Docs

Five guides, in the order you’ll need them — from the downloaded file to a site on your own address, with email that works. They are open to everyone, before or after you buy.

  • Where to start

    The whole journey on one page: from the downloaded file to a site on your own address, with email.

  • Get your site online

    Upload the web folder to free or ordinary hosting, step by step, and connect your domain.

  • Email on your own domain

    Forwarding or a real mailbox on your domain — what each costs and how to set it up.

  • Which photos to upload

    What photos sell a trade, how to take them on a phone, and what the configurator does with them.

  • Page addresses

    How the addresses of your pages are made and what to keep in mind when you change them.

Common questions

Do I pay monthly?

No. You pay once and the files are yours. There is nothing to renew, and nothing of ours keeps running inside your site.

Can I use it for a client, or on more than one site?

The Basic licence covers one website: yours, or one client’s. The Extended licence covers ten, and the Agency licence any number of sites you build for your own clients. See the licence.

What no licence allows is reselling or redistributing the template itself, alone or as part of another product.

How do I get the site online?

The configurator gives you a ZIP. Unzip it and you have a folder of ordinary files — no database, nothing to install. Upload the web folder to any hosting, or drop it onto a free static host such as Cloudflare Pages or Netlify. That’s the whole process, and it usually takes a few minutes. The step-by-step version is in Get your site online.

If you’d rather not do it yourself, we’ll do it for you — see services.

How do I change it a month later?

Two ways, and neither loses your work.

Your ZIP contains a file called my-website.json — that’s everything you filled in, saved. Open the configurator again, load that file, change what you want, and generate the site again.

Or, if it’s one word in one place, open the HTML file in any text editor and change it. They’re plain files; there’s nothing to break. Just remember that the next download from the configurator replaces the files again.

Does it work with WordPress?

No, and that’s on purpose.

This is a plain HTML site. No plugins to update, no licence to renew, nothing that stops working in a year, and nothing to hack. It also loads in a fraction of the time a typical WordPress theme does.

The trade-off is real and we’d rather you hear it from us: there’s no admin panel. You change the content with the configurator, not by logging in. If several people need to post updates every week, WordPress genuinely suits you better.

Are the demo photos included?

No. The download contains grey placeholder images in the right sizes. The photos in the demo are from Unsplash and are shown only as an example — Unsplash’s licence doesn’t allow us to pass them on. Details are in the licence.

Your own photos sell better anyway, and a phone is enough: Which photos to upload tells you what to take and how.

Is it good for search engines? Is it fast?

The template ships with the technical side done: titles, descriptions, Open Graph, structured data, robots.txt, sitemap.xml, and a page that loads quickly. What it can’t do for you is a Google Business profile and reviews — those matter more for local trades than the site does.

Something not answered here? Ask support or write to support@maxitemplates.com.