Question
Can I update the website myself?
Yes, in two ways: the site is yours, the files are handed over on request, and anyone can edit them; or you send the change to us and it is live the same day under hosting and care, in both languages on a bilingual site. Most owners choose the second, because a price changed in English and forgotten in Welsh is how a bilingual site stops being one.
Answered by Daniel Stoychev, Webso Digital · 4 September 2026
What changes, and how often
The things that change often are small: opening hours before a bank holiday, a price, a product out of stock, a new photograph of the shop, a sentence about a new service, a notice on the home page when the road is closed. They take a minute to make and they are the reason people ask the question, because on many sites they cost a phone call, a wait and an invoice.
The first way: it is your site
A site we build is yours outright, built from plain files with no platform between you and them. We hand the files over on request, show you where the words live, and anyone who can edit a text file can change a price. There is no licence, no login to a page builder, and no dependence on us. A handful of owners with someone technical in the business work this way; most do not want to, and the second way exists for them.
The second way: send it and it is live today
Under hosting and care, a change to text, a photograph, a price or an opening time is sent by WhatsApp or email and made the same working day. On a bilingual site the same change is made in Welsh at the same time, with anything longer than a line going to the translator as a pair, so the two versions never drift apart. New pages and new sections are design work and are done as a job or as part of the monthly SEO, because a page needs a title, a description, a place in the menu and the sitemap, structured data, and its Welsh twin.
Why we do not hand out a page builder
Because a page builder gives an owner the power to move a column on a Tuesday and lose the mobile layout, add a plugin that slows the site, and change a page's address so the Google result goes to a 404. The sites we audit that get no enquiries were often good sites once, edited freely for three years. Words and photographs are safe to change; the structure is not, and the arrangement above keeps the two apart.
The Welsh rule
A bilingual site has one rule for updates: nothing goes live in one language. A price is changed in both at once; a paragraph goes to the translator and both versions go live together; a new page is not published until its Welsh twin exists. For a public body this is what no less favourably means in practice, and for everyone else it is the difference between a bilingual site and an English site with an old Welsh version attached.
Related questions
- Do I need training?
- If you take the files, twenty minutes on a call at launch and a one-page note on where the words live. If you send changes to us, none.
- What if a change goes wrong?
- The daily backup under the care plan puts the site back to the day before. A change we make is tested on a phone before it goes live.