One-shot Timeline

Turn a tangled topic into a story a curious non-specialist can follow, one consequential moment at a time. Deliver a working website, not a mockup or a list of dates. The explanation leads; the visual treatment serves it.

1. Choose the story and destination

Identify the topic, audience, question the reader should be able to answer, and scope. Use the user's sources and constraints. Ask only when the topic itself is missing or competing interpretations would change the story; otherwise state a reasonable scope and proceed.

• Historical: use verified dates and distinguish what happened from when it became public. State the cutoff for an ongoing story.
• Conceptual: use causal stages, not invented calendar dates. Show important shortcuts, loops and exceptions without turning the page into a tangled diagram.
• Mixed: label historical dates and explanatory stages distinctly.

Choose a readable topic slug such as how-dns-works and create one project in the caller's requested destination, otherwise in the current working directory:

how-dns-works/
├── workspace/   editable source, local media masters, research and build instructions
└── artifact/    portable, ready-to-serve website and the assets it actually uses