Usecases for Typemill
Typemill is a web content management system (CMS). You can create any kind of website with it. With a focus on content, a clear hierarchical structure, and its unique ability to produce ebooks (PDF and ePub), it is often used by small companies to create documentations for software, products, or services.
Since Typemill is open source, we do not know about all the websites built with Typemill. But we can provide some insights based on client work and general feedback.
User Manuals
An informative and well-structured user manual is vital for ensuring customer success, helping them to swiftly comprehend and make the most of your product or service. With Typemill, you can establish your user manual effortlessly. Organize your content with ease, write intuitively in Markdown, and publish your manual both as a website and a PDF document.
Check out the Typemill Manual-Bundle
Software Documentation
Crafting clear and compelling software documentation is crucial for standing out in the competitive software industry. Typemill offers a streamlined and affordable solution, ideal for small software businesses with constrained budgets. Self-host it, set it up quickly, and take advantage of Markdown standards paired with easy-to-use editorial tools.
Check out the Typemill Documentation-Bundle
Employer Handbook
An employee handbook provides essential direction for your team and aids in onboarding new hires. With Typemill you can easily write, organize, and publish your employee handbook as both a website and a PDF. Assign different editor roles and rights, limit the access to the whole website or to individual pages.
Check out the Typemill Handbook-Bundle
SEO Website
Still using cumbersome blog software for your niche websites and spending countless hours on optimization? Make the switch to Typemill for your next project. Typemill is an ultra-lightweight, user-friendly flat file CMS featuring a hierarchical content structure, rapid page loading, and robust SEO capabilities, making it ideal for niche websites with up to 1,000 pages.
Check out the Typemill SEO-Bundle
Reports
Many small organizations face challenges maintaining a website and producing an annual report each year. Why not merge the two? With Typemill, you can create a website and gradually add content for your report. At the end of the year, simply generate a PDF version, and you're done. For larger organizations, Typemill is an excellent option for creating a hybrid impact report that functions as both a PDF publication and a stand-alone website under a sub-domain.
Internal IT Documentation
An institute of a well-known scientific society in Germany uses Typemill for internal IT documentation. This is another typical use case for Typemill, and many universities, institutes, and healthcare institutions use Typemill for their internal project and IT documentations.
Project Documentation
Several users who work in well-known academic organizations around the world use Typemill to document ongoing projects. A reason for this might be the clear hierarchical structure and the intuitive authoring interface, which is quite rare in the space of lightweight CMS.
Web Magazine
A German web magazine uses Typemill to produce monthly magazines in PDF and ePub formats. The web content is published with WordPress, so it requires a bit of copy & paste. If you plan a new magazine, it makes sense to use Typemill for the web version, too.
Academic Publication
There are several examples where users published their academic research as a website with Typemill. There are some really nice examples on the web, with topics like local history or medical research.