Snazy

Documentation · Snazy, explained in plain language.

Getting started

Snazy is a complete publishing platform: pages, content, themes, media, and real interactivity, all in one place, with nothing to install and no server to babysit. The Free plan is a real site, not a demo. Here's the road from zero to published.

1. Create your site

Sign up on snazy.com and your site is provisioned on the spot, live at its own snazy.com address. It arrives already working: a home page, sensible starter pages, a theme, and the full template library. You're not staring at an empty canvas; you're remodeling a furnished house.

2. Sign in and start personalizing

Sign in and immediately start personalizing your site. Open any page, press Edit, and the Wheel appears around whatever you point at: click a highlighted field and type, and the change saves to your draft. What you see is literally what ships.

The block editor: your content source on the left, your real page rendering live on the right

What you already have

A fresh Snazy site ships with the whole toolkit as standard equipment:

  • The full content model: Pages, Content, Blocks, Layouts, and Templates, working together from minute one. Unlimited pages and content on every plan.
  • Every design tool: the layout, block, and template editors, the Style editor, and advanced CSS. All of it free; making your own site look right is never a paid feature.
  • A template library covering heroes, FAQs, pricing tables, testimonials, logo walls, and more. No plugin hunting, no marketplace, no version conflicts.
  • A media library with 10 GB of managed storage on Free.
  • Signals: wire blocks together into interactive pages, up to and including playable games, without writing a line of code.
  • Point a domain you already own at your site, on any plan.

Drafts first, then the world

New pages and entries start as drafts. Visitors can't see a draft; you see a full preview. Build in peace, then flip Published when it's ready. Nothing goes live by accident, and nothing you try in the editor breaks your live site.

When you want more reach

The Pro plan adds the outward-facing machinery: a real store with Stripe and PayPal, forms and a newsletter, community features (forum and social), the AI connector so Claude or ChatGPT can work on your site with you, hidden Snazy branding, more editors, unlimited media, and a read + write API. Everything you built on Free comes along untouched.

Where next

Read Pages to see how a URL becomes a page, click through the Wheel demo, or just start clicking. The support forum is there when you want a human. Back to all docs.

