A Gallery That Does Not Slow the Page Down: The Salon Setup
Salon websites are galleries, and galleries are why they fail Google's speed thresholds. How to build one that shows two hundred pieces of work and still.
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Salons: what we have had to fix
20 write-ups from production, newest first. Each one is a problem hit on a real project and how it was diagnosed and fixed.
A Price List You Edit Yourself: The Salon Website Setup
How to build a salon price list as services with price fields the manager edits in seconds, grouped by category.
Best Booking Systems for Salons: Fresha, Booksy, Vagaro
Fresha, Booksy, Vagaro, Timely, Phorest and Square Appointments compared for salons and barbershops on the things that matter for a website: embed quality.
The Best Salon Websites in 2026, and What They Share
Not the prettiest salon websites; the ones that fill chairs. The nine traits they share in 2026, from stylist-level booking to a fast gallery and visible.
Book From Any Service, Any Stylist: The Salon Setup
How to wire a salon website so every service page, stylist profile and gallery image leads to the booking platform with the right choice already made.
Can We Show Prices and Update Them Ourselves? For Salons
Yes to both, and here is how it works: prices as fields on service records the manager edits in seconds, what appears where.
Can We Take Deposits? The Answer for Salons and Barbers
Yes, through your booking platform, and how: deposits versus card capture, which platforms support each, how much to take, which appointments to apply it to.
DMs Asking 'Do You Have Anything Saturday?': The Website Fix
The Instagram DM asking about availability is a booking that went to the wrong place. How to route it to the website's live booking: the bio link.
The 8 Pages a Salon Website Needs, and What Goes on Each
The eight kinds of page a salon or barbershop website needs to fill chairs and rank for services, what belongs on each, what to leave off.
Embedding Fresha on a Salon Website Without Slowing It Down
How to put Fresha's online booking on a salon website so clients book in one tap with their stylist chosen and the site stays fast: link versus embed.
No-Shows Eating a Day a Week: What a Salon Website Can Do
No-shows and late cancellations cost a busy salon a chair-day a week. The three levers the website and booking flow control: deposits.
The Price List Is a Photo of a Printed Card: The Website Fix
A photographed price card is unreadable on a phone, invisible to search, and out of date within months.
Salon Website Checklist: The 6 Things It Must Do
Six tests for a salon or barbershop website, each runnable on your phone in a minute, with what a pass and a fail look like and the fix for each failure.
How Much a Salon Website Costs in 2026, and What You Get
Price bands for a hair salon, barbershop or beauty salon website in 2026, what each includes, the monthly costs after launch.
Salon Website Rules by Country: US, UK, CA, AU, EU
What changes about a salon or barbershop website across the US, UK, Canada, Australia and the EU: price display and consumer law.
Salon Website: Template or Custom, Which Pays Back Sooner
Template or custom build for a salon or barbershop website: what each costs, what each produces in bookings.
Stylist Profiles With Their Own Booking Button: The Setup
Clients follow stylists, not salons. How to build stylist profiles that convert a personal Instagram following into bookings: the fields, the Book-with link.
We Take Bookings on Fresha. Do We Need a Website Too?
A salon on Fresha or Booksy has a booking page already. What the platform profile does and does not do, what a website adds in search.
Who Updates the Photos? The Answer for Salons and Barbers
You do, from your phone, safely. How a salon website is set up so stylists add their work to the gallery and their profile without breaking the page or slowing.
Why Your Salon Website Is Not Getting Bookings
The site gets visitors from Instagram and Google and the diary does not fill from it. The eight reasons a salon or barbershop website fails to convert.