Guides for planning, building and running a website in Thailand

This library is written for people who run a business in Thailand and have to make decisions about a website: a hotel owner comparing quotes, a clinic manager worried about patient data, a shop that sells on Shopee and wonders about its own store, an export company whose site still looks like 2015. Each guide answers one question and tells you what to do next.

The guides sit in eight topics. Two cover the money and the plan (costs, planning and process). Three cover the build itself (design and UX, WordPress and other platforms, e-commerce). Three cover life after launch (hosting and domains, SEO and speed, PDPA and compliance). The topic cards below open each category with its own reading order.

When a question is really a choice between two options, such as WordPress or Shopify, a template or a custom design, your own store or a marketplace, you will find it in our comparison guides, which put both sides in one table instead of spreading them across several articles.

Most first conversations about a website circle back to the same three questions, so these are the guides we point people to first.

1. What will it cost? What affects how much a website costs in Thailand breaks a quote into pages, platform, languages, features and content, so you can compare two proposals line by line. When you want our own figures, see what each package includes, from the THB 10,000 Starter site to the THB 50,000 E-commerce build.
2. How does a site actually get built? Building a business website step by step walks from goals and page list to launch checks, whether you do it yourself or hire someone.
3. What does the law expect? The PDPA explained for website owners covers cookie consent, privacy notices and contact forms under Thailand's Personal Data Protection Act.

Once you know what you need, the web design and development services page shows which of our services fits: a custom design, a WordPress build, a Shopify or WooCommerce store, a bilingual site, maintenance or a redesign.

Every guide carries the same byline: the Website Development Bangkok team, reviewed by Litesh Dhir, our co-founder for SEO and web development. We write about the things we build every day, and we say so when a topic is outside the work we sell.

All guides are dated 27 September 2026, the day this library was published. We do not backdate articles to look older. When a guide changes in a way that matters, its date changes with it.

Platform fees, gateway rates and legal details change. Where a guide quotes a figure from a platform or a regulator, it links the source so you can check the current number. Prices mentioned in guides describe the market; our own prices are only the ones on the pricing page and in your written quote.