Quickstart

This quickstart takes you from an empty workspace to a live page in about five minutes. You can do every step in the dashboard, the CLI, or by asking an AI agent — we show the dashboard path first.

1. Sign in and open your workspace

A workspace is your account. Inside it lives at least one project — a single website with its own pages, posts, settings, and domain. Every new workspace starts with a default project, so there is nothing to set up.

2. Pick a starting point

You have two options:

  • Start from a template. Open the marketplace, browse the site templates, preview one, and apply it. The template's pages are cloned into your project as drafts, ready to edit.

  • Start blank. Create a page and add blocks to it yourself.

To create a page from scratch, go to Content → Pages → New page, give it a title and a URL slug (for example home), and open the editor.

3. Add content

In the page editor, add blocks — a hero, a features grid, a pricing table, a call to action, and so on. Each block has a few fields (a headline, some items, a button). Drag blocks into the order you want. There is no code to write.

See Pages for the full list of block types.

4. Apply a theme

A theme controls the look of your whole site — colors, fonts, header, and footer. Go to Design → Themes, choose one, and apply it. You can fine-tune colors in your site settings at any time.

5. Preview, then deploy

Publishing is always a two-step, safe action:

  1. Preview — SpiderPublish builds a preview of exactly what will go live and gives you a link to inspect it.

  2. Confirm — when it looks right, you confirm, and the site goes live at the edge in a few seconds.

Until you connect your own domain, your site is live on a free address like your-label.sites.spideriq.ai. See Custom Domains to connect your own.

The same flow, with an AI agent

If you have connected the MCP server (see MCP Setup), you can do all of the above in natural language:

"Create a page called 'home' with a hero, a 3-up features grid, and a
pricing section. Apply the default theme. Then preview a deploy."

The agent calls the same tools the dashboard uses, shows you the preview, and waits for your confirmation before anything goes live.

Next steps