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News & case studies

Real projects, honest prices and plain-spoken advice for small businesses on the Yorkshire coast. No fluff - just what we built and what it did.

Job attachments inside each message - Eightlegged

We rebuilt the job page in our own admin so photos, screenshots, video and voice notes sit in the message they arrived with, not in one shared pile.

One-tap website launch system - Eightlegged

When a client's site goes live, we check the domain is really up, then one tap sets off the portfolio entry, screenshots, write-up and optional announcement, once only.

Eightlegged Live Chat: a chat box for your website, answered from your phone

Our own live chat: a chat box on your website that rings your phone, even when the app is closed.

Warp It: rebuilding the reuse platform

Warp It's reuse network has saved organisations over £46 million since 2011. This year we rebuilt the platform it runs on.

What free website checkers miss, and what we check on every site we look after

What free website checkers miss, what we check on every site we look after, and what it found on our own.

Who tells you when your website goes down?

On a care plan we check your website every 15 minutes, and if it goes down you hear it from us, not a customer.

40 emails, one summary: a morning of email, sorted before you open it

Forty emails for a made-up guest house, one 8am summary, six replies drafted, and about 8p of AI. All of it on our website, unedited.

Brochure website examples: what a good small-business site actually looks like

Six real brochure website examples — sites we've built for Yorkshire small businesses, from a family antiques shop to a one-page driving school — and what makes a good one.

Auction management cockpit - David Duggleby

We built David Duggleby a cockpit: one screen where the team runs the auction management side of the business, day to day.

What a small-business website should cost in 2026 - and why ours start at £49

The straight answer to the question every agency dodges - with our own numbers on the table.

A new website for Scarborough's treasure trove - Collectors Centre

A fast, mobile-friendly new home for Scarborough's family-run antiques and gold-buying shop — trading since 1965.