Knowledge Base
How to create a knowledge base in 3 steps.
Create a domain and choose an HTML template.
Create a landing page for your knowledge base site in minutes. YouDoCMS includes a choice of layouts for a user friendly look and feel without using any code. Publish your site to a custom domain or sub-domain and host in the cloud for free.
Create scrollable menus and update content.
Create scrollable menus automatically for all articles in a category. SEO friendly anchor URLs are created when you add or update content. Use a pre-defined content template to speed up technical writing for everything from brand style guides to user manuals.
Edit, Build and deploy to cloud.
Setup you cloud target of your choice. Build with the static site generator for local preview or live to deploy to the cloud of your choice.
How It Works?
YouDoCMS is a native Mac and Windows application for building documentation websites. An alternative to the most popular hosted solutions such as WordPress with Better Docs or KnowAll plugin or Joomla with the Help Desk extension. YouDoCMS includes a template library for both layout and boiler plate content to help you create a best in class knowledge base fast.
YouDoCMS is the ideal knowledge base software for small business. Our basic plan includes multiple documentation and knowledge base templates covering all small business requirements.
Sites built with YouDoCMS load twice as fast as a hosted CMS. Analysis of CMS performance for the 2022 edition the Web Almanac show WordPress and Joomla barely achieving a 40% core web vitals score. Static sites developed with YouDoCMS can achieve 100% and on mobile speed matters.
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1. Domains and Templates
YouDoCMS supports multiple domains/sites and templates
Create a new knowledge base site from scratch in minutes or migrate from an existing Joomla! or WordPress site. Select a local folder to store your site assets and build the preview.
Our library of html templates is updated frequently on GitHub. Knowledge base templates are included in the default installation to demonstrate the ease of use of our documentation builder. Our static site builder generates pages locally for preview and then builds for your hosted domain for a single click deployment to the cloud in seconds.
- Migrate data from Joomla! or WordPress.
- Multiple sites and templates.
- Site Backup included.
- Free version includes deployment to GitHub Pages.
2. Content, Navigation and Search
YouDoCMS includes a pre-defined knowledge base including boiler plate articles, categories, FAQ's and menus. Create a knowledge base and publish for free to the cloud in a single application.
Edit your content directly in YouDoCMS no need to learn Markdown. Create scrollable menus, articles, categories and tags. Speed up the technical writing process with the creation of scrollable menus to anchor urls for all articles within a category.
A knowledge base is only as good as the content it contains. Uniquely YouDoCMS includes readability analysis using the Flesch reading score methodology. This analyses the length of paragraphs and sentences to improve the reading ease of your documents making your knowledge base as user-friendly as possible.
YouDoCMS includes search engine optimisation for your knowledge base. JSON-LD is the preferred format of search engine data for Google and YouDoCMS generates Schema.org format meta data each time the site is built.
- Same HTML editor as Joomla and WordPress.
- Flesch Reading Score.
- Key phrase Analysis.
- Source code editor.
3. Build and Deploy
YouDoCMS integrates with Azure, Cloudflare, AWS, GitHub and Google Firebase. Each of these cloud providers offer a generous free tier for hosting a static site.
YouDoCMS integrates with node.js for single click install of each cloud API. A single domain can use any supported cloud so you can test which platform is best for your project.
AWS, Cloudflare, Google, GitHub Pages and Azure all include a free plan to host a static website for free. Details of the free hosting plans with the 5 cloud platforms can be here.
- Free Bootstrap themes including widgets.
- Free hosting with AWS, Cloudflare, Google, GitHub Pages and Azure.
- Single click build and deploy to cloud.
- Custom Domain CNAME setup.
Frequently Asked Questions
Choosing a knowledge base can be confusing please see our knowledgebase demonstration.
Static sites are suitable for the most common website types which is blogs corporate portfolio landing pages and directories. YouDoCMS static sites include search but if you require forms or e-commerce then a hosted solution is currently the best option.
YouDoCMS integrates with the Algolia search engine. Algolia has a free plan so site search can be incorporated into any static site.
Yes it is. All of the cloud hosting providers offer a free tier which is suitable for the majority of low traffic websites. See our guide to static site web hosting to compare the features and benefits of five major cloud platforms.
YouDoCMS is a desktop application which pre-renders your pages before uploading to the cloud. Therefore the static sites built with YouDoCMS are 100% secure and cannot be hacked.