This section covers the essential first steps of standing up an Experience Cloud site in a Salesforce developer org. You will learn how to enable the necessary features, create a new site using a standard template, and publish it to make it live and accessible.
In this section, you will learn how to transition your site from a public-facing page to a secure, login-protected portal. This includes configuring the login and self-registration pages and, most importantly, learning the process of creating a portal user from an existing NPSP Contact record.
When building an Experience Cloud Site, it's best to plan the basic page structure first. This ensures you have a clear, intentional framework before you start adding content.
This site will start with:
Home Page (Public Page)
Branded Login Page
My Donations Page (Logged-In Users)
Now that we have the site functioning the way we want, we can activate it for users!