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Introduction

Welcome to the BILDIT Web Visual Experience Engine — the fastest way to build, schedule, and ship visual content on your Next.js website, without dev tickets or redeploys. This guide takes you from your new VEE account to scheduled content rendering on your production site.

Overview​

BILDIT Web lets your team manage scheduled content visually and publish instantly. It offers:

  • Intuitive scheduled content management and flexible scheduling
  • Multi-device preview
  • Template-based content creation with no coding required
  • Rendering on your production site via the @bildit-platform/nextjs SDK

How scheduled content gets to your website​

A complete setup has two parts, and you need both:

  • Author & edit in the VEE — create scheduled content, schedules, and templates in the BILDIT admin interface, and edit slots in place with the Visual Editor. See Visual Editor Setup.
  • Render on your production site — the @bildit-platform/nextjs SDK fetches your published scheduled content and renders it on your Next.js site for visitors. See Production Site Rendering (Next.js).

What you need​

To use the VEE — author, schedule, and preview scheduled content:

  • A modern web browser and your BILDIT account credentials.

To render scheduled content on your production site:

  • A Next.js site (App Router)
  • Node and a package manager (npm / yarn / pnpm) — the @bildit-platform packages are public on npm, no token needed
  • A published scheduled content item with a Location assigned, your web instance API key, and your BILDIT base URL (the root URL of your CMS instance — the host you log into BILDIT at)

The Next.js Integration Guide walks through all of it, step by step.

Getting Started​

  1. Render scheduled content on your production site — follow the Next.js Integration Guide to install the SDK. This is what shows scheduled content to your visitors.
  2. Edit in the VEE — set up the Visual Editor so you can edit slots in place.
  3. Review the getting started section
  4. Learn about creating scheduled content
  5. Learn about managing scheduled content
  6. Understand scheduling options
  7. Understand testing & preview
  8. Review best practices
  9. Reference troubleshooting

For any questions or issues, please refer to our support section.