Security Practical
How far a nearly-free backup really reaches
The question is not whether you have a backup but how many hours it takes to be back. A free setup goes a long way — as long…
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SEO Practical
Registering with search engines and confirming your first index
A site the search engines do not know about might as well not exist. Registration takes thirty minutes, and there are specific screens to check afterwards.
Themes & plugins Practical
Labels and errors: a placeholder is not a label
Text that vanishes the moment you type cannot be a label. Forms that hide labels and forms that signal errors with colour alone lose people in much the…
Performance optimization Practical
The one image you must never lazy-load
Lazy loading is right for nearly every image. Apply it to the large image in the first screen and you delay the very thing the metric measures.
Themes & plugins Practical
Hunting horizontal overflow — the number will not find it
scrollWidth matches the viewport and yet the screen is visibly clipped. An ancestor absorbed the overflow — so measure element rectangles instead.
Performance optimization Practical
Subsetting Korean: not downloading all 11,172 syllables
There is no mystery to why Korean fonts are heavy: modern Hangul alone has 11,172 syllable blocks. Split with unicode-range, the browser fetches only the pieces a page…
Themes & plugins Practical
What theme.json does: handing your palette to the block editor
theme.json is not a stylesheet, it is a channel. It hands your palette to the editing screen so editors choose from your system instead of a free colour…
Performance optimization Intro
What happens in the seconds before your page appears
Visitors do not remember load time in seconds; they remember an impression. What shapes it is not the wait but what they see during it.
Themes & plugins Practical
Beating theme styles without !important
You wrote the rule and nothing changed. The cause is usually order rather than specificity — and order is fixable without !important.
Performance optimization Practical
What happens as your database quietly grows
A database grows far faster than your content does — and most of what accumulates is by-product, not the writing you actually did.
Development workflow Practical
The handover list: what you must receive before it is finished
A site being live is not the same as a site being handed over. Three bundles — files, accounts and documents — decide whether the next person can…
SEO Practical
Anatomy of a pricing page: exclusions at the same size
Hide the price and you become a "call us" service; list only inclusions and you inherit a scope dispute. One page structure removes both problems at once.
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Working with AI
Writing a CLAUDE.md — teaching an AI coding assistant your project
AI coding tools such as Claude Code, Cursor and Copilot do better work the more precisely they know your project. Here is a structure and a set of principles that hold up.
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Working with AI
Prompting an AI for UI design — drafting with Claude and GPT
Asking an AI to "make a nice button" gets you a disappointing button. Structured prompts that carry constraints, references and a defined role get you the design you meant.
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Themes & plugins
SCSS from the ground up — variables through module structure
The core syntax of SCSS (Sass) and what it solves that plain CSS cannot: variables, nesting, mixins, @use and module structure — organised around patterns you can use immediately.
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Themes & plugins
Design tokens and theme colour systems — brand identity in SCSS variables
How to turn a colour palette from a pile of hex codes into a system that means something — semantic token structure and SCSS variable patterns, from a real project.
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Performance optimization
Designing a responsive typography system — the science of readability
Hard-coded pixel font sizes are over. Type scales, fluid sizing with clamp(), Korean webfont optimisation and line-height ratios — building typography that reads well on any screen.
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Development workflow
From Figma to SCSS — a designer-developer handoff guide
Minimising what gets lost between a Figma file and the code: extracting tokens, naming components, keeping the spacing system in sync — the whole workflow, step by step.