How Much Does a Professional Website Cost?
What drives the cost of a professional website — scope, design depth, content, integrations, maintenance — plus how to budget and what to ask an agency.
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Notes on designing and building for the web
Plain-language guides from the studio — what actually matters when you commission, design and build a website or web application, and why. No jargon, no sales pitch.
Website Design vs. Website Development: What’s the Difference?
Design decides what a website communicates and how it guides people; development makes it work in code. How the two crafts differ and how to hire for each.
How to Build a Restaurant Website That Converts
Field-tested guidance for restaurant websites: menu UX, real photography, mobile-first speed, local SEO, QR menus, and why HTML menus beat PDFs.
How Interactive Websites Are Built
How scroll-driven and interactive websites work under the hood: semantic HTML first, progressive enhancement, CSS and JS animation, accessibility.
How to Choose a Web Design Agency
How to evaluate a web design agency before you sign — verifying live work, reading proposals, the questions that reveal quality and the warning signs.
What Should a Small Business Website Include?
The pages and content every small business website needs, the parts that change by industry — menus, listings, schedules, galleries — and what to build first.
How Much Does a Web Application Cost to Build?
What drives the cost of a web application: user roles, data model, integrations and the releases after launch, plus how to scope a first version sensibly.
Web App or Native Mobile App: Which Should You Build?
How web applications and native mobile apps differ in reach, cost, updates and capability, and a practical way to decide which one your business needs.
Custom Software vs Off-the-Shelf: When Is Building Your Own Worth It?
How to decide between buying ready-made software and building your own: the real costs, the signs of a bad fit, and a middle path most businesses miss.
How to Get Your Business Mentioned by ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity
What decides whether an AI assistant names your business: how the answers are assembled, the signals that make a site quotable, and what earns a citation.
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