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More than a CRM: the custom hub built around our business, with a map of DG Hub connecting leads, audits, support, invoices, hosting, tasks and client reports
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Featured
Studio
Web Design

More than a CRM: the custom hub built around our business.

DG Hub is the custom business hub behind Dinsmore Graphics: leads, audits, support, invoices, hosting, tasks and client reports, built around how we work.

Nov 3, 2026
9 min read
built around our business.
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How to add your Instagram feed to your website, without a monthly fee: the salon's Instagram grid on a phone beside its website feed
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Guides
Web Design

How to add your Instagram feed to your website, without a monthly fee.

How to put your Instagram feed on your website, why feeds stopped working in 2024, and how we built Salon Bravissimo a faster feed with no subscription.

Oct 30, 2026
9 min read
without a monthly fee.
A frame from the Dinsmore Graphics logo animation, a gold and blue D mark, above a simplified After Effects timeline with layers, keyframes and a playhead
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Guides
Video & Motion

What does logo animation cost, and how is it made?

Most logo animations take 2 to 10 hours: from $150 pay as you go or one $550 block. See how one is made, what changes the price, and the files you get.

Oct 30, 2026
9 min read
logo animation
A Dinsmore Hosting receipt listing email, cPanel, free SSL, moving help, a real person and a money-back guarantee as included, totaling 150 dollars a year, every year
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Guides
Web Hosting

What your web hosting should include, and what cheap hosting leaves out.

What small business web hosting should include, what cheap hosting leaves out, and how to compare plans by the price you pay every year, not the first.

Oct 30, 2026
9 min read
leaves out.
The Dinsmore Graphics logo enlarged: a blurry PNG on the left of a line, the sharp SVG on the right
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Guides
Logo Design

What logo files do you need, and why is yours blurry?

Which logo files you need, which one to send a printer, sign shop or website, and why your logo looks blurry, with our real 11-file kit as the example.

Oct 30, 2026
9 min read
blurry?
A live dgnow.net guide shown as its page code, with the headline line highlighted: what Google reads first
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Guides
Web Design

I built my site with ChatGPT. Why isn’t it on Google?

Made your site with ChatGPT or an AI builder and Google can't find it? The five usual reasons, how to check each one free, and how to fix them.

Oct 30, 2026
9 min read
Google?
An email from Dinsmore Graphics passing SPF, DKIM and DMARC checks and landing in the inbox instead of spam
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Guides
Web Hosting

Why are my business emails going to spam?

Why business emails and website form emails land in spam, how to check yours in two minutes, and the three short records that fix it, with our own as the example.

Oct 29, 2026
9 min read
spam?
ChatGPT naming Hair By Behnaz the top pick for a bob haircut, next to her Google Analytics visits by channel with the AI Assistant row highlighted
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Guides
SEO & AI Search

How to see if ChatGPT is sending you customers.

How to find ChatGPT and other AI visits in Google Analytics, why the number is lower than the truth, and how to tell visits from customers, with a real salon's numbers.

Oct 29, 2026
9 min read
ChatGPT
An ownership checklist with six lines ticked: domain, hosting, website files, logins, Google Business Profile, Search Console and Analytics
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Guides
Web Design

Who owns my website? What to do when your web designer disappears.

What you really own, how to find out who holds each piece, how to get each one back, and how to keep it all in your name.

Oct 29, 2026
9 min read
disappears.
Three real builds in device frames: dgnow.net on WordPress, the hand-coded wrap visualizer and the KandyMan Shopify store
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Guides
Web Design

WordPress, Shopify or hand-coded: which is right for your business?

What WordPress, Shopify and hand-coded sites are each built for, what each costs to run, and three real builds, one on each.

Oct 29, 2026
10 min read
hand-coded
Mix-and-match pricing on Shopify, without an app. A guide from Dinsmore Graphics
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Guides
Shopify Stores

Mix-and-match pricing on Shopify, without an app.

How a real candy store runs five mix-and-match deals on Shopify with no app, how to set yours up, and when an app really is the better choice.

Oct 29, 2026
9 min read
without an app.
New logo or logo refresh: which does your business need? A guide from Dinsmore Graphics
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Guides
Logo Design

New logo or logo refresh: which does your business need?

Signs a refresh is enough, signs you need a new logo, a five-minute test, a real before and after, costs, and what to update after.

Oct 29, 2026
8 min read
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Client work
Web Design

Built: a wrap visualizer for Visible Auto Lab.

Customers try 261 real 3M and Avery Dennison wrap films on ten popular cars before they book. Coming with Visible's new website.

Oct 29, 2026
8 min read
Custom development
Visible Auto Lab.
How to get your business recommended by ChatGPT, with real ChatGPT answers naming Dinsmore Graphics clients
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Guides
SEO & AI Search

How to get your business recommended by ChatGPT and Google’s AI.

Where AI answers come from, real ChatGPT answers naming our clients, and the steps that get your business recommended.

Oct 29, 2026
9 min read
ChatGPT
How much does a small business website cost? A guide by Dinsmore Graphics
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Guides
Web Design

How much does a small business website cost?

Starter sites begin at about 20 hours. Here is what moves that number, and how hourly billing and prepaid blocks work.

Oct 29, 2026
8 min read
cost?
The live hours report in a browser window, showing 75.25 hours to date and 117 of 134 tasks complete
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Studio

Every project gets a live hours report.

How time is tracked at the studio, what the live report and work summary show, and where AI keeps the project on track.

Oct 29, 2026
8 min read
report.
The white Dinsmore Graphics logo on the dark blue glow
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News

The new dgnow.net is live.

A page for every service with real work and prices, live client reports, a two-minute quote form, and a blog, starting with this post.

Oct 30, 2026
9 min read
live.

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