Practical notes on templates, bilingual sites, and small-business web work.
A straight cost, speed, and ownership comparison between a code-based Next.js template and subscription website builders like Wix and Squarespace — and how to tell which one actually fits your business.
Ten concrete things to check before buying a Next.js template — license terms, real code quality, i18n, performance, and support — so you don't find out the hard way after checkout.
A step-by-step checklist for actually shipping an English + Chinese website — which script to use, how to handle URLs and hreflang, fonts, translation quality, and testing — not just why you should do it.
Chinese is spoken by over a billion people but makes up barely 1% of the web. Here's the real market gap, what translation plugins actually cost, and a plugin-free way to ship a bilingual site.
What a real estate agent website actually costs over three years across three approaches — subscription builders, WordPress plus IDX, and a static template — with real numbers, not vendor marketing.
A no-hype checklist for picking a Next.js SaaS template in 2026 — what actually matters, what you can skip, and when a $19 landing page starter beats a $300 full-stack boilerplate.