the moment of applying counts. The Flemish SME wallet (kmo-portefeuille) stops on 1 January 2027; what remains is in Flanders digitalisation grants and website grants in Belgium.

The city decides what your site has to do. The way we build is the same everywhere.

• A fixed price per projectA custom site starts at 1,500 euros with us. After a first conversation you get a fixed price, with no hours afterwards. If you want to do the sum yourself first, use the website cost calculator.
• A page per client questionNot a list of services on one page, but a page per service with its own title. Across our clients we count more than 1,700 such pages today.
• Languages where they are neededDutch, French, English and Turkish for Business Centrum and two other clients; English and Dutch for Villa Lidia; four languages for No.4 Lange Ast. How we set up languages is on multilingual website development.
• Being found locallyA Google profile that is right, projects with place and date, reviews that keep coming; see local SEO.

For Business Centrum that approach took the site from 220 to 10,200 impressions a day in five weeks.

If you live in Hasselt or Bruges, you can also pick a web designer round the corner. That has advantages: they know the street, you can drop in. An agency at a distance has others: a team that builds sites, calculators and software, and work you can check. Look at three things, wherever the agency is.

• Work you can openAsk for sites that are live, not designs in a PDF. Check them on your phone.
• A price that is fixedA quote with what is in, what is not, and what it costs each year. How to read one is in compare website quotes.
• OwnershipThe domain in your name, the files and the copy yours, also if you change agency later.

In doubt between a freelancer and an agency? Read freelancer or agency; what a web designer actually does is in what does a web designer do.

Google punishes sites that make the same page twenty times with only another place name in it. Such a page helps no reader, and Google knows it. So we write a page per city with what is really going on there: the companies, the languages of the customers, the city's grants and the drive from our office. A baker in Mechelen reads something different from a manufacturer in Kortrijk, and you should see that on the page. We use the same approach for the clients we help: no template with their city in it, but a page per city with facts a visitor from that city recognises.

We build the site just as thoroughly there. What is going on in your city, we look up before the first conversation.

In East Flanders and the north of West Flanders we come over for the first meeting; in Limburg and the Campine we mostly work remotely and come for a day of photos. Everywhere you see your site grow on a test address and give comments per page, in English or Dutch. How we build a site is at website design; what it costs, in website cost.