Frequently asked questions

Your website designer, powered by artificial intelligence. You describe what you want, in writing or by voice; he designs the pages, lays them out, takes care of SEO, then keeps your site evolving with each of your requests.

No. You write as you would to a colleague: “add an Opening hours page”, “change the home page photo”. The DudeMaster takes care of everything else and tells you what he did. And if you can code, you can bring your own code (a component, a style sheet, a script…) by pasting it into your message, or your coding guidelines: he integrates them and follows them, for example by saving them as permanent rules of the site, always without PHP.

From the console of your client area, from the assistant window on your site's preview, or on Messenger: link your account once to the DudyWeb.com page (“My account”, “Link Messenger”), then write PROJETS to pick the project concerned. You can write to him or send a voice message, in French or English, and attach your files: images (including SVG), fonts, videos, PDF documents, text files (TXT, MD, CSV). You can also call it on +33 9 72 10 02 84: link your phone once (“My account”, Phone tab: the line calls you to verify your number), then, at each call, type your 4-digit personal code, choose the project and say your requests. Only French landline and mobile numbers are eligible; the call is billed by your phone operator at the normal rate (not a premium-rate number), the work requested from the DudeMaster at the same rate as in the console, and each call is limited to 15 minutes. Finally, you can write to dudemaster@dudyweb.com: link your address once (“My account”, Email tab), put the project in square brackets in the subject, for example [My site], and the answer comes back by email; publishing, deletions and spending are first sent to you for confirmation.

Yes. You can download it in full at any time (LIVRER command) and install it with the web host of your choice, with no obligation to DudyWeb.com. Its JavaScript is obfuscated by default when publishing and in the archive, to make copying your scripts harder; for a readable version, uncheck "Obfuscate the site's JavaScript" on the project's Hosting page, then run LIVRER again.

While it is being built, your site is visible on a preview protected by a login and a password. To put it online, three options: your own servers (VPS), which DudyWeb.com installs and maintains for you (web server, HTTPS, firewall, security updates, MySQL database), where several sites of the account can live side by side, each isolated from the others, and to which it publishes with a simple PUBLIER command; your current web host, over SFTP; or a complete archive of the site, to install wherever you like (LIVRER). Servers are added in "My account", Servers tab; the rest is set on your project's Hosting page.

Yes. Your pages stay static, but anything that needs to store data (sign-ups, bookings, catalogue, members' area…) goes through a small program the DudeMaster writes for your site. The database is MySQL 8: on your own server (VPS), DudyWeb.com installs MySQL 8.4 and sets it up for you; at a web host, use the MySQL database of your plan. You enter its address, name, login and password in the site's administration page, “Database” tab, and the DudeMaster uses it. Passwords are never written in the site's code. For small needs, the data can also be kept without a database, in a space reserved for your project. Just ask, for example: “save the workshop sign-ups in the database and email me for each new sign-up”.

Yes. On top of its static pages, your site can have pages filled on demand: a catalogue read from your database, availability, a members' area with login, upcoming dates from your online calendar, the weather, your customers' reviews… The DudeMaster writes the small program that reads the database or queries the external service (API), with a time limit and caching of the answers when the service is slow. The API key or credentials are entered in the site's administration page, “Keys and credentials” tab (or “Database”), never in the code. You need a host that accepts programs (CGI) or your own server (VPS). Just ask, for example: “show the catalogue from my database, with a filter by category”.

Two options. Your own server (VPS): Debian 12 or later, or Ubuntu 22.04 or later, 64-bit Intel or AMD processor (amd64), at least 2 GB of memory and 20 GB of disk, root access by SSH key, and your domain pointing to it; DudyWeb.com installs it entirely (web server, HTTPS, firewall, MySQL 8.4 database) and can host several sites of the account on it, isolated from one another (each site with its own account, folder, database and certificate). Or classic hosting: 64-bit Linux (amd64), CGI programs allowed (.htaccess files or cgi-bin folder), SFTP access, a MySQL 8 database if your site needs one, and an email sending account. The details are on your project's Hosting page.

