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Two quotes for the same website can be nowhere near each other, and the numbers are the only part that lines up. Most of what you're buying was never a line item. Here's what sits around the build, and how to compare two quotes that don't seem to describe the same job.
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.
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.
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.
The usual advice about WordPress security is to keep your plugins few and keep them updated. This time it did not help, because the flaw was in WordPress itself, and it had been in there long before July made it news. Which versions were exposed, and what to take from it.
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.
Most web agencies describe themselves as flexible. "We work across all platforms." "We tailor solutions to your needs." "We're not tied to any one technology."...
Most website briefs we see are well written. They set clear expectations. They want the site to be fast, secure, easy to maintain, and simple to update. They wa...
More people are asking ChatGPT and Perplexity to recommend a business instead of scrolling Google, and most owners have no idea whether they show up. Here's the shift in plain terms, a way to actually check where you stand, and why it's built into Motley CMS rather than bolted on like it would be on WordPress.
A lot of agencies build in one platform and recommend it to everyone, whether it fits or not. That isn't always dishonesty. Often it's just incentive. Here's why it should matter to you, and the one question that gives the game away.
At some point, someone will check your website's PageSpeed score and not be happy about it. Maybe it's you. Maybe it's a competitor who's trying to sell you som...