Free Playbook · No 01

How I built my site with Claude.

The exact path from a paid Wix subscription to a GitHub-hosted, fully analytics-instrumented, search-indexed, mobile-polished, SSL-secured stack — for three live brand sites. Hosting now costs me almost nothing. Second edition: three months on, the sites have grown a tools layer, a blog, and a maintenance problem. All three are in here now.

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FREE PLAYBOOK NO 01

How I Built My Site With Claude

A step-by-step playbook for media personalities, creators, and multi-brand humans who want to leave Wix behind.

Katoya Raquell Palmer
SECOND EDITION SEPTEMBER 2026
What's inside

Three things you'll walk away with.

01

A working stack

GitHub Pages, custom domain, HTTPS, mobile-first design, security headers — the same setup running three of my live sites today.

02

A discovery engine

SEO tags, sitemap, JSON-LD schema, Google Search Console, Bing Webmaster, plus four free analytics tools layered for different questions.

03

A way to work with Claude

How I treat Claude as a co-pilot — what to delegate, what to keep, and how the same approach can be applied to almost anything you build.

The full table of contents

Thirteen phases, all
built on what shipped.

Every chapter is from something I actually built — not theorized about. No filler. Three chapters are new or rewritten in this edition.

01Plan your brand architecture
02Set up Claude as your co-pilot
03GitHub, domains, and DNS
04Design your pages with Claude
05Deploy — and keep deploying (rewritten)
06SEO and search-engine discovery
07Install your analytics stack
08Mobile, accessibility, security
09Legal pages and consent
10Email and audience
11Real-time visitor pings
12Build real tools with no backend (new)
13Add a blog without adding a platform (new)
+Closing: what drifts, and how to catch it (new)
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Before you start

This playbook is an account of what I did on my own sites. It is not professional advice, and it is not a guarantee that any of it will work the same way on yours. Use it at your own discretion, and take the proper precautions.

That means: back up anything you can't afford to lose before you change it. Don't practice on a live site people depend on. Read what an AI co-pilot writes before you ship it — especially anything touching security headers, privacy language, consent, or analytics. Third-party tools and interfaces change constantly, so check the current documentation rather than trusting a screenshot from September 2026. And if your site is business-critical, handles payments, or sits under a compliance obligation, get someone qualified involved.

ToyBox Consulting & Management, LLC makes no warranty and accepts no liability for outcomes. What you build is yours — including the mistakes.

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Katoya Raquell Palmer
About the author

Katoya Raquell Palmer

Founder of ToyBox Consulting & Management. Operations consultant, fractional COO, and writer behind Five Windows into a Fragile Economy. I help mission-driven leaders build clarity, culture, and credibility — and increasingly, I help them do it with Claude. More about me →

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