Should You Pay Monthly Or Pay Upfront For A Website?
Not sure whether to pay monthly or upfront for a business website? Here is a plain-English guide to the pros, trade-offs, and questions worth asking before you choose.
Read articleOur Blog
Fresh advice, practical updates, and helpful website tips
Articles from the guys at Rain Drop on practical web design, fast UK hosting, straightforward SEO, and getting small businesses online with less stress.
We write for small businesses across the UK, including those close to us in Blackpool and the Fylde Coast: useful advice, honest explanations, and the occasional reminder that a website should make life easier, not add another job to your week.
If you are local, you may also want to see our Blackpool web design offer.
Latest article
Should You Pay Monthly Or Pay Upfront For A Website?
Not sure whether to pay monthly or upfront for a business website? Here is a plain-English guide to the pros, trade-offs, and questions worth asking before you choose.
Read the latest postAll posts
Useful advice, recent work and bits worth sharing
Showing 1-12 of 71 articles
Why AI Website Builders Fall Short for Business Websites
AI website builders can look impressive at first, but business websites need strategy, testing, experience, and human judgement. Here is why a proper web designer still matters.
Read article
What Pages Should a Small Business Website Include?
Planning a small business website? Here are the core pages most local businesses need, what each page should do, and when extra pages are worth adding.
Read article
How to Make Your Website More Useful in AI Search Results
AI search is changing how people find local businesses. Here is how to make your website clearer, more useful and easier for search engines to understand without chasing gimmicks.
Read article
What Content Do You Need Before a Web Designer Can Start?
Not sure what to prepare before speaking to a web designer? This practical checklist covers the words, photos, branding and business details that help a website project get moving.
Read article
How to Tell If Your Website Is Out of Date
Not sure whether your website needs a refresh? Here are the common signs that a business website is starting to feel outdated, from slow loading and poor mobile usability to old content and weak trust signals.
Read article
Are Websites Still Needed in the Era of AI?
AI search is changing how people find local businesses, but websites still matter. Here is why your site now needs to work as a trusted source for AI answers.
Read article
Banana 4 Scale: The Website for Measuring Ridiculous Things in Bananas
We recently built Banana 4 Scale, a very silly but surprisingly fast website for measuring places, planets, dinosaurs, sea creatures and more in bananas.
Read article
Introducing Lighthouse Sites: Affordable Monthly Static Websites for Small Businesses
Lighthouse Sites are affordable monthly static websites for small businesses that want a fast, professional online presence without a large upfront web design cost.
Read article
Website Trends That Need to Disappear
Some web design trends look flashy but hurt speed, usability, trust, and enquiries. Here are the website trends local businesses should leave behind.
Read article
Why Your Competitor Is Ranking Above You on Google
Wondering why a competitor appears above your business on Google? Here are the common reasons, from website speed and mobile usability to local SEO, content, trust signals, and Google Business Profile activity.
Read article
5 Reasons Your Website Is Losing You Customers
Your website could be costing you enquiries without you realising. Here are five common reasons local business websites lose customers, from slow loading times to weak trust signals.
Read article