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Plain answers to
website questions.
Getting a website built, keeping it running, and helping people find it on Google. Each article takes one question and answers it in plain English, the way I would explain it on a call.
By Adam Roe·8 topics·RSS feed
Topics
Eight topics.
Start with your question.
- Website builds How does a website actually get built? Four articles
- Website platforms Which platform suits the way you work? Six articles
- Migration and redesign The site exists. How do we move it, or start it again? Three articles
- Online shops What does selling online really involve? One article
- Maintenance What does a site need after it launches? Two articles
- SEO What stops a site being found? Three articles
- Stalled builds Someone else started this. Now what? Two articles
- Working with agencies What is it actually like to bring in one person? Three articles
Articles
The latest,
newest first.
- Website platforms Squarespace or Wix: the differences once someone else has built it Squarespace vs Wix for a site somebody else built you: which is easier to edit, what each one locks in, and what moving off either of them actually involves.
- Maintenance How to secure a WordPress site: what actually stops a break-in How to secure a WordPress site in plain steps: updates, who can log in, a backup you have restored, and a firewall in front. What to check, and what to skip.
- Working with agencies IR35 and your web developer: what actually decides it IR35 and your web developer: the three tests that decide status, why the contract matters less than what happens, and how to agree it before anyone signs.
- SEO Structured data that actually earns something Structured data and schema markup for SEO: what still earns a result in search, what has been retired, and how to check whether yours is doing anything at all.
- Working with agencies Six early signs a project needs a hand, and what to do about each The six early signs a web project is going wrong, none of them technical, and one simple thing to do about each one while it is still an easy conversation.
- Website platforms Wix Bookings or Acuity Scheduling for appointments Wix Bookings vs Acuity, decided on where the diary lives: inside the website on one bill, or alongside it on two. Which one suits which kind of business.
- Website platforms Handing over a Wix site: the checklist How to transfer a Wix site to a client: what moves with it, what Wix will not move at all, and the four steps you cannot take back once they have run.
- Website builds The sitemap is an SEO decision, not a deliverable Website sitemap structure is an SEO decision: it settles what each page can rank for, before anyone opens a design tool. What the document should contain.
- Online shops Handing over a Shopify store: the checklist How to transfer Shopify store ownership in the right order: the store, the money and the apps, what moves with it, what does not, and what blocks it outright.
- Website builds An IT company or a web developer: who to ring in Milton Keynes Ringing an IT company in Milton Keynes about the website, or a web developer about email? Here is where the line actually sits, and who to ring for what.
- Website platforms Handing over a Squarespace site: the checklist How to transfer a Squarespace site to a client properly: change the site owner, move the billing separately, and know what the export quietly leaves behind.
- Website platforms Handing over a WordPress website: the checklist A WordPress website handover is four handovers: the domain, the hosting account, the admin users and the licences. What to move, and what gets left behind.
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