# Make your first changes

Change the heading, add a section, undo things, and see it all in a preview before publishing.

For: Anyone opening the editor for the first time

## Open the editor

From a website card, choose Edit. The editor opens on the home page of the site, with your real pages in the middle, the Add, Navigator and Design panel on the left, and the settings for whatever is selected on the right.

The page in the middle is not a picture. It is the same rendering that serves visitors, which is why what you see is what gets published.

Walkthrough: Opening the editor and its three panels (The website editor)

1. **The site you are editing**: The name and the status pill sit top left, so there is never doubt about what is in front of you.
2. **Add**: The panel for new things: blocks, patterns, saved sections and AI.
3. **Navigator**: Every section in order, with the header and footer that belong to every page.
4. **Design**: The website theme: colours, fonts, corners and spacing, all in one place.

1. Open the website from Websites, or straight into the editor from its card.
2. Click any section to select it. The inspector on the right shows what can be changed.

Note: The first time you open the editor, a short welcome guide points out click, right-click and drag. You can bring it back from the Help menu later.

## Change some text

Click the heading you want to change. With the section selected, click the text itself and type over it, or use the Heading field on the Content tab. Either way you are editing the page in place, with no separate form to save and no way to lose the change by forgetting a button.

If something looks worse than before, Ctrl+Z undoes it. Undo covers text, section moves, design changes and deletions within the session.

Walkthrough: Changing the heading and putting it back (The website editor)

1. **Click the text and type**: Text is edited where it sits. What you see is what publishes, with no second copy to keep in step.
2. **Every field is editable**: The button label, the small print, the alt text on an image: if it shows on the page, it can be changed.
3. **Undo is always there**: Ctrl+Z walks changes back, including deletions. Try boldly; undo has your back.

1. Click the main heading and type a sentence that says what the business does.
2. Press Escape or click empty canvas to deselect.
3. Add a section below with the Add panel, or quick add with the / key.

Note: Quick add understands what you type: try "opening hours" or "prices" in the Add a section search.

## See it in a preview

Preview opens a private link to the website in a new tab, showing the latest changes without publishing. Only people with the link can see it, which makes it useful for showing a client a work in progress.

When the draft looks right, Publish opens a dialog listing everything waiting: pages added, changed or removed, the design and settings, and any product changes. Leave ticked what should go live, or press Publish everything. Until then every visitor to the address sees the last published version, or a holding page if there has never been one.

Walkthrough: A private preview before anything is published (A private preview in a new tab)

1. **A private link**: Preview opens the latest changes at a private address. Only people with the link can see it.
2. **The real site**: Not a screenshot: the same rendering that serves visitors, so what you check is what they will get.
3. **Publishing is separate**: Nothing reaches the live site until you press Publish. Until then visitors see the last published version, or a holding page.

- [ ] The heading says what the business does
- [ ] A section below supports it
- [ ] Every page checked with Click through
- [ ] Preview looked at on a phone width
- [ ] Publish pressed when ready

## Do changes save on their own?

Yes. The editor shows Saving, Editing or Saved at the top. There is also a manual save, Ctrl+S.

## Can I try things without anyone seeing?

Yes. Nothing reaches the live site until you publish, and Preview shows a private link in the meantime.

## Related guides

- [Work with sections](/help/editor/work-with-sections)
- [Undo, saving and preview](/help/editor/undo-save-and-preview)
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