The dashboard

Where your sites live, and what every screen inside one is for.

Outside a site

The dashboard lists the sites on your account. Each row shows the site’s name, its address, whether it is published, and its credit balance. New site makes another.

Deleting a site happens here, from the row’s menu, because the dashboard is the only screen that outlives the site.

Inside a site

Open a site and the left rail is the whole product. It is in groups, and the groups are worth knowing because they say what a screen changes:

Overview — the site at a glance, in three tabs. Overview is its visitors and when it last changed. Activity is what happened: every change anyone made, the AI’s included, deletions among them. Releases is what the site was: a row per press of Publish, and you can put any of it back. Nothing in Activity can be restored, which is the whole difference between the two.

Content — Pages and Forms, then a row for each of your collections. These are what the site says, and each list opens an editor. Your blog is a collection, Articles, so it has a row of its own.

Site — Files, Blocks, Theme and Settings. These land on the whole site rather than on one page: your pictures, the shared pieces every page can embed (a header, a footer), your colours and fonts — see Colours, fonts and CSS — and your CSS and JS, your domain and your metadata. Setting up a collection, as opposed to filling it in, is under Settings.

Last, under its own line: Billing — your plan, your credits, what you have spent, and changing either. It sits apart because every other row changes something about the website and this one is about what pays for it.

The top bar

These are the things you use constantly.

Publish, with a badge beside it counting what is waiting to go out. There is no Save button anywhere — your typing is saved as you go.

The address of the page you are editing, which is a link when that page is live. If it is not a link, something is stopping it being served and the bar says which thing.

The pencil, on a page’s Content tab. That tab is the page’s preview, built from your drafts, and the pencil lets you point at part of it or retype its text: see How editing works. The preview is genuinely different from the live address: the preview shows what you have; the live site shows what you published.

The breakpoint icon, just left of the pencil. The preview normally fills the screen. Press the icon and it becomes a browser window instead, with the page’s address along its top: pick Mobile, Tablet or Laptop above it, or drag either side to any width, to see how the page looks there. Press it again to go back.

The AI panel

The panel is the conversation, and it follows you around the site. It opens on the left, beside the rail, and its one switch is the sparkle at the top of the rail, next to the logo: press it to show or hide the panel.

A conversation belongs to the SITE, and each thing you ask goes wherever you are standing. Ask for “a new contact page” from the homepage and you get one; walk to the About page and say “rewrite the intro” and that goes to About — same conversation, and it remembers what it just did on the homepage. The transcript marks the point where the place changed.

You can keep typing while a turn is running. A message sent mid-turn waits its place and is sent when the one before it finishes, so you never have to stand and watch. If that turn does not finish cleanly, the waiting message holds and says why, because it usually depended on that turn.

The panel has no buttons of its own. Type a slash into the message box instead:

• /new starts a new conversation for the site.
• /history lists every conversation the site has had. Opening an old one opens it right where you are: a conversation is not about a screen, so there is nowhere for it to take you.

Help

Your account menu, at the foot of the rail, has two rows for help. Documentation opens this manual. Support opens your support tickets: write to us there, say which site it is about if it is about one, and attach a screenshot or a text file if it helps. Replies arrive on the ticket, and we email you when there is one.