How it works

From first draft to your own domain.

Here's how a site goes from nothing to live on chx4 web, and how your team keeps it up to date afterwards.

Pick a starting point

Start from a blank site, or install a theme. Its pages, blocks, menus and styles are copied into your site, and from then on they're yours to change.

You'll need

Your logo, your colours and an idea of the pages you want.

Build in blocks

Lay out pages in the designer, write reusable blocks, set up your menus and add forms. Templates give news, events and case studies a layout every new page can start from.

Good to know

Everything stays as a draft until you publish it. Build the whole site before anyone sees it.

Review and approve

Preview drafts on the real site. With approvals on, changes wait for someone with publish rights, and every step is recorded in the history.

Good to know

Compare any two versions side by side to see exactly what a change will do.

Go live on your domain

Add your domain and prove it's yours. We set up the bare domain and www with certificates, and the bare domain becomes your main address.

Then

Connect your analytics, add redirects from your old site, and schedule what comes next.

Your team

Everyone gets the access they need, and no more.

Grant permissions person by person. Your writers can draft all day without being able to publish, and only the people you choose can export or reset the site.

Add and editCreate and change drafts.

ApproveSign off changes waiting for review.

PublishPut approved changes live.

ArchiveTake content down.

ExportDownload content to move it elsewhere.

ResetClear the site's content or replace it with an import.

Manage permissionsDecide who can do all of the above.

See your own site in the designer.

Give us 30 minutes and we'll build one of your pages with you, live: blocks, a menu and a working form, ready to publish by the end of the call.

Book a demo