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Andrii Syrokomskyi
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Wings of Ukraine: how I built a brand website i.e. still waiting for its photos

When a website has not yet been published, that does not necessarily mean the project is stalled.

In this analysis, it was important for me to show a different layer of the work: not the result on display, but the architecture of decisions shaped around real constraints.

This is about a branded website where, at the start, there were no final photos, no approved spec, and no finished copy. I.e. why the key task was not "quickly assembling a page", but building a resilient structure.

What is fundamental here.

First, the visual concept is chosen. Not interface details, but the direction of the system. This reduces the cost of rebuilding later.

Then the copy is treated as part of the design process. Until the positioning is fixed, the layout remains flexible.

From the technical side, two decisions are shown.
The first: moving away from a deeply embedded dependency (Tailwind) in the styling layer and shifting to a simple CSS structure.
The second: moving content out of components into separate data files. This is no longer just a frontend refactoring, but a change in the maintenance model.

It is precisely these kinds of decisions that determine whether a website will remain a maintainable system after release.

The point of the article is not a "successful launch". It is about how to build digital infrastructure when the real life of a project does not fit into a neat spec.


🟦 EN https://linkedin.com/pulse/wings-ukraine-how-i-built-brand-website-ie-still-its-syrokomskyi-lzuxf

🟨 DE https://grow.syrokomskyi.com/die-flugel-der-ukraine-wie-ich-die-website-einer-marke-aufgebaut-habe-die-auf-ihre-foto-wartet

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