Daniel Müller builds websites that get by without him. Sounds like bad business, turns out it's his best pitch. And if something does come up, he answers the phone himself, no hold music. Eisbachcode in Munich, maintainer at EmDash.
One paragraph of brief, nine minutes, a joinery website with its own content model. Two test runs show what EmDash Build already does, where the build stumbles and why it isn't a client site yet.
Before your EmDash site goes live in Germany or Switzerland, it usually needs a legal notice (Impressum) and almost always a privacy policy. I'll show you when each duty applies, how to create and link both pages without code, and which data an EmDash site on Cloudflare actually processes.
Two rules taken from the name carry the whole design: weekly issues and the dash as the only motif. Posts get data sheets as covers instead of stock photos, and EmDash on Cloudflare does the rest.
Creating a content type in the admin takes a few minutes. Getting it onto your site takes two small Astro pages. I build both for an events listing and show you the order to ship them in on a live site.
Our public pages sit in Cloudflare's edge cache for five minutes, yet a published fix shows up right away, because EmDash purges by cache tag when you publish, and editors keep their Edit button. The five minutes are just the safety net for a purge that doesn't happen. How much faster the pages get, I'll measure after launch.
Almost everything in the EmDash admin takes a minute. What costs you is what you can't change later: field slugs, field types and category slugs. With two languages, add a byline per language. Sort those out before your first post.
Let Wrangler create D1 and R2 on your first deploy and Cloudflare picks where they live, for good. If the database ends up in North America, every uncached page pays about 140 ms per query from Europe. Create both yourself first, with --location weur. If you're past that point, read replication helps with reads, but only a move fixes it.
Title, tagline, logo and favicon are set in the admin; colours and fonts live in code. Here are the three files you touch, and why your fonts come from your own domain even with the Google provider.
You know WordPress and you're looking for the Appearance menu in the EmDash admin? I'll show you where posts, media, menus, plugins and settings ended up, explain the terms that are new to you, and tell you what simply isn't there.