Getting ready for your project
Choose a one-off fix, Refresh or Rebuild
Compare three practical routes for your website, with café and trades examples, hosting differences and a checklist for choosing the right scope.
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Getting ready for your project
Prepare a website brief for your café
Prepare your café menu, opening hours, photographs and contact details so your website project starts with clear, approved information.
Getting ready for your project
Prepare a website brief for your trade business
Gather the services, coverage, job photographs and enquiry details a trades website needs, without making claims your business cannot support.
Getting ready for your project
Share website text and images safely
Organise approved website content in a small project folder, share the right links and keep customer records and account passwords out of your brief.
Getting ready for your project
List your website accounts before work starts
Identify who controls your website, domain, hosting and email before changes begin, while keeping ownership and sensitive sign-in details with you.
Getting ready for your project
Report a website issue we can investigate
Send the page, expected result, exact symptoms and safe screenshots that help PresGro investigate a website problem without guesswork.
Uploading, launch and ongoing care
How we publish your website
Understand what uploading or publishing means for an existing platform or a managed website, and why approval comes before the live change.
Uploading, launch and ongoing care
Understand your website preview
Use a website preview to review content and layout, understand what is not live yet and avoid sharing unfinished work as your public website.
Uploading, launch and ongoing care
Review your first website draft
Review a first website version in a useful order, collect one clear round of feedback and distinguish corrections from a change of scope.
Uploading, launch and ongoing care
Approve your website for launch
Work through business facts, contact routes, content permissions and account dependencies before approving your new website for publication.
Uploading, launch and ongoing care
Check your website after launch
Confirm the published website, key links and authorised enquiry tests after launch, and record any remaining issue without making conflicting changes.
Uploading, launch and ongoing care
Plan small edits on your managed website
Make useful requests within your managed website allowance, prepare approved changes and understand when a larger job needs a separate agreement.
Domains, DNS and hosting
Domains, hosting and email: what is the difference?
Find out which company looks after your web address, website and inbox, so you can ask the right person for help without moving everything.
Domains, DNS and hosting
Plan DNS changes without breaking business email
Prepare a website connection change while protecting your business inbox, existing tools and domain records. Know what to check before approval.
Domains, DNS and hosting
Nameserver change or DNS record change?
Understand two different ways to connect a website and the questions to ask before changing where your domain’s DNS records are managed.
Domains, DNS and hosting
What to do when your website shows an SSL warning
Collect useful evidence when a browser warns about your website’s connection, and know which checks are safe before asking your host for help.
Domains, DNS and hosting
A practical checklist before moving website hosting
Prepare a hosting move with a clear record of files, email, forms and important page addresses, so nothing essential is cancelled too early.
Domains, DNS and hosting
Is it DNS propagation or a different website problem?
Know when waiting after a domain change makes sense, and what evidence helps your provider distinguish DNS caching from a website fault.
Email, forms and enquiries
Your contact form says sent, but no email arrives
Follow the trail from a website confirmation to the receiving inbox, and collect the details needed to investigate missing enquiry messages.
Email, forms and enquiries
How to test your contact form without causing a fuss
Run a small, authorised contact-form check that confirms the customer experience and receiving inbox without creating real enquiries or bookings.
Email, forms and enquiries
Email button or contact form: which do you need?
Choose a simple contact route by understanding what an email button does, what a form adds and how to check the route your customers actually use.
Email, forms and enquiries
MX, SPF, DKIM and DMARC in plain English
Understand the records behind business email, what each one helps with and why a working inbox does not prove every website sender is configured.
Email, forms and enquiries
Email forwarding, aliases and mailboxes explained
Work out whether your business address is an inbox, an alias or a forwarding route, and check how customers see your replies before making changes.
Email, forms and enquiries
Booking button or embedded calendar: which fits?
Choose how to connect an existing booking tool to your website, with practical checks for mobile layout, customer clarity and third-party settings.
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