Web design for Miami

• Who answers in Spanish. Someone in your business has to read and reply to the enquiries a Spanish page brings in.
• Which pages go first. Services, hours, prices and the contact page help a customer more than the company history does.
• The same facts in both. Prices, hours and addresses have to match, and one person updates both versions when something changes.
• Where the language switch leads. To the same page in the other language. Landing on the Spanish home page makes people hunt for what they were reading.
• Spanish search words. Spanish speakers search for your trade in their own words, so the Spanish pages use those words rather than the English ones translated one at a time. Our web design page in Spanish is built that way, with its own address and its own wording.

• The Florida Information Protection Act. Section 501.171 of the Florida Statutes says a business holding certain personal information about Floridians must take reasonable measures to protect it. The law’s list includes a user name or email address with a password, and a person’s name together with items such as a Social Security number, a bank or card number, or medical information. After a breach, the people affected must be told within 30 days, and the state’s Department of Legal Affairs as well when 500 or more Floridians are affected.
• The Florida Telephone Solicitation Act. Under section 501.059, sales calls and texts sent with an automated dialing system or a recorded message need the person’s prior express written consent: a signed agreement naming the phone number, with a clear note that agreeing isn’t a condition of buying. Ticking a box can count as the signature. Someone who gets calls or texts without that consent can sue for $500 or their actual damages, whichever is greater, and up to three times that if it was willful or knowing. For texts there is one step first: the person replies “STOP”, and can sue only if the texts keep coming 15 days later.

What that means for the design:

• The form asks only for what you’ll use, with no phone field if nobody will call back.
• If you plan sales texts, the consent wording and checkbox are settled with your lawyer before the form is drawn.
• Our own form asks for your name, your company, your email and what you want made. It has no phone field.

• Can I see websites you’ve built for Miami businesses? Not yet. We have no Miami client work to show, and we won’t pass off samples as client sites. You can judge our design from this site, in both languages.
• Where are you, and how do we work together? In North Miami Beach, in Miami-Dade County. Everything starts in writing, and the fitting is a first call about your site.
• Who writes the Spanish, and who checks it? Settle this before the quote. Whoever writes it, a native speaker who knows your trade should read every Spanish page before it goes live.
• Which accessibility checks run before launch? Ours: contrast, keyboard use, form labels and alt text, on every page in each language. Nobody can promise you won’t be sued, and we don’t.
• What will my contact form collect? Only what you’ll use, sent to the email address you choose. A phone number only if someone will call back, and consent wording first if you plan sales texts.
• Who updates the site when a storm closes us? Agreed in writing before launch. If the site has the notice strip, someone on your team can switch it on.