A working reference for production websites
The Production Website is a framework-neutral fieldbook for people who need to design, build, review, launch and maintain real websites.
I wrote it to connect visual decisions with engineering implementation, security, privacy, accessibility, testing, release evidence and production operations.
What the fieldbook covers
- Product and page architecture
- Design systems and responsive behaviour
- Server and client boundaries
- Data modelling and API contracts
- Authentication and authorization
- Security and abuse protection
- Privacy and data lifecycle
- Accessibility and inclusive interaction
- AI-assisted development boundaries
- Testing and release verification
- Monitoring, incidents, backup and rollback
- Production maintenance
How to use it
This is not a collection of fashionable interface patterns. Each applicable rule should lead to an artifact, an owner, a test, evidence or an observable production signal.
Use only the sections relevant to the product being built. The companion repository provides reusable templates, machine-readable controls, JSON schemas, validation scripts and a fictional reference implementation.
Read the book
Open The Production Website, Edition 1.0
Companion repository
The implementation materials are available in the Production Website Companion repository.
Edition
- Edition: 1.0
- First digital edition: 8 September 2026
- Written by: AKB
- Published by: AKB Studio
Important boundary
This fieldbook is an engineering reference. It does not certify legal, regulatory, security, privacy, payment or accessibility compliance. Product-specific requirements must still be reviewed for the relevant entity, users, technology and markets.
Evidence