Website guides

Useful answers before anybody gets your card details.

Small business website guides without the marketing fog.

These guides explain the decisions small business owners actually face. Should you refresh or rebuild? What should a website cost? What does SEO-ready mean? The answers use normal language, clear checklists and the occasional rude word where the industry has earned one.

  • Written for nontechnical business owners
  • No guaranteed rankings or suspicious miracle maths
  • Reviewed and published by Kieran Lewis

Is your website a bit knackered, or properly finished?

Learn which problems a sensible refresh can fix, which warning signs point to a rebuild, and what to check before somebody bins every useful page because a new theme looked exciting.

Read the refresh-or-rebuild guide

How much should a small business website cost in 2026?

See what changes the price, what belongs in a quote, which ongoing costs are real, and how to compare cheap, mid-range and more bespoke routes without comparing three completely different jobs.

Read the UK website cost guide

What does SEO-ready actually include?

Separate useful launch foundations from monthly SEO work and ranking promises. It covers titles, content, crawling, mobile usability, measurement and the bits that still need doing after launch.

Read the SEO-ready guide

Send the rough job, not a perfect brief

If you already know the site needs sorting, use the enquiry form. Select the nearest package or “Not sure”. Include the current URL if there is one. Replies usually arrive within 1–2 working days.

Start an enquiry

Turn a vague worry into a useful brief

Start with the decision that is blocking you. If the current site looks tired, use the refresh checklist. If several quotes make no sense beside each other, read the cost guide. If somebody promises “full SEO” without naming a single task, use the SEO-ready checklist. Write down the parts that apply to your business. That short list is more useful than a polished brief stuffed with words nobody normally says.

General advice is not a site inspection

A guide cannot see your hosting account, test the form or decide whether an old plugin is safe. It cannot promise a ranking, diagnose a legal issue or approve a budget for you. Use it to ask better questions. For a specific website decision, send the live URL and explain what the business needs now.

New guides should answer real questions found in enquiries and Search Console data. The aim is one useful article at a time, not a warehouse of AI porridge with a town name swapped into every heading.