Guides

Need to manage your website day-to-day? This section provides step-by-step guides for common operations like creating your site, publishing updates, managing translations, and customizing the look and feel. Follow these tutorials to keep your website running smoothly.

The following diagram illustrates the typical lifecycle of managing a website with these commands:


Create Website

Breaks down the create workflow, including configuration fields, prompts, and ways to validate the output before publishing.

Update Website

Learn how to use the 'update' command to make changes or provide feedback to refine the content on your existing pages.

Publish Website

Explains every publish target, from WebSmith Cloud to fully custom infrastructure, with prerequisites and validation tips.

Localize Website

Explains how to use the 'translate' command to automatically create different language versions of your website pages.

Customize Theme

Covers how to use the 'theme' command to generate and apply different visual styles and color schemes to your website.

Manage Preferences

Explains how to use the 'prefs' command to view, manage, and clear saved user preferences to customize WebSmith's behavior.

Cleanup Workspace

Shows you how to use the 'clear' command to safely remove generated files, workspace data, or the entire configuration.

Interactive Mode (Beta)

Use the interactive mode as a conversational co-pilot to iteratively plan, edit, and polish your site.

Summary#

These guides cover the essential commands for managing your website's lifecycle. For more advanced topics and a complete command listing, please refer to the Advanced Features and Reference sections.

Getting Started
Create Website