Blogs and cases on digital growth for SMEs

Can you create a good business website yourself today using AI or a free website builder? Yes, you can—but not for every project. Find out when building it yourself is sufficient and when strategy, professional web design, SEO, technical expertise, and guidance add more value.

Joomla is more than just a CMS for standard business websites. Thanks to its flexible content management, multilingual capabilities, user permissions, workflows, and extensibility, the platform is also suitable for portals, document databases, and custom digital solutions. Find out when Joomla is the right fit for your project.

Regular Joomla updates help resolve known security issues and keep your website stable and compatible. Find out why extensions, templates, PHP, and hosting also require maintenance, and how a professional update can prevent problems.

Are you torn between a standard web package, a hybrid website, and a fully custom solution? In this article, you’ll discover the differences in price, design, features, planning, maintenance, and growth potential. This will help you choose a professional business website that meets your current needs and supports your future goals.

Joomla 5 is still supported, but now is the time to start preparing for your upgrade to Joomla 6. Find out when it’s best to make the switch, what technical checks are required, and why extensions, templates, hosting, and customizations must be thoroughly tested first.

Too many WordPress plugins can make your website slower, more complex, and harder to secure. However, there is no ideal maximum number. The quality, functionality, and technical impact of each plugin are more important than the total number. Learn how to evaluate plugins and safely streamline them.

A beautiful website makes a strong first impression, but that’s not enough to attract customers. Your website also needs to be easy to find, clear, fast, and user-friendly. Discover how SEO, content, trust, and conversion work together—and what improvements can help your website deliver better results.

A WordPress website requires regular technical maintenance. Updates alone are not enough. Professional WordPress maintenance also includes backups, security checks, monitoring, and testing of key features. This reduces the risk of outages and ensures your website remains reliable for visitors and employees.

From 17 August, we will be carrying out a phased upgrade of our servers to MariaDB 11.8. You do not need to do anything. Your website and data will remain on the same hosting environment. The upgrade will be carried out over a period of approximately three months, and each server will be checked once the upgrade is complete.

Are you unsure whether to go for a website, an online shop or a catalogue? LOFT 33 explains the differences and helps you choose the solution that best suits your sales process.

The serious wp2shell vulnerability highlights why you should regularly update and check your WordPress website. Find out why updates alone are not always enough, and how continuous monitoring helps to detect malware, suspicious changes and potential attacks more quickly.

Your website is the first point of contact with a potential customer, but how do you know when it’s time for a revamp? Discover the clearest signs and find out which approach is best suited to the situation.

Bing Places for Business determines how your business appears in Bing Search and Bing Maps. LOFT 33 explains how to claim, verify and optimise your listing.

A Google Business Profile helps local businesses gain visibility on Google Search and Google Maps. Find out how to complete your profile correctly, collect reviews and reach more local customers.

Joomla is an open-source CMS that gives small and medium-sized businesses full control over their platform, data, and provider. LOFT 33 explains when Joomla is the right choice and what that means in practice.

An SEO audit identifies what’s preventing your website from ranking higher on Google. LOFT 33 explains what’s examined and what benefits it offers.

Google is increasingly providing direct answers to search queries without users needing to click through. What this shift means for your SME website and what you can do right now.

An AI assistant on your website that talks to visitors, or making your website findable for ChatGPT, or both. What the options are and what works for your SME.

AI is changing how people search and which websites they see. What that means for your SME website in Belgium, and what you can do about it.

Google is no longer the only gateway to your customers. Discover what GEO optimization is and why SMEs investing now are building a lead that will be harder to match later.