WordPress vs custom
WordPress runs roughly four in ten websites. That is neither coincidence nor recommendation — it depends entirely on what the site has to do.
Read more →Comparisons and trade-offs
Before anything gets built, something has to be chosen. Below is what each decision actually comes down to — including where the answer is that you do not need us.
Why these pages are honest
A comparison that always concludes "hire a studio" is an advertisement, and anybody who reads two of them can tell.
Several of these pages recommend something that earns us nothing: start it yourself, buy a package, hire a freelancer. That is not modesty but arithmetic — a client who buys something they did not need does not come back, and tells people.
Comparisons
Shopify vs WooCommerce
Shopify is a subscription you rent a shop in. WooCommerce is software you run yourself. Nearly every difference comes back to that.
Read more →Marketplace or own shop
A marketplace gives you customers you would never have reached, and then keeps them. That is the whole trade-off in one sentence.
Read more →DIY or hire
Making a site yourself is not hard. Making one that brings in customers is a craft, and you only notice the difference after six months.
Read more →Off-the-shelf or custom
There is almost always a package that handles eighty per cent of your process. The question is what the last twenty per cent costs you.
Read more →Spreadsheet or web app
Every company runs on at least one spreadsheet that has become too important. The question is not whether that matters, but when.
Read more →Freelancer or agency
The question that matters is not who builds it cheapest, but who is still there in two years when something has to change.
Read more →Rebuild or improve
A new site is almost never the answer to "we get too few enquiries". Finding out why first is cheaper and works more often.
Read more →Hosting compared
Hosting is the cheapest line on your whole site and the only one where saving money can cost you a day offline.
Read more →CMS or not
Almost everybody asks for a CMS. Roughly half never use it, and pay maintenance on it every year regardless.
Read more →Not sure which way to go?
Send a short brief with what you have now and what needs to be better. You get an honest answer, including if that answer is that you do not need us for it.