How much does a website cost in Dorset?
Real prices, what changes the number, and how to compare two quotes without being misled.
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Practical guides, with the working shown
No gated PDFs and no lead magnets. These are the guides we would send a client who asked a straightforward question and deserved a straightforward answer.
Guides
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The website speed checklist
A 12-point list you can work through yourself, from image weight to render-blocking scripts.
Read the checklistA local SEO checklist for Dorset
Google Business Profile, reviews, citations and location pages — in the order that works.
Read the checklistAI website builder or a web designer?
An honest comparison, including the cases where a £20-a-month builder is the right answer.
Read the comparisonThe Dorset Website Performance Index
A planned study of local business websites. Methodology published; results to follow.
Read the methodologyAnswer engine optimisation, without the snake oil
What actually influences AI answers, what does not, and how to measure referrals.
Read the guideHow we write
The rules these guides follow
Every guide answers the question in the first sixty words. Every claim has a source or a stated method. Every number is dated, because prices and search results change. Where we do not know, we say so rather than filling the gap with a confident sentence.
They are written by Steve Whitehead, who also builds the sites. There is no content team inventing expertise, and no AI-generated filler dressed up as experience.
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