Start a free website in the builder
Sign in with an email link, pick how you want to start, and get a first version of your site. Building and editing are free.
#Open the builder
Building and editing a site are free, and you do not need a card. You pay only when you take the site live on your own web address.
The builder has no password of its own. You sign in with a link we send to your email, and the same sign-in works for the rest of TruLata.
- Go to
builder.trulata.com, or press Start your site free on the website builder page. - Type your email address and open the sign-in link we send you.
- On Let's make your website, choose I have a website or I don't have one yet.
#Start from your TruLata dashboard
If you already use TruLata, open the Website tab and press Build your website. The builder is part of your account: it uses the same sign-in, and the messages from your new site's form reach you there too.
When your site belongs to a TruLata account, the builder's top bar shows a Dashboard link back to it.
#Two ways in
I have a website: give us its address, and your Google listing if you have one. We read them and make a better version. See Build from the site you have now.
I don't have one yet: answer short questions about your business, one per screen. Skip any you like. See What the builder asks you.
#If you close the tab partway
Your answers are kept on that device as you give them. Come back within a week and the builder asks Pick up where you left off? Press Carry on to continue, or Start over to begin again.
#Make another site
Press New site in the top bar to start a second site from the beginning. To start one from a site you already have, use Make a copy in Settings instead (see Download, copy or delete a site).
#Questions
Do I need a credit card to start?
No. Building, editing and publishing to your free preview address need no card. You pay when you go live on your own web address.
Do I need a password?
No. You sign in with a link sent to your email each time.
Can I build a site if I already pay for TruLata?
Yes. Open the Website tab and press Build your website. It uses the same sign-in as your dashboard.
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