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I’m a ____ who helps ____ with ____ (and why that blank is so damn hard to fill)
Most owners cannot say what their business does without rambling through fifteen things. Here is how a laser-focused positioning statement — Jonathan Stark’s “I…
Jun 29, 2026
You’re under-utilizing Your Cloudflare Account (I was, too)
For years I used Cloudflare for one thing: domains. Then I actually opened the dashboard. Here’s everything I run on it now — databases,…
Jun 26, 2026
Show & tell: the little plugins powering the new digisavvy.com
No feature plugins where a hundred lines of our own code would do. A tour of the tiny single-purpose plugins we built for the…
Jun 22, 2026
We Gave Away a Detailed Scope for Free. Here’s Why That’s the New Normal.
AI collapsed the cost of detailed scoping — so we give ten-page scopes away before a contract is signed. What changed, what got worse,…
Jun 17, 2026
What Is a Learning Management System? (And Do You Actually Need One?)
What a Learning Management System actually does, hosted vs. self-hosted (LearnDash), a quick platform comparison, and how to tell if you need one.
Jun 16, 2026
Building With Etch
How we rebuilt digisavvy.com on Etch + Automatic CSS: library-free scroll animations, canvas components, and the Safari rendering lesson that cost us a week.
Jun 12, 2026
Why your WordPress site keeps breaking — and how to make it stop
Sites don’t break randomly — they break for the same five reasons, in the same order. Here’s the pattern, and the boring fix that…
Jun 7, 2026
5 signs you’ve become your business’s accidental IT manager
You started a business, not an IT department. If three of these five signs sound familiar, your tech is running you — not the…
Jun 2, 2026
Stop treating updates like a chore
Updates aren’t housekeeping — they’re the immune system of your website. The trick isn’t doing them bravely. It’s making them so routine they’re boring.
May 28, 2026
Flat-rate vs hourly: what website care should actually cost
Hourly billing makes you hesitate to report problems with your own website. That misaligned incentive — not the rate — is what website care…
May 24, 2026
The CRM you already have is probably enough
Before you buy another CRM, a straight look at why the tool was never the problem — and what wiring up the one you…
May 14, 2026
The real cost of downtime (and how to never pay it again)
Downtime’s invoice arrives in five currencies — lost sales, lost trust, lost rankings, panic rates, and your weekend. Here’s the real math, and the…
May 12, 2026
When to fire your website
Some websites deserve a fix. Some deserve a severance package. Five clear tests for telling the difference — before you spend another dollar on…
Apr 30, 2026
WordPress or Shopify for your store? A straight take
We build on both, so we have no horse in this race. The straight version of WordPress vs Shopify — who each one is…
Apr 30, 2026
What “proactive monitoring” actually means
“We monitor your site” can mean almost anything. Here’s what it should mean — the six layers, what each one catches, and the questions…
Apr 18, 2026
Core Web Vitals, minus the panic
Three metrics, plain English, no doom. What Core Web Vitals actually measure, how much they matter (some), and the fixes that move them —…
Apr 16, 2026
How we got Urban Southern a 900% sales lift
Fewer than ten sales in two years, then a 900% lift and an acquisition. The Urban Southern playbook, step by step — and which…
Apr 3, 2026
Block themes, one year in
A year of shipping client sites on block themes: what genuinely got better, what still bites, and who should (and shouldn’t) build on them…
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