Guides from client work
Step-by-step guides written from my own client work and checked against the official documentation. Each one says when it was last reviewed, and what I sell when it matters.
8 min
How a website redesign works: when a smaller fix is enough, each step from audit to Search Console monitoring, an old-URL table checked against Google's documentation, what drives cost, and common mistakes.
Shahid Malla
Oct 12, 2026
8 min
The difference between a web designer and a web developer for business owners: what each delivers, which one a brochure site, store, booking site or web app needs, and where handoffs go wrong.
Shahid Malla
Oct 12, 2026
8 min
A founder's guide to a SaaS MVP tech stack: Laravel with Filament, Next.js with NestJS or no-code first, where to host, which billing provider fits, how to separate tenants and what to leave out of version one.
Shahid Malla
Oct 9, 2026
8 min
How a WHMCS theme and an order form template are laid out, how theme.yaml and child themes work, which files and variables matter, what survives an update and how to test before going live.
Shahid Malla
Feb 7, 2026
13 min
A decision guide to the WHMCS module types, with the folder and function rules, starter code for each type, and the errors that send people back to the start.
Shahid Malla
Jan 20, 2026
8 min
A checked guide to WHMCS hooks: the includes/hooks folder, add_hook and priorities, nine common hook points, examples for InvoicePaid, ClientAreaHeadOutput and DailyCronJob, and when a hook is the wrong tool.
Shahid Malla
Jan 4, 2026
8 min
A checked guide to the WHMCS API: API roles and credentials, the IP allow-list and access key, a first call to includes/api.php, nine common actions, localAPI, paging, debugging and the risks.
Shahid Malla
Dec 27, 2025
8 min
A checked guide to building a WHMCS provisioning module: where the files go, the naming rule, eleven functions and when WHMCS calls them, the $params array, a minimal _CreateAccount, logging, testing and limits.
Shahid Malla
Dec 6, 2025
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