Journal

Websites explained: notes on building things properly

Design, accessibility, performance, security, SEO and AI search, written for the people who run a website rather than the people who build it.

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WordPress

Why build your website on WordPress

Why build your website on WordPress? You own it, your team can edit it, and it can grow with the firm. Here is what makes it the safe choice.

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Design

UI and UX explained, with good and bad examples

UI and UX explained without jargon: UI is what a site looks like, UX is whether people can get done what they came for. Good and bad examples.

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AI and search

AI searchability: being found when people ask an AI

More people now ask ChatGPT, Perplexity or Google's AI Overviews instead of searching. How AI search picks its sources, and how to be one of them.