Practical guides for the business behind the website.
From your first brief to a shop or platform that works.
A practical, studio-ready brief to decide when to translate a website, which pages and languages to prioritise, and the technical and operational checks that keep translations usable and maintainable.
A concise, studio-friendly playbook for the first 72 hours after your small business website is hacked, leaks customer data or is taken offline. Clear checklists for immediate containment, web-team triage, ICO decision points and short editable message snippets to notify customers and press.
A practical brief for UK small businesses and web studios: how to choose between a PSP (Stripe/PayPal style) or a merchant account + gateway, what to ask providers about SCA, settlement and disputes, plus an integration and launch checklist to reduce declines and reconciliation headaches.
A one-page commissioning brief to help UK small businesses and studios compare hosting options (static/CDN, shared, managed WP, VPS, IaaS). Includes the minimum security, data‑protection and operational requirements to ask for in contracts and an exit checklist so you can move without drama.
A concise playbook for UK small businesses: when cookies need consent, practical measurement approaches (consent‑first, Consent Mode, server‑side), an implementation checklist for studios, and ready-to-use cookie banner and privacy snippets. Cites ICO, GOV.UK and Google guidance.
Crawler access is not the same as being recommended. Understand what robots.txt and homepage checks can tell you, and what they cannot.
Practical checklist and plain‑language clauses to ask a small studio for uptime, backups, recovery testing, data‑processing and exit terms so your website stays available, recoverable and compliant.
Choose based on your time, content, scope and support needs, not just the first price you see.
Separate renewal, maintenance and new development so you know what continues after launch and which changes need a new quote.
