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Getting Started
What ArtSites does for you, signing in, and finding your way round your website's admin.
- Is This Email Real?How to tell whether an email that claims to be about your website, domain name or art is a scam, the signs to look for, which emails ArtSites does send, and how to send us one to check.
- About ArtSitesWhat ArtSites is, what you need to start, how to try it free, how you can change your website later, how many images you can add, and how a group can share one account.
- Getting Your Website StartedHow your 10-day free trial works, what to prepare for your website, how to ask for more time, and how Quick Start lets us build your first website from the images and text you send.
- Sign In to Your Website's Admin, and Reset a Forgotten PasswordSign in to your website's admin from its Administration link or its /admin address, and get an email to choose a new password if you have forgotten yours.
- A Tour of Your Website's AdminFind your way round the admin: the Pages and Settings menus, My Account, Messages, Tutorials, the view link and Logout, and where each one leads.
- Having More Than One WebsiteHow a second ArtSites website works, for example a French version of your site or a site for a group you belong to, and what we set up and what you edit.
- If You Can't Sign InWhat each message on the sign-in and password reset screens means, which email address is your sign-in, and what to try when the sign-in page keeps coming back blank.
- When Your Group's People ChangeWhat to do when a society or group hands its website to new officers: add the new people, remove the old ones, check who holds the domain name, and tell us.
- Changes We Make for YouWhich changes to your website's fonts and title positions you make yourself, and which ones we make for you when you email us.
- How Your Website Appears in GoogleWhat Google decides for itself when it shows your website, what you can write to guide it, why Meta Keywords is not worth your time, and how to look for your website in the right place.
- What ArtSites Doesn't DoTwo things people sometimes ask us for that ArtSites does not do, private websites and full redesigns, and what we offer instead.
- When Search Engines Show Your ChangesWhy Google can show your old website information for a while after you change it, what usually fixes it, and how to ask Google to look again with Google Search Console.
- If Your Website Won't Open for SomeoneWhat to try when you or a visitor cannot open your website, or a browser or security program warns about it, and what to tell us so we can check.