Project settings and preferences
A project's settings live in its Settings tab, and this page covers two of its sections. General is about the project itself: its name, logo and favicon, the Built with Briks badge, the Made with Briks listing, copying, moving and deleting. Preferences is about how Briks builds it: design rules, pictures, checks, search and the websites it may load from.
The Settings tab opens on General. Preferences is the third section in its list, after Domain. The other sections have pages of their own, and the project page lists them all.
Name and marks
| Field | What it does |
|---|---|
| Project name | 2 to 60 characters. “The name is used across the studio and in the site's own words. The address stays as it is.” |
| Logo | “Used in the header and the footer in place of the drawn mark. A PNG or WebP on a transparent ground reads best.” |
| Favicon | “The small square in the browser tab. Square, at least 180 by 180.” |
| Show the Built with Briks badge | On paid plans: “A small link to Briks in the bottom-left corner of every page. Off unless you switch it on.” |
On the Free plan there is no switch. The section says “Your site shows a small Built with Briks badge in a corner. It comes off on a paid plan.” instead, with the way to upgrade.
Rename a project and add its logo
Change the name
Where: Settings, General
Type the new name in Project name.
Upload the logo
Where: Settings, General
Press Upload beside Logo and pick a PNG, JPEG or WebP. Replace swaps it later, and the bin icon removes it.
Save
Where: Settings, General
Press Save under Name and marks. Saved shows at the foot of the window.
Watch it reach the live site
Where: Settings, General
On a published site, saving a new logo, favicon or badge setting publishes the site again with it at once, and the studio says “Saved. Publishing the site with this change”. Nothing is held or charged for it. A new name alone reaches the site with your next change, or with Apply to the live site.
The site's address isn't changed here. Owners and Admins change it under Settings, Domain; see Your site's address.
Made with Briks
Made with Briks is a gallery on briks.dev of sites their owners chose to show. The switch reads Show this site in Made with Briks on briks.dev once it is in production. It's off by default. When on, the gallery shows the site's name, a picture of its first screen, its address and your words, with a link to the site. Switch it off at any time to take the entry down.
- Short description (optional): up to 160 characters, in your own words. With 80 or more, search engines can list the site's own page in the gallery.
- Category (optional): Food and drink, Hospitality, Shops, Services, Creative, Health and fitness, Professional or Other.
- A preview is never shown. The page says “This site is a preview, so it is not shown yet. It appears in the gallery once you publish it to production.”
- Once saved and in production, it says where the entry is, under briks.dev/made-with-briks.
A family bakery in Bristol, baking sourdough and pastries every morning since 2019.Category: Food and drink.
At 83 characters the entry is long enough for search engines to list its own page in the gallery.
More on the gallery is in Made with Briks.
Copy, template or move
Below Made with Briks is a card of what you can do with the project as a whole. Copies and templates are made from the published version, so publish first. The same three are in the ••• menu on the project's row in Projects.
| Action | What it does |
|---|---|
| Duplicate | An editable copy of the published version, here or in another workspace you work in. Its domain, messages and analytics stay with the original. It holds 5 credits while it's built and published, is charged only what that takes, and counts towards your plan's sites. |
| Save as template | Freezes the published version so everyone in this workspace can start new projects from it. Later changes to this project never reach it. |
| Move to another workspace | Move project hands it to another workspace where you are an Editor, Admin or Owner. The published site keeps running while it moves. Versions, domains, analytics, form messages, the chatbot and the library pictures and videos it uses go with it. The credits already spent stay behind, its AI agents let go of it, and members reach it only if they belong to the other workspace. |
Delete a project
At the bottom, under Danger zone, is Delete project. In the studio's words, it “Takes the site and its own domains offline, then deletes the project for good: its versions, pictures, analytics, form messages and chatbot. The credits it used stay on the workspace's record.”
Download what you want to keep
Where: Settings, Backups
Deletion can't be undone. On a paid plan, download the code of any version you might want later.
