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For three posts now I have been showing churches how to paste Planning Center into their website. Here is why I stopped recommending that as the whole answer.
Planning Center decides what your website is allowed to show, and a fund's visibility setting is usually the reason a fund is missing. Here is where the line between Planning Center and your website actually sits, what breaks on the website side, and what to check before December.
There is no ADA certificate, no adopted standard for private businesses, and no widget that fixes this. Here is who web accessibility law actually covers, what usually fails, and how to check your own site in twenty minutes without buying anything.
Most projects start with someone telling us the answer: a new website, an app, a platform switch. But the thing someone names on the first call usually isn't the actual problem. Here's why we find your X before we build anything.
June is the natural halfway point of the year — a good moment to spend an hour making sure your website is still working as hard as you are. Here are seven things worth checking before the second half kicks in.
A direct breakdown of the five most common website platforms — what each is good for, where each falls short, and how to figure out which one fits your actual situation.
Learn how to connect Planning Center Online to your Squarespace church website — embedding giving, forms, groups, and events without rebuilding your site.
Google grades your site on three numbers, and they affect your search ranking. Here is what Core Web Vitals actually measure, what scores to aim for, and what usually causes a slow site.
Care plans are everywhere, and plenty of them are padded. Here is an honest look at what a website care plan should include, who actually needs one, and who is better off without.
Planning Center works with more than Squarespace. Here is how to embed giving, forms, groups, and events on WordPress, Wix, and Webflow church websites.
A silently broken contact form is one of the most common and most expensive problems on small business websites. Here is how to test yours and what usually goes wrong.
Migrating from WordPress to a custom Next.js build can make a site dramatically faster and easier to maintain. It is also the wrong move for plenty of businesses. Here is how we decide.
Most small business owners launch a website and move on. Here's what ongoing maintenance actually involves — and when it makes sense to hand it off.