# Your first site

> From an empty account to a site somebody can visit: describe what you want, let it build, look at the pages, and press Publish once.
>
> From the MightyBuilder documentation: https://docs.mightybuilder.ai/getting-started/your-first-site

From an empty account to something a visitor can open.

## 1. Create the site

From the dashboard, **New site** — on a brand-new account it opens by itself. It
asks for two things:

- **a name** — the site gets a free address ending in `.mightybuilder.site`, and
  you can attach your own domain later without rebuilding anything;
- **the brief** — a couple of paragraphs about the business: who it is for, what
  it sells, the tone, anything that must appear, and your facts (addresses,
  phone numbers, email, opening hours). This is the highest-leverage thing you
  will type. The AI reads it on every turn, so a good brief means you stop
  repeating yourself. See [The brief](/editing/the-brief).

Your first site is also where a new account's
**150 free credits** land. Every site after it starts with
none; add credits or upgrade it on its **Billing** screen to use the AI there.

## 2. Choose how to start

The new site opens and asks how you would like to start:

- **Build a homepage** — from the brief. The wording is yours to change, so it
  can be anything you like:

  > Build a five-page site for a family bakery in Leeds. Home, our bread, cakes
  > to order, find us, and contact. Warm and plain — no stock-photo language.

- **Move my existing site here** — give the address of the site you have now,
  and the AI reads it and rebuilds it here;
- **I'll look around first** — nothing starts; the **Assistant** is in the
  sidebar whenever you want it.

Either of the first two opens the Assistant working on it. If the brief says
nothing about how the site should look, it asks a few short questions first —
answer them, or tell it to decide. The answers go into the brief, so every later
page is designed from them too.

It will write the pages, the navigation and the styling, and tell you what it
made. Everything is a draft.

## 3. Look at it

Use **Preview**, which builds from your drafts. Walk the pages. Ask for changes
in the same conversation — it remembers what it just built.

## 4. Publish

When it looks right, press **Publish**. The whole site goes out at once, and the
address in the top bar becomes a link you can open.

## Then what

Add your own domain, upload real photographs to replace the generated ones, and
keep talking to it. Nothing you do next needs a rebuild.