General Settings

The General tab is your site's configuration hub. Every change here affects the site globally — from what appears in the browser tab to how search engines discover and index your pages.

Navigate to your site → General tab.

Saving Changes

All fields on this page share a single Save Changes button in the top-right corner of the panel. Changes are not applied until you click Save Changes — you can edit multiple fields and save them all in one action.

While saving, the button shows Saving… and all inputs are disabled. A success toast confirms the update.

Site Identity - Site Name

The site name is your internal label — it appears in your dashboard site cards, the browser tab title when editing, and in any places where the site is referenced by name. Renaming the site does not change the slug or domain.

Slug

The slug is the URL-safe identifier used to build your site's default subdomain. For example, a slug of abc generates the domain abc.sites.tdcapps.com.

Slug format rules:

• Lowercase letters, numbers, and hyphens only
• No spaces — use hyphens instead (e.g., my-site, not my site)
• The new subdomain is shown below the field in real time as you type

Favicon

A favicon is the small icon that appears in browser tabs, bookmarks, and link previews. TDC Site Builder supports separate favicons for light mode and dark mode so your icon always looks sharp regardless of the visitor's system theme.

Supported Formats & Size

Light Mode Favicon

Displayed when the visitor's operating system is in light mode. Click Upload to open the file picker, or drag-and-drop a file onto the upload area.

• The uploaded image appears as a 40×40 px preview on a light background so you can verify it looks correct
• A Remove button appears after uploading — click it to clear the favicon
• You must click Save Changes after uploading to persist the change

Dark Mode Favicon

Identical behaviour to the Light Mode favicon, but displayed when the visitor's OS is in dark mode. The preview renders on a dark background.

If you don't upload a Dark Mode favicon, the browser falls back to the Light Mode favicon — the dark mode field is optional.

Upload Errors

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) - Allow Search Engines

When on: Search engines (Google, Bing, etc.) are allowed to crawl and index all pages on this site. This is the correct setting for any live production site.

When off: The server sends an X-Robots-Tag: noindex header on every response. Search engines that respect this header will de-index the site. Use this during development, for staging sites, or for private client sites you don't want appearing in search results.

Enable sitemap.xml

When on: TDC Site Builder automatically generates a sitemap.xml file and serves it at https://yoursite.com/sitemap.xml. This file lists all active, indexable pages along with their last-modified date, change frequency, and priority — the exact values set in each page's individual SEO settings.

Submitting this URL to Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools helps search engines discover and index your pages faster.

When off: No sitemap is served. Pages can still be indexed if search bots discover them through links, but it will be slower.

Canonical Base Domain

The canonical base domain is the authoritative URL prefix used in:

• All <link rel="canonical"> tags generated for your pages
• Sitemap <loc> entries

When to set this:

If you have a custom domain configured (e.g., https://mycompany.com) and want all canonical tags to reference that domain instead of the auto-generated subdomain, enter it here. This prevents duplicate content issues if your site is accessible from multiple URLs.

Correct format:   https://mycompany.com
Not:              mycompany.com  (missing https://)
Not:              https://mycompany.com/  (trailing slash)

Leave it blank if you're only using the default subdomain — the subdomain URL will be used automatically.

Disallow Crawling on Specific Pages

This section lets you block search engines from crawling specific pages by adding Disallow rules to your site's robots.txt file.

How It Works

Each page in your site appears in a scrollable list with its name and URL path. Toggle a page on to add it to the disallow list, or off to remove it.

When you Save Changes, the following robots.txt rules are generated automatically:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /page-slug
Disallow: /another-page-slug

These rules tell compliant search bots not to crawl the specified URLs. Already-indexed pages won't be immediately removed — they'll eventually be de-indexed as bots re-crawl.

When to Disallow Pages

Relationship with Per-Page noindex

You have two complementary tools for controlling search engine visibility:

For maximum exclusion, use both on the same page. For pages where you want to crawl-but-not-index (to pass link equity), use only the per-page noIndex toggle.

Delete Site

The Delete site section appears at the bottom of the General tab, only visible to users with site management permissions.

Deletion Flow

Click the red Delete site button in the danger zone.

A confirmation dialog opens. Read the warning carefully:

"This action is permanent and cannot be undone. All pages, sections, blocks, version history, and domain settings will be deleted."

In the confirmation field, type your exact site name (case-sensitive) to unlock the delete button. The button remains disabled until the text matches exactly.

Click the red Delete site button in the dialog. The site is deleted immediately and you are redirected to the dashboard.

What Is Deleted

Safe Alternative: Hiding the Site

If you're not sure about deleting, use these reversible options instead:

• Deactivate individual pages via the Active Status toggle in Page Manager — visitors get a 404 but no data is lost
• Remove the custom domain to make the site inaccessible from the custom URL while keeping all content
• Revoke team access via the Team tab to prevent further editing

Settings Reference