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How MakeStatic works
MakeStatic makes a copy of your website that works like the original. Your visitors get the copy, with no database, no plugin and no login page behind it. Your original stays where it is, and you keep working in it. These pages explain each step, in the order you take them.
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First steps
Getting started: your first static copy
Try MakeStatic on one page, create a free account, add your website and publish its copy. What happens at each step.
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What the copy does
What a static copy can do, and what needs a server
Pages, pictures, search and contact forms work in the copy. A login, comments or a checkout need a server. What MakeStatic does with each.
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Publishing
Publishing changes, and seeing what changed
Your copy changes only when you publish. What a publish does, what a failed one leaves as it was, and how the release log shows what changed.
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Contact forms
Contact forms and messages: what arrives, and who receives it
Where a message from your copy's forms arrives, who it is mailed to and how they say yes, answering a visitor, and how long a message is kept.
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Your own domain
Your own domain, step by step
Connect your own domain to your static copy in four steps, and keep your original as the place you work in. What to have ready, and what to do if it takes longer.
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Your team
Working as a team: inviting people, roles, deleting a website
Look after your websites with other people: who may do what, inviting somebody, switching between teams, and deleting a website.
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