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Website edits, part by part

You mark the part of the page you want changed and write what to fit. The line is priced by the characters you wrote, a person fits it, and the before and after comes back signed.

How marking works

Paste the address of a page, or drop a zip of the built site. The page is laid on the bench, and the loupe magnifies the part under the pointer with its selector engraved beneath.

A click drops a numbered pin into that part and writes line 1 on the sheet. The number on the pin and the number on the line are the same, so the fitter knows which part every line is about.

Up to twenty pins on one sheet. A pin with nothing written on it stays in pencil and is not charged.

  1. Mark

    The loupe over the part, and the pin it drops.

    The sample page on the bench with numbered pins dropped on its headline and its button
    Screenshot of the bench on this site

  2. Price

    The line written, counted and priced as you type.

    The service sheet with two written lines, each with its character count and price, and the total
    Screenshot of the service sheet
3 centsa character

$29 minimum, once per sheet

The price is the words

Each line costs the characters of its note at the catalogue's rate. The rate comes from the catalogue on the day, not from this page, and the sheet shows it again on every keystroke.

“Change the opening hours to 7 to 18, Monday to Saturday” is 55 characters, so that line is $1.65. The $29 minimum is charged once for the whole sheet, never per line.

The whole sheet is paid by card before anyone touches the page. The total cannot grow after that.

Website maintenance cost for a small business, in numbers: Read the guide

What a person does

A fitter opens the page with your pins on it and the sheet beside it. Each line is fitted in the page's own files, by hand or with the machine taking the note as its brief, and a person looks at every part before it is marked fitted.

While a part is out for fitting, your sheet says so on that line and the page shows a labelled gap where the part sits.

  1. Fitted by a person

    The fitter's bench: each line with its tools.

    A line out for fitting on the fitter's bench, with the tools to fit it
    Screenshot of the fitter's bench

  2. Measured and signed

    Delivered: every part fitted, the card signed.

    The signed warranty card hung under a delivered sheet, with its proof hash and the verify link
    Screenshot of the customer's console

The credit rule

  1. The fitter may only lower a line's price, never raise it. A part that turns out simpler than priced is lowered, and the difference comes back to your account as credit.
  2. A part that cannot be fitted is dropped with the reason written on its line, and its whole price comes back as credit.
  3. Credit is taken off your next invoice by itself. There is never a top-up and never a second charge for the same sheet.

The before and after, and the card

On delivery the page is shot before and after, the text of every part is recorded on both sides, and the record is signed. The sheet carries a before and after switch and the card with its verify link.

Warranty card

No card to show yet: the first signed sheet puts one here.

What cannot be marked

  1. A page put on the bench by its address is a still: its scripts are stripped, so a menu that opens by script or a form that answers is not there to mark. Drop a zip of the built site to mark those.
  2. A page behind a sign-in cannot be fetched. Drop its built files instead.
  3. A page on the bench is kept for seven days. A sheet not paid by then is cleared with it; a paid sheet keeps its page until it is delivered.

Put your site on the bench

Paste the address of the page. It is laid under the loupe, you mark the parts, and the sheet prices each line as you write it.

Service sheet

New sheet

The page lands on the bench under the loupe. Nothing is charged until you pay for the sheet.

Or open the bench and drop a zip of the built site