Yes. In the project's “App” tab, enable the installable app (200 dudies, once per project). Your visitors can then install the site from their browser, like an app: an icon on the home screen, full-screen opening, a waiting page when the connection drops. DudyWeb builds everything at each publication (manifest, icons, service worker, “Install the app” button); you choose the short name, the colour and the icon image, or ask the DudeMaster to draw it. The tab also gives the instructions for Android, iPhone and computer.

What the DudeMaster needs from you for your site to work fully: a setting to enter, an account to create with a service, a photo to send… He notes what he asks you himself, and you can add your own tasks, from the project page or simply by writing to him “note to send the photos”. Ask him “what is left for me to do?” or tell him “the photos are done”: he keeps the list up to date. It exports as text, spreadsheet or Markdown.

Yes: give its address to the DudeMaster, he copies its pages, images, documents and videos, about one minute per page, at a price per page announced and guaranteed before starting (see the Pricing page). You must hold the rights to that site, and prove it is yours: a file to place at its root, a tag to add to its home page or a DNS record, as you prefer, following the instructions in your project's "Site takeover" tab. A single page of another site is not copied: the DudeMaster can take inspiration from it. Some elements may be protected by the original site's host (images, videos, style sheets, fonts, documents): at the end of the cloning, the DudeMaster gives you the list of those that could not be copied, documents included, and notes it in your “To do” list; send them to him or put them in the media library to add them to the preview.

In six steps, without taking your current site offline. 1. Create a project from your client area (“New project”). 2. Prove that the site is yours, in the project's “Site takeover” tab: a file to put at its root, a tag to add to its home page or a DNS record, as you prefer. 3. Write to the DudeMaster “take over my site https://www.example.com”: it analyses the pages and tells you how many there are and the exact, guaranteed price before starting; you choose how many pages to take over. 4. It recreates each page at the same address as on your current site (about one minute per page), with its texts, images, documents and videos; forms are rewritten to work without PHP. Check the result on the protected preview, ask for the changes you want, and give it the items it could not copy (it notes them in your “To do” list). 5. Choose where to put it online, on the project's Hosting page: your own server (VPS), which DudyWeb.com sets up for you, or your current host over SFTP; then type PUBLIER. 6. When everything suits you, point your domain to the new hosting: the Hosting page shows the DNS records to create and checks that they are in place; the HTTPS certificate is obtained right away. Your old site stays online until this last step.

The currency of the service: 1 dudy = €0.01. You buy a pack of dudies, then each operation is deducted from your credit and shown in your client area. Detailed prices and budget examples are on the Pricing page.

A request your credit does not cover is refused without anything being done or billed. If a project's subscription cannot be renewed, the project is suspended: nothing is deleted, and you reactivate it after topping up your credit.

Yes: set caps per day, week or month, for the whole account or for a project, with a simple email alert or blocking of new requests. Your dashboard also estimates the time before each cap is reached.

You see every change on the preview. One word is enough to go back (ANNULER), and you can ask to approve each change before it goes online. You can also simply ask the DudeMaster to fix it.

It is made of static pages, with no PHP or CMS to update; its forms run on small compiled programs, isolated project by project; all connections are encrypted. No system is invulnerable: the free health check finds errors, dead links and unconnected forms.

Yes. The DudeMaster writes the small program that handles each form (contact, sign-up…) and asks you how it should work. Emails are sent with the settings you set in your project's administration page.

Yes. In “My account”, Members tab, invite anyone by email, with a role: owner (everything, including closing the account), administrator (everything except closing the account and managing owners), contributor (preview and DudeMaster, through the console or Messenger, on the projects you choose) or reader (preview of the chosen projects and adding tasks to the “To do” list, without requests to the DudeMaster). Contributors and readers open the preview with their email address and password. The same person can be a member of several accounts. You can also give a simple preview access to your reviewers, in the project's Access tab.

For a project: put it on standby (€1 per month, nothing is deleted) or delete it; deletion is immediate and permanent. Remember to download your site first (LIVRER). For the whole account: an owner can close it in “My account”, Danger zone tab; all its projects are then deleted, its members lose access, and the balance of purchased, unused dudies is refunded on request.