# Find your way around

The workspace menu, the home page and the websites list, and what the cards and badges mean.

For: Everyone using CubeSites

## The menu on the left

The workspace menu holds everything outside a single website: Home, Websites, Licences, Templates, Media and Cube apps, with Settings at the bottom. Shop joins them once any website sells or lists products, and the Cube apps item only appears when CubeConnect is connected, because there is nothing to show before then. Websites carries a count of unread messages across all your websites.

At the top of the menu is the workspace switcher. If you work in more than one workspace, this is how you move between them, including organisation workspaces. The card at the bottom tracks the trial, and the AI drafts card counts the month so far.

Walkthrough: The workspace menu, top to bottom (The workspace menu)

1. **The main places**: Home, Websites, Licences, Templates, Media and Cube apps, with Settings at the bottom. This is the whole workspace outside a single website.
2. **The workspace switcher**: The name at the top moves you between workspaces. A website belongs to one workspace and never leaks between them.
3. **Cube apps, when connected**: This item appears once CubeConnect is connected. Before then there is genuinely nothing to show.
4. **Settings at the bottom**: Profile, People, Licences and Plans and billing live here, along with the workspace itself.

## The home page

Home is a summary of the workspace: quick ways to start work, the next steps a new website needs, and a card per website with anything waiting on it. New messages from contact forms are counted here before you even open the website.

The quick actions deliberately point at the first decisions rather than everything: start from a template, describe the business for a draft, upload images, or connect Cube apps.

Walkthrough: The home page and what it is telling you (The workspace home)

1. **A summary, not a dashboard**: Home gathers what is waiting and what is next, rather than everything that exists.
2. **The quick actions**: Start from a template, describe the business, upload images, connect Cube apps. The first decisions, on purpose.
3. **Next steps**: The short checklist a new website needs. It counts down as you tick things off.
4. **Messages, counted early**: New enquiries show here before you open the website, so nothing waits unseen.

## The websites list

Websites lists every site in the workspace with its address and status. The statuses are the ones that matter: Draft means never published, Live means visitors see the latest version, and Live, changes waiting means there are edits that are not on the internet yet.

Each card shows how many messages from the contact forms are unread and, for a published website, how many changes are waiting to publish. Clicking a card opens the website's overview, Edit site opens the editor, and the arrow visits the live site; the website then has its own menu of pages, blog, messages, SEO and settings.

Walkthrough: Reading the websites list (The Websites page)

1. **One card per website**: The thumbnail, name and address. Clicking the card opens the website's overview.
2. **The status is the truth**: Live, changes waiting means edits exist that visitors cannot see yet. Draft means never published.
3. **Unread messages**: Enquiries nobody has opened yet. The same count shows on Messages and beside Websites in the menu.
4. **Changes waiting**: How many changes are in the draft but not live. The website's overview lists them under Waiting to publish.
5. **Edit opens the editor**: The same editor from any card. Nothing you change goes live until you press Publish.

Note: Nothing you change in the editor is visible to visitors until you press Publish. The badges exist to make that boundary visible everywhere.

## Why can I not see the Cube apps item?

It appears once CubeConnect is connected to the workspace. Without a connection there are no Cube apps to launch or use.

## What does Live, changes waiting mean?

The website has been published at least once, and there are edits since then that visitors cannot see yet. Press Publish to see the list and choose what goes live.

## Related guides

- [Create your account](/help/getting-started/create-your-account)
- [Work with sections](/help/editor/work-with-sections)
---

CubeSites is a trading name of Cube Systems Limited, part of Crushed Ice Group. Registered in England and Wales, company number 17220899. Registered office: Unit 11, Olney Business Park, Osier Way, Olney, Buckinghamshire, MK46 5FP. ICO registration number ZC216972.

Contact: hello@cubesites.co.uk | 01234 672 617 | https://cubesites.co.uk/contact