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2026 (31 posts)

Shopify B2B and Wholesale Pricing: 2026 Guide

Shopify B2B and Wholesale Pricing: 2026 Guide

How Shopify handles trade pricing, wholesale logins and B2B price lists on a standard plan - customer tags, a wholesale app when you need one, and the line where Shopify Plus actually earns its money.

Call Tracking for UK Service Businesses

Call Tracking for UK Service Businesses

Half of UK service-business enquiries arrive by phone and most tracking setups record none of them. The free Google Ads layer, when dynamic number insertion earns its fee, and the citation trap to avoid.

Google Consent Mode v2 and Enhanced Conversions

Google Consent Mode v2 and Enhanced Conversions

What Google Consent Mode v2 and Enhanced Conversions actually do for a UK store - the conversions that go invisible without them, the 5-20% that come back, and the setup that takes an afternoon.

Server-Side Tracking for UK Stores

Server-Side Tracking for UK Stores

What server-side tracking and server-side GTM actually buy you, what they cost to run, and the order to do things in - because most stores have cheaper attribution fixes to make first.

Shopify Postcode Shipping Troubleshooting

Shopify Postcode Shipping Troubleshooting

If postcode shipping in your Shopify store is producing wrong rates, missing options, or duplicate quotes, the cause is usually one of five things. Here's the diagnostic sequence I run.

Parcelify for Shopify: A Practical Setup Walkthrough

Parcelify for Shopify: A Practical Setup Walkthrough

Parcelify is the Shopify shipping app I reach for when native rates can't do the job — the best fit I've found for UK postcode logic in production. Here's how I set it up: every option that matters, what I skip, and what I've learned from real installs.

Astro vs Next.js for Small Business: A 2026 Comparison

Astro vs Next.js for Small Business: A 2026 Comparison

Astro vs Next.js for a UK small business site: Next.js is a React application framework, Astro ships HTML. Here's how to pick the right shape, when each one wins, and the five-year cost picture — written by a UK developer who builds on Astro.

Best CMS for Astro: A Comparison for 2026

Best CMS for Astro: A Comparison for 2026

Decap, TinaCMS, Sanity, Storyblok — the serious headless CMS options for an Astro site. What each does well, what they cost, and when a small business genuinely doesn't need an Astro CMS at all. Written by a UK Astro developer who builds with all four.

Building a Custom Astro Shopping Cart

Building a Custom Astro Shopping Cart

I built a custom shopping cart on Astro for a real ecommerce site. No Shopify, no Hydrogen. Here's the architecture, the honest trade-offs, and when this approach is wrong for you.

Headless Shopify on Astro: When It's Worth It

Headless Shopify on Astro: When It's Worth It

Headless Shopify on Astro combines Shopify's commerce engine with Astro's frontend flexibility. Here's the architecture, the trade-offs, and when this hybrid path is actually the right answer.

What Is Astro? The Framework, Explained Plainly

What Is Astro? The Framework, Explained Plainly

Astro is a web framework built around Islands Architecture — pages render as plain HTML at build time, JavaScript ships only where you need it. Here's how Astro is different from React, Next.js, and static site generators, and when developers reach for it in web development today.

Magento to Shopify Migration UK

Magento to Shopify Migration UK

Step-by-step Magento to Shopify migration — Adobe Commerce vs Open Source, the M1 end-of-life situation, configurable and bundle products, multi-store setups, and the enterprise tax you're stepping out of. Methodology, costs, and what to expect.

WordPress to Shopify Migration, £1,490

WordPress to Shopify Migration, £1,490

Need someone to migrate WordPress to Shopify? I do it for a fixed £1,490 in two weeks — 26 years building stores, rankings held, you keep trading throughout.

Shopify Migration Cost in the UK (2026)

Shopify Migration Cost in the UK (2026)

Shopify migration prices in the UK for 2026 — fixed pricing per source platform, what's included, why most agency quotes are inflated, and how API and CLI workflows make competitive pricing economically viable.

Shopify Migration Timeline UK (2026)

Shopify Migration Timeline UK (2026)

Shopify migration timeline UK 2026 — 2 weeks for Wix, EKM, WordPress, or WooCommerce migrations; 4-8 weeks for Magento. Day-by-day breakdown of what happens, why API and CLI workflows make 2 weeks achievable, and what can legitimately extend it.

The Dashboard Is a Decoy: How Google Ads Hides Waste

The Dashboard Is a Decoy: How Google Ads Hides Waste

A one-day Google Ads audit for a small business — what a PPC audit found that no dashboard would surface, including a misconfigured ad dragging Quality Score across sixty keywords. Why most agencies never look.

What Is an Astro Website? Faster, Cheaper, Yours

What Is an Astro Website? Faster, Cheaper, Yours

A plain-English answer to what Astro is, why websites built on it load in under a second, why they cost less to run than WordPress, and why you actually own the result in a way you don't with Wix or Squarespace.

Improve Your Website Before You Rebuild It

Improve Your Website Before You Rebuild It

Before you rebuild, redesign, or start from scratch — look at what you've already got. I've found that retrofitting existing content and systems is faster, cheaper, and often more effective.

2025 (9 posts)

A Keyword Ranking Strategy That Works

A Keyword Ranking Strategy That Works

SEO tools show data, not strategy. I built a keyword ranking model that found 10 orphaned keywords and turned them into 3 complete service pages in 90 minutes. Here's the framework.

Escaping WordPress and Elementor to Astro

Escaping WordPress and Elementor to Astro

I bought Elementor Pro for £199 and lasted two hours. Here's how I used Claude Code and Astro to go from 69 to 99 PageSpeed — and what that decision made possible.

2024 (6 posts)

AI Writing Tools: Can They Improve Your Writing?

AI Writing Tools: Can They Improve Your Writing?

I'm not much of a fan of the writing part. But the idea generation, the prompting, the prodding — that's where AI writing tools earn their keep. Here's what they're good at and where they fall short.

Product Images That Build Trust and Sell

Product Images That Build Trust and Sell

Your customers can't pick it up, turn it over, or feel the weight. I walk through the product image strategy that actually builds trust — from studio shots to lifestyle context, with real before-and-after results.

2021 (1 posts)

2019 (1 posts)

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