Rules of website making

Our backup system is one of the things we are proud of. If something goes wrong on a site — a technical failure on the server, or a mistake by whoever was editing it — we can restore it quickly to the state it was in on any of the previous seven days. How the backups work Copies are made…

Multilingual done properly means switching the language of the site without losing your place in it. Now the same thing in plain words, with examples. There are four common ways to make a site multilingual: three easy ones that are wrong, and one that is right. Four ways to build a multilingual…

How fast a website runs comes down to a handful of things: the speed of the connection between the visitor and the hosting (the one factor the site owner cannot do anything about); the speed of the hosting server itself; the speed of the site's CMS; the "weight" of the pages, images,…

Choosing a CMS — the system that will manage your site's content — is a decision with consequences. It determines what the site costs to build, what it costs to keep running, and how far it can be developed later. On the strength of nearly twenty years of working with different content…

A good modern website should be fast, good-looking and easy to use. Everyone says so, and nobody disagrees. But are there firm criteria — verifiable ones — that let you say with confidence that one site is better than another? Let us agree up front on what "firm" means. A firm criterion…