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Notes on building for the modern web

Depth over breadth — WordPress, AI-assisted delivery, Core Web Vitals and getting found by AI answer engines.

Pricing
Featured

How much does a website cost in 2026? Real numbers from a studio

The answer nobody publishes, published: actual price ranges for landings, corporate sites and stores — and the five factors that move a quote up or down. No "it depends" without the numbers behind it.

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Strategy

How to choose a web development agency: 12 questions that expose the truth

Most agencies look identical on the surface: portfolio, process, testimonials, contact form. The difference shows up in four areas — ownership, process, technology and post-launch. Ask these 12 questions before you sign, not after.

Strategy

Landing page vs multi-page website: which one do you actually need?

The answer is not "it depends" — it is a three-question test. One offer, one audience, one action: you need a landing page. Multiple services, SEO ambitions, long-term trust: you need a multi-page site. Here is the decision framework, with prices and the hybrid path.

AI in dev

How we ship websites ×5 faster with an AI-assisted pipeline

Not vibes — a concrete pipeline. Where AI genuinely accelerates a build, where a human still has to own the call, and why the result is faster without being worse.

WordPress

Custom theme vs Elementor: what actually breaks at scale

Page-builders feel fast on day one. Here is where they cost you — in speed, ownership and the ability to change anything — and when a hand-coded theme is the cheaper choice over the life of a site.

SEO / AEO

Getting cited by ChatGPT & Perplexity: an answer-first playbook

Classic SEO gets you ranked. Answer engine optimization gets you quoted. Here is the page structure that does both — and why it is the highest-leverage SEO work you can do in 2026.

Core Web Vitals

A practical Core Web Vitals checklist for content sites

The handful of fixes that move LCP, CLS and INP the most — in priority order, with the trade-offs spelled out, so you spend effort where it actually changes the score.

E-commerce

Syncing WooCommerce with 1C without the usual pain

Stock, prices and orders flowing both ways between a warehouse and a storefront — the architecture that keeps the two in step, and the mistakes that quietly break it.

Process

Why a fixed quote beats hourly for most web projects

Fixed scope, fixed price, fixed timeline — what it protects you from, where it doesn't fit, and the questions we ask up front to make that promise safely.

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