Most website problems do not start with a big mistake. They start when nobody has logged in for months. A plugin falls out of date. A backup quietly stops running. Then a customer mentions that the site looks broken. Simplified Internet Design offers website design in Burtchville Township, MI with that in mind. We build your site, and then we keep it backed up, updated, and watched.
What happens to a website nobody checks
A website is not like a printed sign that stays the same once it goes up. The software behind it keeps changing, and older versions can become easy targets. Common problems on sites that have been left alone include:
- Out-of-date plugins or themes that open the door to spam pages or a hacked home page.
- A backup that stopped working long ago, or one that only lives on the same server as the site.
- An expired security certificate, so visitors see a warning before the page even loads.
- A contact form that broke after an update, so requests never arrive.
- A site that went down over a weekend, and nobody knew until Monday.
None of these are rare, and most of them can be prevented with a little routine care. Our article on protecting your website from hackers covers the basics in more detail.
Backups you can actually restore
A backup only helps if you can get your site back from it. So we keep copies in more than one place, including somewhere other than your web server. That way, a server problem does not take your backups down with it.
We also check that a backup can be restored, instead of assuming it works. If something goes wrong, we can usually roll the site back to a clean copy. To see what that looks like, read our post on what to do when your website crashed walks through it. For the technical side, WordPress keeps its own handbook page on website backups.
Updates, security, and uptime monitoring
Updates fix bugs and close security holes, but they can also break things. For that reason, we back up first, update, and then check that your pages and forms still work.
Along with updates, we can set up:
- Uptime monitoring, so we hear about it quickly when your site goes down.
- Security monitoring and spam protection for your forms and login page.
- Automatic renewal for your security certificate, so the padlock stays on. Our guide to the “Not Secure” warning explains why that matters.
Not sure which of these your host already handles? Our article on what website hosting actually includes is a good place to start.
Ready before your busy season
Plenty of businesses get most of their calls during one part of the year. The risk is that the website sits untouched during the slow months. Then the first busy week is when you find a problem. A quick check before your season starts helps avoid that.
Before your busy stretch, we confirm your backups, updates, forms, hours, and prices are all in order. Then you can spend that time answering calls instead of fixing the website.
Website design in Burtchville Township, MI and nearby
Burtchville Township is a civil township in St. Clair County with 4,077 residents at the 2020 Census. It takes its name from lumberman Jonathon Burtch, who settled there in 1840. The township includes Lakeport, an unincorporated community on the Lake Huron shore next to Lakeport State Park. North Lakeport sits about a mile north.
We build new websites for businesses and organizations across St. Clair County, and we take over care of existing ones too. Our website design services page explains how a project works, and our portfolio shows sites we have built.
Nearby, we also offer website design in Fort Gratiot and Port Huron. To see every community we cover, visit our Service Areas page.
Get a free backup and security check
Call 810-637-1849 or use our contact form. Send us your website address. We will check your last backup, your software updates, and your security certificate renewal. Then we will tell you plainly what needs attention first.