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Managing your website

The settings that live outside the conversation — branding, business details, domains, analytics, forms, redirects, and privacy.

Most of what your website says gets written in the builder, by talking to the assistant. A handful of things do not: your logo, your business address, the domain you publish to, the analytics account you want the site reporting into. Those live on their own pages, because they are decisions rather than content, and because they need to hold still while the pages around them change.

You reach them two ways: from the builder menu (the logo at the top of the panel rail, under Website), or from your website's own page on the dashboard.

Your website's overview also lists its pages. Select a page's name to open that exact page in the builder. Select the route and external-link icon on the right to view the page on your dev site in a new tab. The address beneath the website name is also a link and opens the website in a new tab.

Finish setting up

The Finish setting up card sits on your website's Overview, beside its status. It tracks the contact details, address, site icon, and logo that are still missing, then ends with 🚀 Publish your website. That final step opens the Website builder, where the Publish button makes the current version the published version. On every other page about the website, a compact Setup pill at the end of the section tabs opens the same list, so the open steps stay one click away. Fold the card with the minus button when you want the space back; the choice is remembered per website, and both the card and the pill disappear once everything is done. Connecting a custom domain is managed separately on the Domain page and is not a setup-checklist requirement.

What is on each page

  • Site settings — the name shown in your dashboard, the website's default language, and site-wide layout preferences.
  • Branding — your logo in its several sizes, your favicon and Apple icon, your social sharing image, and the two brand colors the assistant designs with.
  • Company details — your business name, contact details, and address. The assistant reads these, and your pages publish them in a form search engines understand.
  • Domains and publishing — your free address, connecting your own domain, and what pressing Publish actually does.
  • Browse and manage plugins — finding, configuring, and placing website plugins.
  • Forms — contact forms, quote requests, and sign-ups: adding one, reading what people send, and changing it with Max or by hand.
  • Redirects — sending an old address to a new one, so links you have already shared keep working.
  • Blog structured data — the Schema.org markup your posts and listings carry automatically, and the setting that turns it off.
  • Search engines and your sitemap — the sitemap.xml, robots.txt and llms.txt your website keeps up to date for Google, AI assistants and the rest, with nothing to maintain.
  • Instant page navigation — why moving between your pages feels immediate, and how to make a particular link load the whole page instead.
  • The cookie banner and your privacy policy — the consent banner, what it gates, and the policy page behind it.
  • Security and transfers — strict HTTPS for your domain, and moving a website to a different organization.

A note on when things take effect

These settings behave differently from page content, and the difference matters.

Branding, plugins, redirects, the cookie banner, your privacy policy, and the Powered by Max AI badge are applied when a page is served. Change one and it is in effect immediately, on your dev site and on your live site, without republishing.

Page content is the opposite: it lands in your draft, shows on your dev site, and reaches your live site only when you press Publish. See Domains and publishing for the whole picture.

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