The first step in launching a great website is making sure visitors can access your content. This article series will explain how to get a site live so that people can access it on the internet - also known as "hosting". Head over to the Admin Settings in the bottom-left of the Winnable portal, then follow along here to get ready for launch!
Step 1: Create a Site
In the Admin Settings section of Winnable, you'll see menus for Sites, Domain Manager, and Users.
Sites
To launch a site on Winnable, you must first create the site in the Sites section - this is where you can fill in your site title, description, and other necessary info about the site itself.
Make sure you save your changes after you've filled in all the necessary info about your site.
Default Domain
Every site created on Winnable is assigned a default domain - something like yourwebsite.winnable.site. After you create a site in the Sites section, you can see this default domain in the dropdown in the top-left of the admin portal, where it says Current Site: Site Title (yourwebsite.winnable.site).
You can publish your Winnable site to this default domain, which means you'll be able to type your default domain into your browser to visit your published site content. So in the example above, you could navigate Back to Site in the bottom-left of the green nav menu, add some pages, then publish. Then you would see your content at yourwebsite.winnable.site.
Custom Domain
You'll also have the opportunity to use a custom domain - skip to this article if you want instructions on setting that up!
Additional Users
You may have other team members that will help edit your site content. You can add new accounts from the Users section of Admin Settings. We'll automatically send an invite to the email you use when you create the new account.
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