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Websites an AI agent can make yours in one session.

Custom templates by Steve. Each one is a real site I ran, with the product taken out and the plumbing left in, built the way I build everything now: with Claude Code doing the typing.

01 / On the shelf

Templates

The art portfolio template's home page: a large portrait photo with the artist's name set in huge condensed type in the corner.
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Art portfolio

A full-screen portrait, a sideways run of your best series, and a page for every body of work.

Painters, printmakers, photographers and anyone whose work is pictures.

The maker portfolio template's home page: a large statement with a gold phrase over dark night-sky footage, with the first thin series band below.
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Maker portfolio

A statement over slow night-sky footage, then one thin full-bleed band per series, sliding in from alternate sides and coming up in colour as you hover.

Artists, makers and studios who want the work to arrive in bands rather than a grid.

The facts magazine template's home page: a dark page with oversized white display type reading True things that sound made up, and a grid of glass cards.
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Facts magazine

A sourced, searchable collection of short answers, built to be quoted by people and by assistants.

Anyone publishing a catalogue of short, checkable entries: facts, glossary terms, FAQs, field notes, product know-how.

The landing and blog template's home page: a large printed headline with a gold phrase over a soft gradient cloud, two buttons, and a strip of three numbers.
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Landing and blog

A one-page product pitch with a blog that exists to capture search demand, in the house style of this site.

A small product that needs a front door and an answer to every question people search for about its category.

02 / What agent-ready means

Five things, every template

01

AGENTS.md

Tells the agent where things live and what never to touch.

02

Tokens, not hex

Every colour and typeface is a variable in one place.

03

Content as data

Markdown or typed data with a schema, never prose inside components.

04

Pre-build checker

Fails the build on broken content, missing images or bad alt text.

05

Explains itself

llms.txt, JSON-LD, sitemap and feeds where they apply.

The test is simple. Hand the repo to Claude Code, Codex or Cursor with the sentence “make this my site” and your name, and the agent should finish without asking where the colours live or what the content schema is.

04 / How buying works

Free ones are a public repo. Paid ones arrive by email, for now.

A free template is a GitHub template repository: press “Use this template” and it is yours, no account with me, no newsletter. A paid template ($9, $9, $9) is the same repo with a licence to use it on any number of your own sites, not to resell. Where a template shows a Buy button, checkout is Stripe: pay, give your GitHub username, and the invitation to the private repository arrives within a minute. Where it does not yet, write to info@southofordinary.dev with the template name and I will send the invoice and the invite by hand. Updates for a year, in writing, no calls.

Who is Steve? Someone who builds and migrates websites for a living and keeps a bench of electronics, radios and half-finished theories at home. The templates are the useful part of that; the rest used to live here and does not need to. Say hello, in writing.