Guides to brand, web design and development

Four ways to put an animated logo on a website, and what each costs in weight, speed and accessibility, measured on the Rive logo we built for Gissi.

The order, the redirect map and the edge cases from moving the music school A medio tono to gissimusic.com as Gissi, with the first days of search data.

Deck studios start design-only packages at USD 799–1,650 and charge USD 3,999–6,000+ to write the deck too. Prices, slide caps and what investors ask for.

Published US brand identity packages ran USD 1,299–13,000 without strategy and USD 8,000–40,000+ with it. Tiers, guidelines prices and timelines.

A logo costs USD 35–72 from a logo maker, USD 249–1,199 in a contest, USD 150–1,500 from a freelancer and USD 99–2,495 from US studios that publish prices.

Rebrand design was published at USD 360–6,000 for small businesses and USD 8,000–40,000+ with strategy. The rollout is a second bill: here's how to price it.

Refresh when the strategy still works but the look doesn't; rebrand when the business, name or structure has changed. A signal table, examples and a workshop.

Logo rules with clear space and minimum sizes, colours for screen and print with tested contrast, licensed type, voice with examples, templates and an owner.

Write a naming brief, explore territories, pick a strong type of name, then check language, domains and trademarks in every market before you test it.

Published naming prices run from a USD 299 contest to agencies with USD 25,000 minimums. What each tier includes, plus the trademark and domain costs after it.

Seven real brand repositionings, from Juan Valdez to Domino's and CUPRA: what changed, what the companies reported, and what the cases have in common.

Before hiring a rebranding agency, settle the scope, compare what each proposal delivers and clear any new name with Colombia's SIC.

A launch checklist for a new website and a new or changed brand: what to finish weeks before, in launch week, on launch day and in the 30 days after.

Card fees are most of the bill on both. WooCommerce saves money only if you maintain it; past USD 30,000 a month, Shopify's lower card rates usually win.

Wix costs USD 612–1,044 over three years with upkeep included and passes Core Web Vitals more often; WordPress is cheaper and portable, if someone maintains it.

Shopify plans run $29 to $359 a month, but card fees are most of the bill. Published US prices for platforms, payments, apps and builds, with 3-year totals.

A landing page costs about USD 300–2,000 from a freelancer and USD 3,000–5,000 from a studio, plus USD 10–249 a month for a builder. Read 17 October 2026.

How white-label web development works for agencies: pricing models, published prices from seven providers, who talks to the client and the clauses to insist on.

Time zones, English scores, developer counts, holidays, payments and IP rules for Colombia, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Costa Rica, Chile and Uruguay.

Published schedules put a professional marketing site at 10 to 16 weeks and larger builds at 4 to 6 months. Content and approvals, not code, set the date.

A website redesign checklist by phase: what to export first, what to build, how to keep SEO, what to test at launch and what to watch for 90 days.

One URL per language, reciprocal hreflang with x-default, no redirects between versions, only languages you can review. Codes that fail, a checker, a checklist.

When a Spanish version pays off for a US business, how to set up URLs and hreflang, what it costs in 2026 and how to rank in Spanish, with Census data.

Published 2026 prices for a website refresh, redesign or rebuild in the US, what a redesign adds over a new site, and how to get quotes you can compare.

How a US company vets, contracts and pays a web team in Colombia: business checks, IP clauses that hold under both countries' laws, W-8 forms and red flags.

Freelancer, small studio, large agency or in-house: who carries which risk, which projects fit each, how to vet them and the contract terms to insist on.

What a website costs in the US in 2026, from published sources: builder plans, freelancer and agency rates, web app budgets and the costs that recur.

When WordPress is the right choice, when a custom site pays off, and the middle path of headless WordPress, compared on cost, speed, updates and ownership.

Dated, published prices from Bogotá providers, the fixed yearly costs of a domain and hosting, and the factors that actually move a website quote.

A fair way to tell the studios on your shortlist apart: what to check on their live client sites, what to ask, and the red flags to watch for.

