Web Development

Articles, guides and tutorials on web development, covering frontend, backend, frameworks and the skills needed to build modern websites.

Progressive Web Apps: When a PWA Beats a Native App
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Progressive Web Apps: When a PWA Beats a Native App

What a PWA genuinely does in 2026, where iOS still falls short, and the cost arithmetic that decides between one codebase and three.

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WordPress vs Wix vs Squarespace for a Business Site
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WordPress vs Wix vs Squarespace for a Business Site

An agency comparison of WordPress, Wix and Squarespace for a UK business site, covering SEO control, exit cost and the real three year total.

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WordPress Hosting: What You Are Actually Paying For
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WordPress Hosting: What You Are Actually Paying For

What the money buys across shared, managed and cloud WordPress hosting, which layers actually make a site fast, and what each tier costs.

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Drupal Support: What a Retainer Should Cover
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Drupal Support: What a Retainer Should Cover

The work a Drupal site needs every month, how to read a support SLA, the three retainer models compared, and realistic UK monthly price bands.

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Drupal Commerce: When It Beats Shopify
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Drupal Commerce: When It Beats Shopify

Drupal Commerce is the wrong platform for most shops and the right one for a narrow, lucrative few. Here is exactly where that line falls.

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Drupal 12: What Changes and When to Move
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Drupal 12: What Changes and When to Move

Drupal 12 arrives the same week Drupal 10 stops getting security fixes, so here is what changes, what the move costs and when to do it.

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AI Agent Payments: What Agentic Commerce Means for Merchants
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AI Agent Payments: What Agentic Commerce Means for Merchants

What has actually shipped in agentic commerce, what it changes for your checkout and your bot rules, and the three cheap things worth doing this year.

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Elementor vs a Custom Theme: The Real Cost
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Elementor vs a Custom Theme: The Real Cost

A page builder moves cost out of the build and into running the site. What Elementor does to your output, where it stops paying, and the real numbers.

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WordPress Plugin Development That Survives Core Updates
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WordPress Plugin Development That Survives Core Updates

How to commission and build a custom WordPress plugin that keeps working through core updates, what to ask for, and what it should cost.

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WordPress 7.0 and the AI Client in Core
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WordPress 7.0 and the AI Client in Core

What WordPress 7.0 actually shipped, why real time collaboration was cut, and how the AI Client changes what a plugin is allowed to assume.

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