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Real price ranges with the reasoning behind them - what a website is made of, what moves the number most, and where it's sensible to save.
4 June 2026 · 5 min readRead the article - What does a website cost? Real prices and ranges
A chatbot that confidently quotes a price you do not charge is worse than no chatbot. Here is what actually keeps one grounded - pinned context, a strict output contract, and a model that reports its own gaps.
Read the article - What it takes to stop an AI assistant inventing your prices
A WordPress update moves the block editor canvas into an iframe, and theme CSS stops reaching it. Here is what actually changed, and the one bug that costs a day to find.
Read the article - Why ACF block previews look broken after a WordPress update
Before commissioning a new site, it's worth knowing what's broken on the current one. Five places enquiries most often disappear - in the order that starts with the most likely.
Read the article - Your website brings in nothing. Where to look first?
Three quotes, three different prices and no way to compare them. What a proper quote contains, and the four questions that separate what someone says from what they do.
Read the article - How to choose a web developer
Renting is cheap to start and expensive to stop. What ownership actually means, when renting genuinely makes sense, and the four questions worth asking before you sign.
Read the article - Should you buy or rent a website?
An ageing website rarely announces itself with one big failure. It shows up in small signs. Here are the ones worth deciding on, and how to tell repairs from a rebuild.
Read the article - When does a company website need rebuilding?NEWSLETTER
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