How Ownsite works

You only need five ideas to understand all of Ownsite.

#1. Your site and your app

Every Ownsite has two addresses. In these docs, D stands for your site's address.

Before you connect a domain, D is yourname.ownsite.me. After you connect one, D is your domain, for example you.com, and your app is app.you.com. A backup app address, app.yourname.ownsite.me, always works too.

The two addresses mirror each other. The post at D/blog/autumn is managed at app.D/blog/autumn.

#2. Everything is a page

Your home page, your blog, your journal and a page like D/drum all work the same way. Each one is either:

• a Public Page: on your site, for everyone; or
• a Private Page: only you can see it, inside your app.

Any page can switch between the two in its Settings. See Pages.

#3. Every page has a look

A page's look is what visitors see: its layout, colors, fonts, and any fixed text or photos, like your name or an about paragraph.

A look has versions. Every change makes a new version, which starts as a draft. You preview it, then press Publish, and only then do visitors see it. Every old version is kept, so you can always go back. See Looks and versions.

#4. Some pages have blocks

Some things keep growing without the look changing: blog posts, journal entries, guestbook messages, items in a portfolio. These live in blocks. A block stores the items, and the look decides how they are shown.

Because they are separate, you can change the look as often as you like without losing a single post. See Blocks.

#5. You decide what AI can do

Ownsite AI (built in) and any AI you connect follow one set of rules that you control in AI permissions. An AI can make drafts, but anything that changes what visitors see waits for your confirmation, unless you allow it. See Who can change what.

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