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Notes from someone who builds small business websites.

The decisions every small site has to make, in plain English: what the law asks for, what actually costs money, and what is just a sales line. Written between jobs, by the person who builds the sites.

Latest Choosing 11 Aug 2026 · 9 min

Wix, Squarespace or a web studio: which one is yours?

For UK small businesses weighing a DIY builder against a managed site. When a builder is the right answer, when a studio is, and how to tell which you are.

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7 Aug 2026 Buying

How to read a website quote

A field guide to the line items on a web design quote: responsive design, SEO optimisation, up to five pages. Which are real and which are padding.

6 min 4 Aug 2026 Compliance

Do you need a cookie banner?

Many UK small business sites carry a consent banner they never needed. What actually triggers one, and how to check your own site.

5 min 29 Jul 2026 Buying

What you are actually getting when you buy a website

Most quotes price a deliverable. A website is two purchases: the build, and looking after it. Telling them apart shows what a quote left out.

6 min

Is one of these decisions yours right now?

Thirty minutes on the phone and we will tell you what we would do, even if we never work together. Then we design your homepage, free.

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