A Spanish and English site for a Toronto business: URLs per language, hreflang, Google Business Profile, and the Ontario and federal rules that apply.

Webflow has no WordPress importer: you rebuild the theme and import posts by CSV. What carries over, the redirects you need and when to stay put.

Squarespace exports one blog and your layout pages, not images or store pages. How to rebuild in Webflow, redirect every URL and move the domain.

Wix can't export a site, so leaving is a rebuild. What you can take with you, the Wix URLs that need 301s, and what WordPress, Webflow or Framer cost.

Moving a Webflow site to Framer: when 2026 prices make it pay, what Framer imports (CMS by CSV, not pages), redirects, SEO checks and when to stay put.

Framer, WordPress, a coded site, Wix Studio, Squarespace or HubSpot: what each costs to run a 20-page site with a blog, and what leaving Webflow takes.

What website migrations cost in 2026 from providers that publish prices, by type and site size, plus what drives a quote and what a botched move risks.

Two ways to move from WordPress to Astro, what to export, how to keep Yoast titles, permalinks and uploads, and the WordPress URLs most migrations forget.

Webflow's code export leaves out the CMS, forms, search and localized pages. What to take out of Webflow, what to rebuild in Astro and how to keep rankings.

Framer has no HTML export, so moving to Astro is a rebuild. What to capture first, what breaks, and how to keep the design, URLs and rankings.

Website migration SEO checklist with launch checks, 301 redirects, canonical tags and 90-day monitoring. Includes a redirect mapper and migration planner.

Field Core Web Vitals, Lighthouse runs, page weight and running cost for dardo.studio, an Astro site on Cloudflare Workers, including what failed.

Astro vs WordPress for a marketing site: editing, plugin upkeep, yearly hosting cost and real-user speed, plus headless WordPress and when to stay.

Webflow suits marketing teams that build pages visually; Astro suits developer-run sites. Yearly costs, September 2026 speed data and what moving takes.

Framer gives designers a canvas; Astro gives you code you own. Yearly costs for a 25-page site, September 2026 speed data and when to pick each.

Framer pre-renders pages and writes the sitemap, canonicals and hreflang. You add metadata, JSON-LD and redirects (Pro). Its limits, with 2026 speed data.

Webflow builds your sitemap, image variants and hreflang. You set canonicals, redirects, staging indexing, schema and CMS fields. Here's how, with 2026 data.

A traditional CMS stores content and draws the pages; a headless one only stores content. When each fits, three-year costs and what it means for SEO.

Move a content site from Next.js to Astro when it ships too much JavaScript: what maps to what, URL and redirect traps, a step-by-step plan and when to stay.

Astro needs no SEO plugin: one head component, a JSON-LD graph, honest sitemap dates and real 301s. Our site's code, and four SEO bugs we fixed in it.

Wix Studio is cheaper per site and its sites pass Core Web Vitals more often; Webflow has finer design control and a deeper CMS. A 3-year cost and a verdict.

Framer costs USD 10 or 30 a month per site billed yearly, plus USD 20 per editor. Every limit and add-on, and what three typical sites pay a year.

Contentful Lite costs USD 300 a month and holds 10,000 records; more costs USD 850. Every limit, the 2024 cuts and what the alternatives charge.

Framer vs WordPress in 2026: who should pick which, a three-year cost for a bilingual 18-page site with a blog, and what each one makes you give up.

What a bilingual 20-page site with a 300-post blog costs over three years on Webflow and WordPress, and how editing, SEO, speed and security compare.

Webflow merged its CMS and Business plans into Premium. What your site pays at renewal, with the math, and when staying beats moving to Framer or Astro.

Sanity, Contentful, Payload, Strapi and Storyblok compared on hosting, previews, translations, export and real monthly cost for 5- and 12-person teams.

Astro for sites that look the same to every visitor, Next.js for signed-in products: rendering, JavaScript, hosting and support compared.

Webflow vs Framer in 2026: who should pick which, what a 20-page site with a 300-post blog in two languages costs on each, and when to pick neither.

