# Guides

Practical, step-by-step help with CubeSites, with button names as the app shows them.

## First steps

- [Getting started: from sign-up to a first preview](https://cubesites.co.uk/guides/getting-started): Create your account, start a website from a template or a description, make a first change and see it in a private preview.

## Building

- [Finding your way around the editor](https://cubesites.co.uk/guides/editor-tour): The Add, Navigator and Design panels, Click through, quick add, dragging sections, checking phone width and undo.
- [Writing page titles and descriptions for search](https://cubesites.co.uk/guides/seo-titles-and-descriptions): Where the search settings are, how to write a title and description people click, sharing images, hiding a page and what Pro adds.
- [Contact forms and where messages go](https://cubesites.co.uk/guides/contact-forms): Add a contact form, choose who gets the emails, find messages in the app, and how spam is kept out without puzzles.
- [Using AI drafts](https://cubesites.co.uk/guides/ai-drafts): What AI can draft, why it always asks first, why it leaves placeholders instead of facts, and how to switch it off.

## Going live

- [Connecting your own domain](https://cubesites.co.uk/guides/connect-your-domain): Add your domain, put two DNS records in place at your domain provider, check them and make the domain your main address.
- [Publishing and version history](https://cubesites.co.uk/guides/publishing-and-history): Check your changes, publish the whole site or only what is ready, publish products on their own, bring back an earlier version and take a site offline if you need to.
- [Choosing a plan](https://cubesites.co.uk/guides/choosing-a-plan): How licences work, what the trial can and cannot do, when Pro is worth it, what the Managed service adds and how agency pricing adds up.

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CubeSites is a trading name of Cube Systems Limited, part of Crushed Ice Group. Registered in England and Wales, company number 17220899. Registered office: Unit 11, Olney Business Park, Osier Way, Olney, Buckinghamshire, MK46 5FP. ICO registration number ZC216972.

Contact: hello@cubesites.co.uk | 01234 672 617 | https://cubesites.co.uk/contact