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Create a page, choose who can see it, and learn the rules for page names.

Besides your home page and blog, your site can have any number of pages. Each one has its own address, such as D/drum, and its own item in the app's menu.

#Create a page

  1. Press New page

    In the app menu, under your pages, press + New page.

  2. Choose how it starts

    • Design it yourself: an empty page whose look you or an AI design.
    • Write articles: a page like your blog, with an articles block and an articles template.
    • Keep a journal: a page with a journal block. It starts as a Private Page.

  3. Name it

    The name is part of the address. As you type, you see where it will live, for example "Will be at D/drum". Press Create, and the page appears in the menu.

A new page is empty. Nothing shows at D/drum until you publish its first version.

Note:

Page names use only lowercase letters, digits and -, up to 30 characters. Names the site uses itself, such as blog, media, home and settings, are taken.

A page cannot be deleted or renamed after you create it. If you no longer want people to see it, make it a Private Page.

#Public Page or Private Page

Every page is one of the two, and can switch at any time in its Settings under Who can see it.

Public Page Private Page
Who can see it Everyone Only you
Where On your site, at D/<page> Only inside your app
Search engines Can find it Never see it

Before a page becomes public, Ownsite tells you exactly what will become visible. For a journal, that includes how many entries and photos. If an AI asks to make a page public, you must confirm it in the app.

For the home page, "private" means turning it off: your address then shows a simple home page. See Your home page.

#Examples

Example Who can see it Blocks
A drum page, your home page Public Page None
A home page with a guestbook, a portfolio Public Page Messages, Works
Notes for yourself Private Page None
A journal, a private reading list Private Page Journal, List

#Ask an AI to make a page

Once you connect your AI, just ask: "Make a new page called drum on my site, with my drum videos." It creates the page, makes the first version, and sends you a preview link. Publishing waits for you.