Help for Website creators
Build websites with Exponential: plan the site, content classes, designs, layouts, the launch and its care.
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- Website creators: start here The landing page for website creators - what you can build, a first-week plan, and every page of this secti...
- Individuals: start here The landing page for people who run a website of their own on Exponential - a personal site, a portfolio, a...
- Static publishing The start of everything about static publishing in Exponential 6.0.15 - a free, fast and safe public copy o...
- Two ways to build, every page The index of the "two ways to build" help - templates in a design extension and the Layouts editor - with t...
- Make a free website in 15 minutes The tutorial - from an existing Exponential site to a live github.io address in about 15 minutes, with a fr...
- New in 6.0.15: static publishing Exponential 6.0.15 publishes a site as a free, fast and safe static copy on GitHub Pages or any git host -...
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Deliver client sites as static sites
Build a client's site in Exponential, keep the editing installation private, and hand over a fast static public site on GitHub Pages or any git host - with the setup, the handover and what to tell the client.
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Make a free website in 15 minutes
The tutorial - from an existing Exponential site to a live github.io address in about 15 minutes, with a free GitHub account, one token, the setup wizard, a build, a check and a publish.
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Host static sites on GitHub Pages with Exponential 6.0.15+
This guide shows how to put a free, fast, secure public copy of an Exponential site on GitHub Pages, while editors keep working in Exponential. The copy is static: plain HTML pages and files, no PHP and no database…
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- Getting started1
- Two ways to build247
- Building websites78
- Public sector149
- Exponential for businesses48
- Training39
- Community1
- Ecosystem5
- Mobile apps2
- E-commerce25
- Non-profit organizations16
- Local business5
- Personal sites50
- The Exponential project1
- Administration24
- Installation and upgrades9
- Migrations1
Key pages
All pages for Website creators- What static publishing is Static publishing in plain words - a copy of your site as ordinary files, served for free, while editing stays in Exponential; how it dif...
- Is static right for my site? A short checklist to decide whether a static copy suits your site - good fits such as brochure sites, blogs, documentation, portfolios, e...
- Two ways to build Exponential 6.0.15+ builds pages two ways - template code in a design extension, and the Layouts editor with no code - and the two meet i...
- Use your own domain Serve the static copy at your own domain instead of github.io - the CNAME file, the DNS records for a subdomain or an apex domain, the DN...
- Keep private content private How static publishing makes sure only public content reaches a public repository - builds as the anonymous user, the clean-up and refuse...
- The website creator's reading path The pages of the website creators' section in the order a site is built - six stages from first look to a site in maintenance - with what...
- Other git hosts: GitLab, Gitea and your own server Publish the static copy to GitLab Pages, Codeberg or Gitea pages, or a git repository on your own server - the target with Kind=git, sign...
- Static publishing FAQ Short answers to the questions people ask about static publishing - cost, hosting, editors, comments, going back, Exponential Layouts, Sm...
- Build with Exponential: why, which product, first steps The "Build with Exponential" page of exponential.earth, checked against the software - why build on it (simple, stable, upgradable), what...
- Add a header menu item Add a page from the content tree to the site header's main menu in Exponential 6.0.15+, in the administration (no code) or with one conso...
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