Guides

Does your website have to be ADA compliant?Small business owners really do get demand letters over their websites. What Title III actually covers, why courts disagree, WCAG 2.1 AA, and what to fix first.Read the guide → What privacy policy does a small business website actually need?No federal law requires one. CCPA has thresholds most small shops miss. New York's SHIELD Act applies to nearly everyone. What yours needs, plus a checklist.Read the guide → Do you need a cookie banner on your website?Short answer for most US small businesses: no. But advertising pixels change that. What ePrivacy, GDPR and state privacy laws actually require, in plain English.Read the guide → The legal basics of running an online storeRefund policies, FTC shipping deadlines, auto-renewals, junk fees, sales tax nexus, PCI and allergen labeling — the rules a kosher online store has to get right.Read the guide → Email and text message marketing: the rules that actually biteEmail needs no opt-in. A marketing text without written consent can cost $500 a message. What CAN-SPAM and the TCPA really require before your next Yom Tov blast.Read the guide →

Building a website in Yiddish and Hebrew: what actually goes wrongWhy Hebrew and Yiddish sites break: mirrored layouts, prices rendering backwards, fonts with no Hebrew letters, broken search, and translation that reads wrong.Read the guide → Delivery zones, minimums and cutoffs for a kosher groceryFlat-rate delivery quietly loses money. How to draw zones by zip, set minimums and fees per zone, run cutoffs and windows, and survive the erev Yom Tov rush.Read the guide → Running an online store that closes for Shabbos and Yom TovWhy a fixed Friday 5pm cutoff is wrong most of the year, and how a frum store closes properly: real zmanim, Yom Tov, delivery dates, and automated emails.Read the guide → Photographing food, seforim and judaica for your websiteBad product photos read as a store nobody trusts. How to shoot food, seforim and packaged goods with a phone, a window and $60 of gear — and size the files right.Read the guide →

WordPress or a custom-built site: which does your business need?From a studio that builds both: what each really costs, where plugins bite, the middle-ground options, and five questions that settle it for your own business.Read the guide → What should a business website actually cost?Why quotes differ tenfold, real ranges for template and custom builds, the ongoing costs owners miss, and the contract clause that matters more than the price.Read the guide → Why a slow website costs you salesYour customers never tell you the page was slow, they just leave. The real causes, why images come first, and how to measure and fix your store for free.Read the guide →