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Written by Saliem Talash with AI assistance.

I build practical digital resources for small businesses. My work through ZOME focuses on simple tools people can use and keep; I also edit ZELR, where I develop notes on tools, work and the city.

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The Website Project Workbook is an offline HTML workbook for planning a site, recording launch checks, tracking issues and preparing an owner handoff. It saves progress to a file you control. It does not save automatically, so you should keep your downloaded progress file before closing it.

In why I made the workbook, I explain its four sections, its limitations and a fictional worked example. My file-organization guide offers a separate, practical way to name and hand off project files.

How I write here

This blog is a record of product choices and useful examples. I label demonstrations and fictional examples clearly. I do not present them as client results or testimonials. The aim is to make each resource understandable enough for you to decide whether it fits your own project.

Resources and articles are prepared with AI assistance and reviewed before publication.

For a fuller demonstration, read a worked website handoff for a fictional flower shop. It shows the brief, launch checks, issue record and owner handoff in one clearly labelled example.

More practical notes

For a small recurring review, read a 30-minute weekly review for a one-person business. For a tighter way to follow individual orders, see the smallest order tracker worth keeping. Both pieces use clearly labelled fictional examples and are published under Saliem Talash.

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