Practical guides for the business behind the website.
From your first brief to a shop or platform that works.
A concise, studio‑friendly guide to stop order confirmations, password resets and invoices being lost. Includes DNS checklist (SPF, DKIM, DMARC), quick deliverability controls, a 72‑hour triage playbook, what to sign in writing and a one‑page commissioning brief you can hand to a host or agency.
A one‑page decision flow and commissioning checklist to help UK small‑business owners and their studios choose between static SSG+CDN, headless CMS or managed WordPress. Covers editing, SEO, security, GDPR/ICO cookie implications and practical support expectations.
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.
