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Make the Right Thing the Easy Thing: Accessibility Controls Inside Your CMS
Publishing Workflows

Make the Right Thing the Easy Thing: Accessibility Controls Inside Your CMS

An accessibility statement and a late-stage audit will not fix everyday publishing habits. The CMS should nudge, constrain and check the basics — alt text, headings, link labels, tables and pre-publish prompts — so accessible pages are the default, not the exception.

Small Checks, Fewer Firefights: A Quarterly CMS Routine for Lean UK Web Teams
AI & Governance

Small Checks, Fewer Firefights: A Quarterly CMS Routine for Lean UK Web Teams

A ten-minute quarterly pass over admin accounts, updates, backups, forms, redirects, certificates and consent scripts can catch the boring failures before they become public incidents. Here is a repeatable routine, plus what to log and who should sign it off.

The Exit File: What a Clean CMS Handover Actually Looks Like
Migration & Replatforming

The Exit File: What a Clean CMS Handover Actually Looks Like

When an agency relationship ends, the CMS can become a locked room. This practical UK-focused guide sets out the admin, licence, code and content handover items to test before the notice period runs out.

The Consent Trail: Auditing Your CMS for Cookie Leaks in 2026
AI & Governance

The Consent Trail: Auditing Your CMS for Cookie Leaks in 2026

Cookie banners can look compliant while the CMS quietly fires tracking scripts, embeds and widgets before anyone clicks. Here is a 2026 audit plan for UK web teams working under PECR and ICO expectations.

The Year-End Content Clean-Up: How to Audit, Triage and Retire Stale Pages
AI & Governance

The Year-End Content Clean-Up: How to Audit, Triage and Retire Stale Pages

A practical, low-drama way to find outdated, duplicated and unloved pages before the Christmas change freeze. Includes a simple scoring method, ownership rules and a lightweight review workflow for UK web teams.

Seven Things to Test After the CMS Demo (Before You Sign Anything)
Migration & Replatforming

Seven Things to Test After the CMS Demo (Before You Sign Anything)

CMS demos show the best day, not the ordinary Tuesday afternoon. Here is a plain-English checklist for UK web teams weighing up editor experience, accessibility, GDPR, integrations, support and exit plans before committing.

Don't Lift and Shift: 12 Questions UK Web Teams Should Answer Before a CMS Migration
Migration & Replatforming

Don't Lift and Shift: 12 Questions UK Web Teams Should Answer Before a CMS Migration

Most CMS migrations are undone by unowned pages, missing redirects and integrations nobody tested. This checklist gives UK web teams twelve plain-English questions to settle before changing a single URL in 2026.

Before You Press Generate: What UK Web Teams Should Demand From CMS AI Assistants
AI & Governance

Before You Press Generate: What UK Web Teams Should Demand From CMS AI Assistants

AI writing tools are now standard in many CMS dashboards, but a slick demo is not a risk assessment. This practical guide covers accessibility, UK GDPR, editorial sign-off and the contract clauses worth arguing over in 2026.