FN 06 · March 19, 2025
What your website maintenance contract should include (and 7 red flags)
The clauses a website maintenance agreement actually needs — patch windows, tested backups, exit terms — and the seven red flags that predict a bad year.
FM · March 10, 2025
What is a headless website, and do you need one?
Headless splits your CMS from your front end — powerful when multiple things consume your content, double the maintenance when only a website does. How to tell which you are.
FM · January 31, 2025
Do you even need a CMS?
If nobody has edited your site in a year, the CMS is all cost and no benefit. When a static site is the honest answer, and the questions that tell you which side you're on.
FM · December 19, 2024
What a rescue assessment actually covers
The $2,500 flat assessment, itemized: what gets examined, what the written findings contain, and what you can do with the report whether or not you hire us.
FM · November 21, 2024
Who actually owns your website? The four keys
Domain, hosting, code, content — the four things that constitute owning a website, who holds each one right now, and how to take them back without drama.
FM · November 19, 2024
What to do when your website goes down
A calm order of operations for an outage: confirm it's really down, check the boring causes first — domain, SSL, hosting bill — and know when it's time to call someone.
FM · November 18, 2024
The case for boring technology
Boring means known failure modes, deep help pools, and a future rescuer who can find the light switch. Why proven-and-common beats new-and-clever for most organizations.
FN 08 · October 16, 2024
Seven years of GPS apps in Fargo: what shipping mobile the hard way taught me
A retrospective on 2013–2020: building native Android and iOS apps with real-time GPS in North Dakota, standing up AWS before it was the default, and the lessons that still run every project.
FN 02 · October 10, 2024
Your web developer disappeared. Here's the 48-hour checklist
Ghosted by your web developer? The first 48 hours, in order: domain, hosting, CMS access, backups — what to secure, what to check, and when it's time for a rescue.
FM · October 7, 2024
Rebuild or rescue? How to actually decide
The honest decision framework for a struggling site: when a rescue-and-stabilize saves real money, when a rebuild is genuinely right, and how to spot a rebuild quote that's really a ransom.