Insights
Website Ownership
Clear explanations of domains, hosting, WordPress, Advanced Custom Fields, editing access, licensing, maintenance, and long-term control.
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What’s the difference between a domain, hosting, and your website?
Three separate things that most people meet as one bill. What each one actually does, who should control it, and what happens to each if you ever change agencies.
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Do you actually own your business website?
Owning a website means more than having a login. The domain, the hosting, the code, the content and the accounts are separate assets with separate answers, and the time to learn those answers is before the project starts rather than after you decide to leave.
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What should your team be able to edit on its own website?
A website nobody can update stops reflecting the business. A website everybody can rearrange stops looking like one. Here's where the line usually belongs, and how to decide it for your own team.
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Why does At The Meridian build strategic websites with WordPress?
We build a lot with WordPress, but the goal of a project is never to find a reason to use it. Here's what the platform actually buys an established service business, where it earns its place, and when we'd recommend something else.
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What are Advanced Custom Fields, and why do we use them?
There's a difference between owning your website and having to rebuild it every time you edit it. Structured fields are how a custom site stays easy to update and hard to break, explained without the developer vocabulary.