1
Get the site files
Download the launch package. It holds one index.html plus your logo, favicon, social preview, robots.txt and sitemap.xml. That folder is the website.
Download: mont-site-launch.zip · or just index.html
If a click does nothing, the preview window is blocking it. Open the site in its own browser tab, or right-click the link and choose “Save link as…”.
2
Host it free on Netlify
Go to netlify.com → sign up free → “Add new site” → “Deploy manually”. Unzip the package and drag the mont-site folder onto the drop area.
About 30 seconds later you get a live address like calm-otter-12ab.netlify.app. Open it — that is your real, public site.
3
Point your domain at it
Good news — montrepair.com already points at Netlify, so you do not need to touch nameservers. In Netlify open Site configuration → Domain management and confirm montrepair.com is listed under this site.
Then open Site configuration → Access & security and turn off Password protection / Visitor access. The moment that is off your site is public, and HTTPS is already handled.
If Netlify shows the domain on a different site, remove it there first — a domain can only serve one site at a time.
4
Switch on booking emails
Every request form already points at montappliancerepair@gmail.com through a free relay called FormSubmit — no account, no fee, no API key. It only starts delivering once the site is on a real web address, which is why step 2 comes first.
One-time activation:
- With the site live, submit one test request through the booking form.
- Check that inbox for an email from FormSubmit asking you to confirm.
- Click its confirmation link. Done — permanently.
After that each request arrives as a formatted email with name, phone, email, city, appliance, brand, preferred window and the described problem. Reply from your inbox to reach the customer.
Until that link is clicked nothing is lost: requests still appear on the dispatch board at #bookings, and the confirmation screen has a “send from my email app” button that works right now.
5
Want a different inbox?
Open index.html in any text editor, search for var INBOX=, and swap the address between the quotes. Save, then drag the folder onto Netlify again.
6
Get found on Google
Once the domain is live: create a free Google Business Profile for the Bellevue address and link it to montrepair.com. Then submit montrepair.com/sitemap.xml in Google Search Console. Titles, descriptions and location data are already built in.
How To Delete This Page Yourself
This page is invisible to customers — it is not in the menu and search engines are told to skip it. You only reach it by typing #golive after the address. So there is no rush to remove it.
When you do want it gone, open index.html in any text editor (Notepad, TextEdit, VS Code) and delete three marked blocks. Each one starts with DELETE FROM HERE and ends with DELETE TO HERE, so you can select from one marker to the other:
- The styles block, near the top, inside
<style>.
- The page block — this whole section, starting
<div class="page" id="p-live">.
- The script block, near the bottom, which handles the
#golive address.
Search (Ctrl‑F or Cmd‑F) for DELETE FROM HERE to jump to each one. Save the file and re-upload it. Nothing else on the site depends on these — the rest keeps working exactly as it does now.
Prefer not to touch the file? Just ask me and I will remove it for you.