# Live when you say so, and easy to undo

*Publishing and domains*

Editing never changes the live site. Each website opens on its Overview: whether it is live, what to do next, its pages, its latest messages and recent changes. When you are happy, press Publish: the dialog lists everything that is waiting, and the whole site goes live together, or only the parts you tick. Every publish is kept, so going back to last week’s version is easy.

## What you get

- **An Overview for every website:** Status, a next-steps checklist, a map of the pages, the latest messages and recent changes, all on the page a website opens on.
- **One-click publish:** Pages, theme, header and footer go live together, so visitors never see a half-finished change.
- **See what is waiting:** The Publish dialog lists every page added, changed or removed, any design change and the products waiting to go live. Publish everything, or tick only what is ready and leave the rest in the draft.
- **Products on their own:** Publish product and category changes by themselves, without putting a half-built page live. Prices, stock and offers are live as soon as they are saved.
- **Version history:** Every publish is kept. Bring back an earlier version into the editor, check it, and publish it again when you are ready.
- **An included address, or your own domain:** Every site comes with a your-company.cubesites.site address. With a licence, connect your own domain with two DNS records.
- **Ready for search engines:** Page titles, descriptions, social sharing images, a sitemap and clean addresses, all set up for you.
- **Advanced SEO on Pro:** Pro websites add redirects from old addresses, structured data about your business, and SEO checks that point out what to fix.
- **Analytics with consent:** Add Google Analytics with your measurement ID. It only loads after a visitor accepts cookies.

## In practice: Moving to your own domain

_An example with placeholder names._

1. User A adds www.your-company.co.uk in the site settings.
2. CubeSites shows the two DNS records to add. User A adds them at their domain provider.
3. Once the records are checked, User A presses Make main. The live site now answers on the new domain, and the cubesites.site address forwards to it.

## Related features

- [Visual editor](https://cubesites.co.uk/features/visual-editor): Click a section on the page to change it. Type straight onto the page, drag sections into place, and click through your pages before anything goes live.
- [Blog](https://cubesites.co.uk/features/blog): Write news and articles with a proper editor, schedule them, and show the latest on any page.
- [Contact forms](https://cubesites.co.uk/features/forms): A contact form on any page, spam protection without puzzles, and every message emailed to you and kept in CubeSites.

Start a 14-day free trial for one website, on Standard or Pro, no card needed: https://app.cubesites.co.uk/signup

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