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Guides and notes, weekly.
Plain-language answers to the questions owners actually ask, plus working notes from real builds. A new article lands every week.
This is the Droom blog: guides on owning and running a small business website, and notes from the workshop about how the sites here get built. Everything is written from work we have actually done, and each article says what it is based on.
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Notes · 14 Aug 2026
Designing for the 2am call: build notes from a restoration siteBuild notes from a fictional 24-hour restoration site: the dispatch board, the call button, the colours chosen for a dark room, and what we left out.
Notes · 14 Aug 2026
The fixed-fee ledger: build notes from a family law siteHow the Alderwood concept build states its price before it asks for anything: a hairline ledger, paper and pine, and every legal cliché left out.
Guides · 14 Aug 2026
Your web designer disappeared. Here is how to get your site back.A step-by-step rescue checklist: find your domain, hosting and files without the missing designer, and how to make sure this never happens again.
Guides · 14 Aug 2026
Who actually owns your domain name?Your domain is the one part of a website that cannot be rebuilt. A plain-language WHOIS check, the .ca and CIRA rules, and the vendor red flags.
Guides · 14 Aug 2026
Who owns your website’s files, and would you get them if you asked?Source files versus the live site, what a real handover contains, how to ask your designer for a copy without drama, and the contract lines to check.
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Last updated 2026-08-07