Custom Coded Website: 7 Things You Get
A custom coded website is designed from zero, with SEO, forms, email, CMS, analytics and monitoring built in. Seven things a full-scratch build gives you.
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Custom Website vs Web App: Cost, Time & Fit
Full-scratch (a site that presents, from ¥1,000,000) vs full-stack (members, bookings, payments, from ¥2,500,000): price, timeline and five questions.
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What Is a Full-Stack Website? 7 Things It Can Do
A full-stack website adds members, bookings, payments, a database and an admin screen to the site itself. Seven things it can do, and what it costs.
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AI Agent Integration with Internal Systems: 3 Ways Compared
Three ways to connect an AI agent to internal systems — API integration, CLI tools and MCP servers — compared, with a safety design you can submit.
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AI Website Cost [2026]: Our Real Prices, Published
What AI website production costs: survey-based market rates, our real price (from ¥1,000,000, 1–2 weeks), and the truth about running costs.
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MCP Integration for SaaS: A 5-Step Playbook From 2 Builds
MCP integration for a SaaS is a thin MCP layer over your existing REST API. The five-step playbook we settled by running two of our own products live.
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MCP Server Development Cost and 5 Pre-Commission Checks
What outsourcing MCP server development costs — ¥1,000,000 to over ¥10,000,000 in Japan — our own pricing, and a five-item checklist before you commission.
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ChatGPT Traffic: Can You Grow It? Everything We Did for LLMO
Even on a blog with 190,000 impressions a year, AI-driven traffic is about 12 sessions a month. The LLMO work behind that, and how to measure it.
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How to Run a Free Ahrefs Site Audit: Health Score 6 → 98
Auditing our AI-rebuilt company site with the free Ahrefs Webmaster Tools: the old Webflow site scored 6 for health, the new one 98. Every fix listed.
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Are AI Websites Bad for SEO? Measured Data from 63 Articles
Are AI-built sites weak at SEO? We rebuilt our site with AI in 7 days and checked Search Console: index retention, rankings, AIO across 63 articles.
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Building a Website with AI: A Webflow Studio’s Honest Review
A Webflow studio founder honestly reviews rebuilding the company site with AI (Claude Code) in 7 days: cost, measured data, and where it went wrong.
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AI Website Builder Comparison: Claude Code vs Figma Make
An honest take on using Claude Code, Figma Make and Webflow AI on real projects, plus v0, Bolt and Lovable — with a verdict by use case.
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AI Overviews Optimization Across 63 Articles [Report #1]
Rolling out AI Overviews optimization — takeaway boxes, FAQPage, one-sentence definitions, Speakable and llms.txt — across 63 articles. Part 1.
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Cheap Website Design: What ¥980/Month Really Costs, Including Cancellation
Why do ¥980-a-month website plans exist? The four mechanisms — single-page pricing, recolored templates, cancellation costs and upsells — plus what leaving a subscription website actually costs (¥100,000–300,000) and the calculation showing ¥980 needs seventeen years to pay back. Written by a competing web design company.
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Claude Code Website Build: 26 Pages in 3 Days, Step by Step
Building a 26-page corporate site with Claude Code in 3 days, in five steps: plan, design, build, verify, launch — with the tools and the costs.
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What Platform to Build Your Website On: Cost Varies 2–3×
The platform you build on swings the total cost by 2–3×. How to choose between WordPress, Webflow, and an AI build, and what to ask when one is proposed.
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How to Choose a Webflow Agency: 5 Quote Checks
What to look at in a Webflow agency’s quote, from a rival founder: who builds it, running cost, CMS design, handover, and what is behind the portfolio.
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Webflow Total Cost 2026: Plans, Build Fees, Running Costs
How to estimate Webflow’s total cost: the pricing revised in May 2026, plus build fees and running costs — with my own itemized bill of $576 a year.
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Webflow vs STUDIO in 2026: A Specialist’s Honest Comparison
Webflow and STUDIO compared on pricing, design freedom, CMS, multilingual, and code export, by a studio six years into Webflow. Plus the 2026 AI option.
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The 5 Website KPIs to Check Every Month in GA4
For managers who open GA4 and cannot tell what to look at: the five numbers worth watching monthly, with a 30-minute routine and a checklist.
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Hiring a Web Agency: 7 Prep Items, 4 Clauses
Commissioning a website without regrets: the seven things to settle before you request a quote, and the four contract clauses to always check.
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WordPress Alternatives 2026: Measured, Not Guessed
Why we do not recommend WordPress for a new site in 2026: measured Core Web Vitals pass rates and maintenance costs, and the alternatives worth using.
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MCP Server Implementation for Our Own CMS: The Design Calls
We built a REST API and an 8-tool MCP server into our own CMS. Why an API alone was not enough, and the three things we stopped in the design.
