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01 / THE PUBLISHING LAYER

Dapp CMS.Content with context.

Give your decentralized application a clear explanation layer. Plan the guides, notices, references, and release notes around the application—not inside its transaction logic.

What belongs in the publishing layer

Use a Dapp CMS to organize the words and media that help people understand a product. A guide explains an action; a network profile explains the environment; a release note explains a change. None should independently determine a balance, permission, or transaction destination. Start by naming the source of truth for each kind of information. This makes it easier to review both editorial changes and application changes without confusing their effects.

A small model that can grow

Begin with a guide collection, a feature reference, and a notice collection. Give entries stable identifiers, a clear owner, and explicit relationships. Draft actual examples before adding optional fields. A guide that serves two networks, a resolved notice, and a retired feature will expose weaknesses in the model sooner than a large spreadsheet of hypothetical requirements.

Review the page beside the feature

A correct paragraph can still mislead when it appears in the wrong place. Preview important instructions alongside the action they explain. Check the environment, button labels, supported behavior, and recovery path. Treat technical review and editorial review as different questions, even when the same person answers both.

Keep a release you can identify

Record which content export, interface revision, and configuration were tested together. Keep the previous compatible release available, and describe how to recover it. The publishing workflow should leave the next maintainer with an understandable package rather than a collection of unrelated screenshots and dashboard states.

Ethereum’s dapp introduction explains the frontend and smart-contract distinction that underlies this separation.

Read the technical introduction

Questions to settle early

Is DappCMS.com a hosted CMS dashboard?

DappCMS.com is a guide to dapp content architecture, publishing, and implementation planning. Use the topic pages and Lab articles to design and evaluate your workflow.

Must CMS content be stored onchain?

Decide according to verification, privacy, update, and retention requirements. A product name alone should not decide where every paragraph or image is stored.

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