Presentations

Presentations puts short-lived websites online on your own domain: a demo for one client, a proposal for another. Each one opens at its own address under a base domain of yours, such as client.demo.yourdomain.com.

A presentation is a website, made in Studio like any other, with the same designs and sections. You manage it in the Panel, under “Presentations”.

• It is always hidden from search engines, never in the gallery, and has no badge.
• A password or a named link decides who opens it, and you see when each one was opened.
• It can end by itself on a day you choose. When a client says yes, it becomes a normal website.

Turn on Presentations

Presentations is a monthly line of the same subscription as your websites. “It needs at least one website with a subscription.” There is no free trial.

The holder turns it on in “Presentations”, “Service”, with “Turn on Presentations”.

• Nothing is charged when you turn it on. It is charged afterwards, with your subscription’s invoice, only for the days it is on: a whole month is its monthly fee.
• Turning it on accepts the terms of service and the part of the data processing terms about Presentations.
• Each month includes a number of presentations online at once. Archived presentations do not count: keep as many as you like.
• Its price and what it includes are on the prices page.

It turns off, and is withdrawn from, the same way as Email. Read Turn Email off.

The base domain

Every presentation opens under one base domain: a part of your domain, such as demo.yourdomain.com, never the domain itself or www. Only the holder sets it up.

1. In “Presentations”, “Service”, under “Base domain”, write it and press “Set it up”.
2. Where you manage your domain, add the two records the Panel shows:
   • a TXT record, which “Proves the domain is yours”;
   • a CNAME record named *.demo.yourdomain.com, which “Takes every presentation to its address”. It has to be plain DNS, with no proxy or cloud switch turned on.
3. Press “Check now”. DNS changes can take a few hours.

Not sure where to click? Press “Copy instructions for your assistant” and paste them to your assistant.

When both records are found, it says “Ready”. You add them once: each new presentation then gets its own address by itself.

Removing the base domain stops every presentation under it from opening. To open them again, set up the same base domain and publish each one again from Studio.

Publish a presentation

With Presentations on, the first time you publish a website from Studio it asks “Publish it as a website or as a presentation?”.

Choose “As a presentation” and write the first part of its address, for example client for client.demo.yourdomain.com. Use lowercase letters, digits and hyphens. Some addresses cannot be used: reserved ones, and ones that could mislead visitors, such as words about signing in, passwords or banks.

It then asks “Who can see it?”. “With a password” is already chosen: type a password of at least 8 characters. Or choose “Anyone with the address”. Named links are added later in the Panel.

The first time, its address can take a few minutes to open. In Studio, its card then shows “Presentation”.

A website that already has its own subscription cannot become a presentation. Start the presentation from a new website.

Who opens it

You choose who opens it when you first publish it. Later, “Access” on the presentation’s page in the Panel changes it. With no password and no link, “Anyone with the address can open it.”

• A password of at least 8 characters. Visitors type it on the presentation’s own page.
• Links: “A link opens the presentation without the password, and you see who opened it by its name.” Name each link after the person you send it to, for example “Ana from Acme”. A presentation has up to 10 links.

A new link is shown only once: “Copy it now: it will not be shown again.” “Revoke” stops a link at once. Removing the password, or revoking the last link, asks first, because then anyone with the address can open it.

The page where visitors type the password links our page for reporting a website.

Visits

“Visits” shows the last 90 days of each presentation: opens, pages seen, the first and the last time it was opened, and its pages, countries and devices. Each link shows when it was last opened, so you know whether Ana has seen it. Visits with the password, and with neither a link nor the password, are counted apart.

Besides the page seen, we keep only the country, the kind of device and the link or password used, never the visitor’s IP address.

An end date

Under “End date”, choose a day after today and press “Save the date”. “On that day it is archived by itself.” “Remove the end date” keeps it online with no end.

Archive and put it online again

“Archive” takes a presentation offline. For 30 days its address shows an end page, which links our page for reporting a website; then the address is free again.

Archived presentations stay under “Archived”, as many as you like. “Put it online again” brings one back.

When every presentation Presentations includes is online, one more is asked when you put it online, with its monthly price, and is an extra every month it stays online; the prices page shows it. If not, archive one. An account can have up to 50 online at once.

Make it a website

When a client says yes, “Make it a website” turns the presentation into a normal website, with its own subscription and the same content. You see its price first and tick the box that you want it to start now. If your account already has a monthly subscription, the website joins it at once: the days until your next renewal are charged to the same card. Otherwise you finish on the payment page.

Once the subscription starts, it is a website like any other. Its address under your base domain sends visitors to the website for 30 days.

When Presentations stops

If you turn Presentations off or withdraw from it, if your last website with a subscription ends, or if the account is closed, every presentation online is archived at once, as if you had archived it yourself. Nothing is deleted.

Once Presentations is on again, put back online the ones you want, up to the number it includes. While a payment of your subscription is late, your presentations stay online.