How to build a website with Corey: step by step

Building a website used to mean choosing between a template that looks like everyone else’s and an agency invoice that hurts. There is now a third option: brief Corey like you would a small studio, and it does the design, the build and the upkeep while you stay the one making the calls. Here is the order that works.

1. Brief Corey on the site

Start in plain language. What is the site for, who is it for, and what pages does it need? You do not need a brief document or wireframes. Corey asks a few sharp questions - what is the one action you want visitors to take, what do you want them to feel - and turns your answers into a working outline. You sign it off before anything is designed.

2. Generate the design

Corey writes a design prompt and produces a first look: a colour palette, a type scale and spacing, presented as a proper design system rather than a single throwaway mockup. You react like a client - “warmer”, “more confident”, “less corporate” - and pick the direction that feels like you. The point is to settle the look before a single page is built.

3. Lock the design system

This is the step most people skip, and it is why so many sites drift. Corey turns the chosen direction into reusable tokens - colours, fonts, spacing and components - and builds everything from them. Change a token once and the whole site updates. That discipline is the difference between a site that looks built and one that looks bolted together.

4. Build the pages

Now Corey builds the real thing. Pages from the design system, copy written in your voice, responsive layouts that hold up on a phone, and the SEO and structured data wired in from the start. It works in your own folder, so the site is yours, and nothing goes public until you have seen it and approved it.

5. Direct it like a product manager

This is where you get the most out of Corey. Review what it built and give feedback the way a PM would: describe the change in plain words, or paste a screenshot and point at what is wrong. “This section looks uneven.” “This headline is weak.” “Make these boxes the same size.” Corey makes the edit and reships. You are directing the work, not doing it.

6. Ship and keep it current

A website is not a one-off project; it is a living thing. Corey publishes the site, then keeps it current - new pages as you grow, fresher copy, updated numbers, and fixes informed by what the analytics actually show. Anything that goes public waits for your approval. The site stops being a task you keep meaning to get to and becomes something that quietly looks after itself.

That is how Corey changes building a website: not by handing you a template, but by being the studio that designs it, builds it, and keeps it sharp - with you as the one who decides.