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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.

The Overview

Your website's Overview opens with its icon, name, status (Draft, Published, or Live) and address, and the two things you do most: View site opens the website in a new tab (the live domain once it is live, the development address until then) and the big Edit website button opens the Website builder (it reads Start building on a website with nothing built yet). The ⋯ menu beside them holds the rest: the development address while the website is live, Publishing & domain, and Website settings.

Under that sits the website itself on one wide stage: the home page in a desktop frame, a phone straddling the frame's edge showing the same page at a phone's width, and beside them two of the website's inner pages. The phone and the page tiles are the live draft, so a hero video or an animation plays there just as it does for a visitor, and each tile opens that page in the builder. Pointing at the desktop frame offers the website in a new tab.

One strip of facts follows: how many pages the website has, which draft version is open and when it was last edited, which version is published (or that none is yet, and what makes it live), and when and by whom the website was created. The setup pill at the end of the section tabs covers the rest.

Below the stage, Manage leads to branding, the domain, company details and AI settings, and Pages lists the website's 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.

Finish setting up

A compact Setup pill at the end of the section tabs — on the Overview and every other page about the website — opens the Finish setting up list. 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. Each website has its own list, and the pill disappears 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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