Press Delete project
Where: Danger zone
It's greyed out while something is running on the project: wait for that to finish.
Type the name
Where: Dialog
Type the project's name exactly and press Delete project. The site stops working at once, on every address.
Preferences: design rules
Anything set here beats what Briks would choose, on this build and every one after it. Leave a field alone to let the design decide. Changing a rule doesn't redo the site: it applies to the next change or build.
| Field | What you set |
|---|---|
| Accent, Ink on the accent, Page ground, Body ink | Colours as six digit codes, such as #1F6FEB. |
| Display face, Body face | A typeface from the list, or Let the design decide. |
| Corners | A pixel value, such as 12px. |
| Mode | Either, Light or Dark. |
| Page width | Either, Narrow, Standard or Wide. |
| Rhythm | Either, Tight, Standard or Airy. |
| Motion | Either, Subtle, Standard or Cinematic. |
| Flat colour only, no gradients | A switch. |
| Rules in your own words | Up to 1,000 characters, kept to build after build. |
Never set words over a photograph. The footer stays black. Prices always in pounds with the £ sign.
Every change after that kept to the three rules, without the owner repeating them.
Preferences: pictures and publishing
Pictures sets where the site's pictures come from when Briks builds or changes it. One option is included; another draws every picture new at a price per picture. See Pictures.
Building and publishing holds these switches, in this order. Those about the first build matter most before the site is built.
| Switch | Starts |
|---|---|
| Check the published site after the first build | Off |
| Check the published site after every change | Off |
| Measure builds against the reference (for a site built from one you like; off saves credits) | Off |
| Ask about what is unclear before building | On |
| Approve the words before building (not for dashboards) | Off |
| Choose the look from three directions (for a site built without a reference) | Off |
| Choose the hero from four wireframes (not for dashboards) | Off |
| Keep this site out of search results | Off |
While the site isn't kept out of search, two fields take your Google Search Console code and Bing Webmaster Tools code. See Search engines. As with General, press Save at the foot of the group, then Apply to the live site under Live site if you want the published site to pick the change up now. It publishes again with no design work.
Preferences: allowed websites and the reference
Your site loads code, connects and shows pages only from itself and the studio. Allowed websites is where you add another one when something on the site needs it, such as a booking widget or a map. Type it in Website, one at a time, such as booking.example.com, and confirm Allow this website. Code from that website runs on every page with the same reach as your own, so allow only one you know and trust. Each addition or removal applies from the next publish.
For a site built from one you like, a Reference site group shows its address until the site is first published, because only the first build reads it. See Build from a site you like.
Sign-in and Payments
The Settings list has an Accounts and payments group with Sign-in and Payments. Sign-in switches the ways your site's visitors sign in: email and password is on by default, and Google, Apple, Microsoft, GitHub, X, Facebook, LinkedIn and Discord are added with your own keys. Payments connects one payment processor with your own keys, for one-time payments and, with Stripe, Paddle, Polar or Lemon Squeezy, plans that renew. Keys go straight to the published site's own server and are never shown again. See Sign-in and payments.
Who can change what
| Action | Who |
|---|---|
| See General and Preferences | Everyone in the workspace |
| Rename, logo, favicon, the badge, Made with Briks, preferences, allowed websites, Apply to the live site | Owner, Admin, Editor |
| Duplicate, Save as template | Owner, Admin, Editor |
| Move to another workspace | Owner, Admin (and Editor or above in the other workspace) |
| Delete project | Owner, Admin |
| Change the address | Owner, Admin |
| Keys and switches in Sign-in and Payments | Owner, Admin |
Does saving settings cost credits?
No. Saving stores them, and Apply to the live site publishes again without building anything new. A change you ask for is charged as usual.
I saved a new logo but the site still shows the old one.
On a published site, saving a new logo publishes the site again by itself. If the save said the live site was not updated, press Apply to the live site, or the logo arrives with your next change.
Can I get a deleted project back?
No. On a paid plan, download its code from Settings, Backups before you delete it if you might need it.