What a website actually costs
You’ve asked three people and been quoted six hundred pounds, two and a half grand, and nine. Nobody explained why, so now you’re wondering which of them is having you on. Probably none of them. They’ve…
Journal
Notes on building for the web.
Occasional writing on WordPress, performance, accessibility and the unglamorous parts of running a site well.
Before you redesign, don’t throw away what’s working
Here’s a thing that happens more often than it should. A business gets a new website. It’s better in every visible way. It’s faster, it looks current, everybody’s pleased with it. And then the enquiries drop,…
Why I’ll ask you to write your own words
At some point in most projects I’ll ask you to write the words that go on your website, and a fair few people are surprised by that. They assumed it came with the build, in the…
What happens to a website nobody looks after?
The worst thing that goes wrong with a website isn’t the site going down. If your site goes down you’ll know by lunchtime, because somebody will ring you. The worst thing is the contact form that…
Why I build on WordPress
Most people who ask me for a website don’t much care what it’s built on, which is fair enough. But a fair few have heard something. That WordPress gets hacked. That Squarespace is easier. That a…