A website builder or a web designer: which does your business actually need?
An honest comparison for a small business: when a builder is the right call, what a designer gives you that a builder usually does not, and what each really costs.
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Notes from real builds.
What a website or an app actually involves, what it costs and where it goes wrong — written from the products we have built, not from a template.
What happens in discovery, and why we quote after it, not before
What discovery covers, what it costs at each size of job, what you get out of it, and why the price comes after it rather than before.
Who owns your website when it’s finished?
What you should walk away with when a website is paid for, what nobody can hand you, and the questions to ask before you sign.
Where AI actually saves a small business time, and where it doesn’t
An honest guide for a local business: the jobs AI does well, the jobs to keep, how you keep the final say, and how to tell whether one job is worth handing over.
Do I need a website for my small business?
An honest answer for a local business: when a website can wait, what it does that a listing or a social page cannot, and what one costs.
How to brief a web designer: six questions worth answering first
What to tell a web designer before you ask for a price: the six questions our own brief asks, why each one matters, and what you get back.
One system, four kinds of user: what it takes to build a platform with roles
Yash Talent serves talent, agencies, clients and administrators from one system. What user roles involve, why they break quietly, and how to build for them.
Open banking or card: how your customers should pay you
Two of our builds made opposite choices. Why BOOKaTRADE takes no cards at all, why vBuy takes both, and what taking payments means for your site.
What a £500 website actually includes
Our website band, item by item: what the starting price buys, what you own at the end, and what moves a job into the next band.