Find a guide by goal
A goal-oriented index of the help center. Pick the situation you're in and get a hand-picked reading list across every section.
The sidebar groups guides by topic. This page groups them by what you're trying to do. Find the situation that matches yours and follow the curated reading list across the whole help center.
Quick summary
Pick a goal below. Each one has a short reading list pulled from across the help center — the three to six articles most likely to answer what you need. If you still can't find it, email support@chykalophia.com.
I'm starting a new project with Chykalophia
If you just signed an agreement (or are about to), here's the path through the first few weeks.
- First week with Chykalophia
- How we work together: our process
- Understanding your project roadmap
- What happens in discovery & strategy
- What we need from you
- Access checklist for a new project
I want to understand what I'm paying for
Scope, quotes, care plans and the costs people forget — in the order they usually come up.
- Our services & pricing
- What a website actually costs
- Hidden costs to watch for
- Understanding quotes & invoices
- Understanding care plan pricing
- What our care plan covers
I need to give Chykalophia access to something
Almost everything we do requires access to your accounts. Start here.
- Access directory (A–Z) — every tool, alphabetically
- Giving Chykalophia access: start here
- Why we ask for access (and why it's safe)
- Delegate access vs. sharing a password
- Access checklist for a new project
- Sharing a password safely
- Using a password manager with us
I don't know what platform my website is built on
Perfectly normal, and it takes about ten seconds to work out. Start at the top and stop as soon as you recognise your site.
- Which platform is your website built on?
- How the web works, in 5 minutes
- Domain vs hosting vs email
- Web basics: terms A–Z
- Access directory (A–Z) — once you know the platform, this tells us how to get in
I need to work with you day to day
Requests, comments and approvals all happen in one place. This is the shortest path to being productive in it.
- How we work together
- Working with us in ClickUp
- Your client portal explained
- How to submit a new request
- How to give feedback that gets results
- How to approve work in ClickUp
I need to send you a screenshot, a file or a recording
Showing us beats describing to us. These four pages cover every way to get something to our team.
- How to take a screenshot
- How to share a screen recording
- How to attach files & screenshots
- Info to gather before contacting support
I have a question and don't know who to ask
Work out who owns the answer — us, your host, your registrar, or someone else — before you spend an afternoon on hold.
- Who to contact for what
- Our response times & support hours
- How we communicate (ClickUp, email, calls)
- Who does what: web roles explained
- General frequently asked questions
My website has a problem
When something is broken, follow this path before pinging us — but ping us quickly if it's truly urgent.
- Troubleshooting: start here
- My website is down — what do I do?
- My site looks broken
- My changes aren't showing up
- How to clear your cache & hard refresh
- How to report a problem with your site
- Info to gather before contacting support
I think I've been hacked
Don't panic. Read these in order — they walk you through the first thirty minutes calmly.
- I think I was hacked
- Recovering from a hacked website
- What to do if your site is hacked
- What to do if an account is compromised
- Recognizing phishing attempts
- Your business security checklist
I'm adding a new team member
This is the cross-system playbook so nothing falls through the cracks.
- Onboarding a new staff member across all your systems
- How to add a new user (WordPress)
- Adding a user in Google Workspace
- Adding a user in Microsoft 365
- Two-factor authentication, explained
Someone left my team
The opposite playbook — close every door, transfer every asset.
- Offboarding a staff member across all your systems
- Security steps when someone leaves
- How to remove a user safely (WordPress)
- Removing a user safely (Google Workspace)
- Removing a user safely (Microsoft 365)
- Transferring files when someone leaves
I'm launching a new product or campaign
Pre-launch checklist + post-launch monitoring, end to end.
- New-product launch website checklist
- Pre-launch checklist for a big update
- How to schedule a post or page
- How to measure SEO results
- UTM links for campaign tracking
- Email marketing fundamentals
I want to know who looks after my site after launch
Launch isn't the finish line. This is what ongoing care involves and what you should expect to happen without asking.
