Notes, opinions, and the occasional rant on building better websites for contractors and home service businesses — for clients, fellow developers, and anyone curious about the craft.
The honest answer nobody wants to give you: it depends. But here's the real range, what drives the price up or down, and how to tell when you're being overcharged.
Read moreIf your website takes more than 3 seconds to load, half your visitors are gone before they see your homepage. Here's why most small business sites are slow, and what to actually do about it.
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Both will bring you customers. But they work on completely different timelines, with different costs, and one is way better suited to a brand-new business than the other.
Read moreWix is easier. WordPress is more familiar. Squarespace looks fine out of the box. So why does every site I build use Astro? Because the tradeoffs aren't what they look like on the surface.
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