Notes from building content sites

Upgrades, performance, accessibility and the agency work around them. Written by the people who build the kit.

Web development guides18 Oct 20264 min read

Moving a website without losing a weekend

Plan the content transfer, redirects and launch checks so the switch takes an afternoon instead of a weekend.

Release notes16 Oct 20267 min read

Dark mode that follows the visitor, menus that open in half the time and a hero built for real photography.

Performance11 Oct 20267 min read

Preloading the right image, dropping one font weight and caching the header: three changes, 800 ms.

Web development guides8 Oct 20264 min read

Group shared site settings into reusable sets. Three configs from client projects show how to structure them.

Release notes6 Oct 20267 min read

Better image cropping, a new footer layout and fixes for long German compound words in headings.

Agency stories27 Sept 20264 min read

The week-by-week plan we used to go from signed brief to a live site in 21 days.

Accessibility26 Sept 20267 min read

Editors skip alt text when the field asks too much. Here is wording and help text that gets it filled in.

Performance21 Sept 20267 min read

AVIF is smaller, WebP is safer, and past a certain point neither matters. Where that point is.

Agency stories19 Sept 202610 min read

Fewer projects, longer relationships and a shared kit: how a small agency stays profitable.