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Should You Choose a Drag-and-Drop Website Builder?
Welcome back to another edition of Ask David!, where we cut through web design marketing hype and talk about how websites actually work in the real world.
Today’s question comes from a site owner standing at a very common crossroad:
“I was thinking i
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There is a growing trend of “vibe coding” - websites generated by AI prompts that rely heavily on client-side React frameworks. On the surface, these sites function perfectly. A human opens the URL, the JavaScript executes, the DOM populates, and the user experiences a snappy, modern interface.
However, from an infrastructure and SEO standpoint, this approach frequently results in a catastrophic failure to communicate with search engines.
The Technical Reality: Browser vs. Googlebot
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