Set up your website in minutes.

We'll help you set it up by email or on a Zoom call. Write to pagerock@pagerock.com.

Step 1: Add a domain

After you sign up, the account manager opens. Add one domain or several, and preview each site instantly.

Step 2: Edit your menu, settings and home page

Each new domain starts with these files:

settings.txt
title domain.com
description Welcome to domain.com
paypal

settings.txt sets your site's title and description. To sell items, put your PayPal account's email address after "paypal".

menu.txt
/ Home
/store/ Store
/blog/ Blog
/mailing_list/ Mailing List

menu.txt lists your menu, one item per line: the link, a space, then the label.

content.txt
Welcome to the home of domain.com.

content.txt is your home page. To add a page, create a folder named after its address — a folder called "about" appears at http://www.yourdomain.com/about/ — and put the page's text in that folder's content.txt. Links use [text|link]. To show an image, upload it and type its file name. Standard HTML works too.

Step 3: Upload or import files

Click "Upload Files" in the account manager, choose your files and wait for the upload to finish. To show a file on a page, type its name in that page's content.txt. To move an existing site, create a folder for each page and paste its text into that folder's content.txt. Save its images to your computer, then upload them.

Step 4: Activate your domain

To put your site on your domain, click "Activate" next to it in the account manager. To check whether a new domain is free, type it next to "Check Availability" and click that button. You're billed the monthly or annual price on the order form, including the domain if you're buying one. A new domain can take up to 48 hours to reach the whole internet. Using a domain you already own? After activating it, sign in to your registrar, delete the DNS records for "www", and add a CNAME record pointing "www" to "www.pagerock.com". To find your registrar, look up your domain at http://whois.icann.org/. If you get stuck, contact us and we'll help.

Step 5: Use advanced features (optional)

These tags run on our patent-pending technology.

<pagerock:store>
"category","name","price","image file name","short description","long description"
"Books","The Republic","19.95","republic.jpg","Socrates' epic work.",""
</pagerock:store>

Wrap items in <pagerock:store> in the format above to sell them through PayPal.

<pagerock:form>
filename test.csv
email test@test.com
text Name
box Additional Comments
submit Send
</pagerock:form>

Build any form. Submissions are emailed to you and saved to a file you can download. After "filename" comes the file to save to, after "email" the address to send to, then one line per field: its type and its label.

<pagerock:table>
"Name","Phone Number"
"Joe","800-555-1212"
</pagerock:table>

Wrap rows in <pagerock:table> to show a table.

<pagerock:table>
inventory.csv
</pagerock:table>

Or name a .csv file, and keep the table in Excel or any spreadsheet.

<pagerock:image>image.jpg</pagerock:image>

Images display well on desktop and mobile.

<pagerock:link>Google|http://www.google.com/</pagerock:link>

A link: the text, a vertical bar, then the address.

<image_grid>
image_1.jpg
image_2.jpg
image_3.jpg
</image_grid>

An image grid: one image file per line.

<image_carousel>
image_1.jpg
image_2.jpg
image_3.jpg
</image_carousel>

An image carousel: one image file per line.

Step 6: Track your visitors

activity.csv
"Date","Location","Category","Description","IP"
"2017-04-17 14:25","Venice, Italy","Registration","joe.giana@google.com","47.73.144.108"
"2017-04-17 14:25","Venice, Italy","Visitor","/","47.73.144.108"
"2017-04-17 14:26","Venice, Italy","Visitor","/order/","47.73.144.108"
"2017-04-17 14:41","New York, NY","Visitor","/","85.37.199.172"

activity.csv, in each domain's folder, records every page visited, with the visitor's date, location and IP address.

Step 7: Get help

If your site isn't exactly how you want it, contact us: in the support section or at pagerock@pagerock.com.