Aurora Hive Sites
For your website. Build pages, maintain text and images, publish. No programming.
What a site is, how the first website comes about and why everything starts out as a draft.
Your first websiteFrom an empty page to online. Which pages you need, what goes in them and what can wait.
Navigation, pages and addressesHow the navigation is created, how addresses are formed and what happens when you rename something.
Blocks — which one for what26 section types, one after another: what each is meant for and when it is the wrong one.
Pages and blocksHow a page comes about, what a block is and why the slug is best right from the start.
DesignColours, fonts and look. Plus the live editor, which lets you work in the preview.
Design in practiceColours, fonts, spacing: which decisions matter and when to change later.
Writing textsWhat belongs on the page and what does not. And how to start when you cannot get started.
MediaUpload images, videos and files and reuse them. Plus the alt text that is easy to forget.
Images in practiceWhich images work, how to prepare them and what applies legally.
Symbols, releases and editorial planMaintain once instead of changing ten times. Publish several changes together and plan ahead.
Domain, encryption and third-party serversSetting up your own address, the padlock in the browser, and why the site does not fetch anything from third-party servers.
Multiple languagesAdd a second language, translate texts, proofread AI suggestions and approve them.
Multilingual sites in practiceWhether a second language is worthwhile, what it costs in the long run and how to translate.
Publishing and domainHow the draft becomes the public website, and how your own address is added.
Working together in a teamWho may do what, how an approval works and what happens when two people work at the same time.
Loading time and performanceWhy pages become slow, what images have to do with it and what half an hour can achieve.
Visitors, figures and A/B testsHow many people come and where from. And from what point a figure means anything at all.
When something is stuckLook things up by symptom: site unreachable, change not visible, form silent.
FormsReceive enquiries without putting your own email address on the web.
Forms in practiceWhich fields, how many, what is legally required. And how to keep enquiries out of spam.
Posts and newslettersEverything that has a date: writing, planning, sending. Plus the rules for subscriber lists.
Blog and newsletter in practiceWhether a blog is worth it, what to write about and how often. Plus how it works together with the newsletter.
EventsShowing events, accepting registrations, handling participant data correctly.
Donations and membersFor associations: projects with a target amount, incoming donations, donation receipts, member list.
Donations and members in practiceAccepting donations online, producing receipts, collecting membership fees. Plus the tax side.
Getting foundWhat search engines need from your site, what the assistant checks and how A/B tests work.
Being found in practiceWhat you can do yourself, how long it takes and how to recognise dubious offers.
LegalLegal notice (Impressum) and privacy notice generated from your master data, plus the cookie notice. And what the system cannot do for you.
Law in practiceLegal notice, prices, advertising claims, images. The points at which small websites receive formal warnings.
Limits — what Aurora Hive Sites cannot doShop, booking, portal, forum: what is deliberately missing and which route works instead.
Plan and billingWhich plan applies, who sends the invoice, how to cancel. And what happens when a limit is reached.