Eight guides, written for the person paying the bill.

No jargon, no invented statistics, and no numbers we cannot show you the source for. Every vendor price and contract term quoted in these guides comes from that company's own published page, with the link at the bottom of the article.

Law firms · All trades · 7 min

Do you own your website? Contracts explained

Three ownership clauses published by working web companies — one that says you never own it, one with a $4,800 buyout, one that bills you the difference if you leave early — and the plain promise to compare them against.

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Electrical · All trades · 7 min

How to check a web designer before you pay

Seven questions drawn from what web companies publish on their own pricing pages — who owns it, what happens on cancellation, can I see it first, who answers the phone — and the answers that should end the conversation.

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Every competitor price and contract clause quoted here was read from that vendor's own page on 2 September 2026. Where a figure comes from a third party rather than the company itself, the sentence says so. Where the evidence is a single vendor case study with nothing controlled for, the sentence says that too. Nothing here is a claim about results we can promise you.

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