TYPO3
Make your TYPO3 website static, without touching TYPO3.
Your editors keep working in the TYPO3 backend. Your visitors get a copy of the finished pages as files. No extension to install, nothing to configure on the server, and no access needed to either.
Your whole site, on your own domain.
Free while we're in beta. No credit card.
Test it on one of your pages
About twenty seconds, no account. You see your page and the copy side by side and click through it yourself.
A copy that works like your site
A plain HTML export saves each page with the files it links to. Anything a page loads only after it opens, like images that appear as you scroll, a menu that fills in, content a script fetches or a link that redirects, often goes missing. And you hear about it from a visitor.
A MakeStatic copy works like your site, it doesn't just look like it. You test it yourself, side by side with your site, before deciding anything. And if a page of the copy ever behaves differently from yours, write to [email protected] and we'll fix it.
- Images that load as you scroll, in every size your site has for phones and big screens.
- Fonts, icons and everything your theme or page builder brings along.
- Content a script loads after the page opens, and menus that fill in on hover.
- Links that redirect to another address still redirect.
- Videos that play and let you skip ahead.
- Contact forms that deliver and a search box that answers.
A TYPO3 that's been running for years
Many TYPO3 sites run for a decade: set up by an agency, extended over the years, and by now on a version whose regular support has ended. Moving to a current version is a project of its own, because extensions have to be replaced and templates adjusted.
A static copy won't do that project for you, but it takes the pressure off. While your visitors get files, the version behind them is out of their reach.
Nothing to install
Static output in TYPO3 usually means an extension that writes pages out on the server TYPO3 runs on. It has to be installed, configured and kept compatible with every TYPO3 version that follows.
We copy the pages from their address. Your TYPO3 version doesn't matter, and nothing in your installation changes.
Forms, search and logins
After the first copy of the whole site, you get a list of everything that needs something running in the background, with the page it's on.
- Contact forms, from the form framework or an extension like powermail, reach us when a visitor sends them. We email them to you and list them on your site's page. They look exactly as they do now.
- The search box answers from the text of the copy's pages. It searches the words on them rather than using TYPO3's own search, and the list tells you so.
- A login for visitors can't be a file. We list it for you, but we don't take it over.
When an editor publishes
The copy catches up when you publish it. Each publish shows which pages were added, changed or removed, so whoever looks after the site can see what changed and when.
Frequently asked questions
- Does anything change in our TYPO3 installation?
- No. Nothing gets installed, and nobody needs access to the backend or the server.
- Does it work with an older TYPO3 version?
- Yes. We copy the pages it publishes, so the copy doesn't depend on the version behind them.
- Does our agency have to be involved?
- Not to try it: the trial copy only needs the address. Pointing your domain at the copy is a change at your DNS provider, which whoever manages your domain can make.
Free while we're in beta
MakeStatic is new, and while it's in beta you get all of it for free: your whole site, on your own domain. No credit card, no commitment.
At some point it will cost something. When there's a price, you'll see it before anything about your site changes.