Anything highlighted in yellow is unresolved and needs a decision or an asset before it can be built.
Why now
akamai.media is one page. It sells a free audit and gives a referral no way to see the work, read the offer, or find out who I am. The audit form stays exactly where it is while the rest of the site gets built around it.
Menu at the top of every page
Akamai Media
Work
Services
About
Contact
Free Site Audit
Home
Sections, in order down the page
Free website audit, with the form
Live today and unchanged. This is the lead magnet and it keeps the top of the page.
The nine audit dimensions
Live today. Design, SEO, AI and generative search, content, conversion, trust, accessibility, mobile, speed.
Selected work
New. Four to six tiles into Work. A referral currently lands here and has no route to the portfolio.
What I do
New. Three lines into Services.
Who I am
New. Short, into About. Referral traffic arrives wanting the person before the offer.
Selected clients and organizations
The logo strip. Labelled neutrally, never implying endorsement, because government seals carry no-endorsement rules. No third-party logo files exist yet.
Closing audit form
Live today.
Work
Sections
Opening
One paragraph. The draft already sitting on the site opens well enough to keep.
Government and civic
HTDC · School Facilities Authority · Washington Place · Honolulu Fire Department · State Foundation on Culture and the Arts · Kaua‘i Department of Water · VA Homeless Programs Office · HHS GrantSolutions
Current and recent clients
Ruhi Zandra · Wushu Unlimited. In-flight builds join as they launch.
Thirty years of independent work
Akamai Media has run since 2008 with clients across Asia, North America and Europe. 115 archived client folders on the AM drive. The deepest part of the portfolio, and the shortlist is still to be picked.
Martial arts and entertainment
Jet Li official site · Alive Not Dead · The Forbidden Kingdom · Fearless · Rotten Tomatoes · Design Reactor work for Disney Channel, Warner Bros, Artisan and RKO
Role and scope on every entry
Agency work is framed as agency work. Delivered through Tyler Technologies and Aptive Resources, never implying sole vendor or endorsement.
Services
Sections
Custom design and build
Bespoke, not productized. No packages and no tiers.
How a project runs
Discovery, design, build, launch. The client portal is the proof, and naming it here is the thing no competitor is doing.
Ongoing care
Part of every build, not an add-on. Described as how the work continues, with no tiers and no pricing table.
Free site audit
Routes to the audit page.
What I do not do
Short. Ad networks and SDK work are outside the lane, and saying so filters the wrong enquiries out early.
About
Sections
Portrait and introduction
Design engineer. No photograph on file for this use.
Thirty years, the arc
Entertainment and film in the early years, government and civic through the middle, independent studio work throughout.
How I work
Solo, direct, no account layer between the client and the person building the site.
Martial arts
Thirty years in Chinese martial arts, international travel and judging. Not positioning, just the part of the background that explains the client base.
Credentials
BA Creative Media, University of Hawai‘i West O‘ahu · AIS Challenge certificate
Contact
Sections
Form
Name, email, what they need, where they came from.
Direct email
hi@akamai.media, already the verified sending address.
Booking link
Calendly is set up and credentialed. Whether a call can be booked without talking first is not decided.
What happens next
Referral traffic converts better when the next step is stated rather than implied.
Detail pages under Work
Honolulu Fire Department
Brief, approach, results. Five design awards, live today, and the copy is already written.
State Foundation on Culture and the Arts
Named stakeholders, a stated design direction, delivered on time and on budget. Copy already written.
Ruhi Zandra
Current, non-government, built end to end on the present stack. Proves the work is not all history.
Pages that are not in the menu
Both are reached from a page, a button, or an email. Neither earns a menu slot.
1
Free Site Audit
/audit
The same offer and the same form as the home page, on a page of its own, so outreach and the report pipeline can link somewhere that is not the entire home page. A neutral sample report does not exist yet, because every report built so far is a named real business.
2
Client Portal Login
/client-portal-login
Already live, already set to noindex, and correct as it stands. Footer link only.
Supporting pages
The pages that get forgotten until launch week. None of these exist today.
| Page | Why it is needed |
|---|---|
| Privacy | The site collects form submissions. It needs one. |
| Accessibility | Accessibility is one of the nine things I audit other people on. Not having a statement of my own is the kind of gap a prospect notices. |
| Thank you | Form confirmation. The audit form currently confirms inline only. |
| 404 | The theme has no 404 template at all. |
Pages to remove
Measured live on August 28th. All six return a 200, are indexable, and sit in the XML sitemap. Six empty pages on a site that sells website audits is the kind of thing the audit itself would flag.
| Page | What is on it | Action |
|---|---|---|
| /case-studies | Nothing. Blank page, no content. | Delete. Work replaces it. |
| /getting-started | Nothing. | Delete |
| /blog | Leftover placeholder text: “describe the challenge and project brief here” | Unpublish until it has posts |
| /testing | “Just testing the page.” | Delete |
| /testing-page | “Why is this so far to the left?” | Delete |
| /accordion-test | Nothing. | Delete |
Deliberately not in this version
| Left out | Reason |
|---|---|
| Blog | Published, empty, and carrying placeholder text. Three real posts before it gets linked, or it argues against me. |
| Martial arts schools landing page | No niche positioning yet. The site reads general. Schools get reached through my own network, not through the site. |
| A care plans page | Care is part of every build, not a product with a page of its own. |
| Pricing page | Published numbers with no framing lose the conversation before it starts. |
| Newsletter page | The automation exists, the list does not. A footer field covers it at launch. |
| YouTube hub | No videos yet. |
What has to be settled before this gets built
1. The index template is overridden in the database. The theme file is fine and calls the header and footer parts normally. A Site Editor override stored in the database replaces it with post content and nothing else, and the override is what serves. That is why every page except Home renders with no header, no menu and no footer, and why Home looks right anyway: it carries its own header and footer inline. Verified live on three URLs. No second page can ship until this is resolved, whatever the structure says.
2
Shortlist the archived client work
No longer a research problem. The AM drive holds 115 archived client folders, all eleven employer and agency folders, and an already-curated portfolio sorted by discipline and dated. What is left is picking which ones go on the page.
3
Third-party logos
Found. Sixteen files on the AM drive: Disney Channel, Warner Bros, Rotten Tomatoes, Alive Not Dead, Design Reactor, Edko Films, Active Network, Honu Media, Moon PT, EOFire. Screenshots are not a problem either, since every live portfolio URL responds.
4
A photograph for About
One selfie in two crops, 512 square at best. Fine for a small avatar, too small for a portrait. The Instagram set is large enough but every image carries a burned-in date caption. This is the one asset still outstanding.
Decisions already taken
Recorded here so they are not reopened in a later phase.
| Decision | When |
|---|---|
| Platform is Astro, static, on Cloudflare Workers. | August 28th, 2026 |
| No niche positioning yet. The site reads as a general web design studio. | August 28th, 2026 |
| Care plans are required as part of every build, never an add-on, never productized, no tiers. | August 28th, 2026 |
| The home page keeps the audit form while the rest of the site is built. | August 28th, 2026 |
| Portfolio slug is /work. The existing /portfolio draft becomes a redirect. | July 13th, 2026 |
| Government work is the backbone, entertainment is the flourish, current clients show present relevance. | July 13th, 2026 |
| Every agency-delivered entry carries role and scope framing, never implying sole vendor or endorsement. | July 13th, 2026 |