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Plain-English articles for small business owners on websites, hosting and search.

Hosting

Why we've retired our carbon neutral label

We used to call our hosting carbon neutral. Here's why we've stopped, what our suppliers really report, and what we do instead.

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A hand-drawn website wireframe marked up in pen on a desk beside a laptop showing a screenshot of an AI-generated page layout. The surrounding scene is an AI-generated image; the on-screen layout is a real screenshot.

Design & UX

Can AI design a website? What the tools do well, and where they fall short

Can AI design a website? The tools produce competent screens in seconds. What they do well, where they fall short, and what it means for your site.

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A shop front with painted offers and signage, the kind of local business still found through Google’s local map pack rather than an AI summary

Found & Ranked

The week Google stopped being a search engine

Google I/O 2026 made it official: Search is now AI Search. Here's what that means for real businesses in Norfolk, and why it's less alarming than the headlines suggest.

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Connecting Payload CMS to Claude desktop

Build & Tech

Connecting Payload CMS to the Claude desktop and web apps with OAuth

The official Payload MCP plugin uses API keys, so it won't connect to the Claude desktop or web apps. Here's the OAuth plugin that fixes it, and how to wire it up.

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A sand relief sculpture featuring surreal imagery of a man in a bowler hat, a woman, and a child floating away like balloons shaped like human brains.

The Thinking Brain

Your brain is a prediction machine, and your brand is one of its predictions

The brain doesn't passively receive reality, it predicts it. Here's what predictive processing and the expectation effect mean for branding, marketing, and your website.

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