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What twenty years and a few thousand websites taught us: on Cloudflare, WordPress, SEO, AI, and building things that actually work.

● accessibility

Designing accessible websites without making them ugly

Every accessibility article starts with statistics about disability. We'll skip those: you can find them anywhere.

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● seo

Keep your content crisp: a framework for AI-era SEO

Two things changed in 2024-2025 that broke the standard SEO playbook for small businesses.

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● ai

The honest case for AI-generated imagery on small business websites

Stock photography is dying. AI-generated imagery is replacing it for a specific class of website work, and the change is faster than most agencies have...

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● chatbots

AI chatbots in customer service: what works and what backfires

Most chatbots on small business websites in 2024 were terrible. Generic scripted flows, dead-end conversations, 'sorry, I didn't understand that' loops.

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● web design

Custom website design vs templates: when to choose which

Every web designer says 'custom is better.' Of course they do, custom sells for more. But the truth is more nuanced.

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● ecommerce

Payment gateways for Australian e-commerce: a practical comparison

Australian e-commerce stores have more payment options than ever: Stripe, PayPal, Afterpay, Zip, Apple Pay, Google Pay, eWAY, BPAY, traditional bank gateways.

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● wordpress

Migrating from another WordPress host: what actually breaks

WordPress migrations have a reputation for being painful.

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● wordpress

The real cost of running a WordPress site (in 2026)

'WordPress is free!' is technically true and practically misleading.

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● cloudflare

Rebuilding our own website as an AI-native studio

We rebuilt jezweb.com.au in May 2026, after fifteen years on various WordPress incarnations.

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● photography

AI-generated imagery vs stock photos vs real photography

We've mostly stopped using stock photography.

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● ux

How user experience drives (or kills) conversions

'Improve UX' is the most overused phrase in web marketing.

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● wordpress

What 1,500 WordPress sites taught us about running a fleet

Most agencies build WordPress sites and hand them off. We hand off, then host.

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● cloudflare

Why we build on Cloudflare Workers, not generic hosting

When clients ask why we host on Cloudflare instead of Bluehost or SiteGround or whichever shared host their previous developer used, the short answer is...

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● wordpress

Why we still build WordPress sites in 2026

WordPress was supposed to be dead by now. Webflow promised to kill it. Squarespace too. Wix had a redesign. Headless CMSs took the dev community's attention.

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● wordpress

What 1,500 WordPress sites taught us about plugins

WordPress plugins are the reason WordPress wins (everything is possible) and the reason WordPress loses (so much breaks).

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● wordpress

WordPress vs Webflow vs Squarespace vs Wix: when each one wins

'Should I use WordPress or [other platform]?' is the most common question we get.

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