New to EmDash? What it is, how it works and how your first site comes together.
Before your EmDash site goes live in Germany or Switzerland, it usually needs a legal notice (Impressum) and almost always a privacy policy. I'll show you when each duty applies, how to create and link both pages without code, and which data an EmDash site on Cloudflare actually processes.
Creating a content type in the admin takes a few minutes. Getting it onto your site takes two small Astro pages. I build both for an events listing and show you the order to ship them in on a live site.
Almost everything in the EmDash admin takes a minute. What costs you is what you can't change later: field slugs, field types and category slugs. With two languages, add a byline per language. Sort those out before your first post.
Title, tagline, logo and favicon are set in the admin; colours and fonts live in code. Here are the three files you touch, and why your fonts come from your own domain even with the Google provider.
You know WordPress and you're looking for the Appearance menu in the EmDash admin? I'll show you where posts, media, menus, plugins and settings ended up, explain the terms that are new to you, and tell you what simply isn't there.
I set up an EmDash site the way someone new to it would: create it locally, run the setup, publish a first post and deploy it to Cloudflare. Here is the path with measured times, and the places where you can get stuck.