How-to guides · Practical step-by-steps
If you'd genuinely rather have it built for you, the services page is the right place to start. Otherwise, what follows is a small library of practical, no-fluff guides covering the things I find myself explaining to businesses and agencies on just about every other call.
A walk-through from "we need a site" to live and launched in eight clear steps, including the bits people often skip past.
Read guideA six-step decision walk-through, with a matrix to help you compare the three and real examples drawn from projects I've worked on.
Read guideThe seven sections every brief needs , with a downloadable template you can fill in tonight.
When to do it, what breaks, and the migration path that doesn’t cost a month of organic traffic.
Sister guide to the Squarespace migration , same approach, slightly different traps.
A short checklist of the symptoms that mean off-the-shelf has stopped serving you.
What £5k, £15k and £50k actually buy in 2026 and where the line moves.
Ten questions that separate the senior practitioners from the people who’ve installed Elementor twice.
A practical security baseline , the bits a non-technical owner can do, and the bits to delegate.
The hosting tiers worth paying for, the ones to avoid, and the questions to ask before signing a contract.
Hreflang, CDN, content workflow, and the operational shape that makes international launches less painful.
Filament-led approach with real examples from production apps (Utilita, OnlineFM).
A practical path from the old site to the new one , content modelling, redirects, editor onboarding.
The level of detail developers actually need to quote within ten percent and what to leave out.
Often the bottleneck on builds , here’s the workflow that gets your content ready before the developer needs it.
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