In 2026, the technical barrier between a great
idea and a live URL has shrunk to zero. We are
talking about a professional, secure website
built in 15 minutes for less than the cost of
a coffee. It is the absolute end of the builder
era, and honestly, it is about time. Welcome
back to the Deep Dive. Today, I want to slow
down a bit. I want to look at a fundamental shift
in how we build the internet. For years, the
web has been... uh bifurcated you really only
had two choices you either pay thousands for
developer or you rent a site from a builder like
Wix or Squarespace, you are a master of code
or a tenant in a building. Yeah, you are just
a tenant. Yeah. And being a tenant is fine until
the landlord raises the rent or, you know, shuts
down the building entirely. Exactly. So today
we are unpacking a guide that shatters that duality.
We are looking at a 2026 guide by Max Ann. It
is called Build a Website with Google Gemini
3 Pro. This is a really fascinating document.
It is not just a tutorial. We are going to explore
this three -prompt framework the author lays
out. Right. We need to understand the why. That
philosophy of ownership versus renting. Then
we will get into the how. The discovery interview,
the blueprint, and the actual code generation.
And finally, the launch. How you get this on
the internet for literally 10 E's. Using plain
HTML5. Let us start with the philosophy. The
current state of web building. There is a trap
in renting your digital presence. It is the sharecropper
problem. When you build on a platform, you are
building on land you do not own. If they double
their fees, you are stuck. You cannot export
a Wix site and run it on your own server. And
the alternative proposed here is creating pure
HTML5 files. It is totally spaghetti code -free
engineering. Yeah, exactly. You strip away the
databases and the plugins. And the speed is a
huge factor. It is night and day. HTML5 sites
load in under one second. That speed is crucial
for 2026 SEO. Google loves fast sites. Plus there
is a security aspect. Right. Think of a WordPress
site like a house with 50 windows. Every plug
-in is another window. A pure HTML site is a
solid block of concrete. There is no database
or plug -in layer to hack. It is essentially
unhackable. And the cost is incredibly low. Hosting
these static files costs around $2 to $4 a month.
They specifically use Hostinger as the example
provider. Which is basically nothing. Beat. So
if we strip away the databases and the plugins,
what is the actual trade -off here? You lose
dynamic complexity, but gain total ownership
and speed. Let us move to the execution. Step
one. The guide calls this the consultant interview,
which uses PRAMPT1. This is where people usually
mess up with AI. They just tell it to build a
house without a blueprint. Prompt 1 switches
Gemini from a search engine into a consultant.
And you must use Google Gemini 3 Pro. Because
of the context window. Right. Which is the short
-term memory capacity of the AI. Exactly. It
can hold a massive amount of information. You
need that for long code generation so it does
not forget your color palette 20 minutes later.
Gemini turns the tables and asks you seven specific
discovery questions. These pull the DNA of your
business. It asks for the primary purpose, like
the conversion flow, and the service or product
focus for the headline. It asks for the emotional
tone. The guide says to base this on psychology,
not personal taste. Then your top three unique
selling propositions. Right, the differentiation.
Then structure, single versus multi -page, the
call to action. which they refer to as the cash
register. And finally, your operating location
for local SEO. If you do not tell the AI where
the finish line is, the user just runs in circles.
To sex silence. Why does the guide emphasize
answering the emotional tone question based on
psychology, not personal taste? Because tone
dictates customer trust instantly, not just aesthetics.
That brings us to step two, the blueprint. This
is prompt two. You take those interview answers
and create a site structure. But there is manual
customization required here. You have to be the
human in the loop. Right. You feed it the specific
details, your phone number, your address, and
the exact list of pages, like index .html and
about .html. If you do not list them, they do
not get built. Yeah. But we run into a problem
here. Static HTML sites cannot process contact
forms natively. It is a store with no way to
take an order. That is a great way to put it.
The guide solves this with a tool called Web3
Forms. Walk us through that setup. It is a free
service. It routes form submissions right to
your email. You create an account, type localhost
for the domain initially, and get an access key.
And you just insert that access key into prompt
three. Exactly. So the code generated includes
a working form automatically. Beat, what happens
technically if we forget to define the page list
in prompt two? Gemini won't know how many distinct
HTML files to generate. We have the blueprint.
We have the access key. Now we hit step three,
the generation phase. using prompt three this
is the satisfying part whoa imagine the hours
of manual coding vanishing into seconds you just
watch the ai generate complete self -contained
code blocks for every single page yeah styling
mobile responsiveness navigation it all cascades
down in real time taking about 30 to 90 seconds
but then we shift gears back to manual labor
a little bit you create a folder on your desktop
let us name it my website then you copy the code
blocks into notepad on windows Or text edit on
a Mac. And this is a crucial step. You have to
save it as all files. And name them index .html,
not .txt. The .html is the magic spell. Exactly.
Then do local testing. You open the file in a
browser. It works completely offline. And for
editing, you have two paths. You can ask Gemini
to rewrite the code. Or because it is plain text,
just open Notepad. You can change a price from
$50 to $99 yourself. That's two sec silence.
Why is the local test phase considered the quality
check? It proves the code works before you pay
for hosting. We are going to take a quick break.
When we come back, we broadcast this to the world.
Sponsor down. We are back. We have a folder on
our desktop. It works great locally, but it is
time to go live. This is the empty setup. The
guide recommends Hostinger, specifically their
premium plan on a 48 -month term. It acts as
the cheapest option. Let us walk through the
hosting or setup wizard because they will try
to trick you here. Oh, absolutely. The critical
choice is to select create a website. And then
you must click empty PHP slash HTML website.
The warning is clear. Do not select WordPress.
That completely defeats the purpose. Right. From
there, you access the file manager. You navigate
to the public underscore HTML folder. I have
to admit, I still get anxious about DNS propagation,
that 24 -hour window where you just sit there
refreshing the page, hoping it worked. Oh, yeah,
the propagation panic. The guide mentions this
delay is normal. But back in the file manager,
you will see a default .php file that is hosting
your placeholder. You have to delete it. Then
for the deployment, you just drag and drop the
HTML files from your desktop? Yep. Straight into
the browser. You can create an images subfolder
if you need to. Let us hit a few FAQs real quick.
Can you have a blog with this setup? You can,
but static blogs are really only for occasional
updates. You have to manually ask Gemini for
a new page every time. What about e -commerce?
Only simple listings. If you need complex transactions,
you need an external tool like Stripe. Beat.
Why is deleting default .php the specific trigger
mentioned for going live? Because that file overrides
your new index .html until it is gone. Let us
do a big idea recap. We have really moved from
a world of waiting weeks for quotes to a world
of direct ownership. The barrier to entry just
hit zero. Three prompts. A text editor. A $2
hosting plan. The result is a site you actually
own. It loads instantly, and you can move it
anywhere. To the listener, the internet does
not care how long you planned. It cares if your
site works. Pick one idea today. Answer the seven
questions. Let Gemini build version one today.
Build it today. Go live. It is amazing how this
democratizes creation, but it leaves you with
a final thought to chew on. If the technical
barrier is completely gone, what becomes the
new bottleneck? It seems the bottleneck shifts
purely to the quality of your ideas. Thanks for
listening.