Guides
Straight answers, no sales pitch
Most writing about small business websites exists to make you nervous enough to buy something. These are written to be useful whether or not you ever speak to us — including the bits that argue against spending money.
How much should a small business website cost in the UK?
What the real price ranges are in 2026, why the same brief gets quoted at £500 and £8,000, and the questions that tell you which one you are being sold.
How to show up in Google’s local results
The three results above the normal listings decide most local trade. Here is what actually moves them, in the order worth doing it.
What to send your web designer before the first call
Six things that take you twenty minutes to gather and save weeks of back and forth — whoever you end up hiring.
Why these and not forty blog posts
We would rather keep a handful of pages genuinely current than publish something weekly and let it rot. Everything here gets reviewed when the facts change — prices, Google’s behaviour, the rules — which is the same thing we do for clients and the reason we do not sell a content treadmill.
If there is a question you wanted answered and could not find a straight answer to anywhere, tell us and we will write it.
Let’s build the site your trade actually needs
Tell us what you do and we’ll send you a straight answer: what your site needs, what it will cost each month, and how quickly it can be live.
No pressure, no jargon, no obligation. We usually reply the same working day.