Help guide
Site basics
Site basics holds the handful of details that describe your site as a whole: what it's called, the one-line description search engines show, how it looks, and whether the site is open to the public yet.
These three all reach the same Site Star agent, and it does the same thing whichever you pick. Use whatever's in reach.
- Site Star dashboardThe message box on My Site, once you're signed in.
- TextText your site's number from a phone it knows. Photos come through.
- EmailEmail your site's address. Attachments come through.
- Your own AI assistant Different setup, same result. Connect Claude or another assistant to your site once, then ask it from the chat you already use, and it acts on your site for you. Set it up
Site name
Your site name is used throughout Site Star and is the default public name for your website, for example Acme Plumbing. If your business name changes, this is the place to update it.
Ask Site Star Not supported yet
Site Star can't do this one for you yet. Check back soon; for now, the steps below do it in the Site Star dashboard.
Or do it yourself in the Site Star dashboard
Make sure you're on the Website tab, then open Settings in the sidebar. Site basics is the first section:
Edit Site name and save.
Site description
A short description, one or two sentences, that can show under your site in search results. It's your chance to say what you do in a way that makes someone click, so write it for a person deciding whether to visit, not for a search engine.
Ask Site Star
- Change the site description to: Family-run plumbing in Austin since 1998. Same-day service, upfront pricing.
- Write me a better site description for search results
Or do it yourself in the Site Star dashboard
In Settings → Site basics, edit Site description and save.
Private access
Private mode puts a username and password in front of your site, so only people you share the login with can view it. It's useful when you want to show the site to a colleague before the public sees it.
- Before your site launches, private mode is always on, so nothing is public until you're ready.
- When you turn it on, Site Star generates a username and password to share. Only give them to people who should be able to see the site.
- Changes to private mode take a few seconds to reach visitors.
Ask Site Star
- Make my site private
- What's the password for my private site?
- Make my site public again
Or do it yourself in the Site Star dashboard
In Settings → Site basics, use the Private access switch. The username and password show there while it's on.
Design
How your site looks lives one stop down the same Settings sidebar, under Design. Three things live there:
- Colors — the colors your site is built from, your brand color, backgrounds, text. Switch the mode to dark and fill in colors to give your site a dark mode; leave them blank and it stays light-only.
- Fonts — a heading font and a body font, if you want specific ones.
- Corner style — how rounded buttons and cards look: Square, Subtle, Rounded, or Pill.
Anything you leave blank falls back to Site Star's own design defaults.
Ask Site Star
- Match my logo's colors
- Change the brand color to #1B4DFF
- Use rounded corners on buttons and cards
And if you'd rather not pick colors and fonts yourself, do it the way you do everything else: send a request like "match my logo's colors" and Site Star sets it up for you.
Or do it yourself in the Site Star dashboard
In Settings → Design, set colors, fonts, and corner style, then save.
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Ready to connect your web address? See your domain. Want Site Star to make changes for you? See requesting a change. Or get in touch, usually the same business day.