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An SEO consultant spent Tuesday morning in our CMS and sent me her notes. Four of them were built, tested and released by the afternoon. It's the clearest example I've had of what owning the platform means for the people whose sites run on it.

Google said an online shop had 31,900 pages. It has about 4,200 products. Where the extra 27,000 came from, why blocking them made things worse, and the one number that showed the clean-up was working.

Building an online shop usually means assembling a cart, a payments plugin, a shipping plugin, a reviews plugin and a downloads plugin, then keeping all of them talking to each other. We have built the lot into the CMS instead.

A new business came to us with a logo and no website. We built him one page. Here's what went on it, what got left off, and why a small site gets the same care as a big one.

Changing one small thing about your website's look has always been a surprisingly big job. Theme Studio in Motley CMS changes that: restyle your colours, fonts, spacing and content blocks yourself, preview it live, and publish it without code, plugins or a developer queue. Here's what it does, and how it compares to the usual WordPress route.

I have ADHD and autism. For most of my life I didn't know that, and for a while after finding out I kept it quiet. These days I think it's one of the better reasons to have me looking after your website. Here's the honest version, drawbacks and all.

A few years ago we stopped leading with the thing that pays the bills. On paper it looks daft. In practice it changed the work that comes our way, and made the advice we give a lot more honest. Here's what happened and why.