dotCMS Create Sites

Two phases: plan, then build. You do both.

• Phase 1 — Plan. Interview the user and write two artifacts:
  • PLAN.md — everything non-visual: purpose, audience, hostname, sitemap, sections, data model, and every fact tagged confirmed / placeholder / n-a.
  • DESIGN.md — the visual identity (YAML tokens + prose rationale). Colors are never invented — sample them from the user's logo/assets if provided, or ask.
• Phase 2 — Build. Hand off to dotcms-best-practices, which owns the build sequence.

PLAN.md and DESIGN.md belong in the project directory you're building — not wherever you happen to be. A PLAN.md describing something other than a dotCMS site is not yours.

Phase 1 — Plan

Copy this checklist and track progress. References are in reference/plan/.