Writing Webflow guides, year after year, is where Webharu began. From the basics of using it to the front line of AI such as MCP and vibe coding, we publish what we learn on real projects, exactly as it is.
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A full-scratch website is a site designed from zero without templates and built as one piece with SEO, forms and email, a CMS, analytics and monitoring. This article covers what the term means, the 7 things it makes possible, how it differs from Webflow, and the cost and timeline when it is built with AI.
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The difference between full-scratch (a presenting site designed from zero, from ¥1,000,000) and full-stack (a site with working members, bookings, and payments, from ¥2,500,000), compared on price, timeline, delivery format, and best-fit business. Five questions tell you which one you need.
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There are three ways to connect AI agents to internal systems: API integration, CLI tools and MCP servers. Writing as a company running MCP in production on two of its own SaaS products, we cover when to use each, a safety design that “doesn’t hand the AI full authority,” and a three-stage, read-only-first approach with costs.
Read more![AI Website Cost: From ¥1,000,000 | Every Deliverable Disclosed [2026]](/assets/posts/thumb-ai-website-cost.avif?v=db2fd782)
The real cost of AI website production. Webharu charges from ¥1,000,000, the same as full-scratch; AI doesn’t make it cheaper. I cover the included deliverables, additional costs, and the true story of upkeep dropping to ¥1,500 a year.
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MCP support for a SaaS can start by adding a thin MCP layer on top of your existing REST API. Five patterns, from tool granularity and two-stage sending to key revocation, that took shape running our own CMS (8 tools) and email API in production, plus the design calls we chose not to make.
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MCP server development cost in Japan: ¥1,000,000 to over ¥10,000,000 for API integration work (as of 2026). Our pricing (from ¥2,500,000, excl. tax) as a company running MCP servers in production on two of our own SaaS products, plus five questions to ask a developer before outsourcing.
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You can check ChatGPT traffic in GA4 by looking at the referral source chatgpt.com. On our own site, 12 sessions in August 2026 grew to 54 in September. We cover how to check it in GA4, and the AI-search measures we rolled into 63 articles at once.
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Ahrefs’ Site Audit is free on your own site through Ahrefs Webmaster Tools. This article covers the steps — registration, ownership verification, crawling — how to read the health score, and how we took our own measured score from 6 to 98.
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Are sites built with AI bad for SEO? We tested it with Search Console data after rebuilding our own site with AI: next-day index retention, flagship keyword rankings, a bulk implementation across 63 articles, and the trend in AI-referred traffic.
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A Webflow-specialist studio’s honest review of rebuilding its own site with AI (Claude Code) in 7 days, also using Figma Make and Webflow AI. Covers measured running costs and SEO, where it went wrong, and how to pick the right tool.
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The biggest disadvantage of a subscription website is that it costs the most when you leave. Written by a competing web design company: the going rate for cancellation fees (¥100,000–300,000), typical monthly website fees, the math showing ¥980/month takes 17 years to pay back, and the total-cost formula plus four questions to ask before signing.
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How to build a website with Claude Code, from a first-hand record of building our own 26-page site in 3 days (7 including planning), split into five steps: plan, design, build, verify, launch. Why I chose Astro + Cloudflare, where the human decides, and post-launch operation.
Read more![How to Choose a Webflow Agency: Cost and 5 Quote Checks [From a Rival Founder]](/assets/posts/thumb-webflow-agency-choice.avif?v=4c985a91)
How to choose a Webflow agency comes down to five things, not price: who builds it, the yearly site-plan cost, CMS design, handover, and what’s behind the portfolio. Written by a rival founder, with a cost guide, the individual-vs-company difference, and questions you can use as-is before you commission anyone.
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How to estimate Webflow’s total cost: the pricing revised in May 2026 (Starter free / Basic $15 / Premium $25), plus build fees and running costs. My own itemized bill — $576 a year, about ¥83,000 — is here too. For anyone considering adopting Webflow.
