Writing, notes and updates from the team — what we are working on, what we have learned, and answers to the questions we get asked most.
Q-Code · News
Quotes for a small business website range from a few hundred pounds to five figures for what looks like the same job. Here is what sits inside the build fee, what the yearly bill really contains, and how to compare two quotes honestly.
Q-Code · How-to
You can count visits, referrers and enquiries on your own domain without storing anything on a visitor's device, which means no cookie banner and nothing to consent to. Here is how to set it up and how to prove it works.
Q-Code · Industry
Indexing problems are usually structure problems. Here is how to lay out pages, headings, URLs and internal links so a crawler can read your site and an answer engine can quote it.
Q-Code · Platform
For a site built as static files, hosting is a delivery mechanism and a set of controls, not a server to size. Here are the four things worth checking and the ones that turn out not to matter.
Q-Code · Behind the build
Slow sites lose enquiries before anyone reads a word. Here is what actually causes the delay on a small business site, and how to find out which of them is costing you.
Q-Code · How it works
A build agent can take a written brief and put a working site on a custom domain without a human touching a file. The facts, the promises and the decision to publish still belong to a person.
Q-Code · General
This blog is where we write things down properly: the decisions behind the work, what we learned, and the answers to questions asked more than once.
