Creating a Site
The setup wizard: name and SEO defaults, colours, type, style, icons, header, footer and backdrops.
Start a New Site
The first screen of setup collects the site's name, its language, and the title and description search engines fall back on. Fill it in carefully — th...
Choose Your Colours
Pick one of sixteen palettes or enter your own brand colours. This is the foundation every page is built on, so it is worth a minute of thought.
Choose Your Typography
Webby uses four font roles rather than one font. Pick a personality pairing to fill them all at once, or choose each font yourself from the Google Fon...
Use Your Own Fonts
If your brand's typeface is licensed rather than public, upload the font files to your drive and register them. They then appear alongside the library...
Visual Style and Ambition
Choose a visual signature to steer the look, and set an ambition level from 1 to 10 that decides how adventurous the design gets. Then Webby generates...
Choose Your Icons
Pick one icon family for the whole site. Icons turn up in navigation, buttons and feature lists, and mixing families is one of the few things that mak...
Generate Your Header
Your header is generated from your brand and offering, then refined by asking for changes in plain language. Every page on the site will use it, so th...
Generate Your Footer
The footer is generated the same way as the header, with one thing to check deliberately: it always includes a call-to-action block, and the button it...
Background Imagery
The last step of setup is optional. Upload images that can sit behind sections of your site, and Webby works out where they suit. Skipping it costs yo...
