Resources
Notes on websites, search, and the small jobs in between.
A small number of long pieces, written for owner-run businesses making real decisions. We publish when there is something worth publishing, not on a schedule.
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Buying a website 13 Aug 2026 5 min read
UK pay-monthly website providers, prices checked Aug 2026
Published prices from UK pay-monthly and small-business web design providers, fetched from each provider's own site and checked in August 2026.
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Conversion Updated 13 Aug 2026 7 min read
Zero enquiries from your new website, 4 things to fix first
A new site is live and the phone is not ringing any more than it did a month ago. Four diagnostics, in the order to fix them.
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Buying a website Updated 13 Aug 2026 10 min read
Pay-monthly vs one-off websites, the 5-year maths for UK SMBs
Pay-monthly websites vs one-off UK builds compared over five years. The real maths, the ownership question answered properly, and when each model wins.
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Buying a website Updated 13 Aug 2026 11 min read
What a small business website actually costs in the UK in 2026
An honest look at what small UK businesses actually pay for a website in 2026: the build, the line items most quotes hide, and the five-year picture.
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Operations Updated 13 Aug 2026 7 min read
Your web designer has gone quiet, a recovery checklist
A UK owner's checklist for when your web designer stops replying: what to gather, who controls the domain, and how to take back the site.
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Running a website Updated 13 Aug 2026 8 min read
Website maintenance contracts, 7 red flags to walk away from
A buyer's read of the UK website maintenance contract: what should be in it, the seven clauses that signal walk away, and what £50-£300 a month buys.
For a recent example of how a small UK business runs the same approach in practice, read the Sameday Jetwash case study: a pressure-washing firm in Reigate, Surrey, that we run ourselves on the same monthly model the resources above describe, with its unedited Search Console data published. See all case studies.
We publish when there is something worth publishing, not on a schedule.