Articles

Short, practical reads on websites, SEO, AI and running a business online. We write about what we've actually seen work, in plain English and without the jargon. The latest are below.

A Restyle Is Not a Rebuild

Wanting to change your site's colours and fonts should not mean commissioning a new website. The gap between "make it look fresh" and "rebuild it" is wide, and most platforms have nothing comfortable in the middle.

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Theme Studio: Restyle Your Whole Site, No Code, No Plugins

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.

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The Cursor That's Already There

Turn on two-factor login in our CMS and the cursor is already waiting in the code box. It's a detail so small you'd never think to ask for it. Which is exactly why it tells you something about how the whole thing was built.

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Play to your strengths

These days it's incredibly easy to set up a website - whether by yourself using one of the many 'free' builder systems or getting someone who does it on the 'ch...

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