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Practical advice on websites, local SEO and AI for small businesses, written by the people who build them.

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  1. Five colour palettes taken from paintings, and how visitors switch them

    How we built a live palette, dark mode and corner switcher into our website, with colours taken from Klaudia Polakowska's paintings and checked for contrast.

    • Web design
    • Accessibility
    • Astro

  2. Should your business website have a game? Six we built to show you

    We added six classic browser games to our website, written without a single library. Here is why a small game can keep visitors for longer, and the tools we use.

    • Development
    • Games
    • Engagement

  3. Watercolour meets code: hand-painted art on a fast website

    How we cut Klaudia Polakowska's watercolours into layers, set them moving with light and parallax, and still kept every page fast.

    • Web design
    • Art
    • Performance

  4. Our website playground: a live demo of what Astro can do

    A tour of our new playground page, with a full control panel, twelve button styles, twelve animations and the interactive pieces clients ask for most. All built in Astro.

    • Astro
    • Web design
    • Animation

  5. Website sounds without a single audio file

    Our website now clicks and chimes as you use it. Every sound is made in the browser, so it adds about 1 KB and no downloads. How it works, and why it starts muted.

    • Development
    • UX
    • Performance

  6. A Google Business Profile checklist for Torbay businesses

    A practical, step-by-step checklist to get a Torquay, Paignton or Brixham business into the Google Maps local pack, from categories to reviews.

    • Local SEO
    • Google Maps
    • Torbay

  7. What a 100/100 PageSpeed score actually means

    What Lighthouse and PageSpeed Insights measure, why the score moves between runs, and the changes that took this website to 100 on mobile.

    • Performance
    • Websites
    • Core Web Vitals