You can treat constructeur de cocon as a checkbox, or as a design decision. The first path is fast and ineffective; the second takes an hour of thought and lasts for years.
Migration and compatibility
Database migrations apply automatically and are reversible. No manual intervention is required for a minor update.
For major changes, a dedicated guide details the points to watch, with a tested rollback procedure.
What we deliberately refused
No visual builder generating unreadable markup, no dependency on an external service for an essential function, no option masking a design flaw.
These refusals explain some missing checkboxes in comparison tables. They also explain why updates do not break sites.
Check before moving on
- Remove before adding
- Assign each point to a named person
- Document the decision, not just the action
- Check the rendered source, not just the display
The mistakes we see most often
Three mistakes recur with surprising regularity: applying a recommendation without checking it fits the context, changing several parameters at once which makes measurement impossible, and giving up after six weeks because nothing moved.
The third is the most expensive. Effects are rarely visible before a full recrawl and re-evaluation cycle, which often takes two to three months on a mid-sized site.
The decisions behind this release
Every feature added is maintenance debt. We therefore set aside several frequent requests in favour of stronger foundations, at the cost of short-term disappointment.
The criterion is simple: a feature ships if it will still be useful in three years and does not weaken the rest.
Automate what should be automated
Anything that must be repeated on every publication will eventually be forgotten. The rule is simple: if a check depends on human vigilance, it will fail on a deadline day.
Move those controls into the tool — validation on save, automatic alert, a correct default — rather than into a procedure nobody re-reads.
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Where to start
If you take only one action from this article, take the one touching the largest number of pages at once: the effort-to-impact ratio is almost always best there. The rest follows more easily.
