BotKB.com: Behind the scenes
How BotKB.com was built: the decisions we made, what we tried first and what we learned.
We were not happy with the first designThis site started with ideas from Gemini and Claude, and a lot of movement. We were not happy with it. Here is what we built first and what we threw away.
One picture changed the whole siteWe brought one picture, and the colors, the mood and the words of every page followed it. A story about taste, and about letting an assistant do the matching.
A calm site that is also lightWe wanted this site to feel rich without feeling heavy. Here is how we kept the motion gentle and the pages light, and what a page checker said when we ran it on 28 October.
Hebrew and English as equalsEvery page of this site exists in English and in Hebrew, read left to right and right to left. Here is what that meant for the fonts, the layout, the error page and the way we check our words.
We fact-checked our own case studiesBefore our case studies went live, we checked every claim against the real code and the live sites. Some of our first wording was wrong. Here is what changed.
What we did and what the assistant didA plain list of who did what in building this site: the taste, the pictures and the corrections on our side, the building, the matching and the checking on the assistant's.
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