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What a website should cost and what you should own: pricing, quotes, contracts and the small print

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Checkatrade vs website: what you actually get

A directory fee buys a profile inside somebody else's platform, not a page of your own. What Checkatrade, Bark and Yell actually charge for, and where a website still holds its place even once you're paying to be listed.

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what should be in your website contract?

Most website contracts get signed on the assumption that changing your mind is always an option. What UK regulations actually give a business buying a website, and the checklist worth reading before you sign.

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what should a website quote include?

Three quotes, three completely different numbers, and nothing that says why. What a proper website quote spells out before you sign, and the red flags when it doesn't.

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AI website builder or studio? The honest answer

Wix, GoDaddy and Squarespace all now build you a site from a prompt. What an AI website builder is genuinely good at, where a UK trade business will feel the gaps, and how to tell if it's enough.

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Who owns my website? The honest answer

The domain, the words and the code can belong to three different parties, and paying the invoice moves none of them on its own. How to check, and what to ask.

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