# Help understanding the structure of using discourse + static website

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-understanding-the-structure-of-using-discourse-static-website/25557>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [February 23, 2015, 7:19am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-understanding-the-structure-of-using-discourse-static-website/25557 "2015-02-23T07:19:43Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 23, 2015, 7:19am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-understanding-the-structure-of-using-discourse-static-website/25557/1 "2015-02-23T07:19:43Z")

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Forgive me if this is really juvenile. I’m new to ruby dev.

So I have a beautiful installation of discourse up and running on digitalocean. I am waiting for my DNS servers to propogate now that I’ve directed them at my discourse IP on digitalocean.

The forum is working beautifully.

How and where can I build static content of the website around discourse?  
E.g., I want someone to hit a static page prior to going to discourse, and then click "forum’ in the nav.

Normally I would just open up the host and add the pages there, but I’m unsure how to do that on digitalocean.

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