For small teams, a website does not need to be complicated to become difficult to maintain. In many cases, the problem is not scale. It is drift.
Pages get added without structure. Contact details change in one place but not another. Plugins stay untouched for too long. A homepage written for last season quietly becomes the homepage for this season too. None of these problems are dramatic on their own, but together they create a site that feels older, less trustworthy, and harder to work with.
A maintainable website usually has a few simple qualities.
First, the structure is clear. Important pages are easy to find, navigation is predictable, and the purpose of each section is obvious. Teams should not have to guess where service descriptions, contact information, policies, or updates belong.
Second, ownership is clear. Even if multiple people contribute to the site, someone should still be responsible
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