When 5,000 Years of History Meet New Technologies — Part 1

I recently offered on Facebook to rebuild a website for free. I invited my network to share their site link in the comments and explain why it deserved a redesign.

I’ve been building for the web since 1995. But over the last five years, I mainly poured my energy into launching my tourism business in Bacalar, Mexico. On social, people mostly saw the seven‑color lagoon, sailboats, happy travelers, the jungle, the mangroves… Many slowly forgot that I’ve been, for much longer, a web developer.

With this offer, I wanted to remind everyone that I still code, that I’m up to date with modern tech — and that I’m more passionate than ever.

I received six proposals:

1. chichankaax.mx — Early Wix project, not enough content for a serious redesign.
2. nuvoliphotographie.com — Photographer site (WordPress), interesting but still too little material.
3. montrealmicrodose.com — Single page, “launching soon”: nothing to work with yet.
4. hockeysecondevie.com — Great idea, brand‑new site: too early for a redesign.
5. navegabacalar.mx — Tempting… but it’s my husband’s site!
6. hindouisme.org — Old Wix site, nearly 500 pages, messy navigation… but an incredible wealth of content.

It was obvious: I chose hindouisme.org.

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Two birds, one stone

By picking this project, I’m doing two things at once:

• On one side, I’m rebuilding a massive, aging, rigid site.
• On the other, every problem I hit becomes a built‑in feature of Korail, the CMS I’m building in parallel.

👉 In other words: every constraint of hindouisme.org became a pillar of Korail.

Korail isn’t a classic CMS. It’s:

• React blocks — modular, simple to use yet powerful for developers.
• A solid backend with Supabase.
• Native vectorization of content (text and images).
• Fast page and post creation without unnecessary gymnastics.
• Advanced options to customize every block, every page.
• A SEO‑ready platform, fast, clear, and designed to put content first.

In short, a CMS for today. Not another plugin pile, but a foundation that understands where the web is going. And it’s already available to try: mykorail.com + official blog.

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Keywords… or meaning? (real example)

Today, hindouisme.org’s internal search is classic: keyword‑based. If you type “who is ganesha”, you get a flood of results:

• Blog posts (14)
• Other pages (68)

You have to dig through the list hoping to find the right answer. But in 2025, people are used to asking GPT a question — and getting an instant answer.

👉 Our sites should do the same.

Vector search changes the game:

• You ask a real question (“Who is Ganesha?”, “Difference between karma and dharma?”).
• The engine understands intent and proposes a concise answer, with sources, prioritizing relevant pages — even when exact words don’t match.

That’s the difference between a robot scanning words and a site that understands you.

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How I’m doing it

To fetch nearly 500 pages from Wix, I wrote a custom Node.js script. It crawls the site, extracts text, images, links, and prepares clean data for import.

In Part 2 (already live) (From Wix to Korail: how I cleanly import 500+ pages), I show how this work enabled automated import via the Korail importer.

A tool not only for hindouisme.org: anyone can use it to migrate their own site.

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Why in public?

I build in public, with intention. I won’t document every micro‑step (too intense). This post is proof enough: I share the big picture, the structural choices, and demos as they’re ready.

Because showing the process is more powerful than a simple “before/after”.

We don’t build tomorrow’s internet in a corner. We build it together, transparently.

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What I want to prove

That we can:

• Reclaim control of our content
• Modernize a heritage without betraying it
• Integrate AI without losing the human
• Create deep yet simple sites
• And along the way… build a next‑generation CMS

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What’s next?

📅 First public demo: August 2025 🎯 Goal: vector search + ultra‑clear design + AI‑assisted navigation

Follow the project here: I’ll keep documenting the journey. Next step: publishing Part 2 (already online) and running the first concrete tests on Korail.

Want to suggest a question to include in the engine, or discuss your own site redesign? Write to me — I read everything.

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