How to launch a website

A website launch gives people a place to understand what you offer and take the next step. Prepare your pages, a dependable contact path, and an address to share.

This guide follows a small furniture maker launching a portfolio and commission-enquiry site. If you are still creating the pages, start with how to build a website with AI. Return here when the first version is ready to review.

Follow the visitor’s likely questions: What do you make? Is it right for me? How do I contact you?

For the furniture maker, a focused launch could include a homepage, selected work, information about commissions, and a contact page. Each project needs a useful photograph and enough context to explain the piece. The commissions page should describe the actual process and what a prospective customer needs to send.

Remove links to unfinished pages. Save optional journal posts or a shop for when their content and functionality are ready.

Read the site from top to bottom, including its footer, forms, page titles, and mobile menu. Replace sample names, placeholder contact details, and unsupported claims. Use photographs you have permission to publish and captions that describe the work shown.

Check the details someone might act on: location, service area, availability, prices if listed, and expected response times. Keep statements about data handling consistent with what the site actually does.

Choose one main action. Here, “Enquire about a commission” should lead to the same contact path wherever it appears.

Start at the homepage, open a project, find commission information, and send an enquiry. For a working form, confirm that the enquiry reaches its intended destination. A thank-you screen alone cannot tell you whether it was saved or delivered.

Mythos forms that store data need a working backend; email delivery also needs its configured service and app behavior. Follow the relevant connection setup and test the result before inviting enquiries.

Repeat the journey on your phone and with a keyboard. Check the menu, labels, image sizing, and any form errors. The mobile website guide helps with layout, while the testing guide covers a fuller functional review.

You can publish a Mythos site at an available address such as your-name.r21.dev. Choose a readable name that you expect to keep; changing a shared address later means updating those links.

For an address you own, follow Custom domains. Mythos connects an existing domain rather than selling one. The current setup requires an active Pro or Business subscription and permission to manage publication and the domain’s DNS.

You can prepare the domain before publishing. Follow the records shown for your connection and wait for its status to become Connected. The domain serves the site once the project is also published.

Give important pages distinct, descriptive titles. “Commissions — Studio Name” is more useful than repeating “Home” everywhere. Write a short summary that matches the page and choose a suitable sharing image.

In Mythos, More → SEO & AI search provides the site’s discovery settings. Review the public content you want search engines to find and check that the page information matches your final copy. Use the website titles guide if you are unsure what to include.

After publishing, inspect the URL you intend to share. Search engines and social platforms may retain older titles or previews for a while.

Review the latest Preview, open Publish, and confirm the address and public access. When Mythos reports that the site is live, open Visit site. The publishing instructions describe the current controls.

Check the public site in a fresh browser session:

Share the public address rather than the workspace Preview. Mythos’s published address is publicly accessible; a workspace’s private status does not make the website private.

Put the link in your business profile, email signature, or announcement to your existing audience. For the furniture maker, a link beside a new piece’s photograph gives people a reason to visit.

Ask early visitors whether they found the information they needed. If several people cannot tell how commissions work, improve that page before adding another section.

Mythos keeps edits in Preview until you publish an Update. Review each change before updating the public site. If you use Project analytics, remember that it counts eligible visits after visitors allow analytics; it is not a count of every request or every potential customer.

Do I need a custom domain to launch?

No. You can start with the published Mythos address and connect your own domain later. Decide which address you want to promote before printing it or sharing it widely.

Why is the live site missing my latest edit?

Saving or building changes updates your workspace result. Open Publish and choose Update when the reviewed version is ready to replace the public one.

What should I do if an important detail is wrong?

Correct it in the project, inspect Preview, and publish the update. If the current site should stop serving while you fix it, use Unpublish in the Publish menu.