# Site settings

> Set your site's title, description, address, pages, icons, share picture, search listing and password, from Deck settings.

Source: https://uxdeck.app/guide/site-settings (checked against uxdeck on 16 October 2026)

Site settings decide what your published site says about itself: its name in search results and in the browser tab, the picture a shared link shows, its address, which screens become pages, and whether search engines may list it. Set them before your first publish, or any time after.

Open **Deck settings** (<kbd>⌘</kbd><kbd>,</kbd>) and choose **Site**, or press **Set up site** in the [Publish](/guide/publish) dialog. Changes apply the next time you publish, and to the site you export as a zip. The address and the password are the exceptions: they change at once.

## Search and sharing

- **Title** (up to 70 characters): the site's name in search results and shared links. Your file's name until you set one.
- **Description** (up to 160 characters): a sentence or two about the site. Without one, search engines pick words from the page.
- **Preview:** how the site will show in a search result, as you type.
- **Language:** the language the site is written in, so a screen reader reads it correctly.

## Address

**Where the site lives** is the part before **.uxdeck.site**. It is prefilled from your file's name; change it before you publish if you like. An address has at least 3 characters, using letters, digits and dashes, with no dash at either end. As you type, it says **Available** or that another site already has it.

Once the site is live, changing the address moves it. uxdeck asks first, because links to the old address stop working.

## Pages

Each screen on the site is a page. Its frame's name is the page's title in the tab and in search results, and its address.

- The switch beside a screen puts it on the site or leaves it off. Leave off what is not a page, such as a cover or a board of components. At least one stays on.
- **Make home** chooses the page the site opens on. The current one is marked **Home**.
- Rename a page here and its frame is renamed too.
- A screen still called by a placeholder name is flagged: say what the page is.

The frame you set as the file's thumbnail is its cover on Home, and is never published.

## Site images

Each is optional, and the note under each says its size:

| Image | Used for | Size |
| --- | --- | --- |
| **Favicon** | The tab icon on a light browser | 64 by 64 |
| **Favicon, dark** | The tab icon on a dark browser | 64 by 64 |
| **Home screen icon** | When someone adds the site to a phone's home screen | 180 by 180 |
| **Social preview** | The picture a shared link shows | 1200 by 630 |

Press **Upload**, then **Change** or **Remove** later. Removing one asks first. Without a social preview, your home page is used.

## Search engines

**Show in search results** is on unless you turn it off. Off, search engines are asked not to list the site. A new account's site stays out of search results for its first two days either way, and a site with a password is never listed.

## Password

On Pro, ask visitors for a password to share a site with a client or a team before it is public. Publish the site first, then:

1. Under **Password**, type a password of at least 6 characters.
2. Press **Protect the site**.

It takes effect at once, without publishing again. Anyone with the password gets in for 30 days. Setting a new password asks everyone again. Remove it to open the site to everyone; uxdeck asks first.

## Danger zone

**Unpublish** takes the site offline. It asks first. See [Publish a site](/guide/publish).

## Catches

- **Most changes wait for the next publish.** After editing the title, pages or images, press **Republish**.
- **Site images need the file saved to your account.** They are uploaded with it.
- **Changing a live address breaks old links.** Anyone with the old address finds nothing there.
- **Only people who can edit the file** can change its site settings.