Zanzibar

Web developer for Zanzibar businesses.

Zanzibar runs on visitors. Beach hotels and boutique resorts from Nungwi and Kendwa to Paje and Jambiani, guest houses in Stone Town, dive centres and kitesurf schools, spice farm and boat tours, restaurants, and the villa and property businesses that have grown up around them. Most of their customers find them on a phone, in English, often before they have booked a flight.

JS Solutions is based in Dar es Salaam, across the channel, and works with Zanzibar businesses remotely. Everything from the first brief to launch happens over calls, WhatsApp and email, at the same prices as in Dar es Salaam.

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Nungwi beach, Zanzibar. Photo: Nina R, CC BY 2.0

12
projects live that you can open and click through
3–7 days
to launch a one-page site, once your text and photos are in
1 year
of domain and hosting included in every website package
2
languages to work in: English and Swahili

Work you can open

Judge the work, not the pitch.

Client projectBusiness website2026

Pentagon Solutions

The website for Pentagon Solutions, a national distributor of security equipment in Tanzania: Hikvision CCTV, networking, gate automation and electric fencing, with a product catalogue, brand pages, technician workshops and a free site survey request.

Product catalogue
Storage calculator
Technician training

Client projectPortfolio website2026

Deep Jiwan Portfolio

A personal CV and portfolio for Deep Jiwan, a security solution engineer and computer science graduate: his home lab drawn as an isometric network map, with a route you follow down the page through his projects, experience, education and certificates.

Digital resume2026

Jay Shivram Digital Resume

My own CV as a website instead of a PDF: an animated gradient opening, then experience, projects, skills, education and certificates as numbered sections, with the PDF CV still one click away.

Content website2026

Iron Verse

A reading site for nine collections of poetry, built around serif typography and a quiet dark theme, with search, a blog, and accounts for readers who want to save their place.

Desktop tool + landing page2026

EFD Verify

Reads a TRA receipts report, verifies every EFD receipt, catches duplicates, and writes the ledgers straight into TallyPrime, turning a month-end typing job into a few seconds of processing.

01 · Why it pays here

Every direct booking is one you do not pay commission on.

Most Zanzibar hotels and tour businesses rely on booking platforms, and pay a share of every reservation for it. Those platforms are good at getting you discovered. But guests who have already found you often look for your own website before they book, and if it is slow, dated or missing, they go back to the platform. A good site turns those guests into direct bookings.

Stone Town, Zanzibar, from the air, with boats moored off the shore — Stone Town from above. Photo: Wegmann, CC BY-SA 3.0

02 · Who it is for

Who I build for in Zanzibar

Beach hotels, resorts and boutique lodges
Guest houses and apartments in Stone Town
Dive centres, kitesurf schools and water sports
Tour operators: spice farms, Prison Island, Jozani Forest and dhow trips
Restaurants, cafes and beach bars
Villa rentals, property developers and agents

03 · What you get

What a website in Zanzibar needs.

Rooms shown properly
Each room, villa or package gets its own gallery, its amenities and an enquiry button, instead of one long page a guest has to scroll through on a phone.
Built for the seasons
Zanzibar is seasonal. Offers, closures and packages can be changed by you as they happen, so the site says what is true this month rather than last year.
Straight to WhatsApp
Guests on the island, and many planning a trip, would rather send a message than fill in a form. Every room and tour gets a WhatsApp button that opens a chat already saying what it is about.
Light enough for roaming data
A guest checking your site from the airport or the ferry is on expensive, patchy data. Pages are kept light so the photos appear before they give up.

Everything on the services page is available in Zanzibar, at the prices on the pricing page. You can see finished sites on the work page.

04 · How a project runs

Four steps. No surprises.

Discover
Design
Build
Launch

First callLive: 5–10 days for a site of up to five pages

Discover
A short call about your business, your customers, and what the site needs to do for you. No jargon, no pressure.
Design
A first look at the layout, colours, and type, built around your content, not a generic template.
Build
The design becomes a real, working site. You see progress along the way, not just at the end.
Launch
The site goes live on your domain, checked on phone, tablet, and desktop before you share it with a single customer.

05 · Questions

Questions from Zanzibar.

If yours is not here, send it over. You get a straight answer, not a sales call.

No. JS Solutions is based in Dar es Salaam, and Zanzibar projects run remotely over calls, WhatsApp and email. You review the design and the site as they are built, and nothing needs a trip across the channel.

Because the platforms charge you for every booking, including the guests who already knew your name. Your own site is where those guests book directly, see your full photos and packages, and message you without a middleman. The platforms find you new guests; the website keeps more of what they are worth.

Yes. A booking or enquiry form that reaches you by email and WhatsApp covers most hotels and tour businesses without a monthly fee. Online payment can be added if you want it.

No. The packages and prices are the same as for Dar es Salaam and are published on the pricing page. Every package includes your domain and hosting for the first year.

06 · Also covering