Build a website that works for your business.
Plan the right pages, choose a platform, protect your domain and understand the real ongoing cost — with practical guidance written for UK small-business owners.
Get to the right answer without learning the whole web industry.
Start with the decision or problem in front of you.
Build a new website
Goals, budget, pages, content and a safe launch plan.
02Choose a platform
Compare builders, WordPress and e-commerce options.
03Fix or improve a site
Diagnose speed, usability, content and indexing problems.
04Control domains and hosting
Protect ownership, email, DNS, backups and migrations.
05Promote a website
Search visibility, local discovery, content and measurement.
06Maintain and secure it
Updates, monitoring, recovery and incident planning.
A practical route through the whole website lifecycle.
How to Build a Website for a Small Business
A useful small-business website does not begin with colours, templates or software. It begins with a commercial purpose: who the site is for, what those pe…
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Best Website Builders for UK Small Businesses
There is no single best website builder for every UK small business. The strongest choice depends on what the site must do, how much control you need, who …
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WordPress Website Setup Guide
Setting up WordPress properly is more than clicking an installer. A reliable business website needs an owned domain, suitable hosting, a clean installation…
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Domain and Hosting Guide
A domain name is the address people use to reach a website. Hosting is the service that stores and serves the website. DNS connects the domain to the corre…
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Small-Business SEO Guide
Small-business SEO is the process of making useful pages easy for search engines to find, understand and present to the right people. It is not a promise o…
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Website Maintenance Guide
Website maintenance is the routine work that keeps a site available, secure, accurate and useful. It includes more than software updates. A maintained webs…
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Business Website Types and Features
A useful business website is defined by the customer task it completes, not by the number of features installed. Start with the simplest website type that …
Read the guide →Seven decisions, in the right order.
A website becomes easier to manage when ownership and measurement are planned before launch.
- 1Define the business goalWhat should a visitor be able to do?
- 2Set the full budgetSeparate one-off and ongoing cost.
- 3Choose the operating modelDIY, freelancer, agency or managed platform.
- 4Plan pages and contentBuild around customer tasks.
- 5Keep control of accountsDomain, hosting, email and analytics.
- 6Test before launchForms, mobile, accessibility and recovery.
- 7Measure real enquiriesImprove from evidence, not guesswork.
Compare choices by cost, control and practical effort.
WordPress versus Wix for a Small Business
WordPress and Wix can both produce a credible small-business website, but they allocate responsibility differently. Wix supplies a managed p…
See the comparison →CompareShopify versus WooCommerce
Shopify is a hosted commerce platform; WooCommerce is open-source commerce software that runs on WordPress. The choice is mainly between a m…
See the comparison →CompareDIY Website versus Web Design Agency
Building a website yourself can be sensible. Hiring an agency can also be sensible. The right choice depends less on which route appears che…
See the comparison →Compare.co.uk versus .com: Which Domain Should You Choose?
For a UK small business, .co.uk usually communicates a clear UK focus, while .com is useful for a broader international identity. The right …
See the comparison →Know what you will pay — and what must remain under your control.
The cheapest launch can become expensive if the business cannot move its domain, export its data or restore the website.
Understand UK website costs
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Domain Registration Process
Registering a domain takes minutes, but correcting the wrong registrant, recovery address or account owner can take much longer. The sa…
Read guide →WooCommerce versus Other E-Commerce Plugins
WooCommerce is the default WordPress commerce choice for many businesses, but it should not be installed automatically. A specialist pl…
Read guide →Free Website Builders: What You Actually Get
A free website-builder plan is usually a testing environment or a very small public presence, not a complete professional website. The …
Read guide →Competitor Analysis for Website Planning
Competitor analysis should help you make better website decisions, not encourage you to copy another business. The useful questions are…
Read guide →Cross-Browser Testing
Cross-browser testing checks that a website's important content and functions work across the browser engines, devices and operating sy…
Read guide →How to Get Your Business on Google Maps
A business appears on Google Maps through an eligible and verified Google Business Profile. There is no separate legitimate shortcut fo…
Read guide →Contact Page Essentials
A contact page should route an enquiry to a monitored process and set realistic expectations. Publishing several channels is not helpfu…
Read guide →Subdomains versus Subdirectories
A subdomain creates a distinct hostname such as shop.example.co.uk, while a subdirectory keeps content under the main host, such as exa…
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Useful first. Commercial interests second.
Changing claims are checked against primary sources. Comparisons cover limitations and exit options, not only launch features.