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Site Builder

Site Builder is a visual website builder within Pilot. Create, edit, and publish websites — no coding required.

Five Main Modes

  • Explorer: Browse all pages as a card grid. Click any page to open the visual editor
  • Chart: View your site structure as an interactive flowchart with a mini-map for navigating large sites. Status dots — green (published), gray (draft), blue (scheduled). Default view
  • Design: Customize colors, fonts, branding, and layout
  • Modules: Enable optional features like a blog, shop, or client portal
  • Menus: Drag pages into your navigation locations

Page Management

  1. Click New Page to add a page or folder
  2. Right-click any page: edit, duplicate, add child page, preview, publish/unpublish, or delete
  3. Drag pages in Chart mode to reorder your site structure
  4. Click Publish Site to push all changes live at once

More Actions menu: scaffold a starter site, apply a template, generate a sitemap, import from a URL, import from HTML files, reset and re-scaffold, or browse version history.

Design Editor

Customize your entire site's visual identity from one place:

  • Templates: Apply pre-built themes or save your current design as a reusable template
  • Site Identity: Title, tagline, contact email, footer text, analytics ID, and social links
  • Branding: Upload logo (regular and dark versions), favicon (32×64 PNG), and social share image (1200×630)
  • Colors: Primary, secondary, accent, background, text, and border colors
  • Typography: Choose from 15+ fonts; adjust size, line height, and heading weight
  • Shape & Spacing: Border radius, section padding, and shadow presets (None, Subtle, Medium, Strong)
  • Custom CSS: Add your own styles for advanced customization

A live preview pane with desktop, tablet, and mobile views updates in real time.

Modules Editor

  • Toggle any module on/off and set its public URL path (e.g., /blog, /shop)
  • Modules: AirBlog, AirMail (newsletter), AirForms (contact forms), AirGallery, AirCatalog, AirBooking (appointments), AirShop (e-commerce), AirPortal (client portal)
  • AirPortal: Client portal with invoices, projects, contracts, documents, and messages by default; assets and catalog are optional add-ons
  • Portal Users: Manage client accounts, send welcome emails, and reset passwords
  • URL Rules: Generate and apply server rewrite rules for all active module paths with one click

Menus Editor

Drag pages into three navigation locations: Top Bar, Sidebar, and Footer. Give any item a custom display name, reorder by dragging, and click Save Menus when done.

AI Assistant

Click Build with AI in the toolbar. Enter your company name, industry, location, target audience, brand colors, and a description of your services. Upload logo files or paste asset URLs — Pilot auto-detects your logo. Browse generated design variations and pick one before building.

Use AI to generate or rewrite individual pages with a text prompt.

AI features use credits. Design generation costs 12 credits; a full site build costs an additional 15 credits (27 total). Page-level AI edits and generation use fewer credits. Your balance is shown before you confirm any AI action.

SEO Per Page

  • Title and description fields with character counters and optimal range indicators
  • Live Google search preview showing exactly how your page appears in results
  • Auto-generate button to let AI write SEO metadata from your page content
  • Robots and canonical URL controls for advanced settings

Publishing & Version History

  • Preview any page before it goes live (desktop, tablet, mobile)
  • Publish individual pages or the entire site at once
  • Generate Sitemap creates an XML sitemap for search engines
  • Click the camera icon to save a manual version snapshot at any time
  • Browse past versions with thumbnails and restore any snapshot to roll back a change

Tips

  • Use Chart mode to see your full site structure and mini-map before editing
  • Set Design tokens first — all pages inherit your brand colors and fonts automatically
  • Use Scaffold Site to generate a starter set of pages based on your site type
  • Import an existing site directly from a live URL via More Actions → Import from URL
  • The AirPortal module lets clients log in to view invoices, projects, and documents in one place
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