The most expensive thing a business can do with its website is rebuild it when a redesign would have done the job. The second most expensive thing is redesign it when the underlying structure is the actual problem. We have seen both, and this is how we help clients figure out which situation they are in before any work starts.
We include a Lighthouse audit in every project we deliver, and we require a score above 90 in Performance, Accessibility, and Best Practices before a site goes live. Clients sometimes ask what these numbers actually mean and whether they matter outside of a technical conversation. They do, and this is a plain account of why.
Most digital projects that go over budget or over time started with a brief that was too vague to build from. Not because the client was careless, but because nobody told them what a useful brief actually contains. This is a plain account of what we look for when a brief lands in our inbox, and why each element matters.
We build in Webflow and in Next.js, and we get asked to explain the difference on almost every discovery call. The honest answer is that it depends on three things: how complex your content model is, whether you need a custom backend, and who will be maintaining the site after launch. Here is how we think about it.
Most small business websites have a design problem that is not actually a design problem. The colours are fine. The logo is fine. The issue is that visitors cannot find what they came for, and they leave. Information architecture is the discipline of organising content so that the right person finds the right thing with the least friction. It is unglamorous work, and it is usually where the difference between a site that converts and one that does not is made.
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