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Each website in Hiveku has its own pages, address and publishing. You start one from a designed template or from an empty canvas, tell the AI what the site is for, and it makes the first version for you. This guide makes another site for Northwind: a café in Portland’s Pearl District, started from a template with Northwind’s brand.

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Start a new site

Click Websites in the left rail, then New Site at the top right.
The top of All Sites with the Memory, Settings and New Site buttons, with New Site outlined

New Site, on All Sites

Keep Create selected: a site Hiveku builds, hosts and publishes for you. External is for a site that already lives somewhere else.
Create New Site with the Create choice outlined and External beside it

Create, for a site Hiveku hosts

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Pick a starting point

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Find a template

Type a word for the look you want into the search box, or narrow the gallery with Category or My favorites only. Sort by changes the order. The search matches words in template names and descriptions, so if one word finds nothing, try another. Click a card to pick it.To start blank instead, pick Empty canvas: the AI designs the site from your prompt.
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Click Next: Configure

The bar at the bottom shows the template you picked. Click Next: Configure.
The template gallery: roast in the search box, the Northline Roasters card selected and the Next: Configure button, all outlined

Northline Roasters, found with roast

Already have a site somewhere? Other ways to start, above the gallery, has Import a URL to copy an existing site and From GitHub to bring in a code repository.

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Tell the AI what to make

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Check your brand

If your account has a brand set up, it is already picked: the row reads Using your brand and your brand’s name, with its main color, logo and font. Change picks another saved brand or brings one in from a website address, and Remove starts without it. With no brand yet, click Import my brand to bring in your colors, logo and key images before the editor opens.
The chosen template Northline Roasters with Change template, and below it Using your brand: Northwind Coffee Roasters, #c4622a, logo, Playfair Display, with Change and Remove, outlined

Northwind's brand, already picked

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Say what the site is for

Under Tell the AI what you want, pick a starting prompt or click Write your own and describe the site in your own words: what it is for, what it must show and what to leave out. This is the first thing the AI reads.
Tell the AI what you want, with Write your own and the prompt outlined: a café site with the menu and prices, the opening hours and a note that every coffee is roasted on Alberta Street, and no online shop

Northwind's prompt for the café site

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Name it and create it

Type a Site Name (up to 40 characters) and click Create Template Starter. With Empty canvas, the button reads Create Site.
Site Name Northwind Pearl District and the Create Template Starter button, both outlined, with Description (optional) between them

The name, and Create Template Starter

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Watch the first version arrive

The builder opens and the AI starts on the first version. While it applies your brand, a progress screen shows what it is doing. Click Skip ahead and watch in the chat to follow each step in the chat instead.
Bringing your brand to life: Setting your brand colors done, Placing your logo and imagery in progress, then Tuning typography to match and Polishing the final composition, with Skip ahead and watch in the chat at the bottom

Applying Northwind's colors, logo and fonts

When it is done, the AI says in the chat what it made, and the preview on the right shows the new site. For Northwind it made a café homepage with the menu and prices, the opening hours and the Alberta Street note, and it put the menu in the CMS so it can be edited later.
The builder: the AI's summary in the chat on the left and the preview of the Northwind Pearl District café homepage on the right, with the Deploy button outlined

The first version of the café site

The site is saved, but it is not published yet. Keep asking the AI for changes in the chat (see Make a Change with the AI Chat), and when you are happy with it, click Deploy to publish it (see Publish Your Changes). Back on Websites, the new site has its own card, marked Draft until its first publish.
All Sites with the Northwind Pearl District card outlined: Draft, Deploy your site, Updated 10/21/2026, next to the live Northwind Coffee Roasters site

The new site on All Sites

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Good to know

  • The first version can take a while. The AI reads the template, applies your brand and writes each page, and the chat shows every step. Turning Northwind’s shop template into a café site took about half an hour; a template close to what you want is quicker. It uses AI credits, like any other chat with the AI.
  • Check what the AI filled in. Northwind’s prompt had no prices, so the AI used suggested prices and asked for the real ones. Read the first version before you publish it.
  • How many sites you can have. The Free plan includes one site, so New Site is grayed out once you have it. Upgrade to add more.
  • Each new site comes with a task board. It gets its own project in PM Projects, named after the site, so the work on it has one place.
  • More: Projects covers every site setting, and Open Your Site in the Builder shows your way around the builder.