From Nothing to Live: The Whole Process
Free to build. $9.95/month when you publish.
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Step 1: Create your account (about a minute)
Name, email, password. Click the link we send and you're in your account manager. Nothing is charged.Step 2: Add your domain name
Type the domain you want. If it's free, we register it as part of your plan — no separate registrar or bill. Already own it? Add it anyway; pointing it at us is one record change (Step 4). You can preview your site instantly, privately.Step 3: Write your pages in plain text
Your site starts with three files. settings.txt holds your title and description, menu.txt your navigation links (one per line), and content.txt your home page. For another page, add a folder named after its address — "about" for yourdomain.com/about/ — and it gets its own content.txt. To add an image, click "Upload Files", pick it, then type its file name into the content. Plain HTML works too. Moving an existing site is the same: one folder per page, paste the text, upload the pictures. /desk_computer_creative_market.jpgStep 4: Go live — $9.95/month
Click "Activate" on your domain. Billing starts then, and only then: one monthly rate for domain, hosting, store, analytics and languages, locked for a year. Bringing your own domain? At your registrar, delete the "www" record and add a CNAME pointing "www" to www.pagerock.com. whois.icann.org tells you who your registrar is, and we'll do it with you if anything goes wrong. A new domain can take up to 48 hours to reach the whole internet; one you already own usually works within minutes. /home_office_creative_market.jpgStep 5 (optional): Sell, collect, and grow
The same plain text also gives you a store with a cart (PayPal and Stripe), forms that email submissions to you, tables from a spreadsheet, and photo galleries and carousels. Nothing to install or buy. /macbook_photo_original.jpgStep 6: Watch it work
Every domain records each page visited, with date, location and origin, from the moment you go live. You'll know your first visitor arrived before they finish reading.Step 7: Real help, included
If anything isn't right, use the contact page or email us. Support is part of your monthly fee, and we're happy to go through your setup on a screen-sharing call. /iphone_photo_original.jpgThat's the whole guide.
$9.95/month when you publish. Locked for a year. 30-day refund.