Welcome

SeraiDocs is the definitive documentation portal providing standards and best practices for authoring and publishing content on montrealserai.com and social media.

20+ years of online publishing

The original Montréal Serai website began in the late 90’s as a static HTML3 website. Back then, we crushed using HTML elements like <frameset> in ways they were not supposed to be used. See for yourself

Hackers, early adopters… we did what we had to to get the message out and in the mid 2000’s we would implement an open source blogging platform, called Wordpress. We chose to use Wordpress as a content management system (CMS) because of their philosophy and ease of use. Back then, this required a lot of customization and adapting the source code to our specific needs as an online magazine.

Blog posts were hacked to resemble articles and Wordpress popularity continued to grow. Evventually became a standard for online publishing and has evolved into a proper CMS, all while remaining free to use and maintaining the fundamental ideals that we aligned with.

The latest iteration of Montréal Serai no longer relies on custom modifications to the Wordpress codebase, instead, we extend it and take advantage of a modular theming system that allows us to future proof montrealserai.com for the coming decades.