Module 2 · 2.4
Checking the first version: sample content and going live on your free address
Module 2: The first version · Reading time: 12 minutes
Learning objective: After this lesson you can find the sample content in your first version and replace it with real details, explain why that is your responsibility, and put your site online on your free WebOké address.
Key concepts: sample content, filled-in prices and opening hours, made-up name, placeholder text, placeholder, misleading commercial practice, fake review, Go live, free address, badge, noindex, Publish changes, Take offline
This lesson explains the rules as they apply on 10 November 2026. It is not legal advice. If you are unsure about your situation, ask a lawyer or your trade association.
Why your site contains sample content
A site without prices, opening hours or a name looks empty and unfinished. That is why the AI deliberately fills in what is missing in a first version, so you can see straight away what your site could look like. This is not a mistake by the builder: it is a draft for you to check. As soon as the site is online, you as the owner are responsible for everything on it.
What will you find in a first version (lesson 1.3 and 2.1)?
- Filled-in prices and opening hours if your description didn't include them. They read as real: there is no "sample" label next to them.
- A made-up name if you didn't give one. You change it under Style, at Name and logo, or on the mood card at Name in the menu.
- Neutral substitutes where you gave no real reviews or team members: a statement from the business itself, or your way of working in cards. In a team section the photos stay empty.
- AI mood images if you chose Automatic, Photos or Illustrations (lesson 2.2).
- Fixed placeholder text in sections you add yourself through the picker, such as "Heading of this section", "Customer name" or "This is placeholder text. Click it to write your own story". A new blank page starts with "Tell people here what this page is about."
- Placeholders you asked for yourself, in the form "Company registration number: [fill in]".
For a redesigned site (lesson 2.3) the AI normally fills in nothing, but there too you check prices and times.
What the law says
European. The European rules on unfair commercial practices forbid businesses to mislead consumers, for example with incorrect information about the price or about what you offer. Since 28 May 2022 extra rules apply to reviews: posting fake consumer reviews, or having them posted, is always forbidden.
The Netherlands as an example. These rules come from EU law (the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive and the Omnibus Directive); every EU country has its own implementation and its own regulator. In the Netherlands the rules are in the Dutch Civil Code, Book 6, in the section on unfair commercial practices (Articles 6:193a to 6:193j). Article 6:193g lists fake reviews as a practice that is misleading in all circumstances. The Dutch regulator is the Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM). The ACM says, among other things: don't write or invent reviews yourself, don't show only the reactions that suit you, and explain where your reviews come from.
What does this mean for your first version?
- A filled-in price that is not your real price is incorrect information about the price. Put in your real prices or remove the block.
- An invented review is never allowed. The AI doesn't invent them, but if you add a review yourself, it must be genuine and come from a real customer, with their permission.
- Opening hours that are wrong leave customers standing at a closed door.
- An AI image that looks like a project you did must not give the impression that it is your work. Use your own photos for "our work".
How to check your site
Work page by page, also at phone size (the phone and tablet buttons in the top bar). Use this checklist:
- Name in the header, the footer and the titles.
- Prices: every amount. Is it right, is it your real (starting) price, does it say including or excluding VAT the way you want?
- Opening hours or availability, in the contact section, a times block and the footer.
- Contact details: phone, email, address. If they are missing, fill them in.
- Promises and figures: "within 24 hours", "24/7", "free survey". Can you deliver on it?
- Reviews, statements and team: only real people, with permission.
- Photos: your own work or clearly a mood image, without a misleading impression.
- Placeholder text and placeholders: anything with "Heading of this section", "Customer name", "[fill in]".
- Buttons: click them. Do they go to the right page or the right number?
Replacing things yourself is free: in the preview, hover over a text or button and click Edit, type and save. You change a price or time the same way. To have a lot replaced at once, use the chat, for example: "Put in these prices: exterior painting from € 45 per hour, wallpapering from € 12 per m²". That costs 1 edit.
