How it works in practice

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How HERON works in practice: step-by-step walkthroughs, cases from real sites and notes on moving from WordPress and other systems to a fast static site.

Every walkthrough uses the stable version and commands you can copy as they are.

What we write about

Practical articles for people who build sites, not news about the code. Each one ends with something you can do the same day.

Walkthroughs

One task from start to finish: a site for a clinic, a portfolio, a second language, a move to your own domain.

Format: Steps with commands you can copy, screenshots of the result and the time it took.
Level: Written for someone who has never built a site; terms are explained the first time they appear.
Start with: Your first site

Cases

Real sites built on HERON: what the owner needed, what was done and what changed after launch.

Only real numbers: Speed, positions and traffic from the owners' own reports, never invented.
With permission: A case is published only after the owner agrees.
Before and after: What the site was built on, what it costs to run now and how long updates take.
Your case: Built a site on HERON? Tell us on GitHub.

Moving from other systems

How to move a site from WordPress, Tilda or a hand-made site without losing positions in search.

Addresses: Every old address gets a 301 redirect to its new page, written by HERON into the nginx config.
Texts: How to bring pages over by hand or with an AI agent.
Read first: Why a site without a database is safer
What does not move: Comments, shop carts and user accounts stay in services made for them.

Search and AI

How search engines and AI assistants read a site, and what HERON already does for you.

Topics: llms.txt, schema.org markup, sitemaps, several languages.
Start with: What llms.txt is
Try it: Make an llms.txt for any site in the generator.
Under the hood: SEO and languages in the docs

A site without a databaseWhat a database costs a small site in updates, attacks and hosting, what you lose without one, and when a site really needs it.