Sign in and your dashboard
Sign in with your email and password to open the ArtInStack dashboard—use the left sidebar for Pages, Media, Portfolio, Products, and Settings; General holds your profile, Settings holds site billing and domain.
Once your account is created, go to the sign-in page, enter your email and password, and you'll land in your dashboard.
Preview and your public site address
After signup, your public address (yourname.artinstack.com) is registered in the background. HTTPS can take up to 30 minutes to become fully active. If Preview or opening your live link shows a Cloudflare SSL error (525) or a connection problem, wait and try again — use in-dashboard preview on Pages while you wait. When hostname registration finishes, you should see a dashboard notification that your public site address is ready.
What you're looking at
The left sidebar is your main map. Every area of the platform has its own entry:
- Dashboard — overview and shortcuts
- Pages — your website pages
- Posts — your blog articles
- Products — your store
- Events Manager — workshops and sessions (if your plan includes it)
- Portfolio — galleries and collections
- Media — all your uploaded files
- Storage — usage breakdown
- Analytics — traffic and commerce data
- Projects — client deliveries
- Portal Manager — client invitations and submissions
- General — your personal profile
- Settings — site configuration, billing, and team
You won't see everything listed above if your plan doesn't include it. That's normal — missing items mean the feature is on a higher plan, not that something is broken.
General vs Settings
These two are easy to mix up:
- General is your personal profile — your name, email, and password.
- Settings is your site — subdomain, domain, billing, theme, and team.
If you're looking for something personal, try General first. If it's about the site itself, it's in Settings.
Staying signed in
Your session persists across browser refreshes. If you're signing in from a shared computer, sign out when you're done from the account menu in the top right.
Verifying your setup
- You can sign in reliably and land in the dashboard.
- You recognize the main sidebar areas and know roughly what each one does.
- You know the difference between General (your profile) and Settings (your site).