The builder helps when you go live
When you click Go live, the builder checks three things for you:
- Fixed placeholder text. If there is still text such as "Heading of this section" or "Customer name", you see Your site still contains placeholder text, with the page and the text on each line, and "Fill in these spots or remove the section, then you can put the site online." Going live is then not possible.
- Open spots between square brackets. If there is still a spot such as "[fill in]" or "[Add your company registration number here]", you first see Your site still has blanks to fill in, with the spots for each page. Fill them in, or choose Go live anyway: your visitors then see the spot as it is.
- What the check also noticed: "During the check I also noticed: ... You can still go live."
Note: this check does not recognise filled-in prices, opening hours or a made-up name. They read as normal content. That is why your own check is needed.
If your site collects data (a form, newsletter, integration or widget) and you don't have a privacy statement yet, you also see a message with the button Create privacy statement. We cover that in lesson 7.1.
Online on your free address
Click Go live at the top right of the top bar. The window is called Put version 4 online (with the number of your version): "Visitors see the new version straight away. Your previous version is kept." Going live always uses the saved version, never a proposal that is still open.

You choose between two options:
- Your own domain ("Own domain, included in" your package). Without a package this option is switched off, with the button Get the package or Switch package. This is module 5.
- Your free address, with "On our address. Free and permanently online, with a small WebOké badge, not visible in search engines and with a contact form that doesn't send anything. With a package these limitations disappear."
Choose your free address and click Go live. A moment later you see Your site is online, with how many pages and photos are ready, any messages and the address, for example schildersbedrijf-example-123.weboke.site. Use View your site to open it. If the address is new, it can take up to a minute before the site shows there.
What is different on your free address compared with a package:
- at the bottom there is the badge Demo · made with the AI Builder by WebOké;
- every page carries the noindex instruction: search engines don't include your site;
- the contact form is there, greyed out, and doesn't send anything;
- custom code and some integrations are not included, and widgets with a form or their own script only appear with a package. The builder tells you this after going live.
You put later changes live with Publish changes in the top bar. To remove the site from your free address, choose Take offline in the same window; your site stays saved in the builder. Publishing and taking offline are free.
Summary
- A first version deliberately contains sample content: filled-in prices and opening hours, sometimes a made-up name, mood images and fixed placeholder text in sections you add.
- Incorrect prices and fake reviews are misleading; once online, you are responsible.
- Check every page with the checklist; replace things yourself for free with Edit.
- Go live stops you for fixed placeholder text and warns you about "[fill in]", but does not notice filled-in prices or times.
- On your free address your site stays online permanently, with a badge and noindex and a form that doesn't send anything.
Quiz
Exercise
Exercise A2.4: Your site is live. Check your first version with the checklist from this lesson, replace the sample content and put your site online on your free address (or on your own domain if you already have a package).
What you enter: the web address of your AI Builder site, for example https://schildersbedrijf-example-123.weboke.site.
What the program checks, just like an ordinary visitor:
- your site is reachable over https and returns a normal page;
- it is recognisably an AI Builder site (if not, you get an orange message and the check continues);
- the homepage has a title;
- the address: if your site is on the free address, the program tells you for information that noindex and the badge are present (that is fine for this exercise); if it is on your own domain, it tells you that too.
Green means: the site is reachable, recognised and has a title. The program doesn't store any content from your pages.
Further reading
- Using reviews and ratings (ACM, Dutch source, in Dutch): https://www.acm.nl/nl/verkoop-aan-consumenten/reclame-en-verleiden/online-beinvloeden/reviews-en-beoordelingen-gebruiken
- Stricter rules for online sellers (ACM, Dutch source, in Dutch): https://www.acm.nl/nl/publicaties/acm-strengere-regels-voor-online-verkopers
- Free course: A web shop with WooCommerce 5.4: The ordering process by the rules
- Free course Getting found online 1.3: Indexing: what gets into the index and what doesn't
