Overview of Main Steps to Create Site

As a rule, the process of working on a site includes three main stages: planning, implementation, and site updating or maintenance.

Planning: The first and most essential stage in any project is planning. Before starting with Plesk Sitebuilder, think about the purpose of your site and its target audience. After this, decide where your site will be stored, or, in Internet terminology, hosted. This stage is beyond the scope of this document. Since Plesk Sitebuilder is often provided in a bundle with a web hosting package, we assume that you already have a web space for publishing your site. Then, you create a structure of your future site and prepare its contents, including text and graphics. The planning stage is extremely important because it eventually determines the usefulness of your site.

Implementation: The next stage is the implementation of your site. The five-step Plesk Sitebuilder Wizard takes you through the entire process of creating your site, from initial design to publishing and maintenance. The following is an overview of the main steps required to create a site using Plesk Sitebuilder:

1. To create a site, open the Plesk Sitebuilder Wizard. You can start working with the Wizard anonymously, without supplying login and password.
2. Complete the first four Wizard steps (select a template for your site or choose to create a site from scratch; set up the design of your site; create the site structure; add site contents, including text, graphics, and modules, and provide extra information for search engines).
3. Go to the Publish step and start the publishing process. If you do not have a Plesk Sitebuilder account and work with the program in demo mode, the site you create is temporary and cannot be published on the Internet until you register and buy hosting for your site. Once you are done with this, you can log in to Plesk Sitebuilder and assign your trial site to your account, thus making it possible to permanently publish your site on the Internet.

Maintenance: When you complete the above steps, your site becomes available for visitors. It is critical to keep your site content fresh because this is a good way to show your attitude to customers and services. Therefore, we recommend to update your site on a regular basis. All you need to do is to log in to the Plesk Sitebuilder, edit the site content in the Wizard, and click Publish. Plesk Sitebuilder will transfer the updated content to your hosting location.

For detailed instructions on what to do on every step of creating your site, see the chapters below.