Web Design Services in France
WebBizora delivers websites for French businesses from Paris to Marseille, with the same transparent process and pricing used in every market.
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Mentions Légales Are a Criminal Obligation, Not a Convention
Every publicly accessible French site needs mentions légales — identity, address, SIRET or RCS number, legal form and share capital for a company, VAT number, the name of the directeur de la publication, and the host’s name, address and phone number. The obligation comes from the LCEN of 21 June 2004, amended by the loi SREN of 21 May 2024, and it is drafted as a criminal offence rather than an administrative one: up to a year’s imprisonment and €75,000 for an individual, €375,000 for a company. Prosecution of a small business is rare in practice. The realistic exposure is a DGCCRF mise en demeure, or a commercial dispute where missing mentions légales leave you defending yourself from a much worse position.
The Loi Toubon Means Your Consumer-Facing Pages Must Be in French
A point routinely missed by companies expanding into France with an English site and a translation widget. The loi Toubon of 4 August 1994 requires French in the designation, offer, presentation, instructions for use, and the description of the scope and conditions of a guarantee for a good, product or service — wherever the customers are consumers or end users. That reaches product pages, service descriptions and warranty terms, not only the legal pages. A French version is a build decision about structure and routing rather than a translation invoice at the end, and the same reasoning applies to any store selling into France from elsewhere.
France Moved First and Hardest on Accessibility Enforcement
Within days of the European Accessibility Act becoming enforceable on 28 June 2025, French disability advocacy organisations issued formal legal notices to four major grocery retailers demanding their e-commerce platforms meet accessibility standards by September. When that produced too little, emergency injunctions followed in November 2025, and a French court ordered Carrefour to reach full compliance under a €500-per-day penalty. Enforcement here runs through ARCOM and the DGCCRF. No other member state moved that fast, and it is the clearest signal available that the EAA is being treated as litigable rather than aspirational — including for businesses in neighbouring markets watching how this plays out.
Two Moving Parts Worth Knowing About
French secondary guidance is inconsistent on who the EAA exemption covers, with some sources saying a business is caught if it exceeds ten employees or €2 million turnover and others saying both thresholds must be crossed. The directive itself frames the micro-enterprise carve-out as requiring both conditions, and that is the reading we’d work from — but it is worth checking against your own numbers rather than trusting a summary. Separately, article 19 of the LCEN, which carries the e-commerce information obligations, is under deferred repeal with its text scheduled to move into the Code de la consommation as part of France’s Digital Services Act adaptation. The obligations are not disappearing; the citation is changing.
Plumbers
Emergency-ready sites with tap-to-call and service areas.
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Built for fast quote requests and callout coverage.
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Appointment booking and treatment information, done right.
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Clear specialties, patient enquiries and clinic details.
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Menus, hours and reservations that are easy to find.
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Service menus, pricing and booking in one clean flow.
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Listings and agent profiles that build instant trust.
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Practice areas and consultation requests, presented with authority.
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Class schedules, memberships and trial sign-ups.
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Project galleries and quote requests for builders.
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Service booking and repair information customers trust.
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A credible front door for client enquiries and services.
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Project galleries and quote requests, built for trust.
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Menus, hours and location, easy to find on mobile.
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Rooms, amenities and booking, presented clearly.
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Fast callout requests for heating and cooling issues.
View Website SolutionsThese places are discoverable within France and become standalone pages once research confirms enough commercial relevance.
Website Packages for France Businesses
Typical agency cost: $1,499+
A focused five-page site for a small business that needs to be found, understood and contacted.
- Up to 5 pages
- Custom responsive design — no template
- Contact form with spam protection
- Speed and Core Web Vitals work
- Accessible markup (WCAG-aware build)
- Basic schema and meta setup
- 2 revision rounds
- 30 days post-launch support
- Full ownership of the finished site
Typical agency cost: $2,399+
More pages, more integrations, and the structure a growing business needs to keep adding to.
- Up to 12 pages
- Everything in Starter
- Blog or news section
- Google Business Profile and maps integration
- Newsletter or CRM connection
- Multi-location or service-area pages
- 3 revision rounds
- 60 days post-launch support
- Full ownership of the finished site
Typical agency cost: $3,799+
Booking, payments and a design built around how your business actually converts.
- Up to 25 pages
- Everything in Business
- Booking or appointment system
- Online payments (Stripe or equivalent)
- Customer portal or member area
- Bilingual build where the market needs it
- Advanced schema and AEO structure
- 4 revision rounds
- 90 days post-launch support
- Full ownership of the finished site
Typical agency cost: $5,499+
A complete online store — catalogue, checkout, tax and shipping, built to sell from launch day.
- Up to 100 products at launch
- Everything in Premium
- Full catalogue with variants and filtering
- Checkout, tax and shipping configuration
- Payment gateway integration
- Order, stock and customer management
- Abandoned-cart recovery setup
- 4 revision rounds
- 90 days post-launch support
- Full ownership of the finished site
Questions, Answered Directly
For a company: the corporate name, address, legal form, share capital, RCS or SIRET number, VAT number, the name of the directeur de la publication, and the host’s name, address and telephone number. The page should be reachable from every page of the site, normally through a footer link.
Where your customers are consumers or end users in France, the loi Toubon requires French for the description, offer, presentation and guarantee terms of what you are selling. A bilingual site is fine; an English-only consumer-facing site is the problem.
No, and conflating them is common. Mentions légales identify who is behind the site under the LCEN. The politique de confidentialité explains data handling under the GDPR. Conditions générales de vente and cookie information are separate again, each answering a different obligation.
It depends on whether you provide a covered digital service and whether you fall inside the micro-enterprise exemption. See the section above on where the French guidance disagrees with itself on that threshold — it is worth a proper check rather than an assumption. None of this constitutes legal advice.
One Process, Wherever You Are
- Submit your project details through the quote form
- Review a proposed structure and package for your business
- We design and build while you review progress
- Launch, with your support window starting from day one