Shannon Soper describes her experience building a website for her dog using React and Contentful, drawing an analogy to the way printing technology has made art more accessible. React, a JavaScript library, enables the creation of adaptable user interfaces, while Contentful, a headless CMS, allows easy management and distribution of content across various platforms. Soper highlights the ease of updating content without extensive recoding, making it efficient for both individual and team use. Despite challenges with Contentful's documentation and GraphiQL's sorting functionalities, she successfully created a site that can be quickly updated as new content arises. This process, she notes, allows for more focus on innovation rather than maintenance, and she expresses a desire to further improve her skills in React for more complex designs.