How websites are built: a plain-English guide to the website development process
Domain, hosting, CMS, front end and back end, and every build stage, explained without jargon.
Web Development
Web development for sites built to last.
Choosing a platform, connecting your tools, keeping a site secure and moving it safely: the technical decisions behind a website that keeps working.
Web Development guides
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WordPress best practices: how to tell a solid build from a fragile one
An owner’s checklist for telling a solid WordPress build from a fragile one.
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What is a headless CMS, and does your business need one?
A plain definition, an honest comparison and the signs headless is worth its extra cost.
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Website or web app? When your project needs custom code
How to tell a website from a web app, the middle path most projects need, and what custom code costs to own.
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Website maintenance costs: what you are paying for, and what a care plan should cover
The cost drivers behind a care plan, what it should cover, and the questions that expose a weak one.
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WordPress security: a practical guide to hardening your business website
What actually protects a WordPress site, in order of impact, and what to do if yours is hacked.
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Website maintenance checklist: what needs doing weekly, monthly and yearly
Updates, backups, restores, renewals and reviews, sorted by how often each one needs doing.
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Website governance: keeping a large, multi-team website under control
Ownership, permissions, approvals and release control for a website many people edit.
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How to choose a CMS for your business website: 7 questions that decide it
Seven questions, a simple scoring table and the signs a platform suits your developer more than you.
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Website integrations explained: connecting your site to your CRM, bookings and business tools
APIs, webhooks, plugins and Zapier in plain English, and how to plan integrations that don’t quietly break.
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Website launch checklist: the technical checks to run before you go live
What to check on staging, what to check again on the live site, who checks it, and what to watch in week one.
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How to move your website to a new host without downtime or lost email
A step-by-step runbook for changing hosts while the site stays up and email keeps flowing.
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WordPress vs Wix vs Shopify for SMEs: an honest comparison
Ownership, cost and flexibility compared, without the sales pitch.
Put it into practice
From reading to doing.
The parts of our work these guides relate to, when you are ready to act on them.
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Website design & development
How a new website is planned, designed, built and handed over, step by step.
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Website care plans
Updates, backups, security and uptime monitoring, billed quarterly with no lock-in.
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