Technomerger is a plain-spoken knowledge site about the software people use to build and run websites: content management systems, WordPress, page builders, on-page SEO, and API integration. Every article here started from the question a small-business owner or a freelance web designer actually asks — which platform should I pick, and how do I get the thing working? — and tries to answer it in the order you would need the answer.
There is nothing to sign up for and nothing to buy. The site is a library. You read the piece you need, do the thing, and get on with your day.
What this site covers
The archive falls into three broad areas, and each one has a hub page that introduces the subject before pointing you at the individual guides.
- Content management systems — what a CMS actually does, and honest write-ups of WordPress, Shopify, Joomla, Drupal, Squarespace, Wix and Moodle, so you can tell which one suits the site you are trying to build rather than the site somebody else built.
- Search engine optimization — keyword research, on-page fundamentals, technical health, SEO plugins, and what really happens to a site during a broad core update.
- API integration — the corner of the subject most site owners meet by accident, the first time a payment gateway, a mapping service or a sign-in provider has to talk to their site.
Who it is written for
Two kinds of reader, mostly. The first is a business owner who has decided to stop paying somebody to move a paragraph and wants to run the site themselves. The second is a freelance designer or beginner developer who can already build a page and now has to make platform decisions on a client's behalf and defend them.
Neither of those people needs a lecture on the history of the web. They need to know which choice is reversible, which one is expensive to undo, and what the first hour of work actually looks like. That is the level the writing aims at: step-by-step where a process is involved, comparative where a decision is involved, and specific about the trade-off in both cases.
Where to start
If you have not chosen a platform yet, the master list of top content management systems is the fastest way to narrow the field, and WordPress vs Shopify settles the single most common comparison in the set. If you have already landed on WordPress, start with what the WordPress content management system is, then how to create a website using WordPress, and — if you are hosting it yourself — how to install WordPress on VPS hosting.
On the design side, the long-running argument between the block editor and the third-party builders is covered in Elementor vs Gutenberg and in the wider round-up of WordPress website builders. On the search side, building an SEO-friendly WordPress site and the shortlist of keyword research tools are the two most-read pieces in the archive.
How this site treats other people's software
Technomerger is independent. It is not affiliated with, sponsored by or endorsed by any CMS, hosting company, plugin author or theme vendor, and the platforms discussed here are named because they are the subject matter, not because anyone paid for the mention. Where a platform is genuinely good at something, the article says so; where it is a bad fit, the article says that too, which is more useful and considerably less embarrassing a year later.
Anything version-specific dates quickly in this field, so the guides are written around the concepts that stay put — how a CMS separates content from presentation, why a redirect preserves a page's history, what a well-designed API contract looks like. For the parts that do change, the articles point at the vendor's own documentation, such as the WordPress documentation and Google's SEO starter guide, which are kept current by the people who own the thing.
The full archive
Everything published here is listed on the blog index, grouped by subject rather than by date, because almost nobody arrives wanting the newest article — they arrive wanting the right one. If you are only browsing, the definition of a content management system in the MDN glossary is a good thirty seconds of grounding before you read anything else on the site.