Notes on building with Zitegen
How the product works underneath, tutorials for the features that save the most time, and what changed since the last release.
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This blog is a filterable collection — built the same way yours would be
The category sidebar on this page isn't custom-coded for our marketing site. It's the same data-zg-collection directive available on any site you build.
From a paragraph to a live URL
What actually happens between typing a description and getting a working Astro site — the model, the compiler, and the tree that holds it together.
Three ways to edit the same site, and why we kept all three
AI chat, a visual canvas, and a real code editor all write to the same component tree — so nothing you build by hand gets clobbered by the next prompt.
Shipping a multilingual site without a plugin marketplace
A walkthrough of the locale switcher: adding a language, letting the AI translate a first draft, and wiring the switcher into your own header.
Undo, but for an entire site
How Version History turns every save into a restorable snapshot — and what to do when an MCP edit and a canvas edit land in the same minute.
Client handoff, minus the screen-share
How a two-person studio moved client sites out of a shared Figma file and into a workspace their clients can actually log into.
What changed when teams asked for real workspaces
Personal accounts don't scale to a five-person studio. Notes from turning single-owner sites into team-owned ones without breaking anyone's login.
Reading a build log without a computer science degree
Raw Astro build output is unreadable if you've never seen one before. Here's how we turned stack traces into plain-English explanations.
Credits pay for the AI, not for using your site
Why the code editor, file tree, and full source download are unlocked on every plan — and the only thing that ever spends a credit is a generation call.