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Pages and looks

Looks and versions

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Drafts, previews, publishing, templates and version history. Every page works the same way.

A page's look is what visitors see. Every change to it makes a new version. A new version is always a draft first, and visitors see it only after you publish it.

This works the same for your home page, your blog and every other page.

#The Look tab

Open a page and choose Look. From top to bottom you see:

  1. Live: the version visitors see now. Switch between desktop and phone, or press Preview to open it full size.
  2. Unpublished changes: shown when there is a draft. Press Preview to check it, Publish to make it live, or Discard to drop it. A discarded draft stays in the history.
  3. Templates: starting points, including your own saved templates.
  4. Customize: common settings such as accent color, font and width.
  5. Version history: every version, with a screenshot, its number, who made it (you, Ownsite AI, ChatGPT, Claude...) and when.

#Change a look

There are three ways, and each one makes a draft:

Way Good for
Pick a template A whole new style in one step
Customize Colors, fonts and width
Ask an AI Anything else: new text, new sections, a full redesign

To use an AI, open Ownsite AI or your own connected AI and describe the change, for example: "Make the title on my home page shorter. Make a draft and don't publish it yet." The draft appears under Unpublished changes, marked with the AI's name.

Note:

An AI only writes what you tell it. It asks you for your history, prices and dates instead of making them up.

#Publish

Press Publish on a draft. Within about half a minute, everyone sees the new version.

If you still see the old page, refresh it, or try another browser. Some browsers keep old pages for a while.

#Templates

A template is a starting point for a look. Using one makes a draft, so nothing changes until you publish.

To keep a version you like as your own template, open its ··· menu in Version history and choose Save as template. It then appears under Templates.

Good to know:

On a page with blocks, such as your blog, a template only controls the layout. Your posts and items fill it in, so switching templates never loses any of them. On a page without blocks, the text and photos are part of the look, so they change along with it.

#Set a version aside

In a version's ··· menu, choose Don't want this. It moves to the bottom of the history. You can bring it back at any time with Restore. Nothing is ever deleted.

Roll backGo back to any earlier version.BlocksAdd things that grow, like a guestbook.