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Payload vs Strapi vs Contentful for a small business site
An honest comparison of Payload, Strapi and Contentful for a small business site: hosting, ownership, pricing model, editing, developer experience and lock-in.
Blog
Plain-English guides on websites, apps and online stores: what things cost, what to choose, and what to check before you sign.
Search and performance
Core Web Vitals on Next.js: a guide for small business sites
How to pass Core Web Vitals on a Next.js site: LCP image, fonts, third-party scripts, layout shift, INP and caching, with the thresholds and how to measure.
Cost and decisions
Zapier or Make vs a custom integration: the break-even
Where Zapier or Make stops making sense and a custom integration pays off: how task billing works and five criteria to decide, plus when not to build.
Cost and decisions
Shopify variant limit: workarounds vs going custom
Shopify now allows 2,048 variants per product, up from 100. Here is what still pushes stores past the limit and when workarounds or custom make sense.
AI done responsibly
AI-assisted development: why a senior reviews every line
How a studio can use AI coding tools responsibly, why a senior engineer should review every change, and a checklist of what to look for in AI-written code.
How we work
What a website care plan covers, and what it should not
A website care plan should cover updates, restore-tested backups, monitoring, security patches, small changes and reporting. What to ask any provider.
Cost and decisions
What to cut from your MVP: a practical scoping guide
How to scope an MVP: pick one user and one job, test the riskiest assumption, make a cut list, decide what to buy instead of build and what must be real.
Own your stack
Headless CMS vs WordPress: how to decide for your site
A practical guide to choosing between a headless CMS and WordPress, with seven criteria, a scoring checklist and an honest list of when WordPress is the right answer.
Own your stack
Migrate WordPress to headless without losing SEO
A practical checklist for moving a WordPress site to a headless CMS: URL inventory, redirect map, metadata parity, staging crawl and Search Console steps.