Web Design in Fethiye — What Local Businesses Actually Need

If you're short on time

  • Fethiye has a genuinely mixed market — Turkish locals, British and European expats, seasonal tourists — and a website that speaks only one language is ignoring most of them
  • Most local websites I look at are either missing entirely or running on slow WordPress with outdated content from 2019
  • A fast, mobile-first site in English, Turkish and German is the baseline for a Fethiye business with serious ambitions
  • The tourist season means mobile searches with immediate intent — someone searching at 8pm wants to contact you tonight, not fill in a form
  • I build hand-coded HTML — no WordPress, no plugins, loads in under a second — from £199 for a 5-page Starter site

I've built websites for businesses in Fethiye since I moved here, and before that I was looking at them from the outside as an SEO consultant. The picture hasn't changed much in four years: most local businesses either have no website at all, or they have one that was built in a rush six years ago and hasn't been touched since.

The Fethiye market is not one market

This is the thing that catches a lot of businesses out. Fethiye town and its surroundings serve genuinely different audiences at the same time. There's a substantial Turkish local population who search in Turkish, on Google, on mobile. There's a long-established British expat community — particularly in Çalış, Hisarönü and Ovacık — who search in English and expect to find businesses that can communicate with them properly. There's a strong German tourist presence every summer who rarely speak Turkish or English confidently. And there are short-stay international visitors who arrived at Dalaman and are searching while they're already here.

What mobile-first actually means here

In Fethiye, mobile-first isn't just a design principle — it's the reality of how people find local businesses. Someone sitting on a gulet in Göcek Bay searching for a dental clinic. Someone walking along the promenade in Çalış looking for a restaurant for tonight. Someone who just landed at Dalaman and needs a pharmacy. These are all mobile searches with immediate intent. A site that loads slowly or doesn't display properly on a phone loses those customers before they've read a single word.

What I actually build

Hand-coded HTML and CSS — no WordPress, no plugins, no page builder. For a Fethiye business the standard build is in English, Turkish and German from day one, with each language version properly written rather than machine translated. Domain and hosting sorted as part of the build. On-page SEO in place before it goes live. The result is a site that loads in under a second, looks professional, and can be found by the people who are actually searching for your type of business in this area.

What it costs

Starter (5 pages, you supply the copy): £199. Business (10 pages, fully written for you, on-page SEO): £599. Premium (full build, trilingual, AI chatbot included): £999. No ongoing costs beyond hosting renewal. No contracts.

Running a business in Fethiye and need a website that actually works?

Tell me what you do and I'll tell you what kind of site would actually serve your business — and what it would cost.

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