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When building a website, the choice of platform to build upon is multifaceted. Traditionally, a platform supplied the visual display of content to end users as well as the editing and management of that content. However, a different approach is becoming more popular and is worth considering for most public-facing sites. This headless approach separates content management from the display of that content, allowing each tool to be optimized, creating a more performant, secure, and flexible result.

When faced with building a modern website that is content-focused, Astro is an easy framework choice to make. The features and benefits of Astro make for a compelling option when balancing page performance, great SEO, reliability, and hosting cost considerations.

We recently migrated our primary marketing website, engagesoftware.com, from DNN Platform to Astro. This post will cover the technical details of that migration.

Our primary marketing website, engagesoftware.com, has been built upon the DNN Platform for more than a decade. After redesigning the content and flow of the site at the beginning of the year, we realized that we weren’t really using much of the functionality that DNN provided. In concert with some other work to move toward static sites, we started a small project to see what would happen if we migrated off of DNN and onto Astro. This is the story of that migration.

At Engage, we’ve been making websites since forever. With the resurgence of static HTML websites, we wanted to take a stroll down memory lane and think about all of the ways HTML files have been a part of our website journey through the years.