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Headless CMS Pricing [2026]: Free-Plan Traps and Real Costs
Pick a headless CMS on monthly price alone and you will get it wrong. microCMS, NILTO, Craft Cross and HaruCMS compared on what you actually pay.
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Website Redesign Cost, Timing, and Process [2026]
What a website redesign costs, the six signs it is time for one, and a migration checklist that protects your rankings — plus our own seven-day rebuild.
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AI App Development Cost [2026]: What ¥1M–5M Buys
App development typically costs ¥1,000,000–5,000,000. What a quote is made of, how to order for less, and why AI is changing the cost structure.
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Website Maintenance Cost [2026]: What You Pay For, and Why
Website maintenance runs from almost ¥0 to over ¥30,000 a month. What you are paying for, the going rates by setup, and how to audit the invoice.
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How Long Does It Take to Build a Website? [2026]
A website build usually takes one to three months, and one to two weeks with AI production. Our delivery table by scale, and the three causes of delay.
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What Is LLMO? How to Get Cited by AI Search (8 Tactics)
LLMO defined in one sentence and sorted against AIO, GEO, and AEO — plus eight tactics for getting cited by AI search and how to measure the effect.
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What Is Vibe Coding? Meaning, How to Start, Limits [2026]
Vibe coding means instructing an AI in natural language and letting it write the code. Karpathy’s definition, how to start, the tips, and the real limits.
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AI Website Design Service: What Is Actually Delivered [2026]
What you actually get when you commission website production with AI: the technology, the process, the quality mechanism, the pricing and the limits.
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AI Website Redesign: A Designer’s Full 7-Day Rebuild Log
Webharu’s site rebuilt entirely with AI (Claude Code): 26 pages, 62 articles and 4 forms in 3 days of building, 7 with planning. Day by day, with costs.
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Webflow App Gen: Hands On With Web App Development
A record of trying Webflow’s new App Gen. Build the UI, describe what you want in a prompt, and data storage, authentication, and flows are generated.
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What Is Webflow MCP? AI That Manages Your Website
Webflow MCP (Model Context Protocol) lets AI read and operate your CMS and page structure. What it can do in 2026, the three-step setup, and the cautions.
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AI Vibe Coding × Webflow: Everything the Combination Unlocks
AI vibe coding turns spoken or written instructions into code. How to pair it with Webflow for full-stack builds, server migration and your own SaaS.
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How to Build a Staff Attendance App with AI (Figma Make)
A restaurant owner wanted an attendance app, so I built one in Figma Make with no expertise: the chat prompts, the Supabase backend, and the manual parts.
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21,249 HTML Code Export Tools Compared (2026): No-Code, AI, and Real Deliveries
Which website builders can export HTML code? A hands-on comparison: Webflow code delivery to real clients, why STUDIO and Wix cannot export, building HTML from scratch with AI (Claude Code, Figma Make), free options, and the measured 1/55th running-cost cut from going static.
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2,642 Webflow CMS Guide 2026: Pricing, Setup, Real-World Bugs
What the Webflow CMS can do, the cost after the May 2026 revision, the five-step page build, and the save bug and redirect accident six years revealed.
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How to Use Webflow: 4 Basics for 10x Speed
The four basics to learn before you get stuck in Webflow: where HTML and CSS live, All tags, and the CSS panel colors. Fixes the link-color question too.
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Every ADDress House in Nagano: The Full List
All nine ADDress houses in Nagano, with first-hand cleanliness and security reviews of the three I stayed at, plus kitchen and parking details for each.
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Webflow Breadcrumbs: 3 Ways, With Structured Data for SEO
Three ways to add breadcrumbs in Webflow, and the recommended route — CMS inside custom code — which generates structured data across every page at once.
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Website Design in Shiogama, Miyagi | Pricing and Local Work
Website production in Shiogama, Miyagi, from Webharu Inc., founded by a Shiogama native. AI builds from ¥1,000,000, full-scratch from ¥1,000,000 (excl. tax).
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Figma to Webflow: How the Plugin Works, 3 Years On
How to copy designs from Figma into Webflow in four steps, plus an honest three-year verdict from client work: the auto-layout tax and what I use instead.
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Lost Sight of My Goals: 3 Steps to Get Back
A three-step routine for when your goals blur: think about what you love, remember the goal, work backward to tasks — and rest if the mood will not rise.
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How to Use Webflow: Every Topic, Organized [2026 Edition]
Stuck on how to use Webflow? An index of our how-tos by topic — the CMS, rich text, custom domains, adding fonts and more, all in one place.
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Webflow Instagram Feed: Free Auto-Update Embed
How to embed Instagram in Webflow and keep it updating automatically, using free custom code: professional account, Facebook link, token, and the JS.
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The No-Code Website Risks Nobody Mentions
The three no-code website risks: vendor dependence, no migration path, shutdown. The 2022 prediction came true with Newt closing on November 24, 2026.
