Guides worth keeping

Everything below is free to read in full, right here, and each guide comes as a nicely designed PDF you can take away and share. No email gate, no follow-up sequence, because a guide that is any good does not need to hold your inbox hostage. If reading one leaves you with a question, ring 01746 769612 and ask someone who wrote it.

The ecommerce website guide

Your customers have been trained by the biggest retailers on earth, and they bring those expectations to every store they visit, including yours. Nobody consciously compares your checkout to the...

The manufacturer’s website playbook

Manufacturing websites underperform for a predictable reason: they are built like corporate brochures, while the visitor who matters is an engineer trying to answer practical questions. Can you make this,...

The technology guide: a website that converts the technical buyer

Your buyer has read more product pages this month than your marketing team has written this year. They are sophisticated, impatient, and quick to punish jargon, and the person who...

The legal and financial guide: a website compliance will sign off

Regulated firms live with a tension most businesses never feel: the website has to sell, and every sentence on it has to survive a compliance review. Handled late, that tension...

The agriculture guide: a website that suits how rural customers buy

Your customers buy on relationships, know their suppliers personally, and do a surprising amount of their browsing from a tractor cab on a 4G connection that drops at the hedge...

The construction guide: a website that gets you on the shortlist

Nobody commissions a building from a website. The work is too big, too bespoke and too long cycle for that. What the website does is get you shortlisted, usually by...

The education guide: a website for three audiences at once

An education website is three websites wearing one address An education website is three websites wearing one address. It is a marketing site for prospective students and parents, an information...

The charity guide: a website that earns its keep

Charity websites carry more weight per page than any commercial site, on budgets a commercial marketing director would refuse. That is exactly why small improvements have outsized impact, and why...

The professional services guide: a website that wins instructions

Your buyer is a careful researcher with a lot to lose. Before they ring any firm they will have read three or four websites, formed a view about who feels...

The healthcare guide: commissioning a website patients can lean on

Healthcare websites are not browsed, they are needed. The visitor is worried, hurried, or holding a phone in one hand and a child in the other. Instead of describing an...

The plain English web glossary

The web industry runs on jargon, some of it necessary and a lot of it decorative. This is every term we are likely to use in a meeting with you,...

The accessibility rules tightened while you were busy. Here is where you stand.

The one-line version If your website serves EU customers it is now covered by a law with real fines, and even if it does not, UK law already expects your...

A monthly email with the highlights. No padding, no upsells. About ten minutes of useful reading per month.

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