Building your website

Your TribeNest website is built by describing it. You open the builder, say what you want, and it writes the site for you: the layout, the sections, the words, wired up to your real products, events, and media. No installs, no terminal, no drag-and-drop grid to fight with.

Behind the scenes it is a real, fully custom website, which is why there is no limit on what it can look like. TribeNest still handles the hard parts for you: your store, checkout, memberships, ticketing, courses, and payments all work out of the box.

Websites and versions

Two words are worth ten seconds before you start.

• A website is a site with its own web address. You get one by default, and you can add more: a separate landing page, a side project, a client site. Each one has its own address and its own settings.
• A version is one build of that website. A website can have as many versions as you like, but only one is live at a time. The live one carries an Active badge on your My Website home.

That is what lets you rebuild your whole site without risk. Make a new version, work on it for a week, publish when it is ready. Your live site never wobbles.

Adding another website

1. Go to My Website then Home.
2. Click the plus button next to the website name at the top.
3. Give it a Name. The Subdomain fills itself in from the name, and you can change it before you create it.
4. Click Create.

Switch between your websites from the dropdown on the website name. The pencil button renames the current one, and the trash button deletes it along with all of its versions. Your default website cannot be deleted.

Start building

1. Go to My Website then Home.
2. Click the menu button (three dots) at the top right and choose New Website Version.
3. Give the version a name, then click Create.
4. On the new version's card, click Edit website version.

TribeNest sets up a complete, working creator website for you: a home page, a store, product pages, events, courses, memberships, a blog, checkout, and an account area. Nothing is a placeholder, and everything already works. Step 4 opens the builder, and everything from there is making the site yours.

The builder

Three modes sit at the top left, and a live preview opens beside them.

• AI is where most of your work happens. You chat, it builds.
• Content edits the text and images on your pages like filling in a form.
• Code is the actual code, for when you want it.

Next to the modes are three preview size buttons: desktop, tablet, and mobile. They change the width of the preview so you can check a layout on a phone without picking up a phone.

AI mode: describe what you want

Type what you want into the chat and it gets built across the whole site. For example:

• "Add an FAQ section to the home page."
• "Make a new about page with my bio and photo."
• "Show my featured products on the homepage."
• "Change the hero headline to 'Live in Lagos this August' and make it editable."
• "Match my brand: dark background, gold buttons, bigger product images."

As it works you see what it is doing in plain language: Looking up your content, Browsing your media, editing files, and Checking for errors before it finishes. It edits across many files at once, checks the site still builds, and your preview updates live.

You can also attach media from your library to a message with the image button beside the input, when you want it to use one specific photo or video.

While the AI is working, Code and Content modes are locked so nothing collides. The chat keeps streaming even if you switch away to look at something else.

Seeing it live

Click Preview in the toolbar to start a live preview beside the builder. The first start takes a minute or so while your site is built; after that it updates instantly as changes land. Click around, test buttons, fill in forms, all before anything is public. The button turns into Restart preview once it is running, for when you want a clean reload.

Content mode: edit words and pictures without code

Not every change needs the AI. Switch to Content and you get a list of every editable field on the page you are looking at.

• Click a field to edit it: type new text, choose a new image from your media library, or pick a color. The preview updates as you type.
• Hover a field in the list and it lights up on the page. Hover a spot on the page and it scrolls the list to the matching field.
• Your edits save as a draft automatically. The panel tells you how many fields it can see and when it is saving.
• When you are happy, click Publish in the Content panel. Content changes go live instantly. No rebuild, no waiting.

Code mode: the real files

If you do write code (or you are curious), Code is a full editor in your browser. A file tree on the left, syntax highlighting, and autocomplete for the TribeNest toolkit. Your edits save as you type, and the little All saved marker in the toolbar tells you when they are safely stored. You never have to open it, but it is there.

Publishing

Publish is the green button at the top right. It builds your site and, only if the build succeeds, puts it on your real address. If the build has a problem, nothing changes and your current site stays up. Read the error, or ask the AI to fix it, and publish again.

There is more on versions, rollbacks and switching between them in Publishing your website.

The more-actions menu

The menu button (three dots) in the builder's toolbar holds everything you use once in a while:

• Deploy preview builds your site and gives you a shareable link, so a bandmate or a client can look at it without it becoming your live site.
• Update Theme brings the latest TribeNest toolkit and the newest built-in pages to your site without touching the pages you made. A small dot on the menu button means an update is waiting. See Updating your theme.
• History lists your restore points. One is captured every time you publish, so you can always go back to a site that worked. Restoring auto-saves your current code first, then you start the preview to rebuild and publish.

Your media library

You do not have to open the builder to manage images and video. On My Website then Home, the menu button at the top right has a Media library item. Upload files, browse what you already have, and copy the address of anything you select.

Your site's language

Your website can be published in English or German. The language comes from your workspace, so you set it once and it applies everywhere.

Go to Settings, find the Workspace edition card, and set Workspace language to English or German. See Workspace type and language.

Everything TribeNest supplies then reads in that language: checkout, the account area, membership pages, buttons, dates, and messages. Your own words are still your own, so write your pages in the language you chose.

Keeping your site private

While you are building, you can put the whole site behind one shared password, so only people you give it to can see it. See Password protecting your site.

Prefer to work on your computer?

The in-browser builder is the main way to build, but everything you make is real code that you own. If you would rather work locally with your own tools, you can pull the same site down to your computer and edit it with Claude Code or any editor, then publish from there. It is the same site and the same versions, just a different way in.

This is the more technical path, and most people never need it. See Editing with Claude Code.