Website Builder Claims, Read Line by Line
Website builder ads make the same five promises, and most of them are true. Here's what each one leaves out, which claims hold up, and who should use a builder anyway.
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Where Coffee Subscription Sites Quietly Lose Subscribers
Coffee subscription sites lose people at skip, pause, grind choices, and shipping math. Here is what we rebuild first, and what usually stays flat after.
What I’d Do With $5,000 vs $50,000 for a Website
Two real, line-by-line website budgets for the same kind of business, one at $5,000 and one at $50,000, with an honest answer on which one you actually need.
Why Midwest Manufacturers Lose Bids to a Better Website
A plant manager lost a bid to a competitor whose website made it easier to get a quote. Here's what manufacturers' sites need to show buyers before the RFQ: real specs, a usable request form, and language buyers actually search for.
A Midwest Small Business Owner on Finally Going Online
Owners who put off a website for years talk about what pushed them, what surprised them about the process, and what they would tell someone still waiting.
Your Squarespace Export Leaves Most of the Site Behind
Squarespace's export hands you your writing and leaves the rest. Here's what transfers, what gets rebuilt, what drives the cost, and when staying put is the smarter call.
What Your Web Design Retainer Should Actually Get You
A monthly website fee is easy to keep paying and hard to judge. Here are the three kinds of retainer, four questions that tell you which one you have, and when to cancel, including with us.
What a Professional Website Costs in the Midwest (Real Numbers)
Three shops can quote the same small-business site at $900, $9,000, and $40,000. Here's what each tier actually buys, what the yearly running costs really are, and the five questions that expose a quote written to win a deal.
Why We Build With Developer-Focused Page Builders (and Skip the Rest)
Nearly every site we build starts in a page builder, and that is deliberate. The difference is which builders, and whether the shop driving them can code. Three questions reveal which kind you are hiring.
Manufacturer Website Design: 3 Real Teardowns
Three real manufacturer website teardowns: the outdated site still winning quotes, the pretty rebuild nobody can find, and the site with no way to reach a human — plus the three fixes that would move all three.
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