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A Webflow Freelancer’s 2022 Results, in Full
The projects and revenue I handled with Webflow in 2022. If you are going freelance or curious about no-code, the real numbers are a useful reference.
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Webflow Localization After One Year: Results, Costs, Verdict
An honest year with Webflow Localization (Japanese to Korean): a few affiliate sales, zero inquiries, and costs cut from ¥100,000 to ¥1,500 a year.
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The Complete Guide to Webflow SEO: Basics to AIO [2026]
SEO in Webflow, in order: four basics (meta, content, links, technical), an 8-item checklist, then AIO. With 190,000 measured impressions in 12 months.
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Who Uses Webflow in Japan? Ricoh, Moneytree and More [2026]
Webflow adopters, verified in the source code: Ricoh, Moneytree, Recruit Group’s Nijibox and more in Japan, plus the classic Rakuten Super Logistics.
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Webflow Span Tags and the Rich Text Workaround
How Span tags work in Webflow, why Rich text cannot use them, and the SEO-safe workaround: partial styling with Bold (strong) and Italicize (em).
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How to Set Up reCAPTCHA in Webflow
How to add reCAPTCHA to a Webflow site. reCAPTCHA is Google’s free way to keep bots out of your forms — well worth installing to tighten security.
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What to Pack for a Year Traveling Around Japan on ADDress
What to pack for a trip around Japan on ADDress, what the houses already provide (towels, dryers, seasonings), and why rural Japan runs on PayPay.
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ADDress Japan Referral Coupon: How to Claim Up to ¥15,000
How to claim the ADDress referral coupon — up to ¥15,000 in Amazon gift cards — including the plan that pays most and the conditions that quietly void it.
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12,817 ADDress Review: A Year on Japan’s Home-Subscription Service
An honest year-long review of ADDress, Japan’s home subscription: what the stays are really like, what it costs, what we gained, and the downsides.
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How to Move a Webflow Site to a Cheap Server of Your Own
How to migrate off Webflow: export the code, upload it to budget shared hosting over FTP, and switch the name servers. About five minutes of actual work.
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4,123 How to Connect a Custom Domain in Webflow (Beginner Guide)
Connect a custom domain to Webflow in four steps: the plan you need, the A, CNAME and TXT records, and setting www as the default. About 15 minutes.
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How Beginners Can Design Like a Pro in Webflow
Five steps that take a beginner to professional-looking design in Webflow: clone a showcase, change the fonts, the colors and the photos, then add copy.
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How to Add Fonts to Webflow: All 3 Methods
The three ways to add a font in Webflow — Google Fonts in a minute, Adobe Fonts through an API token, and custom fonts compressed under 2MB — step by step.
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How to Use Weglot: The Complete Guide for Webflow
The complete guide to using Weglot: a three-step install, excluding pages to cut cost, fixing translations that never appear, and the subdirectory trick.
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Japan’s Invoice System: The Discount That Ended a Dispute
A real dispute under Japan’s invoice system, settled on a tax accountant’s advice: the discount that leaves neither side worse off, updated for 2026.
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The 2 Best Credit Cards for Living and Traveling in Japan
The two cards I issued mid-trip around Japan: the PayPay Card (up to 2.5% back on Japan’s top QR payment) and the EPOS Card, free with a free ETC card.
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Beating Working Holiday Loneliness From Day One
Even as a nomad I hit poor mental health more often than in a salaried job. The cause was loneliness and badly managed hours. Here is how I recovered.
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The Simplest Table of Contents in Webflow — No Custom Code
Build a linked table of contents with Webflow features alone: split the CMS rich text into sections, assign IDs, and hide empty rows conditionally.
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10 Free Webflow Templates You Can Use Today
Free Webflow templates by genre — portfolio, restaurant, asset kits — with adaptation times, pros and cons, CC0 licensing, and six jaw-dropping showcases.
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I Made My Webflow Site Multilingual with Weglot
A hands-on account of adding Weglot to a Webflow site in 2022: the three-minute setup, the translation quality, the pros and cons, and where I went next.
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Webflow University: Fastest Learning Route 2026
The fastest route to learning Webflow in 2026: how to work through the free Webflow University, plus a study path through 30+ articles. A hub article.
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What Is Webflow? Features, Uses and Real Examples [2026]
What Webflow can do, from a studio six years deep in it: features, an honest take on usability, STUDIO and AI compared, yearly cost and learning time.
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11,327 Webflow Pricing 2026: Basic, Premium, and Add-Ons
A specialist’s guide to Webflow pricing, updated for the May 2026 overhaul: Starter (free), Basic ($15/mo), Premium ($25/mo with CMS), plus add-on costs.
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Webflow Forum: How to Ask Your Webflow Questions
Three routes to a Webflow answer: the Forum, official support, and social media. Account setup, the yes/no framing trick, and a real question I posted.
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