Practical, step-by-step help for your DSW driving-school website. No website-building experience needed.
All help guides – choose a topic
Jump straight to the task you need. You do not have to work through every guide.
- Before you install: hosting, photographs and what you need
- Install DSW for the first time
- Start your website: enter your school information
- Set up and test your contact / enquiry form
- Check your website before sharing it
- Add a page of your own
- Add a page to your menu
- Add extra content to a DSW page
- Use DSW on an existing website
Before you begin
Get ready for DSW
Check hosting, WordPress access, school information, photographs and backups. Understand the difference between your DSW customer account and your own WordPress website.
Open the preparation checklist · Written checklist
Replacing a live website? Start with Using DSW on an existing website. Back up first and use a separate protected test copy.
Install and set up
1. Install DSW for the first time
Install the Core plugin, activate it and switch on the included website design. Watch the short illustrated video or follow the written instructions.
Open the installation guide · 1 minute 40 seconds · Silent video with on-screen instructions
2. Start your driving-school website
Add your school information, contact choices, lessons, prices and teaching areas, then review your website pages.
Open the setup guide · 2 minutes 47 seconds · Silent illustrated video and written instructions
Set up your website enquiry form, if you want one
Choose the receiving mailbox and pupil questions, save the settings and confirm a test enquiry reaches you. The form is included; email delivery depends on your hosting and email provider.
Open the enquiry-form guide · Written instructions
Check before sharing
Review school details, menus, contact links, enquiry delivery, photographs, privacy information and search visibility.
Open the website readiness checklist · Written checklist
Optional: add your own content
These tasks are optional. Return when you want an extra page, a menu link or more detail below a DSW-managed section.
Add a page of your own
Create an extra page, save a draft, check it and publish when ready. Learn why a page and its menu link are separate.
Open the page-creation guide · 2 minutes 20 seconds · Silent illustrated video and written instructions
Add a page to your website menu
Add a link to your own page, choose its wording and position, and create a dropdown if useful. Learn how to save and check the menu without deleting the page.
Open the menu guide · 2 minutes 25 seconds · Silent video, real screenshots and written instructions
Add extra content to a DSW page
Add your own heading, paragraphs or image below the normal DSW information. Learn which details to keep editing through DSW and when saved changes become public.
Open the extra-content guide · 2 minutes 27 seconds · Silent video, real screenshots and written instructions
Your customer account
Use your DSW customer account for billing and downloads. Open your DSW service and its Downloads tab. Edit website content in your own WordPress administration, not this portal.
Older hosted-website customers: your hosting and support remain separate. Use the customer account and support link in the footer for those services.
Need a hand?
Contact DSW and tell us which screen you are on and what you are trying to do. Please do not send passwords, payment details or pupil information.