We made Superame’s 28.8-second commercial with Remotion. What Remotion is, how it renders, who needs a license, and when After Effects fits better.

The ways to embed a Power BI report in a website, who can see each, Microsoft's prices, the Publish to web risk and when a custom chart fits better.

When a 3D website earns its place, when video or images work better, and how we kept Janus Observatory's ten 3D worlds fast, accessible and usable.

Published prices from 12 providers put a SaaS marketing site at a median USD 8,750 to start. What drives the cost, and what it costs to run each year.

What an IDX website is, how agents get MLS listings on their site, and what IDX vendors and three MLSs charge, from prices read on 22 October 2026.

12 B2B websites read on 17 October 2026, from Stripe to GE Vernova: how each says who it's for, where it puts proof and prices, and what to copy.

We read 20 B2B SaaS pricing pages: 15 offer a free plan and all 12 billing switches open on annual. The patterns to copy and the pages a SaaS site needs.

HubSpot Content Hub Professional costs USD 5,400 a year; Webflow Premium USD 300 plus seats. CRM fit, real-user speed and a 3-year cost table.

A first web app costs from about USD 8,000 for one workflow to USD 50,000+ for an MVP with accounts and payments. Published prices, rates and the arithmetic.

Set up Cloudflare custom hostnames for your SaaS: CNAME records, fallback origin, SSL validation, 100 included hostnames, pricing and apex limits.

US agencies that publish SEO prices start at $299 to $5,000 a month; Clutch puts US firms at $100 to $149 an hour. What each price buys, and what to avoid.

Block AI training crawlers like GPTBot without leaving ChatGPT or Google search: 28 user agents from vendor docs, RFC 9309 rules and three robots.txt files.

llms.txt is a Markdown guide to your site for AI agents. Google Search ignores it; coding agents use it. The format, a template and how to validate it.

An MCP server lets Claude, ChatGPT and Copilot use your product for a signed-in user: what it is, what to expose first, the risks and whether anyone wants it.

There is no switch for appearing in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google's AI Overviews or Copilot. Here is what each platform documents about being cited, and how to measure it without guessing.

We made dardo.studio readable and callable by AI agents, one layer at a time. Here is what each layer does, who documents reading it today, and which ones we would build again.

What an SEO agency should do, what to ask before you sign, how to read a proposal and which promises are red flags, based on Google's guidance.

Set up GA4 so the numbers hold: one lead key event sent after the form succeeds, 14 months of retention, your team filtered out and consent mode set.

Published WordPress care plans cost about USD 40–360 a month and agency hour blocks USD 750–7,500, before hosting. Every tier compared, read 17 October 2026.

A UX audit checklist by area, from NN/g's 10 heuristics to funnels, five-user tests and WCAG 2.2, plus how to rank findings and published audit prices.

INP is good at 200 ms or less for 75% of visits. Find the slow tap and the script behind it with field data, then fix input delay, handlers or rendering.

WCAG 2.2 adds nine success criteria, six at Levels A and AA, and removes 4.1.1 Parsing. What each requires, how to test it and which laws name which version.

Since 28 June 2025 the EAA applies to non-EU companies selling covered services to EU consumers. Who's in scope, the microenterprise exemption and what to fix.

A VPAT is ITI's free template; completed for one product version, it becomes an Accessibility Conformance Report. Which edition to use and how to write it well.

In September 2026, a third of sites passed Core Web Vitals for mobile visitors in Colombia and Brazil, against 63% in the US. Data by country and what to do.

Vendors that publish prices put most accessibility audits between USD 1,250 and 8,000. What moves the quote, the 2026 ADA dates and how to compare proposals.

GA4 links to Google Ads and Search Console; PostHog adds replay, feature flags and experiments. Which one you need, what each costs and how to run both.

Find the failing metric and template in Search Console, fix LCP, INP and CLS by their cause, then confirm the result in field data about 28 days later.

No federal rule sets a web standard for private businesses, yet over 5,000 lawsuits were filed in 2025. What the ADA requires, why overlays fail, what to fix.