What can you ask the DudeMaster?

Create a site, a page, a template

• “Create a site for my bakery: home, products, opening hours and contact, in warm colours.”
• “Make a ‘Workshop’ page template: photo at the top, description, price and a sign-up button. I'll use it for every workshop.”
• “Add a ‘Pottery workshop’ page based on the Workshop template.”
• “Add a Services drop-down menu with three sub-pages.”
• “Redo the whole design of the site.” — for large jobs, the DudeMaster suggests going step by step.

Take over all or part of an existing site

• “Clone the site https://www.my-old-site.com” — at a price announced and guaranteed before starting.
• “Take over only the News and Contact pages of https://www.my-old-site.com.”
• “Take over the page https://www.my-old-site.com/team and adapt it to our colours.”

Forms, data and APIs

• “Add a contact form that sends me the messages by email.”
• “Add a quote request form, with a choice of service and a field for the desired date.”
• “Save the workshop sign-ups in my web host's database and email me for each new sign-up.”
• “Add a search box to the site.”
• “Protect the contact form with a reCAPTCHA.”
• “Show the catalogue from my database, with a filter by category.”
• “Create a members' area with login, where everyone finds their bookings.”
• “Show the upcoming dates from my online calendar.”
• “Show today's weather on the home page.”

The DudeMaster writes the programs your site needs: form handling, pages filled from your database or from an external service (API). If a setting is up to you (email account, database, reCAPTCHA key…), he tells you where to enter it in the site's administration page and adds it to your “To do” list.

Text, images, documents, videos

• “Replace the home page photo with this one.” — attach the photo to your message.
• “Crop the team photo to a square format.”
• “Add this PDF to a Documents page, with a download link.”
• “Use the text of this file for the About page.”
• “Embed this YouTube video in the Concerts page.”
• “Use this font for the headings.” · “Put this video as the home page background, without sound.”
• “Rewrite the introduction of the home page: shorter and warmer.”

Accepted files: images (JPG, PNG, GIF, WEBP, SVG, ICO), fonts (WOFF, WOFF2, TTF, OTF), videos (MP4, WEBM), PDF documents and text files (TXT, MD, CSV), 15 MB at most.

Animations and visual effects

• “Make a ladybird wander across the home page.”
• “Add a gentle fade-in when scrolling down the page.”
• “Scroll our partners' logos continuously.” · “Add an animated counter: 25 years, 300 pupils, 40 concerts.”

Connecting your services

• “Add an online booking button linked to my calendar.”
• “Add the sign-up to our newsletter.” · “Show our latest customer reviews.”
• “Add a cookie consent banner.” · “Measure the site's audience.”

If an account or a key is needed, the DudeMaster tells you and adds it to your “To do” list.

Logo, favicon and showing off your images

• “Suggest a logo for the Tilleuls Bakery, simple, in the site's colours.”
• “Make the favicon from the logo.”
• “Re-centre the main home page image on the sofa.”
• “Suggest a layout for these three images.” — attach the three images to your message.
• “Brighten the terrace photo, it is too dark.”
• “Make the gallery photos black and white, with colour on hover.”

Quality and publishing

• “Run the W3C test on the site.” · “Look for dead links.” · “Run a health check.”
• “Improve the search engine optimisation of the Pricing page.”
• “Publish the site at my web host.” — SFTP account, or one of your own VPS servers, chosen on the project's Hosting page.
• “Give me an archive of the site.” — to install it wherever you like.

Your own servers (VPS): added in "My account", Servers tab, DudyWeb.com installs them (web server, HTTPS, firewall, security updates, MySQL database) and can host several sites of the account on each, isolated from one another; PUBLIER then updates each site.

Your “To do” list

• “What is left for me to do?”
• “Note to send the team photos before Friday.”
• “The reCAPTCHA key is done.”

The DudeMaster also notes there what he asks you to do (a setting, an account to create, a photo to send…).

Your rules and your history

• “Permanent rule: always a photo at the top of every page.” — applied to every later change.
• “Undo my last change.”
• “What have you changed on the site recently?”

Short commands also work (they keep their French names): HELP, ANNULER (undo), REGLES (rules), HISTO (history), SOLDE (credit)…