October 09, 2018
A blog that is 100% free, can serve any traffic and is unhackable
With Qards you can have a free blog in a matter of minutes without having to worry about servers, databases or traffic.
Romeo Mihalcea
1 min in Qards
A blogging platform for professionals
Qards is a blogging platform focused on performance and on closing the gap between content publishers and developers
Say good bye to web servers and databases
Qards is a blogging platform powered by a static site generator and it will run on any CDN without a sweat.
Zero costs. Even for blogs with millions of visitors
With modern tools such as Netlify you can have a super-busy blog operating at scale and with zero costs.
Your content is smart and powered by rich cards
It's time to raise the bar when it comes to content creation. Qards allows you to create interactive, smart content.
Blazing fast, cdn-powered blogs at any scale
Your deployments are converted to static assets and served from content delivery networks - closer to your visitors.
Modern technologies with React and GatsbyJs
Qards is using the latest and most modern technologies to ensure a pleasant and open experience for your developers.
Un-hackable safe deployments.
Worry-free deployments that operate without servers or databases. Time to stop worrying about break-ins.
Tens of smart components to get started
Charts, galleries, dynamic tables, embeds, quotes, audio playlists and so much more. Your publishers will love it!
Cached, offline and mobile first by default
Your content is cached via service workers, pre-fetched for faster experience and designed to look good on mobiles.
Publishers and developers working together
Let's break those boundaries and allow your publishers to express their ideas using smart, interactive content.
Developers and Publishers express without barriers
With Qards, developers are free to shape content however they like; a content that is pure and speaks metadata about itself. No junk or polluted WYSIWYG editors.
Developers
Create and publish cards that take various configurations to display the content. Cards can be updated/re-designed at any time without any additional work required from the publishers.
Publishers
Create content using Contentful CMS and tweak the available configuration points. No HTML is generated and the content is saved in its original state.
Latest articles
- October 09, 2018
Preview: reference to other posts
Read about our new widget called 'references' and learn how to create engaging content that keeps readers on your website
Romeo Mihalcea1 min in Qards - October 03, 2018
Preview: Add a countdown to your special events
Qards now has a countdown widget that you can use to track your special events
Romeo Mihalcea0 min in Qards - October 03, 2018
Product update: Netlify CMS default content manager
Netlify CMS is now the default content manager for Qards
Romeo Mihalcea1 min in Qards - October 02, 2018
Preview: keep your blog posts relevant and future-proof with smart tokens
Showcase of a cool feature we just introduced that allows you to insert tokens into certain areas of your post
Romeo Mihalcea1 min in Qards - October 02, 2018
Welcome to Qards - a blogging platform for professionals
Qards is a blogging platform for professionals that differentiates itself by utilizing sets of "smart cards", closing the gap between publishers and developers
Romeo Mihalcea2 min in Qards
Supercharge your content
It's time to change the way we are sending content to our users and make use of the latest technologies that make your website faster, cheaper, easier to operate, more secure and engaging
Qards website
Performance indexQards blog deployed to a CDN that served from a location close to where the test was made
- First meaningful paint980 ms
- First interactive3,210 ms
- Consistently interactive3,210 ms
- Perceptual Speed Index980
- Estimated Input Latency170 ms
Wordpress website
Performance indexWordpress blog deployed to a Digitalocean droplet (2vCPU, 4gb ram) located close to where the test was made
- First meaningful paint3,180 ms
- First interactive6,230 ms
- Consistently interactive6,230 ms
- Perceptual Speed Index1,997
- Estimated Input Latency16 ms
These are lighthouse audit results.
Lighthouse is an open-source, automated tool for improving the quality of web pages.
It has audits for performance, accessibility, progressive web apps, and more.
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