The section catalogue came off this site
A page holding all 62 layouts worked as a shop window right up to the point where it became a copying manual. What replaces it.
Until today this site carried a /components route: all sixty-two sections of the template, rendered live, filed under thirteen categories. The argument was simple — a buyer sees the goods before paying instead of reading about them.
The argument is exactly half right. Showing is necessary; showing it that way is not. A page with every layout on it is a page any assistant can strip the markup and the styles out of in a minute and assemble something similar. Not the template, not the route, not the rules — but similar from a distance, and a link away that is enough to decide there is nothing to buy.
What is actually for sale
The template is the smaller half. The larger one is the order: what to ask the client first, why the colour is set before any page is composed, how the contrast of a label on a button is computed, what to check before calling it done. A catalogue shows none of that. It shows pictures, and pictures copy.
What replaces it
Demos. Not isolated blocks but whole sites, built with this same skill and published in full: homepage, inner pages, both themes, both languages, social cards. Each with a write-up showing which sections it is made of and why those.
The difference is that copying a whole site is no easier than building one. And looking at five finished ones and realising the sixth takes an hour is easier than scrolling sixty-two cards.
The demos will live in this blog, in their own group. It is empty for now, which is more honest than a card that says "coming soon".
More from the blog
Two, never more. A longer strip turns the end of an article into a second index page, and the reader has already chosen once.
