Design
The choice of technology is key to optimizing resources;
choose the most eco-friendly tool that fits the purpose and meets all the needs.
Here are the five largest families of solutions available, in descending order of eco-friendliness.
- Static website (created with specialist software such as Dreamweaver, or a code editor)
- Generated website (e.g. using Jekyll, a tool in Ruby that, amongst other things, can process templates and construct permalinks)
- Custom-built dynamic website (with PHP, J2EE, .NET, etc.)
- Custom-built dynamic website using a framework (such as Symfony)
- Dynamic website developed using a CMS (such as Drupal, Joomla!, Jahia, etc.).
The more the solution is ‘packaged’, the more abstraction layers are stacked, hampering performance.