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# Setting up your website from your goals

The first time you open your website builder, it asks **What should your website do?** and offers goals based on the records you already have. Tick the goals you want, add your story, and choose **Build from my goals**. Creatures fills in your draft, and nothing is public until you publish.

## Choose your goals

![What should your website do? with Take bookings, Link my socials and Tell my story goals, and an Add an experience button](https://cdn-test.creatures.com/241/fb3/c20/19b88.png?width=780)

Each goal adds what it needs to your draft:

- **Show my breeding animals** adds an animals section, a **Sires & dams** page and a menu link to it.
- **Take bookings** adds your live experiences to your homepage and a **Book** menu link. If you don't have a live experience yet, choose **Add an experience** to create one.
- **Show reviews** adds your guest and buyer reviews to your homepage.
- **Show animals for sale** adds your animals for sale and a **For sale** menu link. They stay current as your listings change.
- **Link my socials** shows your social links in your website footer.
- **Tell my story** adds your story to your homepage and an **Our story** menu link.

Some goals appear only when you have records to fill them. For example, **Show reviews** appears once you have a review. **Show my breeding animals** appears when you have public sires or dams of your main species, which is the species with the most animals that can appear on your website. Each goal shows a count from your records.

## Add your social links

Open **Add your social links** to add your Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, X or LinkedIn link. These links save to your Creatures profile and appear in your website footer. A link that is already on your profile shows here but can't be changed. Edit it on your profile instead.

## Add your story

If you don't have a story yet, setup asks for one:

- **Home page shows:** **Summary** shows a short introduction with a **Read full story** link. **Full story** shows your whole story on the homepage. New websites start on **Summary**.
- **Home-page introduction:** a few sentences in your own words, up to 1,000 characters.
- **Full story:** up to 20,000 characters. Leave a blank line between paragraphs.

With **Summary**, you need both an introduction and a complete public story before you can publish. You can still save unfinished work in your draft. To edit your story after setup, use **Your story**. See [Writing your website story](https://help.creatures.com/en/article/writing-your-website-story-1cn5kga/).

## Build from my goals

Choose **Build from my goals**. Creatures adds whatever is missing and keeps the words and photos you already saved. Your saved story is never replaced. The builder reloads with your new sections and menu links.

## Work through your website goals

![Your website goals checklist showing 1 of 3 complete, with Link my socials, Tell my story and Replace example text](https://cdn-test.creatures.com/3eb/f84/5c1/0e962.png?width=780)

The **Your website goals** checklist shows how far along you are, such as **1 of 3 complete**. A check mark means a goal is covered. Choose an item to jump to where you can finish it. You may also see:

- **Add a welcome photo**, when your homepage doesn't start with a big welcome photo.
- **Replace example text**, when sections still use example wording. Replace it with your own, or choose **Keep this wording** for text you like.

Two buttons help you check your work. **See it as a visitor** shows your website the way guests see it. **Design with AI** opens **Design** with a suggested description of a look. Nothing changes until you choose **Design my theme**.

To put the checklist away, choose the **x** (**Hide checklist**). It stays hidden in that browser. Choose **Show your website goals** to bring it back.

## Change your goals later

Once your website is started, the setup panel above the checklist is called **Set up from my goals**. Open it, change your goals, and choose **Build from my goals** again. It only adds what is missing.

### Related information

- [Your Creatures website: what it is and how to open the builder](https://help.creatures.com/en/article/your-creatures-website-what-it-is-and-how-to-open-the-builder-fj5t01/)
- [Writing your website story](https://help.creatures.com/en/article/writing-your-website-story-1cn5kga/)
- [Designing your website: templates, colors, and Design with AI](https://help.creatures.com/en/article/designing-your-website-layouts-colors-and-the-ai-restyle-1yu1rbh/)
- [Publishing, updating, and taking your website offline](https://help.creatures.com/en/article/adding-photos-then-publishing-and-updating-your-site-afky8n/)