Hiring a WordPress Consultant: Your Essential Guide to Finding the Right Expert
As a website and content management platform, WordPress can be a joy to use. It’s relatively user-friendly, and allows most small business owners to edit their website content without having to hire a professional WordPress consultant. However, WordPress can also come with its challenges. Plugins, security, updates, content management, backups, PHP errors and small business […]
7 Reasons For A Small Business Website Redesign
Even the most aesthetically pleasing and user-friendly small business websites eventually need a facelift. At hypersite, we recommend a small business website redesign every 30 months max (approximately 2.5 years). At face value, this may seem quick. But unlike certain industries that seem to never change, or change very little through the years (think plumbing, […]
The Top 10 Web Design Trends in 2026 (For Small Business Websites)
Quick Answer The web design trends that matter most for small business websites in 2026 are: dark mode support, microinteractions and subtle animation, AI-powered chat and personalization, minimalist design with bold typography, accessibility-first design, spatial and immersive elements, glassmorphism, data visualization, voice interface compatibility, and sustainability-conscious design. You don’t need to implement all ten — […]
10 Small Business Website Checklist Wins
Quick Answer The 10 most impactful things a small business can do to improve their website are: lead with clear, benefit-focused brand messaging; optimize for mobile; implement on-page SEO basics; improve site speed; simplify navigation; publish high-quality content regularly; use a strong, specific call to action on every page; invest in clean visual design; build […]
10 Great jQuery Plugins for Web Developers
Of the jQuery plugins that were popular a decade-plus ago, the ones still worth using for web developers in 2026 are the ones solving problems CSS and native JavaScript still do not fully cover: image cropping (Cropper.js), carousels (Swiper), and accessible tabs (jQuery UI Tabs, still maintained). These plugins became essential in front-end work because […]