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Edit your page

Add, arrange and change cards on the canvas, apply a colour palette, and check the layout in mobile view.

When you finish, your page has the cards and colours you want. Every change is saved automatically.

The editor at a glance

  • The canvas in the middle is your page. Select a card to change it.
  • The toolbar at the top holds Add card, The cards on this page, Replacement checklist, Canvas appearance and theme, undo, redo, the device views, save, a button that opens the page in a new tab, and Page settings and publishing. The buttons show icons only; hover over one to see its name. On a narrow screen, some of them move to the bar at the bottom.
  • Only one panel is open at a time. Press Esc to close it.

Add a card

  1. Choose Add card in the toolbar.
  2. Pick a tab: Content, Media, Sections or Features.
  3. Choose the card you want.

The new card goes right after the selected card, or at the end if no card is selected. It is then selected and its settings open.

To put a new card between two others, point at the gap between them, choose Add a card here when it appears, then choose the card. This button appears only when you use a mouse.

On a phone-width screen you can also use Add card in the bar at the bottom.

Change a card

  1. Select the card on the canvas. Its settings open in a panel.
  2. Change its content.
  3. Switch to Appearance, then under Grid Size choose 1x1 Square, 2x1 Wide, 2x2 Large or Full Width.
  4. Choose Done.

Photos can be uploaded from your computer: a hero image, a gallery, an image card, a profile photo or a reviewer’s photo. Each account can keep up to 100 MB of uploaded images, or 1 GB with Pro. Below the upload spots for portraits, image cards and background photos, a line shows how much you have used of your limit; when it is full, an upload says the image storage is full. Once you replace or remove a picture, its space comes back when none of your pages, drafts or kept published versions uses it any more; deleting a page frees the images only that page used at once. Videos cannot be uploaded: put the video on YouTube, Vimeo or your own storage first, then paste its link into a video card.

Edit text on the canvas

Plain text on a card, such as a heading, a subheading, button text, a quote or its author, can be changed on the canvas itself.

  1. Double-click that text on the canvas. It takes a blue outline.
  2. Type.
  3. Press Enter, or click elsewhere on the canvas, to keep it; press Esc to leave the text as it was.

This is the same change as one made in the settings panel: it is saved automatically, and Ctrl+Z (Cmd+Z on a Mac) undoes it.

Rich text, list items and table cells are changed in the settings panel. Editing on the canvas is not offered at phone width; use the settings panel there.

Arrange cards

  • Point at a card to show its toolbar, then hold the handle (Drag to reorder) and drag the card to a new spot.
  • Or choose Move up or Move down to move it one place at a time.
  • To see every card in page order, choose The cards on this page in the toolbar (Cards in the bottom bar on a narrow screen). There you can also hide a card without deleting it: choose Hide from the page (the eye icon) next to it, and Show on the page brings it back. A hidden card does not appear on the public page.

Duplicate or delete a card

  • Duplicate: choose Duplicate card on the card’s toolbar, or select the card and press Ctrl+D (Cmd+D on a Mac). The copy goes right after the original.
  • Delete: choose Delete card on the card’s toolbar, or select the card and press Delete. You are not asked to confirm; if you delete the wrong card, press Ctrl+Z (Cmd+Z on a Mac) to undo.

Take a card to another page

A card you have finished can be moved whole to another page of your own.

  1. Choose Copy to the clipboard, to paste into another page on the card’s toolbar, or select the card and press Ctrl+C (Cmd+C on a Mac).
  2. Open the editor for the other page.
  3. Press Ctrl+V (Cmd+V on a Mac), or choose Paste card at the bottom of the card list. The card is placed after the selected card, or last when nothing is selected.

The clipboard lives in this browser on this computer: another computer, another browser, or clearing your browsing data leaves it empty. Images on the card keep their own addresses and are not uploaded again.

Theme and colours

  1. Choose Canvas appearance and theme in the toolbar (Canvas Style in the bottom bar on a narrow screen), or click an empty part of the canvas.
  2. The panel opens on its Colours tab; choose a palette under Theme Palettes. It sets the primary, accent, background and text colours together.
  3. To fine-tune, change Primary Brand Color, Accent Highlight Color or Primary Text Color. The page background colour is changed on the Background tab.

The Colours tab also sets the page’s typeface under Brand typefaces, and Heading typeface can give headings a different one. Layout sets the width, alignment and spacing of the box that holds the cards, Background sets the page background (a solid colour, a gradient or a photo), and Card surface sets the surface, corners, border and shadow of that box. On Card surface, Page corners rounds every card on the page at once; a card that sets its own Corner radius keeps it.

Check the mobile view

  1. Choose Switch to Mobile View in the toolbar.
  2. Check how the cards are arranged at phone width.
  3. Choose Switch to Desktop View to go back.

The device view buttons appear on screens at least 640 pixels wide. For the most accurate check, open the page on your own phone: while you are signed in to the same account, you can see it even as a draft.

Saving

  • Changes are saved automatically about a second after you make them. Once the page has been saved since you opened the editor, hover over the save icon in the toolbar to see when.
  • To save right away, click the save icon or press Ctrl+S (Cmd+S on a Mac). The save icon cannot be clicked while a save is in progress.
  • If a change cannot be saved, the save icon turns red and its name reads Not saved (click to try again). The editor tries again a few times by itself; click the icon to try at once. When a card or a setting is the reason, a message near the top of the screen says what to change.
  • Undo goes back up to 49 steps from the time you opened the editor.

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