Going live — Titen Next.js

Before the site goes public, replace the demo’s details and pictures and point the forms at you. Then deploy it to any host that runs Next.js, and check it once more on the live address.

Before you deploy

	Where
Your domain in site.url	src/content/site.ts. Share links, sitemap.xml and robots.txt are built from it.
Name, title, description	src/content/site.ts
Contact details (contact@example.com, the phone number and the address are placeholders)	contact in src/content/site.ts
Social links	socials in src/content/site.ts
Logo replaced	src/design-system/components/brand/Logo.tsx (Making it look like your brand)
Browser icons replaced	src/app/icon.svg, src/app/apple-icon.png
Share image replaced and described	public/opengraph-image.png, its description in src/lib/meta.ts
Demo text and photos replaced	src/content/pages/, src/content/collections/, public/images/
The two videos replaced (or removed)	Editing the content
Your brochure instead of the placeholder	public/brochure.pdf (Editing the content)
Team and awards	team and awards in src/content/pages/about.ts
Page titles and descriptions written for your business	The meta of each file in src/content/pages/
The forms deliver to you	Forms
Style guide kept or deleted	src/app/style-guide/
npm run build passes	—

The demo content is there to be replaced. Leaving “Titen”, the sample address or the sample projects on a live site is the most common mistake.

Deploy

The site is a normal Next.js app: it builds to pre-rendered pages and runs on Node.js, so any host that supports Next.js works.

Vercel (made by the Next.js team, free for personal sites)

1. Push the project to GitHub, GitLab or Bitbucket.
2. https://vercel.com/new → import the repository → Deploy. The framework, build command and output are detected.
3. Add your form variables under Settings → Environment Variables, then redeploy.
4. Settings → Domains → add your domain and follow the DNS instructions.

Netlify

Import the repository, keep the detected settings (npm run build), add the environment variables, deploy.

Cloudflare Workers

Use @opennextjs/cloudflare (npx opennextjs-cloudflare build), then deploy with Wrangler. Cloudflare’s docs walk through it; the template needs no change.

Your own server

npm ci
npm run build
npm start          # listens on port 3000

Run it under a process manager (pm2, systemd) behind nginx or Caddy for TLS, or in a container: node:20-alpine, copy the project, build, CMD ["npm", "start"].

After it is live

1. Check the pages. Click through every page on a phone and a laptop:
   • the menu and the project search;
   • the accordion and the service list on Home;
   • the slideshows (Home testimonials, About approach);
   • the videos;
   • the forms.
2. Send yourself a submission from the live site and reply to it.
3. Verify the share card. Paste the URL of the home page and of a project into https://www.opengraph.xyz or a chat window, and confirm the image and title.
4. Tell Google. Add the site to Search Console, verify ownership and submit https://yourdomain.com/sitemap.xml. Bing has the same thing in Webmaster Tools.
5. Analytics, if you want it. Add your snippet to src/app/layout.tsx, or use your host’s built-in analytics (Vercel Analytics, Cloudflare Web Analytics, Plausible, Fathom). None of them need a cookie banner.
6. Keep the work coming. A new project is one entry in src/content/collections/projects.ts, a new post one entry in posts.ts; see Editing the content. Connect a CMS (Using a headless CMS) if someone else will publish.

Performance and SEO

The template ships with what search engines look for:

• pre-rendered HTML, with links in it to every page;
• one <h1> per page, and a title and description for every page;
• canonical links, sitemap.xml, robots.txt and share cards;
• sized, lazy-loaded images.

Keeping the site fast is mostly about images and videos. Export photos at the size they are shown, not the size your camera produced, and keep the looping videos short and small. The demo’s videos play from stock sites whose servers set cookies; your own video files from your own domain don’t.