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Design, clean HTML & the fast web.
Notes on building sites visually and shipping them clean.
How to judge an AI web design tool in ten minutes
Feature lists do not distinguish these tools; every one of them claims accuracy, the latest model and unlimited AI. Six questions do distinguish them, all six are answerable in a trial account, and none of them appear in the marketing.
Read →How to tell a website was made by AI, and how to stop yours looking like one
There are eight reliable tells, and most of them are not about the writing. They exist because of one decision — letting the model choose the layout, which is the thing it is most average at. Here are the signs, the cause, and what actually fixes it.
Read →Can AI redesign a website you already have?
Most AI builders can only create a new site from a description — point them at the page you already own and there is nowhere to put it. Here is how a URL becomes a design brief, why your own site and a competitor's are read differently, and the rule that stops an AI inventing your prices.
Read →Why page builders fail Core Web Vitals, and what fixes it
Three numbers decide the assessment: LCP under 2.5 seconds, INP under 200 milliseconds, CLS under 0.1, measured at the 75th percentile of real visits. Almost every page builder failure is one cause with three symptoms, and the cheapest fix is subtraction.
Read →Figma to HTML: what actually survives the conversion
Every converter promises pixel-perfect. Ours does not, and says so in its own source code. Here is what genuinely comes through from a Figma frame — layout, type, fills, corners, shadows — what gets approximated, and why a screenshot can never become editable text.
Read →Can you export a Squarespace site? What is actually in the file
Yes, and it is an .xml file with less in it than most people expect. One blog page, layout pages, text and image blocks — and no design at all, because style settings and custom CSS are on the list of things that do not export. Here is what is in it, the four other exports you also need, and the order to do them in.
Read →What a website actually costs per month, line by line
Most answers give you a hosting price and stop. A real monthly bill has eight lines on it, two of them are usually forgotten, and the first year is a marketing number. Here is the whole list, and how to price the second year before you buy the first.
Read →What happens to your pages when you switch the page builder off
Deactivate a shortcode builder and visitors see the shortcodes. Deactivate ours on WordPress and the page is blank, because the layout is JSON in post meta and the post body is empty. Here is where each kind of builder keeps your layout, and the twenty-minute test that tells you before you commit.
Read →What actually happens when an AI builds a web page
Not one prompt to one model. A page build is seven separate jobs, and only one of them is worth the strongest model available. This is our own router, described job by job, including the bug that was sending half of our smallest edits to the most expensive model.
Read →What the Wix AI website builder actually does, and the one thing it cannot
You describe a business, it builds a whole site in a few minutes, and there are three ways to make it try again. But Wix's own help centre says the AI Website Builder only creates new sites — it cannot be pointed at the one you already have. Here is the honest shape of the tool.
Read →How to make a website for a virtual assistant business
Virtual assistant websites nearly all say the same six words — organised, reliable, detail-oriented, proactive — which is how a whole category made itself interchangeable. The fix is narrower than you think.
Read →How to make a website when you are the product
Creators are told they do not need a website because they have a following. Then a platform changes its algorithm, or its owner, and everybody who took that advice finds out what renting an audience means.
Read →How to make a website for a bike shop
A bike shop's website is competing with every online retailer on price and losing. What it can win on is the two things they cannot do — servicing and fitting a person to a bike — and most shop sites bury both.
Read →How to make a website for an escape room
Escape room websites fail in a specific way: they describe the rooms in loving detail and forget that the person reading is organising six people for a Saturday and needs to know price, duration and whether it is suitable for their group.
Read →How to make a website for a heat pump installer
Heat pump buyers arrive sceptical, half-informed and worried about three specific things: whether it will actually heat the house, what it costs after the grant, and whether you will disappear afterwards. Answer those and the survey books itself.
Read →How to make a website for a sauna and cold plunge studio
Recovery studios sell an experience most visitors have never had, to people who are quietly nervous about it. The website's job is not to sell the science — it is to make the first visit feel survivable and easy to book.
Read →How to make a website for a padel club
Padel clubs are opening faster than anybody can build websites for them, and most of the sites are a booking link with a logo above it. Here is what the other 90 per cent of the page should do — especially for the people who have never played.
Read →How to make a website for a coworking space
People choose a coworking space on three things your website probably buries: what it costs a month, whether there is a desk free, and what the place is like at 3pm on a Tuesday. Here is how to put all three where they are looked for.
Read →How to make a website for an AI automation agency
The whole category has the same website: a gradient, the word "leverage", and three icons. Here is how to build one that survives the first question a serious buyer asks, which is always some version of "show me one you actually did".
Read →How to make a website for an EV charger installer
Almost nobody books an EV charger installation from the first page they land on. They are checking three things — can you certify it, can you do my kind of property, and what will it cost — and most installer sites answer none of them above the fold.
Read →What sections should a website have? A short, honest list
Most homepages have four sections that earn their place and five that are there because a template had slots. Here is what each section is for, the order that works, and how to tell when one should be deleted.
Read →Free website templates: what to check before you use one
Free templates are genuinely good now. The cost has moved from the price to everything around it — what the licence says, what the markup weighs, and whether it is still yours when you outgrow the builder it came from.
Read →Web design trends in 2026, and which ones to actually use
Every trend list is the same twelve items with no cost attached. These are the three shaping real sites this year, what each one costs you in performance or accessibility, and the one nobody lists because it is not photogenic.
Read →Landing page examples, taken apart section by section
A landing page has one job and about six sections to do it with. Here are three real ones — a SaaS app, a design tool and a fintech platform — and what each section is actually for.
