A plain look at what a small business website really costs in 2026, comparing DIY builders, freelancers, and agencies. I break down hidden fees like Google Workspace and domains so you know exactly what to budget.
A good domain name survives being said out loud in a noisy room. Here's how I help small businesses pick one, why .com still wins, where I register, and the mistakes that only hurt later.
I build custom sites for a living and I still send some people to Squarespace. Here's how I decide between a website builder, WordPress, and custom code — including the part where my own bias shows.
I explain what web hosting does, how shared, VPS, and managed hosting differ, and what a small business website actually needs without the usual upsells.
A plain-language guide to how Google finds a new website, what helps a small local business rank, what wastes money, and why useful SEO results usually take months.
Your contact page has one job and most of them fail at it — too many fields, robotic copy, and spam defenses that punish the humans while barely slowing the bots. Here's what to keep, what to cut, and the invisible spam protection I run that real visitors never see.