Read more![Webflow vs STUDIO: Pricing, CMS, and Which to Choose [2026]](/assets/posts/thumb-webflow-vs-studio.avif?v=7e977456)
Webflow and STUDIO compared on pricing (checked on the official pages on October 2, 2026), design freedom, CMS, multilingual, and code export. A production company six years into Webflow explains how to choose, plus the third option in 2026.
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To count a contact-form submission as a conversion in GA4, register the submission-complete event as a key event. We cover how we built our own generate_lead setup, a real case where bots dirtied the numbers, and the 5 website KPIs we check in 30 minutes a month.
Read more![3 Ways Small Business Website Projects Fail | Prep and Timeline Before You Order [2026]](/assets/posts/thumb-website-order-guide.avif?v=763694b8)
Small business website projects fail in three ways: no preparation, approvals that double the schedule, and a contract with no exit. This article covers a real example of a project that stretched from six months to a year, plus timeline guides, the 7 things to settle before you order, and the 4 contract clauses to check.
Read more![WordPress to Webflow Migration | How We Moved 100+ Articles, and When to Quit [2026]](/assets/posts/thumb-wordpress-not-recommended.avif?v=975b3637)
If you have admin access, you can migrate from WordPress to Webflow without changing any URLs. We cover the steps from a real migration of over 100 articles and the 3 things to check, the reasons to quit WordPress (speed and upkeep cost), and how to choose between Webflow and a static site.
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microCMS’s free Hobby plan caps you at 20GB of monthly transfer, 5 APIs, 3 members, and 10,000 items — and transfer, not requests, is what shuts the API off. Prices verified on the official page in October 2026, with other Japan-made CMS compared.
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The SEO impact of a website renewal comes down almost entirely to whether URLs carry over. This article covers the five-item migration checklist that protects your rankings, plus two incidents from our own renewal — 57 Korean pages vanishing from search and a two-week GA4 outage — with dates and numbers.
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The cost of publishing an app on the App Store is just the Apple Developer Program’s $99 annual fee — review itself is free. Drawing on the publishing record of our own 6 iOS apps, I cover why review got held up, how many days it took, and the ongoing work after launch.
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Zero website maintenance cost is nearly possible with a static site. Webharu’s own site runs on just ¥1,500 a year in domain fees. I cover the setup that gets maintenance close to ¥0, the yearly cost by build type, 6 cost items, how to check what a maintenance fee actually covers, and 3 things to check before you cancel.
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LLMO for a small business is mostly something you can do yourself before calling in a vendor. We cover the difference between LLMO, AIO, and GEO, 8 tactics you can do yourself, how to write llms.txt and whether it works, and how to measure it in GA4 — with our own site’s real numbers.
Read more![Vibe Coding With Claude Code: Our Daily Work Routine [2026]](/assets/posts/thumb-vibe-coding-guide.avif?v=96cdb42c)
A studio that runs vibe coding through Claude Code every day covers what the term means and where it came from, how it rebuilt its own 26-page site in 7 days, the real downsides, and how to land the first paid job.
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Webharu renewed its own site with AI (Claude Code) in 7 days: 26 pages built, 62 articles migrated, and a move from Webflow to Astro that cut running costs to ¥1,500 a year. The day-by-day process, plus real search numbers after launch.
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A record of actually trying Webflow’s new App Gen feature. Build the UI and send a Japanese prompt, and data storage, authentication and processing flows get generated automatically. This article separates what I confirmed from what’s still untested, and sums up the criteria for whether to use it now.
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For restaurant owners: turn your ¥2,000/month attendance-management cost into ¥0. Using the AI tool “Figma Make”, build your own attendance app with no technical expertise — just chat instructions, with LINE and payroll-software integration too. Concrete steps for cutting costs and improving efficiency.
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An explainer on Webflow MCP (Model Context Protocol): how AI understands and operates Webflow’s CMS and page structure, what it can do as of 2026, the 3-step setup, and operational cautions, organized from a practitioner’s point of view.
