diff --git a/tools/creating-new-drutopia-site.md b/tools/creating-new-drutopia-site.md
index 11bfbc0..6e57aee 100644
--- a/tools/creating-new-drutopia-site.md
+++ b/tools/creating-new-drutopia-site.md
@@ -29,19 +29,11 @@ Commands for copying throughout will assume this above setup.
 
 ## Create a new site project
 
-Ordinarily this will live under https://git.agaric.com/example-client (for Agaric clients) or https://git.agaric.com/drutopia-platform (for direct Drutopia platform members).
+For Agaric clients, the online home for the project will usually be at [Agaric's Forgejo project hosting site](https://git.agaric.com), first creating an organization (such as `example-client`, the short name that Forgejo takes first must be treated as a machine name) and then the project (such as `example-org`) that would live a URL such as `https://git.agaric.com/example-client/example-org`.
 
-Copy the `composer.json`, `composer.lock`, and `.gitignore` files used by the appropriate build source, such as the [default build source for the Drutopia Platform](https://gitlab.com/drutopia-platform/build_source).
+Copy the part of the URL after `git.agaric.com` so the namespace will be consistent on your local machine and create the directory at `~/Projects`.  With the examples above it would be `mkdir -p ~/Projects/example-client/example-org` and `cd ~/Projects/example-client/example-org`.
 
-Replace "example" below with name of the site, usually derived from the main domain name, for instance `example-com`:
-
-```
-MY_SITE="example"
-mkdir -p ~/Projects/agaric/sites/$MY_SITE
-cd ~/Projects/agaric/sites/$MY_SITE
-```
-
-Once you have created and are in this directory, whether `agaric/sites` or `drutopia-platform/sites` or wherever you want your project to live within the GitLab namespace, you can copy-paste these commands for a quick start:
+Once you have created and are in this directory, wherever you want your project to live within that namespace, you can copy-paste these commands for a quick start:
 
 ```
 wget https://gitlab.com/drutopia-platform/build_source/-/raw/main/composer.json
@@ -57,6 +49,7 @@ ddev start
 ddev auth ssh
 ddev composer install
 git init
+git add .
 git commit -m "Begin repository based on build_source main"
 ```