The path from nothing to a live website
These follow on from each other. Start at the top if you are new; each tutorial links to the next one.
- 1. Create your first websiteA complete multi-page website for your business, generated from your description and open in the editor.
- 2. Write a better website descriptionA description of your business specific enough that the generated website needs correcting rather than rebuilding.
- 3. Customize your generated websiteA website that reads like your business wrote it, in your colours and typography, ready to publish.
- 4. Add and reorder sectionsA page ordered the way a visitor actually reads it, with the sections your business needs and none it does not.
- 5. Publish your websiteYour website live at its address, and a routine for updating it without surprises.
- 6. Connect a custom domainYour website live on your own domain, served over HTTPS.
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Create your first website
From an empty account to a complete, generated website open in the editor, ready to customize.
Getting startedBeginner7 steps
Start the tutorialWrite a better website description
Turn a vague description into one that produces the structure, services and calls to action you actually want.
Website creationBeginner6 steps
Start the tutorialCustomize your generated website
Take a freshly generated website and make it yours: content, images, colours, typography and logo.
Website editorBeginner8 steps
Start the tutorialAdd and reorder sections
Reshape a page by adding the sections it is missing, moving them into a better order and removing what it does not need.
Website editorIntermediate7 steps
Start the tutorialPublish your website
Run the pre-publish checks, put your website online at its address, and update it safely afterwards.
PublishingBeginner7 steps
Start the tutorialConnect a custom domain
Point a domain you already own at your Instantsite website: three DNS records, verified in order.
DomainsIntermediate7 steps
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