Creating Your First Site

Your site loads automatically after activation with placeholder content already in place.

Your site is created automatically when you activate your account. It comes with placeholder content already in place so you are never starting from nothing.

  1. Click Activate and Create My Site in your activation email.
  2. Your site loads at your Eninesites subdomain.
  3. You will see placeholder sections already in place: What We Do, Why It Matters, About Us, and Contact Us.
  4. Click the pencil icon in the top right to enter Edit Mode.
  5. You are now ready to start replacing the placeholder content with your own.

Do not delete placeholder sections before understanding what they are. The placeholders show you the structure of the site.

Identity

Set your title, logo, favicon, hero image, colors, and theme.

Setting Your Site Title and Subtitle

Sets the name and one-line description of your site.

Your title and subtitle are the first thing visitors read. They also appear in browser tabs and search results.

  1. In Edit Mode, go to the hero section of your site.
  2. Click the title text directly on the page to edit it inline, or open the config page for the hero section to edit title and subtitle together.
  3. Enter your site title.
  4. Enter your subtitle. Keep it to one sentence that describes what you do.
  5. Click Save.

Avoid writing a subtitle that is too generic. 'Welcome to our site' tells a visitor nothing. Use the subtitle to say specifically what you do or who you serve.

Content

Create categories, add items, edit copy, attach images and icons, reorder, and delete.

Creating a Category

Adds a new top-level section to your site with its own page and URL.

Categories are the containers that all your content lives in. Every service, blog post, team member, or FAQ entry belongs to a category. Creating a category also creates a page for it automatically at its own URL.

  1. In Edit Mode, find the option to add a new section to your site.
  2. Give the category a name and a title.
  3. Click Save.
  4. The category appears on your homepage and its own page is generated at its URL automatically.

A category with no items in it will look empty. Add at least one item before sharing the URL.