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Your first change

A complete walkthrough: open a page, change a sentence, save it, check it in the preview and publish it.

This walkthrough takes you through one complete change, from opening a page to seeing the change on your live website. The screenshots change one sentence on the Hiking page of the demo website; do the same with a page of your own. If the screen is new to you, read the editor at a glance first.

Change a sentence and publish it

  1. Open the page in the page tree

    Click Page in the module bar (the document icon at the top). Then click the page you want to change in the page tree. If it is a subpage, click the small arrow next to its parent page to show it. Here the Hiking page below Discover is selected.

    The page tree with the Hiking page below Discover selected

  2. Open the element

    On the Content tab, the page’s content elements are listed as cards. Click the card with the text you want to change, or the pencil that appears when you point at the card. The element’s form opens.

    The card of a Text and media element with the pencil, eye and menu icons on the right

  3. Change the text

    Click into the text and change it as you would in a word processor. Here two cafés becomes three cafés. Until you save, the form shows Unsaved changes at the top right.

    The form of the Text and media element: the changed list item is highlighted, at the top right it says Unsaved changes

  4. Click Save & close

    The change is saved and you are back on the page. Next to the title it now says modified, a blue dot marks the page in the page tree, and the top bar shows 1 change: a saved change that is not on your live website yet.

    The top bar shows 1 change, and the page title Hiking is marked modified

  5. Check the change in the preview

    Click View (the eye icon) in the module bar. The preview shows the page as visitors will see it after publishing, including your change. Visitors of your live website do not see it yet.

    The View module with the Hiking page; the changed sentence about three cafés is highlighted

  6. Click Publish

    Click the green Publish button in the top bar. The editor first builds your whole website as a test, which usually takes a few seconds, and shows Building… meanwhile.

    The counter 1 change and the green Publish button in the top bar

  7. Wait for the confirmation

    When the editor shows a green Live ✓, your change is on your live website. The counter disappears, and the page is marked published again.

    The green message Live with a check mark next to the Publish button

Where to go next

Every change follows this pattern: open, change, save, check, publish. You do not have to publish after every single change: collect as many as you like and publish them together.

To learn more, read how to add new elements, format text and add links, create and arrange pages and choose images. If something went wrong, Undo and Discard take changes back before anyone sees them.