Edit mode — click to edit, swap pictures, mark changes
Change words and pictures directly on the preview, or draw a box and describe a change.
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Click Edit in the preview toolbar (the pencil). Your preview opens in a full-screen editing room, so you can work directly on your page with nothing else in the way. The room has three buttons at the top:
- Cancel asks "Are you sure?" first. If you say Yes, discard, everything you changed since you opened the editing room is undone and the room closes. Choose Keep editing to carry on. Pressing Esc, or clicking outside the room, asks the same question.
- Done editing saves what you were typing and closes the room. Your changes are on your preview, not live yet.
- Go live saves, closes the room and takes you to the same page as the Make it live button, where you make your website live to the Internet.
If Chip is working on something, the three buttons wait and say "Chip is still working. Please wait a moment." The phone, tablet and laptop buttons are at the top of the room too. The room opens and closes with a slow, smooth one-second animation (or a quick fade if you've asked your device to reduce motion).
Change words
Click any text on the preview and type right where it sits. It keeps the same font, color and size as the rest of the page. Headings, paragraphs, menu items, links, button labels, captions and footer text all work. Clicking a link or button changes its label; it doesn't open the link.
A small bar appears just above or below the text:
- Save, or press Enter (or Ctrl/Cmd+Enter), saves the change. Clicking anywhere else on the page does the same.
- Cancel, or press Esc, puts the original words back.
If you didn't change anything, nothing is saved. Your edit is saved to your preview straight away, with no AI involved, so nothing else on the page changes. If the same words appear more than once on a page, DollarSite can't be sure which one you mean and will suggest describing the change to Chip instead. Text inside a shared header or footer updates on every page.
If a menu item shows in capital letters, you'll edit it the way it's stored (for example "About") and the page keeps showing it in capitals. Text that has bold, italic or a line break in the middle of it, and things like forms and calendars, are changed by asking Chip. Only plain text is kept when you paste.
Swap a picture
Click an image to pick a new one: upload a picture or choose one you've already uploaded. You can also choose Ask Chip instead to describe what you want.
Mark changes
Drag a box around anything — a section, a button, an empty gap — and write what should change ("less space here", "make this button bigger"). Add as many marks as you like; they collect in a list under the preview. Click Send and Chip makes them all together in one pass.
Device preview
Use the desktop / phone toggle in the toolbar to check how your site looks on a small screen. Every site is built mobile-first.
Every edit is saved as a version — see Undo and versions.