2  Who will want Smallsite Design?

Smallsite Design is for writers who want to build a quality body of knowledge, rather than a blog of daily writings that disappear into an archive almost immediately.

Note that, because of other design decisions, the practical upper limit for the number of pages for each Smallsite Design setup is in the hundreds, which is the expected upper limit for the target user base. If your output is expected to be prodigious, you could run a main Smallsite Design setup on a domain, with another on each of several subdomains, each covering a subarea of interest.

Providing multi-lingual online help is another use for which the simplicty of Smallsite Design can make implementation quite straightforward.

Given the small-site focus of Smallsite Design, massive online help may seem a bit odd to be catering for. The answer is simple, Smallsite Design needs its own online help, so why not allow the product to do that as well, by using an architecture that uses the product to its best advantage.

In reality, online help in Smallsite Design is just a particular scenario for using its multilingual facilities. Each article includes the text of all supported languages, but only the text for the current locale's language is displayed.

Note that rather than plain languages per se, Smallsite Design uses locales, which are a language identifier, followed by optional script, such as for Latin or Cyrillic, and location identifiers. This allows for locality-specific variations in spelling, grammar, time presentation and examples, such as for US and UK English. These have a standard format, like ar-ye for arabic in Yemen, en-us for English in the United States, or zh-hant-hk for traditional Chinese as used in Hong Kong.

Fallthough occurs on an article-by-article basis, but also on all text blocks within an article. For example, most of an article's English could be for en-001, which is for the world, with any specific English versions falling through to it, but individual paragraphs or other blocks, for say en-gb, where there are variant spellings, can have their own explicit text.

All the links on a substitute version's page still point to the originally requested locale for other pages.

Online help is where the simplicity of the Smallsite Design can achieve enough scale to provide a big solution. However, for online help for really large programs, which may require thousands of topics, perhaps use a subdomain per program module, as per
https://module.domain.com/art/topic/locale/

While allowing ads on a site is the current way many choose to make money from their site, there are several downsides to that approach.

Preventing tracking is also why all media must be hosted on the site, and no third-party inserts are allowed. If you want to have a discussion thread for an article, you can bidirectionaly link to your own associated Discus or LinkedIn post page.