Create your Showit account

Super easy first step - yay! 

Go here - https://showit.com and then in the upper right corner choose "create your site"  This will walk you through a few easy steps of creating your Showit account - no need to pay yet either! Just create the account with an email + password and then you can move on for now. 

Hot Tip : Use the email address you want your website inquiries to go to when creating your account

STEP ONE

aka - do this first

ADD the TEMPLATE TO YOUR SHOWIT ACCOUNT

step two

Your Showit website dashboard lives at this address: https://app.showit.com 
Make sure you bookmark it :) 

This will open into a login screen - here you'll use the new Showit account info you just setup to login.  Once you are into your Showit account you'll have a screen of free Showit designs to start with, but you're going to bypass this, because you already picked your awesome Forge template!

Click the tab on the top right - "Your Designs" and then at the top of that screen there is an option "Add Design to Library" - click that and a new window will pop up - with a space to paste your Shared Design Key - grab your design key from above!

so you can start customizing it

Create your NEW SITE

STEP THREE

With your template design successfully added, your Showit account will now show the design when you have the "your designs" tab selected.  To pull your new template into Showit, click on the design, and you'll see a blue button in the bottom right corner that says "start with this design" < Choose that and you'll be taken into the Showit Design application window with your new template in place!