Web architecture
Choose hosting for a static publication
A publishing-focused checklist for hosting HTML websites: URLs, releases, HTTPS and recovery.
The reading room
All guides
Practical reading for people who build, maintain and choose software. Clear explanations, useful trade-offs, and a little less noise.
Web architecture
Static HTML or a CMS: choose around the work
A practical way to decide whether a content site needs a database, a CMS, or a folder of HTML files.
Web architecture
A semantic HTML checklist for article websites
Build article pages with useful headings, real links, landmarks and keyboard-friendly navigation.
Web performance
An HTTP cache policy you can explain
Separate public assets, changing HTML and private responses before choosing cache rules.
Web performance
Read HTTP status codes before changing the application
Use response codes, a reproducible request and a small evidence log to investigate a broken page.