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Web design agencies: problems we solve

27 problems web design agencies bring us, each with the cause, what it costs and what we build to fix it.

Web design agencies problems

27 articles

Our Website Projects Keep Stalling Because Clients Never Send Their Copy and Images. How Do We Get Content in on Time?

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Web design agencies watch projects stall waiting for client copy, photos and product data. We build a content collection portal with page-by-page tracking.

The Client Signed Off the Design, Then Wanted Changes During the Build. How Do We Make Sign-Off Stages Stick?

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Web design clients sign off wireframes and designs, then reopen them mid-build. We build staged sign-off with a record of exactly what was approved and when.

Clients Keep Asking for "Small Tweaks" While We Build Their Website. How Do We Log, Price and Approve Them Properly?

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Web design agencies absorb change requests mid-build because they arrive as small tweaks by email. We build a change log with quick quotes and client approval.

We Look After Dozens of Client WordPress Sites. How Do We Keep Plugins and Core Updated Without Breaking Them or Losing a Day Each Week?

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Web design agencies update plugins across many client WordPress sites by hand and find breakages later. We build tested update runs with visual checks.

We Registered Domains for Clients Years Ago. How Do We Stop One Expiring and Taking a Client's Website and Email Down?

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Web design agencies hold client domains across registrars with renewals on old cards. We build a domain register with expiry alerts and ownership records.

We Host Client Sites and Rebill Them Yearly, but Nobody Knows Who Is on Which Plan. How Do We Get Hosting Billing Right?

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Web design agencies host client sites on shared servers and rebill yearly from memory. We build a hosting register that links sites, plans, costs and invoices.

Our Maintenance Plans Include Some Support Time, but Clients Email Requests Whenever They Like. How Do We Track It Against the Plan?

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Web design agency maintenance plans include support hours that clients use through ad hoc emails. We build a request desk that tracks time against each plan.

We Get Downtime Alerts for Client Sites Around the Clock. How Do We Make Sure the Right Person Acts and the Client Hears From Us First?

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Web design agencies get a flood of downtime alerts for client sites and nobody owns them. We route alerts by site and plan and track each incident to close.

Client Feedback on Our Staging Sites Comes as Long Emails and Vague Screenshots. How Do We Get Clear, Actionable Comments?

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Web design agencies get staging feedback as vague emails and screenshots. We build on-page comments that capture the page, device and browser for each note.

After Launch We Keep Finding Things We Forgot: Redirects, Analytics, Noindex Still On. How Do We Make Go-Live Checks Reliable?

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Web design agencies miss redirects, analytics or a noindex tag on launch day. We build an automated go-live check that tests the live site before sign-off.

Contact Forms on Client Sites We Built Stop Delivering and Nobody Notices. How Do We Catch It Across All Our Sites?

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Contact forms on client sites stop delivering after mail changes, and web design agencies hear weeks later. We monitor form delivery across all client sites.

Our Website Projects Are Billed in Stages, but Invoices Go Out Late and Final Payments Drag After Launch. How Do We Fix It?

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Web design agencies bill projects in stages but invoices lag milestones and final payments drag after launch. We tie invoices to stage sign-off.

Our Website Quotes Are Based on Gut Feel and We Keep Underquoting. How Do We Estimate From What Past Projects Actually Took?

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Web design agencies quote new sites on gut feel and underquote the same parts each time. We build an estimator from your own past project time data.

Website Enquiries Say "We Need a New Site" and Little Else. How Do We Get the Right Information Before We Write a Proposal?

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Web design agencies write proposals from vague enquiries and discover the real scope later. We build a discovery questionnaire that captures scope up front.

Our Developers Keep Finding Gaps in the Figma Designs: No Mobile Views, No Hover States, No Error Messages. How Do We Hand Over Properly?

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Web design agency developers find gaps in Figma files at build time: missing mobile views, states and edge cases. We build a handover check before build starts.

Freelance Developers Need Access to Client Servers and WordPress Admins. How Do We Grant It Safely and Take It Back Afterwards?

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Web design agencies share client server and admin logins with freelance developers and rarely take them back. We build access granted and removed per job.

We Back Up All Our Client Sites, but We Have Never Actually Restored One to Check. How Do We Know the Backups Work?

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Web design agencies back up client sites but rarely test a restore, and find broken backups in a crisis. We build scheduled restore tests with a record.

When We Take Over a Client Site Another Developer Built, How Do We Find the Problems Before We Agree a Maintenance Price?

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Web design agencies take over sites built elsewhere and find the problems after pricing a plan. We build an intake audit that checks the site before you quote.

After Launch, Clients Keep Emailing to Ask How to Add a Blog Post or Change an Image. How Do We Stop Answering the Same Questions?

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Web design agency clients ask how to edit their site again and again after launch. We build a per-site help library and assistant from your own build notes.

We Use Premium Plugins on Client Sites Under Our Own Licences. How Do We Track Them, Renew Them and Recharge Them?

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Web design agencies run premium plugins on client sites under agency licences, and lose track of renewals and recharges. We build a licence register.

A Prospect Asks When We Could Start Their Website. How Do We Give an Honest Date Without Guessing at Our Capacity?

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Web design agencies promise start dates without seeing real capacity, then juggle overlapping projects. We build a forward view of team capacity by role.

A Plugin Vulnerability Is Announced. How Do We Quickly Tell Which of Our Client Sites Are Affected?

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Web design agencies cannot quickly say which client sites run a given plugin, PHP version or host. We build a live inventory of every site's stack.

Clients Pay for Our Website Maintenance Plans but Never See What We Do. How Do We Show Them Without Writing Reports by Hand?

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Web design agency maintenance work is invisible to clients, so plans get cancelled at renewal. We build monthly reports from your update and backup logs.

Years After Launch, a Client Receives a Claim for an Image on Their Site. How Do We Keep Proof of Licences for Every Photo and Font We Use?

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Web design agencies use stock photos and web fonts on client sites but keep no licence records. We build a record linking each asset to its licence and site.

A Client Is Moving Their Website to Another Agency. How Do We Hand Everything Over Cleanly Without Losing Days to It?

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When a client leaves, web design agencies scramble to hand over hosting, domains, files and logins. We build an exit checklist generated from your site records.

We Only Find Out a Fixed-Price Website Project Is Over Budget at the End. How Do We See It While There Is Still Time to Act?

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Web design agencies find fixed-price projects over budget only at launch. We build a live burn view of hours against each stage's budget with early warnings.

Moving Hundreds of Pages and Blog Posts From a Client's Old Site Into the New Build Is Eating Our Project. How Do We Do It Properly?

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Web design agencies copy old site pages and posts into new builds by hand. We build migration scripts with content mapping, redirects and a check for gaps.