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The six pages that answer most first questions.

What is Instantsite?

Instantsite turns a description of your business into a complete, editable website you can publish on your own address.

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Create your first website

Sign up, describe your business, and get a complete generated website open in the editor.

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Writing your business description

The description is the only input the generator has. What to include, what to leave out, and how it changes the result.

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Website editor overview

How the editor is laid out, what the sidebar controls, and how saving, undo and redo work.

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Publishing your website

What publishing does, the checks that run first, how to update a live website, and how to take one offline.

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Connecting a custom domain

Point a domain you already own at your Instantsite website, or buy one through Instantsite, and verify it.

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Everything, by area

Every documentation page, grouped the same way the tutorials and FAQs are.

Getting started

What Instantsite is, and the path from a description to a live website.

• What is Instantsite?Instantsite turns a description of your business into a complete, editable website you can publish on your own address.
• Create your first websiteSign up, describe your business, and get a complete generated website open in the editor.
• How website generation worksWhat Instantsite reads from your description, what it decides, and what it writes into the finished website.

Website creation

Writing a description, what the generator produces, and what to do next.

• Writing your business descriptionThe description is the only input the generator has. What to include, what to leave out, and how it changes the result.

Website editor

Text, buttons, colours, fonts, sections and saving your work.

• Website editor overviewHow the editor is laid out, what the sidebar controls, and how saving, undo and redo work.
• Editing text and buttonsRewrite any text on your website, and control what each button says and where it goes.
• Adding, reordering and changing sectionsSections are the building blocks of every page. How to add one, move it, hide it, and switch it to a different design.
• Colours, fonts and brandingSet your website's colour palette, typography, corner style and logo, plus what each plan allows.

Pages and navigation

Adding pages, renaming them, and how the header menu behaves.

• Pages and navigationAdd and rename pages, control which appear in the header menu, and understand the page limit.

Images and media

Uploading images, searching stock photography, logos and icons.

• Images, logos and iconsReplace generated images with your own, search stock photography on Premium, and set alternative text.

Publishing

Pre-publish checks, going live, republishing and unpublishing.

• Publishing your websiteWhat publishing does, the checks that run first, how to update a live website, and how to take one offline.

Domains

Instantsite subdomains, connecting a domain you own, and buying one.

• Your Instantsite addressEvery published website gets a free instantsite.app address. How to choose one, and how it relates to your websites.
• Connecting a custom domainPoint a domain you already own at your Instantsite website, or buy one through Instantsite, and verify it.

Plans and billing

What Free, Pro and Premium include, and how billing changes work.

• Free, Pro and PremiumWhat each plan includes, how many websites you can hold, and which editor features are gated.
• Billing and subscriptionsSwitch plans, change between monthly and yearly, update your card and cancel, all from your dashboard.

Analytics and SEO

Search metadata on every website, and traffic figures on Premium.

• Search metadata and analyticsEvery website ships with search metadata. Premium adds control over it and traffic figures for published websites.

Account and settings

Your profile, sign-in and security, notifications and deletion.

• Account and settingsYour profile, sign-in and security, email notifications, and how to delete your account.

Troubleshooting

What to check when generation, saving, publishing or a domain fails.

• Generation and editing problemsWhat to check when generation fails, changes will not save, or something in the editor is not behaving.
• Publishing and domain problemsWhy a published website might not show your latest changes, why a domain will not verify, and what to check first.

Prefer to follow along?

Documentation explains how something works. A tutorial walks you through it and ends with something finished.

Create your first website

From an empty account to a complete, generated website open in the editor, ready to customize.

Beginner7 steps

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Write a better website description

Turn a vague description into one that produces the structure, services and calls to action you actually want.

Beginner6 steps

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Customize your generated website

Take a freshly generated website and make it yours: content, images, colours, typography and logo.

Beginner8 steps

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