Put your site online
Your download is a complete website: plain HTML, CSS and images. Any web host can serve it, and several do it free. This takes about five minutes the first time.
Before you download
- Set your site's address in Settings (for example
https://ashasbakery.com). That turns on the sitemap for search engines and the preview image when people share your link. You can add it later and download again. - Set up your forms. If your site has a form, choose where messages go (WhatsApp, email, Formspree, Web3Forms or Netlify Forms) and fill in the details. The editor shows a note on any form that isn't ready.
The one-click way: SinePress Hosting
Press Publish in the editor, pick an address (your-name.sinepress.page) and your site is online. Later, Update site puts your changes online, and Restore previous version undoes the last update.
- Part of SinePress Plus ($19 a year): hosting for 5 sites, your own domains included, and every premium template. The key that unlocked your templates works here by itself.
- Need more? Extra 5 sites is $9 a year; paste its key under Add more sites in Publish.
- If Plus ends, your sites stay online for 30 days, then show a “paused” page until you renew. Nothing is deleted, and downloading your site is always free.
Your own domain with SinePress Hosting
- In Publish, choose Use your own domain and type it with
www., for examplewww.ashasbakery.com. - At the company you bought the domain from, open its DNS settings and add the record SinePress shows: type
CNAME, namewww, pointing tocustomers.sinepress.page. - So that
ashasbakery.com(without www) works too, turn on the registrar's free forwarding (sometimes called redirect) fromashasbakery.comtohttps://www.ashasbakery.com. - Back in SinePress, press Check again. It usually works within minutes, sometimes an hour. HTTPS is set up for you.
Or host it yourself, free
Netlify (easiest)
- Unzip the file SinePress downloaded.
- Go to app.netlify.com/drop and sign up (free).
- Drag the
sitefolder from inside the unzipped download onto the page. Your site is live at an address likesunny-cake-1234.netlify.app. - Using Netlify Forms for your form? This is the host to pick: submissions appear under Forms in Netlify.
Cloudflare Pages
- Sign in at dash.cloudflare.com (free).
- Workers & Pages → Create → Pages → Upload assets.
- Name the project, then choose the
sitefolder.
GitHub Pages
- Create a public repository on github.com.
- Add file → Upload files, and drop in everything inside the
sitefolder. - Settings → Pages → deploy from the
mainbranch. Links work in a sub-folder too.
Already have web hosting (cPanel, Hostinger, GoDaddy…)? Upload everything inside the site folder into public_html with the host's file manager.
Use your own domain (other hosts)
Buy a domain anywhere (Namecheap, Cloudflare, GoDaddy…), then follow your host's "custom domain" steps: Netlify under Domain management, Cloudflare Pages under Custom domains, GitHub under Settings → Pages. HTTPS is switched on for you.
Change your site later
Edit it in SinePress, download again, and upload the new site folder the same way (on Netlify: Deploys → drag the folder).
Your backup comes with every download. Next to the site folder is a .sinepress file. Keep it (don't upload it): opening it, or the whole ZIP, in SinePress brings your site back on any computer, ready to edit.