Guides to help you choose
How to build your site, what it costs, who to hand it to. Comparisons, not articles.
Each guide compares the ways of doing the same thing: rebuilding a site that runs on a subscription, starting one from scratch, handing the work to someone or keeping it yourself. You get a table with the first-year cost, the time it takes, who does the work, and who fixes it when it breaks.
Prices come from public pricing pages, with the date they were checked at the bottom. When a price is not public, the cell stays empty instead of being estimated. Vicou Studio appears in the comparisons, in its place and with its limits: every guide also says when I am not the right answer. It is written for a shop owner, a tradesperson or a freelancer who has to decide once, without spending their evenings on it.
The guides
Ordered from most useful to most specific, not by date.Shopify or WooCommerce: the difference is who takes a cut
Five ways to sell online, compared on what each one takes from every sale. Fees, ownership, and who does the setup. Prices checked, blank when not public.
Moving a Wix site to WordPress: nothing actually migrates
Nothing migrates: the design does not travel. Five ways out of Wix compared, and the year a rebuild actually pays for itself in the United States.
Getting access to your own website when somebody else holds it
Four accounts decide whether the site is yours: registrar, hosting, admin, DNS. Five ways out, what each costs, and the one that needs nobody's help.
Where to start
Entry points depending on where you already are. The full list stays above.