Build it by hand
No AI, no build step. Copy a starter page, paste tiles into it, put your words in a content file. A text editor and a browser are the whole toolchain.
The loop
1 · Copy the starter
Take templates/plate.html, rename it index.html. It already has the plate, the nav and the footer.
2 · Paste a tile
Pick a tile from the kit, paste its markup inside
3 · Add the words
Put the matching entry in content.json — same id as the markup's data-tile-id.
4 · Refresh
That is the whole cycle. Change a word in the JSON and watch it move.
Serve it locally
cd my-site
python3 -m http.server 8080What you need
You need
A text editor, a browser, and Python (or any static server) to preview locally. Some HTML and CSS familiarity helps.
You do not need
Node, npm, a bundler, a framework, a build pipeline, or a hosting account to start.
Coming from a site builder?
If you can drag a section onto a page, you can paste one. The mental model is three ideas — see the kit's primer.
Check it
node tools/check-site.mjs publicThe two files that teach it
plate.html is the starter; TILE-KIT.md holds every tile's markup and its content entry, ready to copy.
Ship it anywhere
Copy the folder plus the framework files, upload to Firebase Hosting, Cloudflare Pages, GitHub Pages, Netlify or IPFS. Nothing to build.