Exploration
Something to point at.
Five kinds of business, two hero layouts, four accents, light or dark, desktop or phone. Every name, headline and service in the frame is sample content. It is here so you can say which direction reads right before anyone writes a line of code.
The stage
Change one thing at a time.
What this does
It makes taste discussable.
Most first conversations stall on vocabulary. Clean, warm, modern and professional mean different things to the two people saying them, and neither finds out until a draft lands. This puts a real frame on the screen and lets you move one variable at a time until something reads right. The frame is not the point. The sentence you can say afterwards is the point.
The limits
What this is not.
The accent list is intentionally constrained. It does not expose an arbitrary color picker.
- Every business name, headline, service and action in the frame is invented. None of it describes a real business, and the frame says so at all times.
- It is a direction, not a design. A real page starts from your words, your photographs and the services you actually sell.
- The four accents are fixed because a picker is how a site ends up with text nobody can read. Contrast is checked once, in code, rather than left to whoever last opened the editor.
- Nothing here sets scope or price. Choosing a centered hero is not a quote.
- This one cites no source, because it measures nothing. The other instruments here report a number and name where the number came from. This is a way to start a sentence, and dressing it up as research would be the exact trick it exists to replace.
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The audit looks at the site you have now, names what is working and what is costing you, and puts a real direction against your own services rather than a placeholder one.