By Dakota Hagler, web designer at HaglerDesigns (Longview, TX) Key takeaways Google’s 2026 review policy banned three common practices that East Texas small businesses have been doing for years. Review gating — quietly steering happy customers to public reviews and unhappy ones to a feedback form — is now actively enforced against. Asking customers to…
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By Dakota Hagler, web designer at HaglerDesigns (Longview, TX) Key takeaways The LCP target dropped from 2.5s to 2.0s in March 2026 — what passed in 2025 may fail in 2026. Only about 44% of WordPress sites on mobile were already passing the old 2.5s threshold. The fix is usually the hero image and the…
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By Dakota Hagler, web designer at HaglerDesigns (Longview, TX) Key takeaways Most small-business sites fail on fundamentals, not design taste. The big five failures: unclear message, slow speed, no mobile focus, no SEO, no clear action. The sites that win are simple, fast, and focused. Failure is usually fixable without a huge budget. Walk through…
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By Dakota Hagler, web designer at HaglerDesigns (Longview, TX) Key takeaways A website is a sales tool, not a brochure — judge it by leads, not looks. Five things do the heavy lifting: clarity, speed, trust, SEO, and one obvious next step. Most sites fail on the basics, not the fancy stuff. Built right, it…
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Every AI image, chatbot reply, and “smart” feature runs somewhere physical: a data center. In 2026, those buildings have become one of the most contested topics in tech — and it quietly touches every website owner. The boom nobody voted for The race to power AI has triggered an unprecedented data-center buildout. Communities are pushing…
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