Guide: First steps
Getting started: from sign-up to a first preview
This guide takes you from nothing to a website you can look at on your phone. It takes about ten minutes, and nothing goes live while you do it.
- 5 sections
Create your account
- 1Go to the sign-up page and enter your name, your email address and a password of at least 10 characters.
- 2Give the workspace a name. Most people use the name of the business; you can change it later.
- 3Press "Create account". Your free trial starts straight away, with no card needed.
Tip: A workspace holds your websites, media and the people you work with. Invite colleagues later from Settings.
Find your way around the workspace
The sidebar has Home, Websites, Media and Settings. Home shows a short checklist called "Get your website live", which walks you through the same steps as this guide: create your website, make it look like you, put your own words in, publish it, use your own domain and invite a colleague.
Start a website
From Websites, start a new website. You choose how to begin:
- "Start from a template": type the business or website name, and the template previews use it as you type. Pick the design closest to what you want.
- "Describe your business": answer a few questions (what the business does, who it is for, where you work, the tone of voice and the look you like). AI drafts the pages and you look through them page by page before anything is made.
Tip: With a draft, press "Create this website" to keep it, or "Try again" for another version. The draft uses placeholders for anything it cannot know, such as prices and figures.
Make your first change
The new website opens in the editor, with a "Getting started" card in the corner of the page. Its four steps are: change the main heading, pick your colours and fonts, check every page with Click through, and publish.
- 1Double-click the main heading on the page and type your own. Press Enter when you are done.
- 2Open Design on the left and choose colours and fonts. Every page follows.
- 3Everything saves as you go. There is no save button to forget.
See it in a private preview
Press Preview at the top of the editor. Your latest changes open in a new tab on a private preview link, which you can open on your phone or send to somebody for a second opinion. The preview link stops working after a while, so make a new one when you need it.
Tip: During the trial you can build and preview as much as you like. To put the website live, buy a licence for it. See "Choosing a plan".
Features in this guide
Try it yourself
Follow along in your own workspace
Start a free trial, no card needed. Build and preview as much as you like, then buy a licence for a website when it is ready to go live.