Nave
Your website, in your own hands
Nave is the publishing system behind mintybits.com. Every page here — this one included — was laid out, written, translated and published by the people who own the site. No developer, no tickets, no waiting.
A website you can run yourself
Nave was built for the person who has to keep a site current — not for the person who built it. Everything below is what someone does on an ordinary afternoon, without opening a single file.
Edit the page you are looking at
Click a heading and type. Drag a block up or down. What you see while you work is what a visitor gets — there is no second, hidden version of the page.
Blocks, not code
Headings, pictures, cards, quotes, forms, app-store badges, galleries, tables. Choose a block, fill it in, decide how wide it sits. Columns snap to a grid so a page stays tidy on its own.
One page, five languages
English, Spanish, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese and Korean, edited side by side. Change the English and Nave marks which translations have fallen behind.
Draft it, then publish it
Work on a page for as long as you like. Nothing reaches the public until you say so, and every version you publish is kept, so a change is never one-way.
Messages arrive in your dashboard
Build a form by listing the questions. Answers land in Nave, and Cloudflare turns away the robots before they ever reach you.
It runs on your own server
One small database and one process. No monthly fee per person, no platform deciding what you may publish. The site and everything in it stays yours.
The same page, in your reader's language
Not a machine translating the page as it loads — a real page in each language, written by a person, that you can read and correct. Pictures can change too, so a Korean reader is not shown an English screen.
Long articles, a block at a time
An article is not a wall of text to be pasted into a box. Nave lays the English and the translation side by side, paragraph against paragraph, so nothing is skipped and nothing drifts out of order.
It already works on a phone
Most people will meet your site on a phone. Nave stacks columns, reflows pictures and keeps the reading order sensible without you doing a second layout — and you can tell it which side goes first when a section stacks.
mintybits.com was built with Nave
If your church, school or charity has a website nobody dares touch, we would like to show you the other way round. Tell us what you need to publish and we will walk you through Nave doing it.