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Make your site

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Making a site takes one click. You can change everything afterwards, and every change shows on your site as soon as you save.

Create the site

Open the dashboard. Your server must be live on CraftRank.
Click Website & store under your server, or in the menu on the left once the server is open.
Press Make my website.

Your site is ready right away. It starts with a Rules page and an empty Ranks category. The Overview tab shows a Get your site ready list: your look, packages, a payment provider, the plugin and your Discord invite.

Your address

The address is made from your server name, for example pixelkingdom.craftrank.org. To change it, open Settings → Address and plan and type a new name: 2 to 31 letters, numbers or single dashes. Some names are reserved. The old address stops working at once, so old links break.

Your own domain (Pro)

In Settings → Address and plan, type your domain under Own domain, for example play.yourserver.net, and save.
Where you bought the domain, add the two records the panel shows: a CNAME to sites.craftrank.org, and a TXT record at _craftrank. plus your domain that proves it is yours.
Press Check. DNS can take up to an hour.

A root domain such as example.com can't have a CNAME. Use an A record to the address sites.craftrank.org points to instead. When the check passes, an HTTPS certificate is made within a few minutes. The domain is checked again every day, and it stops working if it points somewhere else.

Logo, colour and background

Open the Look tab. It has six parts, and a small picture shows where each one goes:

Logo, colours, background: site name, an accent colour (seven ready-made or your own), a logo (PNG or WebP with a clear background, about 800×240) and the big background picture at the top (a screenshot of your spawn, 1920×1080 or bigger).
Top of the page: headline, one or two sentences, the address players join with a note under it, and your Discord invite.
Store front: the welcome text, a wide banner picture with an optional link, four info blocks, the Home button picture, and switches for the top supporter and Just bought.
What players can do: up to 8 features with a picture, an optional command and a link.
Staff and vote pages: see Pages, news and wiki.
Footer: the line at the bottom of every page.

Pictures can be PNG, JPG, WebP or GIF up to 8 MB. They are made smaller and saved as WebP; GIFs are kept as they are.