How AI Enhances Independent Web Development
When I first asked ChatGPT to come up with an outline for an article on how AI enhances web development, it produced this utopian type content that made me laugh. ā¦
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After finishing my first full Django site, Stream English, I realised something important - I was not just learning Django anymore. I was learning how to learn with AI. At first, I used AI like most beginners do: I pasted in error messages, asked for fixes, and copied whatever came ā¦
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        When I first asked ChatGPT to come up with an outline for an article on how AI enhances web development, it produced this utopian type content that made me laugh. ā¦
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        As I learned Django, most of my progress came from repetition. Immediately after completing my full-stack developer training, I spent a year setting up project after project, rebuilding the same ā¦
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        Every business wants to be found online, but too often websites end up as a collection of scattered pages: a home page, a services page, maybe a blog or two. ā¦
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        I used to dread seeing the white screen of doom. The Server Error (500) page that meant my whole Django site had gone down. One small mistake could make everything ā¦
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        Structure matters to me, and not just in the backend, but in how things look and feel on the page. Tailwind CSS v4 gave me a chance to rethink how ā¦
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        Search is evolving faster than most business owners realise. A few years ago, SEO meant optimising keywords, writing blog posts, and building backlinks. Today, with Google’s AI Overviews, Bing Copilot, ā¦
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        Quick SummaryAI search readiness didn’t appear overnight. It is the result of a long evolution in how search engines interpret and deliver information. Over the past decade, we have moved ā¦
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        You can have cluster pages, FAQs, and schema in place but if your content isn’t formatted clearly, AI tools won’t touch it. AI is like a scanner, it grabs neat, ā¦
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        You run a local business so you already know that the high street is not what it used to be. Shoppers search before they stroll, and in 2025 that search ā¦
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        Here is something most small businesses may not realise. Search engines and AI don’t “read” your site like a human does. They scan the structure. Schema markup is the behind-the-scenes code ā¦
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        If cluster pages are the backbone of AI search readiness, Frequently asked questions or FAQs are the connective tissue. They take the exact questions your community is asking and put ā¦
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        If you run a local business like a café, gym, salon, or dentist, you probably rely more on foot traffic than clicks. So here’s the question: does getting your website ā¦
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        Most business blogs fail not because the content is bad but because it’s scattered. One post about email marketing, another about sales funnels, then a random update about a holiday ā¦
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        When it came to learning backend development, Django wasn’t a choice. It was the only framework offered in my software developer course, and at first, it felt like learning to ā¦
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        Quick SummarySearch used to be about keywords. AI search is about connections. Instead of treating every post as a standalone piece, search models like Google SGE and Bing Copilot look ā¦
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        I like structure. I like knowing where things belong and how they connect, which is probably why Django stuck with me. In this post, I walk through how I structure ā¦
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        If there Is one thing that keeps me interested in development, its that there is always something new to learn and something I thought I understood until I tried it ā¦
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        Quick SummaryIf you want search engines and AI assistants to truly understand your website, structured data is the foundation. In this post, I walk through why structured data matters for ā¦
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        Over the last few months, I keep hearing about AI Search Readiness that sound half panicked, half excited so I decided to find out what it actually means. Turns out ā¦
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        Introducing Corrison: The Flexible Django eCommerce Platform Built for Multi-Domain Deployment I am really excited to be building my own headless cms platform. Using Django as the backend and Astro ā¦
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        I build with a small but powerful stack - simple enough to manage on my own, flexible enough to grow with me. I am definitely a backend developer in my ā¦
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        May and June 2025 have been busy months for me. One of the things I managed to achieve was setting up self-managed VPS hosting. When I first decided to move ā¦
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        There are several brilliant tools that can truly transform how you manage your business workload. Your digital stack - the online tools you use to manage your business. Let's explore ā¦
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        Since finding out about the term "vibe coding" I have been actively carrying out my own research on the topic. The more I read about the thoughts behind vibe coding ā¦
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