Read more![HTML Code Export Tools Compared | No-Code, AI, and Real Deliveries [2026]](/assets/posts/61fdd8d7a30e6e7ecc5feec7_----------2022-02-05-10.25.31.avif?v=aefec79e)
21,249 A comparison of tools that can export HTML code. Covers a real case of delivering code exported from Webflow and how its quality was rated, why STUDIO can’t export, how to build HTML from the start with AI (Claude Code, Figma Make), free options, and measured results of going static that cut running costs to about 1/55.
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2,642 What the Webflow CMS can do, the cost after the May 2026 revision (Premium at $25/month billed annually), the five-step page build, and the save bug and redirect accident six years of use revealed.
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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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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 basics: before you get stuck, learn the four fundamentals — where HTML and CSS live, All tags, and what the CSS panel colors mean — explained by a specialist. This article also solves the No. 1 question, “why won’t my link color change.”
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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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Canceling a Webflow Site plan automatically disconnects your custom domain. To keep the site and domain, the order is: export the code and publish it to a new destination before you cancel. This article covers our 2023 move to Lolipop and the steps for today’s destination, Cloudflare.
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4,123 Want to know about custom domains in Webflow? This article explains how to set a custom domain in Webflow and the pricing plan it requires. If you are thinking about running your website on Webflow, take a look.
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Website production in Shiogama goes to Webharu Inc., run by a founder born in Shiogama. Pricing: AI Website Production from ¥1,000,000, Full-Scratch Build from ¥1,000,000 (excl. tax). We also publish our subsidy-adoption track record and the customer-acquisition results for a Shiogama painting company — all from a founder who lived through the disaster there.
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How to use the official plugin for copying a design from Figma into Webflow, plus an honest verdict after three years of real client work. From the auto-layout tax and compatibility issues through to a realistic way to divide the work in the 2026 AI era.
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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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The complete guide to using Weglot in one article: installing it on Webflow, excluding pages from translation, fixing translations that don’t appear, the official steps for STUDIO, and my first-hand account of using it in 2022.
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A hands-on guide to embedding Instagram in Webflow and making the embedded feed update automatically. This time I explain a completely free method that uses custom code. Please take a look.
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I write about a dispute I had over Japan’s invoice system and share the experience so others can avoid one. Read this article and even a tax-exempt business should be able to do business without trouble. [July 2026 addendum] Now also covers the transitional-measure schedule after the tax reform.
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Building a website with no-code carries three risks: vendor dependence, no migration path, and shutdown. The prediction written in 2022 became real with Newt’s shutdown announcement (May 2025; shutdown date November 24, 2026). With real measurements from migrating our own site, this article explains how to build so a shutdown can’t erase you.
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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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Looking for Webflow templates that even beginners can put to use right away? This article rounds up Webflow templates you can use today, sorted by genre. Try using a Webflow template to build your own company website.
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My honest results from a year of running Webflow Localization (Japanese → Korean): a few affiliate sales and zero inquiries, so no revenue. Costs went from just under ¥100,000 a year to ¥1,500 a year after switching to AI-based operation.
Read more![The Complete Guide to Webflow SEO: Basics to AIO [2026]](/assets/posts/642bd0976e1153a5fbc425bc_--.avif?v=301dd9e2)
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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The fastest route to learning Webflow, 2026 edition: how to work through the free official Webflow University, how I learned with no prior experience, the 2 easiest ways for a beginner to build a site, and how to ask questions on the Forum and official support.
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Webflow is a no-code web production tool that takes you from design to publishing without writing code. Plans run $15–25/month on annual billing (revised May 2026), and outsourcing typically costs ¥500,000–¥1,500,000. A production company 6 years into specializing in Webflow explains what it can do, how it differs from STUDIO and AI, and how to choose a production company.
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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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11,327 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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