Account
Your Snazy login. An account owns sites (matched by email) and can hold several; the account is the identity, a site is something it owns.
  • Account
Advanced CSS
A theme’s layer for hand-written CSS, for anything the visual controls don’t cover. Included on every plan.
  • Themes
Announcement
A dated update entry: release notes, news, notices. Ordinary content with a date and a place to shine.
  • Content
Block
A reusable piece of page: it picks content and renders it. Built from a Template plus a source, edited with a live preview.
  • Blocks
Column
A vertical division inside a Row. Layouts arrange Rows and Columns; blocks fill them.
  • Layouts
Connected apps
The page listing every AI assistant connected to your sites, each with a Disconnect button. In your account, and per site in admin.
  • AI connector
Connector
The address an AI assistant uses to reach your site over MCP. One universal address for all of Snazy; you pick the site when you connect.
  • AI connector
Content (entry)
One piece of what your site says, shaped by its Template: an article, a FAQ item, a team member.
  • Content
Cord
A patched connection between two jacks on the I/O bus. No cord, no flow.
  • Signals
Custom domain
A web address you already own, pointed at your Snazy site. Available on any plan.
  • Account
Datasource
A named feed of entries a block can render as a set, such as every published entry of one template. Powers grids, lists, and this glossary.
  • Blocks
  • Content
Draft
Anything unpublished. Visitors cannot see it; you can, as a preview. Nothing goes live until you publish it.
  • Pages
  • Content
Effects
Ready-made motion and polish a block can carry, toggled on per block. No code.
  • Blocks
Event
What a Signals Send fires on: a value change, a click, a key press, a mouse button, or one element touching another.
  • Signals
Field
One input a Template defines: a heading, a body, an image, a date. Filling in fields is how you write templated content.
  • Templates
  • Content
Free plan
Every design and content tool, unlimited pages, a real site at no cost. Reach and commerce features live on Pro.
  • Account
Guard
A condition on a Signals Receive: it reacts only when the page is in a named state. How simple cords add up to real behavior.
  • Signals
I/O bus (patch bay)
The rack of numbered jacks where Signals wiring lives, and the one place to see everything that is connected.
  • Signals
Jack
One numbered socket on the I/O bus. Sends publish into a jack; receives listen on one.
  • Signals
Layout
A page’s skeleton: named regions in a responsive grid, holding no content of its own.
  • Layouts
Markdown
A light way to write formatted text (headings, links, lists, bold) that renders to clean HTML. Some content bodies use it.
  • Content
Match
A filter on a Receive so it answers only to specific values. List items can match per item, each reacting to its own.
  • Signals
MCP (the AI connector)
The open Model Context Protocol. Snazy speaks it so assistants like Claude and ChatGPT can read and edit your site with your approval.
  • AI connector
Media library
Your site’s shared image store, on managed storage. Upload once, use anywhere.
  • Media
Meta description
The short summary a Page carries for search engines and link previews. Each page sets its own.
  • Pages
Nav (navigation)
Your site’s menu. A Page joins it when “Include in nav” is ticked, and sort order arranges the items.
  • Pages
Page
A URL on your site: a title, a Layout, and a Block in each slot.
  • Pages
Pro plan
Adds the outward-facing machinery: a store, forms, a newsletter, community features, the AI connector, custom branding, more editors, and a write API.
  • Account
Prose
A plain writing surface for an entry’s body: paragraphs, no fields to fill in. The Article template’s body is prose.
  • Content
  • Templates
Publish
The switch that makes a draft visible to the world. Pages, entries, and changes all wait for it.
  • Pages
  • Content
Receive
A block’s listening side: it reacts to a value arriving on a jack with a verb (set text, toggle a class, count, filter, show or hide).
  • Signals
Region
A named area of a Layout (hero, body, sidebar). Regions hold the slots a Page fills with Blocks.
  • Layouts
Row
A horizontal band of a page. The Wheel appears around a Row while editing; the add-arrows create new Rows.
  • The Wheel
  • Layouts
Search box
A live search field you drop on a list: as the visitor types, a filter cord hides the items that don’t match. No code.
  • Signals
Send
A block field’s publishing side: on an event (click, keypress, typing, contact) it publishes a value into a jack.
  • Signals
Share image
The image a Page shows when its link is posted to a social network or chat. Set per page.
  • Pages
Signals
The wiring system that lets blocks talk to each other: sends, receives, jacks, and cords. Interactivity with zero code.
  • Signals
Site
One website you own on Snazy, with its own address, content, and theme. A single account can own several sites.
  • Account
Slot
One named position in a Layout that a Page fills with a Block.
  • Layouts
  • Pages
Slug
The short lowercase name that identifies a page or entry, and forms the page’s address: ?page=about.
  • Pages
  • Content
Source
Where a Block gets its content: one specific entry, the entry named after the current page, a list of entries, or a datasource.
  • Blocks
Static layout
The simplest Layout: one column that renders the content entry sharing the page’s slug. The quickest way to make a written page.
  • Pages
  • Layouts
Style editor
The click-to-style tool: click any element on your live site and change exactly that.
  • Themes
Template
The field schema behind a kind of content, driving both its edit form and its rendering. Yours to author on every plan.
  • Templates
The Wheel
The ring of editing controls that appears around a Row. Every seat keeps its place, so your hands learn it fast.
  • The Wheel
Theme
Everything about how the site looks: tokens, styling, and advanced CSS, kept separate from the words.
  • Themes
Theme assets
Images that belong to a theme (textures, backgrounds) rather than to your shared Media library.
  • Themes
  • Media
Token
A named design value in a theme (a core color, a font choice, a spacing step) that the basics refer to.
  • Themes
Verb
What a Signals Receive does when a value arrives: set text, toggle a class, count, filter, show or hide, and more.
  • Signals