FAQ & Glossary
FAQ
Do Studio changes go live immediately?
No. Studio is your draft and editing environment. Changes affect the live site only after you publish.
What should I include in the first scratch prompt?
Include the business goal, audience, offer, brand tone, important sections, and any references or assets that should influence the first draft.
Do I have to configure plugins for every website?
Only if that website needs them. Contact forms and analytics are per-website decisions, not mandatory for every site.
Can customers access only their own website?
Yes. That is the intended Client Editor pattern: route them into one assigned
website and keep the rest of the organization out of scope.
Can I take my website elsewhere?
Yes. The website’s code is yours. On the Websites page, open the website’s menu and choose Download as ZIP to get the full project. On hosted Vivd, downloading needs an active paid plan; on Free you can build, edit, preview, publish and share your website.
Do I need to move my domain to Vivd?
No. The domain stays where you registered it. Vivd hosts the website, and you point the domain at Vivd with a few DNS records. See Moving from another host.
Glossary
Organization
The team or client space that owns your websites and user access.
Website
One website inside Vivd, including its versions, assets, plugins, and publish state.
Studio
The editing environment where you make AI-assisted and direct changes to your website.
Draft
The current work-in-progress version of the site inside Vivd.
Live site
The published version currently served on the public domain.
Publish checklist
The pre-launch review step used to catch obvious issues before a version goes live.
Content
The Studio surface for structured, repeatable content such as collections, entries,
and media. It is backed by your website’s own Astro content collections, and
vivd cms validate checks that layer for errors.
Template
One of the eight built-in starting points in the scratch flow. Use template makes it the structure the first generation starts from; your brief still shapes the result. Using one of the two motion templates, Brewery & Beer Garden and Coffee Roastery, with Use template is part of Pro.
Motion site
A website that opens on a moving scene and travels from scene to scene as the visitor scrolls, followed by the normal sections of a business website. Two templates are motion sites, and starting from one is part of Pro. You can also ask the Vivd team to build one for you with Have one built for you under a motion template. See Motion Sites.
GitHub Sync
The Studio panel for installs that keep a website’s repository on GitHub. It shows how
far your files are ahead of and behind the remote, and can pull or force sync from
GitHub’s main.