Creating a website
Every site you build in agencms lives inside its own website workspace. This page walks you through creating a new website and explains what is ready for you the moment it exists.
Open the create screen
- Go to your dashboard at
/dashboard. - Open Websites to see the website list at
/dashboard/websites. - Select Create website (or New website if you already have one or more sites).
This opens the create screen at /dashboard/websites/create.
Fill in the details
The create screen asks for three things: an owner, a name, and a slug.
- Name — Type a display name for the site, such as
Acme Studio. This is the human-friendly label you will see across the dashboard. - Slug — Type a slug, such as
acme-studio. The slug is lowercased automatically, and anything that is not a letter, number, or hyphen is converted to a hyphen. If you leave it blank, agencms generates one from the name. Slugs are made unique, so if your slug is already taken a number or suffix is added for you. - Owner — Pick who owns the website from the owner list. The owner can be you (a personal site) or an organization you belong to.
When you are ready, select Create website. The button stays disabled until you have entered both a name and a slug and chosen an owner with available capacity.
Owners and website capacity
Each owner has a website limit set by its plan. The owner list shows how many website slots remain for each owner.
- If the selected owner still has capacity, you can create the website right away.
- If the selected owner is full, a notice appears at the top of the screen. You can switch to another owner that has room using the Use [owner] button, or, if you manage billing, select Add capacity to buy more website capacity from your subscription.
If no owner has room and you do not manage billing, ask the billing owner to buy more website capacity. For more on plans and limits, see Plans and billing.
What happens after you create it
When you select Create website, agencms sets up a ready-to-edit workspace and takes you to the website overview at /dashboard/websites/{website}. Behind the scenes, your new site is created with:
- A starting theme and a default template, so pages have a consistent shell to render in.
- A default post type, ready for your content.
- A Home page that is set as the homepage. It starts empty so you can add sections in the builder.
Your new website starts as a Draft and is not published yet. It uses a default language (locale) for its content. You can change the language and other options later in the website's settings.
Next steps
From the website overview you can start building. A few good places to go next:
- Open Pages to edit your Home page or add new pages in the builder. See Pages and the builder.
- Visit the website Settings to set branding, domains, and language options. See Website settings.
- Switch or customize your look in Themes.
When your site is ready for visitors, publish it. See Publishing your website.