Web design and app development in St Barths

Web design in St Barths, at the level of the island

Saint-Barthélemy lives on high-end tourism. A villa rental, a boutique in Gustavia, a restaurant in Saint-Jean or a concierge service talks to clients who are used to beautiful things and short answers. A template website, the same as everywhere else, works against you.

We design every site from scratch, with no template: typography, photography, white space and motion chosen for your brand. We build business websites, websites with a CMS for content you change often, and booking or request pages. Our French company, ECOBILL SAS, is based in Guadeloupe and works across the French West Indies.

What clients expect from a St Barths website

• English and French, with English often read first by visitors from North America and Europe.
• Large, sharp photography that still loads fast on a phone, thanks to compressed images.
• A discreet way to ask: a request form, a phone number, a booking for a villa, a table or a service.
• Clear information: availability, location, what is included, how to reach you.
• Pages you can update yourself when a villa, a menu or a collection changes.

On an island where everything is premium, the website is part of the service.

Design choices for a premium clientele

Premium does not mean heavy. The sites that work best in St Barths are calm: few words, large photos, generous spacing, a clear path to the request form. Behind that simplicity there are precise choices:

• Photos compressed automatically, so a full-screen image of a villa still opens quickly on a phone connection.
• Typography and colours chosen for your brand, not taken from a theme seen on a hundred other sites.
• A request form short enough to fill in on a phone, with the essentials only.
• Pages pre-rendered for Google and AI tools, so your descriptions are read even before the page is fully loaded.

Businesses we design for in Saint-Barthélemy

Villa rentals and concierge services need beautiful listings, availability and a request form. Boutiques in Gustavia need a showcase of their collections and, sometimes, an online store for clients who want to order again once they are home. Restaurants and beach clubs in Saint-Jean, Lorient or Flamands need their menu, photos and booking. Boat charters and activities need a calendar and clear conditions.

Most of this happens in the winter high season, when clients plan their stay weeks ahead from abroad. The site has to be ready, and easy to update, before that season starts.

Practical points: tax, hosting, follow-up

Saint-Barthélemy is an overseas collectivity outside the scope of French VAT; your accountant confirms what applies to your invoices. Your site is hosted on Google Cloud, so it stays online whatever happens on the island, and private areas stay out of Google. Basic SEO is included, and our SEO service can go further if you want to be found on specific searches. Quotes, contract, invoices and payments are gathered in our client space, L'intranet.

Prices and our Caribbean references

Prices on this page are in euros. A landing page starts at €850 (about one week), a multi-page website starts at €2,500 (about two weeks), and a platform with member areas and dashboards is quoted (about four weeks). The quote is free.

Our Caribbean work is in Guadeloupe: Le Jiss, a restaurant and lounge bar at the Gosier marina with menu, rum bar, photos and table booking, and Planet Animal, a multi-store pet shop. See also our page on web design in Saint-Martin and all our projects on our portfolio page (in French).