This is the shortest path from a new Dewstack account to a documentation page anyone can open in a browser: create a workspace, add a collection, write a page, publish it, and pick the subdomain it lives on. It takes about five minutes and needs nothing beyond the trial every new account starts on.

What you need before you start

A Dewstack account, and nothing else. New accounts begin on a free trial with 3 workspaces and full access, so every step below is unlocked from the moment you sign up – see Subscription and billing for how long the trial runs and what changes when it ends.

If you are reading this on an account that has already been through a trial without subscribing, you are on the free tier: one workspace, and it has to be Public – the Private option in the New Workspace dialog is locked behind a paid plan or an active trial. Everything else in this quickstart still works.

Create a workspace and publish your first page

  1. Sign in at app.dewstack.com. You land on your workspaces list.
  2. Scroll to Templates and click Create from scratch – the card described as "Get started with a blank template".
  3. In the New Workspace dialog, type a Name (this is the site's name, not its URL), leave the access radio on Public, and click Next. Dewstack creates the workspace and drops you straight into the editor.
  4. In the editor sidebar, click Add New Collection. A collection is one section of your sidebar – "Getting Started", "API Reference".
  5. Give the collection a Name and check the Slug Dewstack derives from it; the slug becomes the first segment of every page URL in that collection. Click Save.
  6. Open the collection's ⋮ menu and choose New Page. It appears in the tree as a draft titled "untitled".
  7. Replace the title in the Enter Title field at the top of the editor, then write your content in the editor below it. It behaves like a word processor – headings, lists, images, code blocks, tables.
  8. Click Save as → Publish. The status pill next to the button flips from Draft to Published.
  9. Go to Hosting in the left sidebar. Under Dewstack URL, replace the auto-generated name with the subdomain you want and click Save.
  10. Click Preview Space in the editor's action bar to open the live site, and share the URL.
The workspace editor with a collection open in the sidebar, a page in the editor, and the Published pill on the right
Once the pill reads Published, the page is live on your docs URL – there is no separate deploy.

Where your page ended up

Your page is now at https://<your-subdomain>.dewstack.com/docs/<collection-slug>/<page-slug>. Public URLs carry no space or workspace segment – the collection slug and the page slug are the whole path, which is why step 5 is worth a moment's thought.

Drafts are never served. A page is only on the public site once you have used Save as → Publish, and a child page cannot be published while its parent is still a draft.

Publishing is a permission, not just a button

Save as → Publish only appears if your role has the Publish Workspace permission. If you own the account you have it. Team members invited as Editor can save drafts but not publish them – see Manage team members.

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