Create your first website

Choose New website in the left menu of the app.

What is the website for?

First pick one of two choices:

• A business or organisation: a shop, studio, salon, restaurant, freelancer, club...
• Myself or an occasion: a portfolio, creator, CV, link page, event or wedding...

Your answer only decides which examples and templates you see first. You can still use any template and change everything later.

Then choose how to start: With the assistant or Manually.

With the assistant (Pro and Business)

Describe your website in your own words, for example "A website for my bakery in Ghent: our breads and pastries, opening hours and a contact form", add a name if you like, and press the arrow. The assistant builds a first version in about half a minute: pages, texts, colours, photos and the right blocks. Everything it makes is a normal draft you can change.

Start from an existing website lets you paste the address of a site you already have. You can choose to copy its texts and images, or only use it as inspiration. See The AI assistant and Move your existing website to Fwdia.

Manually

Choose Manually, give the website a name and pick a starting point:

• A template: a ready-made website (with its pages, texts and photos) for a business or for yourself. Use Preview to look before you choose. Every template is a starting point: change anything. Whole-website templates (restaurant, salon, shop, trades, consultant, studio, photographer, creator) come with 4 to 6 pages, a menu and a footer on every page; the one-page ones suit a link page, a card or an event. Free has room for 3 pages, so a whole-website template starts there with Home, its second page and Contact; with Pro (20 pages) you can add the other pages yourself.
• Blank canvas: start from nothing.

Then choose Create & open builder.

Your website starts as a draft

Nothing is visible to visitors until you publish. Build in peace, check the phone and desktop preview, then press Publish at the top right of the builder. See Publishing and visibility.

How many websites can I have?