Responsive Images: srcset, sizes and the Formats Worth Using
How srcset, sizes and the picture element actually work, which widths to generate, and whether AVIF or WebP wins. Responsive images done by practitioners.
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Field notes on the modern web
WordPress, HTML templates, forms and webhooks, and the AI tools actually worth your time. Written by the team behind Canvas, the best selling HTML template on ThemeForest.
Build Tooling for Static Templates: Vite, Gulp and When Plain Files Win
A practitioner’s guide to the HTML template build process: configuring a Vite static HTML site for multi-page, where Gulp 5 still wins, and when no build
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Custom Post Types and Taxonomies: A Content Modelling Guide
A practitioner’s guide to custom post types, WordPress taxonomies and post meta: decision rules, registration code, relationship patterns and migration steps.
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WooCommerce Speed: Why Product Pages Crawl and How to Fix Them
Fix WooCommerce speed properly: measure TTFB vs LCP, clear autoload and Action Scheduler bloat, kill cart fragments and cache product pages without breaking
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Handling Payments From a Static Site Safely
A practitioner’s guide to static site payments: Stripe Checkout from plain HTML, webhook fulfilment, idempotency, PCI DSS 4.0.1 scripts and where no-backend
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AI Chatbots on Marketing Sites: Useful, or Just Another Popup
An honest, tested look at whether an ai chatbot website widget helps or hurts: load cost, facade loading, retrieval quality, escalation rules and real
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Eliminating Render-Blocking Resources on a Static Site
How to eliminate render-blocking CSS on a static site: measure the real cost, inline critical CSS without rotting your build, defer JavaScript safely.
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AI Image Generation for the Web: Quality, Licensing and Performance
AI image generation for real websites: the quality tells that give it away, what generated images licensing actually gives you, and how to cut file size 30%.
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Structured Output From LLMs: JSON Schema, Validation and Repair
A practitioner’s guide to reliable LLM JSON output: the strict JSON Schema subset, function calling json, three-layer validation, repair turns and grammars.
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Staging, Version Control and Deploys for WordPress Teams
A practitioner’s guide to WordPress staging, Git workflow and atomic deployment: whitelist .gitignore, Composer plugins, migration runners and safe rollbacks.
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Navigation Patterns: Mega Menus, Drawers and Mobile Reality
A practitioner’s guide to website navigation in 2026: accessible mega menu markup, hover intent, mobile drawers, scroll locking, inert and sticky header
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Forms in HTML Templates: Styling Without Breaking Accessibility
Form styling CSS that keeps forms accessible: focus-visible rings, accent-color :user-invalid, error summaries, forced-colors fallbacks and WCAG 2.2 targets.
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