The DAKER blog — web design, development and SEO for small businesses

Your website is five years old. It looks it. It is slow on phones and you have stopped sending people to it. So: redesign, or start over? Everyone wants...

Most website projects that run late are not late because of the developer. They are late because week three arrives and nobody has written the text. Or beca...

An online store is not a website with a buy button. It is a small logistics operation that happens to have a website attached, and most of what determines wheth...

Take out your phone. Open your own website. Not a preview, not your laptop window dragged narrow — your actual phone, on mobile data, standing up. Most peop...

Somebody two streets away searches "electrician near me". Three businesses appear on a map at the top of the page. You are not one of them. You have a websi...

"I want to be able to update it myself." Everyone says this. It sounds obviously correct — why would you want to depend on someone else to change a phone nu...

You search for your own business. Nothing. You search for what you do — "plumber Rotterdam", "bookkeeping for freelancers" — and find eight competitors and no s...

Your website takes five seconds to appear on a phone. Nobody complains about this. Nobody emails to say "your site was slow so I gave up". They just leave,...

You got a quote from a local agency. Then you got one from a team three countries away for a third of the price. The gap is uncomfortable. It is large enoug...