- What happens at launch & handoff
- Why websites need maintenance
- What our care plan covers
- How backups work
- What to check on your site monthly
- Understanding care plan pricing
I want to understand my website analytics
Where do these numbers come from, and what do they actually mean?
- What is Google Analytics (GA4)?
- Key metrics, explained simply
- Users vs sessions vs views
- Understanding where traffic comes from
- Reading your Search Console data
- Vanity metrics vs meaningful metrics
I want to improve my SEO
What works, what's a myth, what to expect.
- What is SEO?
- SEO: setting realistic expectations
- On-page SEO explained
- Page titles & meta descriptions
- Local SEO basics
- Common SEO myths debunked
I want to write better content for my site
Hooks, structure, hierarchy, accessibility — all in one path.
- Writing for the web
- Writing a great homepage
- Writing service pages that convert
- Writing headlines that work
- Writing effective calls to action
- Editing your own copy
I'm thinking about moving platforms
Migration realities — what transfers, what doesn't, what it costs in time and SEO.
- Pre-migration checklist
- Don't lose your SEO during a migration
- Migrating from Squarespace to WordPress
- Migrating from Wix to WordPress
- Migrating from Shopify to WooCommerce
- Migrating from WooCommerce to Shopify
I want to add e-commerce to my site
Compare your options, then map out the technical & legal pieces.
- WooCommerce: the complete store guide
- Shopify: the complete client guide
- Accepting payments online, explained
- Payment processors explained
- Stripe basics for business owners
- PCI compliance for online stores
I'm trying to choose between Google Workspace and Microsoft 365
A clean side-by-side comparison so you can pick with confidence.
- Google Workspace vs Microsoft 365: how to choose
- Feature comparison, side by side
- Pricing compared
- Which is better for small teams?
- Gmail vs Outlook
- Switching from one to the other
I want to harden my business' security
Pragmatic security hygiene without becoming a security engineer.
- Why security matters for your business
- How to create strong passwords
- Why you need a password manager
- Two-factor authentication, explained
- Recognizing phishing attempts
- Your business security checklist
I want a faster website
What slows sites down, what to measure, what's worth doing.
- Why website speed matters
- Core Web Vitals explained
- What slows websites down
- Images & page speed
- How a CDN speeds up your site
- Website performance checklist
My domain or email is in trouble
Domain & email emergencies and their playbooks.
- My domain expired
- Recovering from an expired domain
- My email is going to spam
- I can't receive email
- Email not sending or receiving?
- Why your emails land in spam (deliverability)
I'm worried about privacy, cookies and the law
Start with what your website actually collects, then work out which rules apply to you.
- Data privacy basics for your business
- Tracking, cookies & privacy
- Cookie consent & banners explained
- Cookie consent law: when & how
- GDPR basics for businesses
- CCPA & CPRA basics
I'm worried about compliance
GDPR, CCPA, ADA, HIPAA, PCI — start by figuring out which apply.
- Compliance basics for your website
- GDPR basics for businesses
- CCPA basics
- ADA & WCAG: web accessibility compliance in the US
- Cookie consent law: when & how
- HIPAA basics for websites handling health info
I just want the tools you recommend
The trusted toolkit, one page.
- Tools we recommend for clients
- Why you need a password manager
- Choosing a password manager
- How to compress images
Related guides
If none of the goals above match, these are the other ways into the help center.
- Welcome to the Chykalophia help center — the onboarding front door, in order
- Giving Chykalophia access: start here — then the Access directory (A–Z)
- Working with us in ClickUp — day-to-day requests, comments and approvals
- Which platform is your website built on?
- Troubleshooting: start here
- Templates — fill-in documents that speed the project up
- The plain-English web glossary and Reference — for looking up a single word or fact
- How to use this help center
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Clear, friendly guides for every tool and account you use with Chykalophia — starting with how to give us access to something.
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A practical guide to granting Chykalophia secure access to your website, hosting, and online accounts — so we can do our best work for you.