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01 / 21

Strategy · 10 min read

Most websites are designed from a guess. The first meeting should end with decisions.

A brief made of four adjectives leaves the designer to fill in the rest, and the client pays for it in revisions. Every question in a first meeting should settle one decision instead.

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Most websites are designed from a guess. The first meeting should end with decisions.

A brief made of four adjectives leaves the designer to fill in the rest, and the client pays for it in revisions. Every question in a first meeting should settle one decision instead.

From January, leaving your website builder is free. Your website stays behind.

Six years of pages, a shop and a portfolio went in, and the export file that comes out holds one blog. From 12 January 2027 the EU Data Act bars switching charges, but not what stays behind.

Carrefour met 71% of the accessibility criteria. A court said that is not accessible.

A score on a dashboard was Carrefour's defence in court, and the judge did not accept a partly accessible checkout. The European Accessibility Act has applied since 28 June 2025.

A website is software. Half the PHP web has stopped getting security fixes.

The site still loads, so nobody checks it, while the parts it is built from lose their support one date at a time. About half of PHP websites already run a version its developers no longer patch.

The outgoing board still has the keys

A board handover is incomplete until the incoming team controls the domain, website, shared inbox, payment platform and member records, and the departing team has lost access it no longer needs. A password document does not prove that.

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