Set up publishing and delivery

This article explains each of the options available on the Settings screen in your project dashboard.

Set up the basics, such as your site's publish status, domain settings, and search engine policies.

Switch your site between published and unpublished, and set up your domain. Click the [Settings] button to open the publish panel.

You can publish a Studio.Design site using either your own custom domain or a Studio subdomain provided by Studio.Design.

For detailed steps on publishing your site, see the articles below.

This setting lets visitors reach your site from either the www or non-www version of your URL.

To use the www redirect, you'll first need to configure things on your domain provider's side.

You need to set up both the root domain (for example, example.com) and the www subdomain (for example, www.example.com), and connect each of them to Studio.Design's servers.

If only one of them is connected, the other URL won't be reachable.

Choose whether the canonical tag includes a trailing slash at the end of the URL. The default is no trailing slash.

This can affect SEO, including your search rankings, so please review the details before changing it.

For more details, see Canonical tags (URL normalization).

Set up password protection. Visitors will see a password page when they try to access your site, which limits who can view it.

For more details, see Protect your entire site with a password.

A sitemap is an XML file that helps search engine crawlers understand your site's structure. Turn on the toggle to generate a sitemap.

For more details, see Sitemap.

You can upload .txt files such as llm.txt and ads.txt. These are useful for managing information for external services and search engines.

For more details, see Upload .txt files.

Switch your published site infrastructure. After switching, you can move back to the legacy infrastructure until the end of January 2027 (planned).
For detailed steps, see Switch your published site infrastructure from legacy to new.

With Live Preview, you can see the design you're working on in a browser in real time. Share the generated URL so teammates can review your work and leave feedback in comments.

For more details, see Live Preview.

Configure advanced delivery settings for connecting with external hosting environments.

Custom Proxy is an advanced add-on that lets you integrate your own hosting environment with your Studio.Design site. It works with hosting environments like AWS and Cloudflare.

For more details, see Custom Proxy overview and setup steps.

Custom headers let you add security-related HTTP headers to your published site. They're useful for things like protecting against cross-site scripting, and you can add up to 10.

For more details, see Add custom headers.