Web development guides with no platform to sell you.

Yes: it depends on your content model, your team, and your budget — and the decision guide walks you to your answer in about ten minutes instead of leaving you with "it depends." Marketing-heavy site edited daily by non-developers? Usually WordPress. Performance-critical, SEO-decisive, structured content? Next.js starts winning. We build both weekly, so we don't need you to pick either — which is exactly why you can trust the walkthrough.

That's their main job. The redesign-scoping guide alone — what to inventory, what to measure before touching anything, how to write requirements an agency can actually quote — should save you one bad agency engagement, whoever you hire. A well-briefed client gets better work from any competent shop and spots an incompetent one in the first meeting. If the brief leads you back to us, good; if it gets you a great build elsewhere, the guide still did its job.

Current to our active build experience — we ship on WordPress, Next.js, Shopify, WooCommerce, and BigCommerce every month, so pricing changes, feature releases, and new gotchas show up in revisions rather than fossilizing. Each guide carries a last-reviewed date. When a platform shifts under a published recommendation (it happens), the guide gets updated, not quietly deleted.

They're written for exactly you — the owner or marketing lead making a five-figure build decision without a developer translating. Jargon gets defined on first use (or linked to the glossary), every technical concept is tied to a business consequence, and the code stays out of it. Your developer can read the technical SEO guide; you should be able to read everything else over one coffee.