Technical decisions, tools and tradeoffs — written so a non-technical owner can follow the reasoning.
A used car lot in Indiana should pay $100 to $300 a month for a website, and its only job is putting one specific vehicle on one buyer's phone with the next step a single tap.
In October 2026, Chrome 154 will show a full-page warning before opening any public website with no HTTPS. Sites that already have a certificate get upgraded quietly and see no change at all.
Seven checks you can run on your own phone in fifteen minutes will tell you whether your website is broken. Most of the small business sites I audit fail two or three of them.
Microsoft raised Microsoft 365 business prices on July 1, 2026, but you keep your old rate until renewal. Business Standard went from $12.50 to $14 per user; Business Premium did not move.
Windows 11's July 14, 2026 update lets you pause updates to a date you pick and renew that pause forever. Use it to protect one busy week, not as a permanent off switch.
Every .com domain gets 7 percent more expensive on November 1, 2026. The fix costs nothing: renew now for as many years as your registrar allows.
On July 15, 2026, Google Ads began requiring a passkey for sensitive actions like adding users or changing billing. Setting one up takes about ten minutes on your phone.
On July 1, 2026 Google stopped serving AMP pages from its own cache, which removed the last advantage AMP had. If your site runs an AMP plugin, turn it off.