Guides
Guides for your website: clear, verified answers
A website that’s too slow, a choice to make between two solutions, or simply the wish to be found more easily on Google? Each guide answers one real question, in plain words, with concrete examples and sources you can check.
I have been a web developer for more than ten years, now freelance, specialising in WordPress and PrestaShop. These guides answer the questions businesses ask me most often: building or rebuilding a website, growing an online store, speeding things up or being found more easily on Google. New guides are published regularly, in English and French.
An update broke my website: what should I do?
What to do when an update breaks your WordPress or PrestaShop website: the right reflexes, the steps to fix it and the routine to avoid the next failure.
Redesigning your website: how to keep your search rankings
What to do to keep your Google rankings during a redesign: the page inventory, the redirect plan, testing and monitoring after launch.
“There has been a critical error on this website”: what to do?
What the WordPress message “There has been a critical error on this website” means, how to get back in and fix it, step by step.
AI-generated content and images: what Google accepts, what it penalises
Google does not penalise text written with AI; it penalises mass-produced pages with no value for the reader. What it accepts, what it penalises, what it asks you to check, what Google Shopping requires and the EU rule on product photos.
WordPress maintenance: what a good contract should include
Updates, backups, security, response times: what a WordPress maintenance contract should include, and the warning signs before you sign.
Preparing your website for holiday traffic peaks: the method for Black Friday and Christmas
From Black Friday to Christmas, your online store gets far more visitors. The timeline and the method to keep it fast, stable and ready to sell.
Private aviation websites: turning flight requests into bookings
Replying within minutes, receiving complete requests, sending a quote that spells everything out and securing payment: what a private aviation website must do to turn a flight request into a booking.
My WordPress site has been hacked: what to do, and in what order?
Redirects, unknown pages, a warning from Google? The right steps when your WordPress site has been hacked: secure it, clean it up, close the security hole.
Yacht charter websites: an up-to-date fleet without retyping a thing
One source for the fleet, a real page for each yacht, a price displayed as it will be paid and a reply within the hour: what a yacht charter website must do to stay accurate everywhere, without retyping anything.
Slow website: the most common causes and how to fix them
WordPress or PrestaShop site too slow? How to measure its speed, the most common causes and the fixes, from hosting to images.
SEO basics: how to be found on Google and by AI assistants
How Google finds, understands and ranks your pages, what really matters, the mistakes to avoid, and how to appear in AI answers too.
Adding AI to your website: what is useful and what is not
Assistant, search, writing, translation: what AI can really bring to your website, how to add it, and the rules to follow in Europe.
Appearing in AI answers: what really matters
What really matters for your website to be cited by ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude or Perplexity, and how to measure your presence in their answers.
Selling through ChatGPT and Google: getting a PrestaShop or WooCommerce store ready
ChatGPT now compares products for your customers, and Google is heading the same way. Product data, crawlers, Merchant Center, AI checkout and advertising: what a PrestaShop or WooCommerce store needs to prepare, and what can wait.
Moving off WPBakery, Divi or Elementor: how to change your page builder
A slow site, pages that break without the plugin, a new version to adopt? The three options for moving off WPBakery, Divi or Elementor, and how to do it safely.
WooCommerce or PrestaShop: which one should you choose for your online store?
WooCommerce or PrestaShop? The real differences, when each one is the best choice, and three questions to choose the right solution for your store.
PrestaShop 9.2: what’s new, and should you update?
One-page checkout, custom fields, an AI assistant: what PrestaShop 9.2 changes for your store, whether you should update, and how to do it safely.
Choosing a web developer on the French Riviera: how to avoid nasty surprises
Where to find candidates, how to compare quotes, what must stay in your name and the phrases that should worry you: how to choose a web developer on the French Riviera.
Web developer in Monaco: building or improving your company website
A business in Monaco? A .mc domain name, a site in several languages, personal data: what you need to know to build or improve your website.
Migrating PrestaShop 1.7 to 8 or 9: timeline, steps and pitfalls to avoid
PrestaShop 1.7 is no longer maintained and 8.2 only receives security fixes. Which version to aim for, the steps and the pitfalls: a developer’s guide.
My WordPress developer has disappeared: how to take back control
Developer unreachable, logins lost? The right steps to take back control of your WordPress site: domain name, hosting, logins.