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Welcome To Our Web Design & SEO Blog
When website design and SEO work together, it's like combining the perfect ingredients to create your favorite dessert.
We share our tips and tricks on how to create and maintain a stunning website. Whether you need advice on choosing a domain name, designing a logo, optimizing your site for SEO, or finding the best hosting provider, we've got you covered.
Building This Site With an AI Coding Agent
Why I rebuilt this site with Claude Code, an AI coding agent, what the project's own history shows, and what went wrong along the way.
Writing This Blog Without WordPress
Every post here is now a text file in my site's code. How one goes live, what I gave up by leaving WordPress, and who this setup suits.
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Why I Stopped Selling Website Templates
In September I retired my website templates page. What it was, what replaced it, and what a customized design in my plans means now.
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News & Articles
We believe that knowledge is key to making informed decisions, so we've curated articles that cover everything from business management to SEO and web design.
Whether you're looking for tips on improving your website, looking for the latest trends in design, or simply searching for a good read, we've got you covered. So come on in, grab a sweet treat, and let's explore the world together!
Should You Let AI Crawlers Read Your Site?
AI companies send separate bots to train models, power AI search and fetch pages for people. How to decide which get in, and a robots.txt to copy.
Refresh or Rebuild? How to Tell
New words and photos, or a new website? The signs of each, a ten-minute test you can run today, and how to keep your search traffic if you rebuild.
What to Have Ready Before Your Website Project
A prep list for a new website: purpose, pages, words, photos, logo, domain, logins and who decides. Useful whoever you hire to build it.
Website Accessibility for Small Businesses
What web accessibility means, the standard behind it, seven checks you can run yourself, and what US law and regulators actually say.
How to Get More Google Reviews the Honest Way
How to ask every customer for a Google review, what Google and the FTC forbid, and how to answer reviews, good and bad, without starting a fight.
Moving Your Business? What to Update Online
A checklist for a new address: Google, Apple Maps and Bing, your website, directories, your domain and Stripe, in an order that works.
You Might Not Need a Full Online Store
Selling a class, a deposit or a few products? A payment link may be all you need. What Stripe's links do, what they cost, and where they stop.
Is llms.txt Worth Adding to Your Site?
llms.txt is a proposed file that summarizes a website for AI tools. Who proposed it, who says they read it, and whether your business needs one.