Manuel Llaguno

Duopress+ Manuel Llaguno

When designing websites, projects often stall at the final content stage. Without it, development couldn’t start. When it finally arrived, endless revisions drove up costs. Even after launch, simple edits required external devs, causing delays, backlogs, and stretched timelines. I wanted a better way. I had been learning to code and wanted to see if I could build a solution that gave clients full control over their content, reduced costs, and didn’t limit design.

Overview

Duopress is a webpage builder I created for clients using Sanity and React. It simplifies content management, giving clients full control and flexibility.

Industry

B2B

Services

Development

Product Design

UI / UX

Team

Website

No live site available

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Making a page builder is hard

Although I had basic knowledge of HTML, JavaScript, and CSS, I had to dive much deeper into these technologies and learn many new ones to bring the project to life. Late nights and weekend courses were essential to get there. I learned React (Josh Comeau's course is fantastic), CSS (Josh again, fantastic), Tailwind, Sanity, GROQ, TypeScript, and Next.js. Schemas, motion (formerly Framer Motion), form validation, Git, Vercel deployment—the list goes on.

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The journey continues

With each new website I build, I'm constantly making Duopress more stable, adding new features, and enhancing its functionality. Building my own designs has been incredibly rewarding. By coding these designs myself, I've gained valuable insights into what works well and what doesn’t. Creating designs that don't fall apart as clients customize them is challenging, but these lessons apply to all my digital design work. Each new website project sharpens my skills as a designer.

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