How do I begin?
Register on a community server and look around — that part is free. When you want a page or a site of your own, you take a subscription to the control panel from the regional representative for your market, pick a tier and start publishing. Nothing needs to be installed on your computer.
Which tier do I need?
By what you are building, not by ambition:
- Start — one page or a subdomain.
- Standard — one domain: a site and a blog on it.
- Creative — several domains under one panel: the book here, the magazine there, a forum of its own.
- Server — the whole platform on your own machine; for organisations, priced case by case.
If what you are building is a catalogue rather than a readership, the tier you want is Business, on shopnseo.com.
There is no representative for my language. What then?
Say so through the contact form. There is one representative today, for the Russian-speaking market, and more are meant to follow — we would rather tell you honestly where things stand than sell you something that is not there yet.
Can I use my own domain?
Yes, from Standard upward — that is precisely what the tier is about. You keep the domain in your own registrar account: it is yours, and pointing it elsewhere later is a DNS change, not a negotiation.
I already have a blog. Can it be moved?
Usually yes: posts, pages and images can be transferred, with redirects from the old addresses so search rankings are not thrown away. How much work that is depends on what the old site runs on; a studio will look and tell you. What cannot be carried over is custom application code — that is a rebuild, not a migration.
Do I need to know HTML?
No. Content is edited in the panel — chapters, posts, pages, photos — and the layout comes from the platform's templates. Knowing some HTML helps in places, the way it always does, but nothing routine requires it.
Do I have to hire a studio?
No. A studio is for people who would rather not do the setup themselves — they install and configure the site on your hosting, once, for a fixed fee. You can equally take the subscription and build it yourself; the panel and the templates are the same either way.
How does the site look — template or design?
Every site starts from the platform's built-in templates and colour themes — seven complete variants are side by side on the template showcase. An exclusive design built around a brand is Creative territory and the work of a design studio, priced separately from the subscription.