Build your city website

What the website builder does

Your city's public website is a set of pages. You build each page by stacking blocks: text, photos, tables, news feeds, event calendars and more. Your edits save as a draft while you work. Residents only see a change after you publish it.

Before you start

• Who can use it: city admins. If you don't see City Pages in the sidebar, ask a city admin to check your role.
• Where to find it: in the left sidebar, open Content and click City Pages.

The website builder has five tabs across the top:

• City Pages — every page on your site and its status. Create, edit, unpublish and delete pages here.
• Sitemap — the menu at the top of your public site.
• Templates — page layouts you saved so you can reuse them.
• Appearance & Settings — your brand color, logo, footer and other site-wide settings.
• Accessibility — problems that residents using screen readers, keyboards or low-vision settings may run into on your published pages.

Guides in this section

• Create a page — start a new page, add and arrange blocks, and set its name and address.
• Publish, review and restore pages — make your changes live, send them for review, undo changes and bring back an earlier version.
• Organize your site menu — add pages, groups and links to the menu at the top of your site, then publish it.
• Change your site's appearance — set your brand color, logo, social share image, footer and city tidbits.
• Reuse work with templates and saved blocks — save a page layout or a single block and use it again on other pages.
• Check pages for accessibility — find and fix problems while you edit, when you publish and after.
• Website builder blocks — what each of the 22 blocks does, with a guide for each one.

The builder at a glance

When you open a page, the builder fills the screen.

• Add blocks (left) — every block you can add, grouped as Layout, Content and Dynamic. The Saved blocks tab next to it holds blocks you saved to reuse.
• Canvas (middle) — your page as residents will see it. Use Desktop, Tablet and Mobile above it to check other screen sizes, and the zoom buttons to zoom in or out.
• Settings (right) — the options for the block you selected, and the Layers list of every block on the page.
• Toolbar (top) — Page settings (the gear), History, Save as template, Preview and Publish. Back returns you to the City Pages list.

Related guides

• Manage documents and videos
• Build forms and manage responses
• Create and share maps
• Manage your team and permissions