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

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


Your Creatures website is a standalone, public, branded site for one account, built and published from inside Creatures. It is not a new thing you have to fill from scratch. It surfaces the profile, animals, photos, listings, and groups you already have on Creatures, presented under your own brand at your own web address. This article explains what the website is, how it differs from two things people often confuse it with, and how to open the builder.


The builder on a brand-new site, with the "Starter site ready" nudge


Three different things, kept straight


It helps to draw three lines once, because they are easy to mix up:


  • Your website (this cluster): a standalone, branded site you design and publish to its own address, for example your-handle.{the Creatures sites domain}. It has its own pages, look, navigation, and public address. This is the thing you build in the website builder.
  • Your Creatures profile page (/u/{username} for a person, /org/{handle} for an organization): your presence inside Creatures, with your avatar, cover, and bio. It is part of the Creatures app, not a separate site you style.
  • Your breeder directory listing (a row in Creatures' own breeder search): how buyers find you inside Creatures. It is a search listing, not a site you design. Setting it up is covered separately in Getting listed in the breeder directory.


The website builds on your profile rather than replacing it. The avatar, cover, bio, animals, and photos you set there are what the website pulls from.


One site per account


Each account has at most one website. An account here means an "actor": either you as a user, or an organization you own.


  • A user builds their own site. If you are a single breeder, your website belongs to you.
  • An organization site is built by its owner or a co-owner. Only the org's owner or co-owner can build and publish the org's website. Setting up an organization and its team is covered in Creating an organization and adding your team.
  • If you manage more than one account, the builder shows an owner switcher at the top so you can pick whose site you are editing (your own, or one of your organizations).


What shows as your site's name


There is no separate "site name" or "site title" field to fill in. Your website's brand and hero use your account display name: your name as a user, or the organization's name. The way to change what your site is called is to set your display name on your profile (or the organization's name in its settings). The website then reflects it. So you do not name the site in the builder; you name the account, and the site follows.


How to open the builder


You reach the builder from your profile:


  • On your profile page (/u/{username}) or your organization's profile page (/org/{handle}), click the Website button (the globe icon).
  • That opens the builder at /site/settings. It is the single entry point; there is no separate top-navigation item for it.
  • Opening the builder creates a private draft site for that account. Nothing is public until you publish, so you can explore freely without anyone seeing it.


Your web address (the subdomain)


A published site lives at a subdomain built from your site handle: https://{your-handle}.{the Creatures sites domain}/. The handle is the only thing that sets your public address, and it has rules:


  • Format: starts with a letter, 4 to 32 characters, lowercase letters, numbers, and hyphens only.
  • Unique: no two sites can share a handle, so the one you pick has to be available.
  • Not a reserved word: common system words (such as admin, api, app, blog, www) are reserved and cannot be used.


A starter handle is suggested from your username or organization handle when the site is created, and you can change it in the builder's Settings before you publish. Changing the handle changes your public web address.


Custom domains are not available today. You cannot point your own domain (like www.yourfarm.com) at your Creatures site. The subdomain is the only public address. If that changes in future it will be announced; for now, plan around the subdomain.


The first-run starter


A site you have never shaped shows a "Starter site ready" panel with three buttons:


  • Personalize with AI: asks Creatures to suggest a look (covered in Designing your website).
  • Add your story: jumps you into writing your program's story page.
  • Publish: takes the prefilled starter live as-is.


Creatures prefills a sensible starter for you, pulling in your animals if you have any, so the site is never blank when you open it. Taking any real action (or dismissing the panel) keeps the starter and ends the first-run state.


Draft and published, at a glance


Your site always has a live version (what the public sees) and an optional draft layer of edits you have not pushed out yet. While you work, your changes stage into the draft and the public site keeps showing the live version. The builder shows an "Unpublished changes" pill when a draft exists, and you resolve it two ways:


  • Publish changes pushes your whole draft live in one step.
  • Discard changes throws the draft away and reverts to the live version.


The first time you publish, the site goes from draft to live. You can also Unpublish later to take it back offline, after which the subdomain returns "not found" until you publish again. Crucially, publishing is free and needs only a valid handle. There is no identity check, phone check, or payment required to publish a website (unlike selling). The full publishing flow is in Adding photos, then publishing and updating your site.


What the rest of this guide covers



The builder: header actions and a live preview of the homepage



Updated on: 23/06/2026

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