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Latest · Web development · 5 min read

Stripe or PayPal: what actually happens to your money and when

Stripe and PayPal both take a cut of every sale. The real difference is in payout speed, dispute handling and how much control you keep over checkout.

4 September 2026

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Local business · 6 min read

Locksmith websites: getting the call when someone is locked out

Nobody browses a locksmith website. They scan it for response time and price, then call the first one that answers both. Here is how to build that page.

3 September 2026

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Performance · 4 min read

The Real Cost of Cheap Hosting, Measured in Lost Enquiries

Budget hosting saves a few dollars a month and costs you the enquiries that never wait around for a slow site to load.

1 September 2026

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Pricing · 5 min read

Why two agencies quote $800 and $8,000 for the same website

Same brief, three quotes, no explanation. The gap is almost never markup. It is scope, and here is how to see it before you sign anything.

31 August 2026

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Local business · 5 min read

Cleaning company websites that win contracts, not one-off jobs

Most cleaning company websites chase the one-off domestic booking and lose the recurring commercial contract in the process. Here is how to serve both without diluting either.

30 August 2026

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Conversion · 5 min read

Your contact form is broken. Here is how to find out today.

A contact form that fails silently is worse than no form at all. Here is how to test yours in five minutes, and what actually causes the failure.

29 August 2026

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Web development · 5 min read

Build or buy: when off-the-shelf software stops being cheaper

The licence fee is the visible cost. The workarounds are the expensive one. A practical way to decide whether to keep paying for software that nearly fits, or build the thing that does.

28 August 2026

SEO · 5 min read

Google Business Profile: The Free Listing Most Local Businesses Fill In Wrong

Google Business Profile costs nothing to run and shows up before your website in local search results. Most businesses still leave it half-finished. Here is what a properly optimised profile looks like and how to get there.

27 August 2026

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Web development · 4 min read

Shopify or WooCommerce: Which One Your Store Should Actually Run On

Neither platform is objectively better. Here is how we help clients pick between Shopify and WooCommerce based on product count, maintenance appetite and where the store needs to sit.

26 August 2026

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Local business · 5 min read

Landscaper and gardener websites that fill the diary before spring

Spring is when every gardener in the country gets busy at once. The businesses that win that season already had a working website in January, not April.

25 August 2026

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Pricing · 5 min read

What $499 actually buys you in a website build

A $499 website is a real thing, not a bait-and-switch, but the scope behind that number is narrower than most quotes make clear. Here is exactly what it covers and what it does not.

24 August 2026

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Automation · 8 min read

Auto-posting to LinkedIn and Substack: the pattern, and what breaks

Businesses rarely stop posting because they ran out of ideas. They stop because publishing is manual and Tuesday is busy. Here is the distribution pattern we build, and everything that breaks in it.

7 August 2026

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Automation · 9 min read

Custom scrapers: what is worth automating, and what is not

Most businesses already collect data by hand every week without calling it a job. Here is how we decide what is worth turning into a scraper, and the compliance conversation that has to happen first.

7 August 2026

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Bookings · 8 min read

Dental and clinic websites that fill the appointment book

A large share of people looking for a dentist are anxious, and most treatment pages ignore that entirely. Here is how to build a clinic site around the patient rather than the procedure.

7 August 2026

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Automation · 9 min read

Lead generation automation: sourcing, enrichment and the data you now hold

Automating lead collection is the easy part. Deduplication, decay, suppression lists and the obligations that come with holding contact data are what decide whether the system is an asset or a liability.

7 August 2026

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Bookings · 7 min read

Restaurant and cafe websites: menus, bookings and getting found

Restaurant websites are judged in seconds by someone deciding where to eat tonight. Menu, hours, booking. Everything else is decoration.

7 August 2026

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Bookings · 7 min read

Salon and barber websites with booking people actually use

Almost all salon traffic is on a phone, and most of it wants one thing: to book. Here is how to remove every obstacle between that intention and a confirmed appointment.

6 August 2026

Professional services · 8 min read

Credibility-first websites for solicitors and estate agents

When someone is choosing a solicitor or agent, they are handing over the biggest transaction of their life. Here is what your site has to prove before they will pick up the phone.

6 August 2026

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Professional services · 8 min read

Accountant websites that turn search into consultations

Nobody searches for an accountant out of curiosity. They have a deadline, a letter, or a company to set up. Here is how to build a site around those moments.

5 August 2026

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Local business · 8 min read

Builders and roofers: showing work that wins bigger jobs

For builders the website has one main job: proving you can do this before anyone has met you. Here is how to build a portfolio that does that, and how to filter out the jobs you do not want.

3 August 2026

Local business · 8 min read

Electrician websites: what actually wins the quote

Electrical work is bought on trust and compared on paper. Here is how your site earns the first and survives the second.

1 August 2026

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Local business · 8 min read

Plumber websites that get the emergency call

Emergency plumbing traffic is the least patient traffic on the internet. Here is what your site has to answer in the first five seconds, and what you can safely leave out.

30 July 2026

Automotive · 9 min read

How garages get found for 'MOT near me'

Nearly every MOT booking starts with a phone and the words 'near me'. Here is what decides which three garages appear in the map, and what you can change this week.

28 July 2026

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Automotive · 9 min read

Used car dealer websites: what actually turns browsers into enquiries

Car buyers spend weeks researching and minutes deciding. Here is what your stock pages, pricing and enquiry routes have to do in those minutes, based on dealership sites we have built.

24 July 2026

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Pricing · 8 min read

How much does a business website actually cost?

Every agency answers this with 'it depends'. Here are the actual ranges we quote, what pushes a project up or down, and the costs that only show up after launch.

14 July 2026

A frustrated visitor waiting for a slow-loading website, with a declining sales chart and lost money illustrating the cost of poor speed.

Performance · 7 min read

Your website is slow. Here is what it is costing you.

Load time is not a technical vanity metric. It is the first filter every visitor puts your business through, and most of them apply it before your headline finishes rendering.

30 June 2026

Web development · 7 min read

WordPress or Next.js: which should your business site run on?

We build on both, so we have no reason to sell you one. Here is the decision as we actually make it with clients, in the order the questions matter.

9 June 2026

A worried business owner looking at his laptop, with warning icons and a leaking coin symbolizing money being lost through website problems.

Conversion · 6 min read

Seven signs your website is quietly losing you money

Websites rarely fail in an obvious way. They leak, quietly, for months. Here are the seven leaks we find most often, and how to test for each one yourself.

19 May 2026

A person arranging separate website pages for different services, each with its own icon, next to a map pin representing local search.

SEO · 7 min read

Why one page cannot rank for ten services

Google ranks pages, not businesses. If your ten services share one page, you have entered one competitor into ten races and asked it to win them all.

27 April 2026

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Local business · 8 min read

The garage website checklist: 12 things that turn visitors into booked jobs

Someone with a warning light on their dashboard is not browsing. Here is exactly what your site has to give them before they hit the back button and call the next garage.

21 July 2026

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