Read →Portfolio website design ideas that survive a second look
Most portfolio inspiration is a screenshot with no argument attached. These are three real layouts with the reasoning next to them — what each one does with photographs, type and the one page nobody reads carefully enough.
Read →Every AI model has a cutoff date. Your website inherits it.
One lab's small model knows nothing after February 2025. Its flagship knows to June 2026. Both will write you a page about your business with complete confidence, and only one of them knows what year it is.
Read →What it actually costs to build a website with AI
One big call to the best model is the obvious way to build a page with AI, and it is the expensive one. Splitting the same work across eight calls took our cost per page down by about sixty per cent with no change in what came out.
Read →Reasoning effort: the setting that decides your AI bill
One lab gives you six levels from none to max. Another runs adaptive thinking with a default effort. A third calls it configurable. Left alone, a model thinks as hard as it is allowed — and we watched that turn a five-second job into a hundred and seventy.
Read →How to compare AI models: four things the labs publish
No benchmark scores, because we did not run them. This is the comparison you can verify yourself: price, context, knowledge cutoff and reasoning controls, read off the labs' own documentation — and what the numbers say when you line them up.
Read →The best AI model for building websites is not one model
Every major AI lab now sells a model good enough to build a page. Picking one for the whole job is what makes it slow and expensive. Here is how the work actually splits.
Read →How to move a website without losing your rankings
A migration loses traffic for one reason almost every time: the old addresses stop answering. Here is the redirect map, the order to do things in, and the two checks that catch the damage in the first week rather than the second month.
Read →Framer alternatives: the six questions that pick one for you
Every alternatives list is somebody's ranking of their own preferences. This is the other thing — the six questions that decide which tool is right for your project, and an honest note on when Framer is still the answer.
Read →Self-hosted website builders: what that actually means
"Self-hosted" gets used for three completely different arrangements, and only one of them survives the company behind it going away. Here is how to tell them apart before you build a business on one.
Read →Can you download your Wix website? What actually comes out
There is no HTML export from Wix — the site has to run on Wix's servers. But your media, your CMS collections, your contacts and your domain are all portable. Here is exactly what leaves, what does not, and the order to do it in.
Read →How to export your Webflow site, and what the ZIP leaves behind
Webflow does give you your code — on Workspace plans, not Site plans. Here is the keyboard shortcut, what is actually in the folder, and the seven things that stop working the moment the site is not on Webflow's servers.
Read →How to make an online store website for a small brand
A small brand can not win on price, so it wins on trust and detail. Here is what product pages, shipping, returns and search need for a small online store.
Read →How to make a SaaS landing page
Software is bought for what changes after you use it. Here is the SaaS landing page structure that shows that change, proves it and turns it into a sign-up.
Read →How to make a photography portfolio website
A portfolio is an edit, not an archive. Here is how to choose the work, structure the site, show prices and keep a photo-heavy site fast.
Read →How to make a law firm website
People look for a lawyer on a bad day. A law firm website earns the call by being clear, calm and specific. Here are the pages and details that do that.
Read →How to make a real estate agency website
An estate agency site serves buyers looking at homes and sellers deciding who to trust with theirs. Here is how to serve both, and why the valuation page matters most.
Read →How to make a gym or personal trainer website
A gym website sells a first visit, not a membership. Here is how to make the offer clear, show prices and the timetable, and turn a browser into somebody walking through the door.
Read →How to make a website for a dental clinic
A dental website has to calm a nervous patient and make booking effortless. Here are the pages, the details that build trust, and the local SEO that brings patients in.
Read →How to make a restaurant website that fills tables
People open a restaurant website to answer four questions: what is on the menu, when are you open, where are you, and can I book. Here is how to answer all four on the first screen.
Read →How to make a landing page that people act on
A landing page has one job: get one kind of visitor to take one action. Here is the structure that works, what goes above the fold, and the mistakes that quietly cost sign-ups.
Read →Your template, your files, live in one click
Pick any DragGo template, hand the Agent your logo, a text file and your photos, and it fills the design — writing only what your files leave out, never a fact — then shows every change before you Apply and Publish.
Read →Templates vs composed pages: what the difference looks like
Every website builder says it does not look templated. Here is how to tell — in about thirty seconds, on any site, without taking anyone's word for it.
Read →Why your site feels slow even though the score is green
A perfect Lighthouse score and a page that feels sluggish are not a contradiction. The number you are looking at is probably not the one your visitors feel.
Read →How do you get cited by AI answer engines?
AI answer engines quote pages that answer the question in the first sentence, say who wrote them, and can be read without running JavaScript. Here is what that means in practice.
Read →Do AI website builders hurt your SEO?
Not because the AI wrote it. The things that actually cost you rankings are the same ones that always did — and two of them are decided by the builder, not by you.
Read →How to leave a website builder that will not export your site
Wix has no HTML export. Squarespace gives you blog posts as XML. Here is what can actually be moved, what has to be rebuilt, and the order that wastes the least time.
Read →Which website builders actually give you clean HTML?
Six builders, one question: what does the page weigh, and can you take the markup with you? Checked against what each platform really exports, not what its marketing says.
Read →Why clean, zero-JS HTML still wins in 2026
Short answer: because the browser still runs HTML and CSS for free, and everything you add on top has to earn its weight. A page that ships zero JavaScript by default starts fast, stays fast, and is trivially easy for both Google and AI answer engines to read.
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