Choosing Your Project Type

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Choosing Your Project Type
Choosing Your Project Type

Overview

FlexSite offers three ways to build and host a website. Your choice affects how you edit content, how technical the workflow is, and what appears in the dashboard sidebar.

Key concepts

  • Project — one website (or web application) you manage in FlexSite. Examples: a company homepage, a product marketing site, or a member portal.
  • Atom — the fastest option. You describe what you want in everyday language; FlexSite uses AI to generate a site. Best when you want speed and simplicity, not full control over every detail.
  • Codeless — a full content management system (CMS) you run from the FlexSite dashboard. You edit pages in Drupal’s admin screens, change themes from a marketplace, and can have separate staging and live copies of the site — without writing code or using Git.
  • FlexLab — the developer option. Your site’s code lives in a Git repository (like a shared folder of code with version history). Changes go through automated pipelines (build and deploy steps) — ideal for custom modules, themes built in code, and team review workflows.
  • Credits — FlexSite’s usage currency. Creating sites, adding environments, and upgrading server resources can spend credits. See Billing for your balance.

Compare tiers

| Tier | Best for | Key dashboard areas |

|------|----------|---------------------|

| Atom | Fast landing pages, simple sites, first drafts | Overview, Domains, SEO & Forms, Upgrade |

| Codeless | Teams editing content in Drupal without developers | Environments, Themes, Build Settings, Backups |

| FlexLab | Agencies and developers shipping custom Drupal code | Code, Automation, branch-linked environments |

Steps

  1. Sign in and open Projects from the organization sidebar.
  2. Click New Project.
  3. On step 1, choose Atom (AI Prompted Site) if you want AI to build the first version, or FlexProject Hosting if you want a traditional CMS or developer workflow.
  4. For FlexProject Hosting, pick a tile such as Drupal CMS (Codeless) or Drupal 11 (FlexLab). Tiles labeled Codeless mean you manage everything in the dashboard. Flexlab tiles add Git and deployment pipelines.
  5. Complete the remaining wizard steps (name, template, theme if shown) and click Create Project.

Tier notes

  • Atom spends credits when the site is created (see Billing).
  • Codeless includes Theme Marketplace, one-click admin login (Quick Login), and one-click module updates — no command line required.
  • FlexLab requires comfort with Git and repositories; Theme Marketplace is not used — themes live in your code.
  • Organizations on TRIAL (free evaluation) may not be able to attach your own domain name or open Support until you upgrade to an ACTIVE paid plan.