Behind the Counter · The Recipe
Every room in this gallery was built by Claude, working through the Elementor MCP. Nobody dragged a single widget into place. The only outside ingredients are the nine photographs, which were made in Gemini.
Prep time: three days
Ingredients
No. 01
The spice rack. Every colour, font, size and spacing value on the site lives here. Tahini, amba, schug and sesame are all real variable names.
No. 02
The marinade. Walls, frames, labels and cards are all classes, so the pages barely style anything themselves.
No. 03
Each image slot was built as an empty frame with its crop set before the photos existed.
No. 04
The laffa. They wrap every room.
No. 05
The Haiku Machine: 84 lines, each counted by hand, and all 231 ingredient combinations tested. The page itself is ordinary Elementor elements. The snippet only adds the behaviour.
No. 06
The one imported ingredient, made in Gemini. Alt text was written for every one.
Method
Step 1 · Set up the spice rack
Colours, fonts and sizes went in first as global variables, along with site-wide styles for headings, paragraphs and links.
Step 2 · Mix the marinade
Anything used more than once became a global class: walls, frames, labels, cards and buttons.
Step 3 · Bake the laffa
A Theme Builder header and footer, so every room is wrapped the same way.
Step 4 · Stack the rooms
Each page went up section by section, with empty frames holding the place of every photograph.
Step 5 · Hang the pictures
The Gemini photographs went into their frames one at a time, and each one got alt text in the Media Library.
Step 6 · Build the machine
The Commission Desk is ordinary Elementor elements. An Angie code snippet adds the phrase bank, the generator and the letter-by-letter reveal.
Step 7 · Taste and adjust
Every room was checked on a phone, a tablet, a laptop and a wide screen before it was served.
No. 00 · From the kitchen
No hand on the mouse.
Layer on layer, it stacks
like meat on the spit.
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