A card first
Every ForgeLayer site starts as a digital business card: name, what you do, how to reach you, a contact people can save to their phone.
ForgeLayer / by NineTail Systems
Your digital business
card gateway.
A small, fast website for businesses that need to get the word out: who you are, what you do and how to reach you. One steady core, with modules you switch on as you grow.
Built one layer at a time.
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01 / What it is
Hearth’s little sibling.
Made for getting the word out.
Hearth is for makers who publish. ForgeLayer is for businesses and products that mostly need to be found, understood and contacted. It runs on ordinary PHP hosting with nothing to set up.
Pages when you need them
Add a services page, an about page or a product page, built from blocks you fill in. No code, no page builder to fight.
Your look
Your name, colors and logo on the door. ForgeLayer stays in the background with a small credit in the footer.
02 / How it’s built
One core.
Layers you choose.
The core is sign-in, settings and the backstage. Everything else is a module you switch on or off. Switch one off and back on, and nothing is lost.
MODULE
Business card
One public page with who you are, how to reach you and where to go next, plus a Save contact button.
Included
MODULE
Pages
Pages made of blocks: hero, cards, story, features, image with links and calls to action. Menus and footer included.
Included
MODULE
Planning board
A kanban-lite board and project list for the owner: what’s next, what’s in progress, what shipped.
Included
MODULE
Brand Kit
Palettes, type, logos and rules for every brand you run, read from one registry file.
Included
03 / Who it’s for
Small businesses.
Real things.
Shops, studios, makers, trades and local services that need a clean, fast place on the web without a monthly site-builder bill.
ForgeLayer runs on your own hosting. Your pages and contacts live in one file you can back up and move.
FIRST SITE
NineTail Collective
ninetailcollective.com is the first site running on ForgeLayer: its homepage, its backstage and the planning board behind the whole NineTail family.
“Built one layer
at a time.”
ForgeLayer
04 / Where it’s going
From card to site,
one layer at a time.
ForgeLayer is in development by NineTail Systems. Module names, features and availability may change as it grows.