Your Creatures website: what it is and how to open the builder

Every member and every organization can publish one free website, at an address like yourname.creaturesite.com. It is built from the animals, photos, listings, reviews and story you already keep in Creatures, and nothing on it is public until you publish.

Your website, your profile and your directory listing

These three are easy to mix up:

• Your website has its own address, look and menu. You design it in the website builder and share it anywhere.
• Your profile is your page inside Creatures. Once your website is live, your profile links to it on its own.
• Your directory listing is how buyers find you in the Creatures breeder search. See Getting listed in the breeder directory.

Your website pulls from your profile, so a good photo, cover and bio give it a head start. See Setting up your profile.

Open the builder

You can open it from three places:

• Your profile: choose the arrow button next to Share. In the More profile actions menu, choose Website.
• Your dashboard: use the website card on your Overview, or choose Website under Overview in the dashboard menu.
• The Creatures websites page at creatures.com/websites explains the builder and links to your own website.

The dashboard card changes as you go. Before you start it offers See my website or Build website. Once you are live it shows your address with View site and Edit website.

The first time you open the builder, Creatures saves a private draft for you. Visitors can't see it until you publish.

Whose website you are editing

Each person and each organization gets one website. If you own or co-own an organization, you can manage its website too. Other team members can't.

When you manage more than one website, the builder shows Editing: with a button for each one. Website on your profile opens your personal website, and on an organization's profile it opens that organization's.

The dashboard starts with your organization's website. If that organization doesn't own any animals yet, you are its owner, and you have animals of your own that can move, the builder offers a link such as Bring your 2 animals to Brennan Creek Farm. It opens a panel where you choose which of your animals to bring in, and you stay an owner of each one. See Bring your animals, groups and places into your organization. To create an organization, see Creating an organization for your farm or business.

Find your way around

The buttons at the top of the builder do the big jobs:

• Change the look opens the template gallery.
• Design sets your colors and fonts, and has Design with AI.
• Menu edits the links across the top of your website.
• Publish site puts your website online. Once you are live, you see View live site, Unpublish and, when you have edits waiting, Publish changes.
• The gear opens your website Settings, such as your address.

Below the header, the editing panel has four tabs: Sections, Design, Menu and Settings. Next to it is a preview of your homepage. Choose Editing to click and change things, or See it as a visitor to check what guests will see. The screen buttons switch between a computer and a phone preview.

On a phone, the header also shows Profile, Page and Post, and the gear is labeled Settings. Once your website is started, the builder opens on the preview. Tap Done to get back to the tools.

Your website goals

The first time you open the builder, it asks What should your website do? Pick your goals, and Creatures fills in pages, sections and menu links from your records. The Your website goals checklist then shows what is done and what still needs you. See Setting up your website from your goals.

Draft first, then publish

Your first Publish site puts the whole website online. After that, your edits wait as Unpublished changes until you choose Publish changes. Publishing is free and needs no ID check, phone check or payment. See Publishing, updating, and taking your website offline.

Related information

• Setting up your website from your goals
• Designing your website: templates, colors, and Design with AI
• Adding and arranging sections on your website
• Connecting or buying a custom domain for your website

Updated on: 02/11/2026