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How I Used Hermes-Agent to Rebuild w3architect.com

Site History

The domain and website have existed since the 2000s.

You can find traces of it as far back on archive.org from March 2001.

The site has gone through several iterations, each time exploring new technologies, with the main constraint of being able to manage a multilingual website (French/English).

w3architect in 2001 The first version was a purely static site, generated by PERL scripts I had developed myself.

w3architect in 2003 Second version of the site in 2003 using the EzPublish CMS

eZ Publish was a PHP-based CMS developed by the Norwegian company eZ Systems AS.

w3architect in 2006 Third version of the site in 2006 using Liferay

Liferay Portal was originally created in the 2000s to provide an enterprise portal service targeted at non-profit organizations.

It was a fairly heavy Java application (requiring a Java application server). The features were interesting, but the updates proved complex, and at some point I stopped performing those upgrades and took the site offline.

New Version

In 2026, I decided to give this site new life.

Creating a website was a good practical exercise for me to test the capabilities of using an AI Agent for various tasks:

  • defining the site structure
  • creating templates
  • optimization (SEO)
  • content translation (French / English)
  • automated wiki management

Technologies Used

Hermes Agent AI Agent Hugo Static site generator Bulma Open-source web component framework