# Website Creator - Usage Guide

## 🚀 Quick Start

```
/use website-creator
```

## 📋 What It Does

Creates complete Astro websites with automatic Easypanel deployment:

1. **Ask critical questions** (website type, name, branding, features)
2. **Create Astro project** (with templates)
3. **Crawl original site** (for redesign - preserves URLs, downloads images)
4. **Setup Docker** (multi-stage build, tested locally)
5. **Create Gitea repo** (automatic via API)
6. **Deploy to Easypanel** (automatic via API, auto-deploy enabled)
7. **Generate documentation** (DEPLOYMENT.md, CONTENT-GUIDE.md, CHECKLIST.md)

## 🎯 Features

**Base Features (Always Included):**
- ✅ Responsive design (mobile-first)
- ✅ SEO optimization (meta tags, sitemap, robots.txt)
- ✅ Analytics integration (GA4, Plausible, or Umami)
- ✅ Contact forms
- ✅ Social media links
- ✅ Dark mode
- ✅ Blog with content collections

**Optional Features:**
- Product catalog
- Portfolio/gallery
- Multi-language support
- E-commerce (Snipcart/Stripe)

## 🔄 Ongoing Updates

After initial setup:
- Make changes to code
- Commit to Git
- Easypanel auto-deploys!

**No manual Easypanel interaction needed!**

## 📁 Output

```
website-name/
├── src/                    # Astro source
├── public/                 # Static assets (favicon, images)
├── Dockerfile              # Deployment config
├── package.json
├── astro.config.mjs
├── DEPLOYMENT.md           # How to deploy
├── CONTENT-GUIDE.md        # How to add content
└── CHECKLIST.md            # Update checklist
```

## 🛠️ Tech Stack

- **Astro** - Static site generator
- **Tailwind CSS** - Styling
- **Docker** - Containerization
- **Gitea** - Git (git.moreminimore.com)
- **Easypanel** - Deployment

## ⚠️ Requirements

- Easypanel API credentials (configured once)
- Gitea API credentials (configured once)
- Docker installed (for local testing)

## 📝 Example Usage

**New Website:**
```
/use website-creator
→ Creates corporate website from scratch
→ Asks: name, type, branding, features
→ Deploys automatically
```

**Redesign:**
```
/use website-creator
→ Provide original URL
→ Crawls all content, downloads images
→ Preserves URLs
→ Rebuilds with Astro
→ Deploys automatically
```