Your first 15 minutes

This walks you through one complete loop: find a page, change it, publish it. Once you have done that, everything else is a variation on the same pattern.

1. Sign in

Go to your BrightSite address and sign in with the email you were invited on. You land on the dashboard, which shows visitor numbers, recent activity and a count of your pages, posts and forms.

2. Find your pages

Click Pages in the bar across the top. You will see every page on your site. Pages that sit inside other pages are shown indented beneath their parent.

3. Open the editor

Click a page to open it. You get your real page on the right, and a panel on the left listing the parts of it you can change.

4. Change something

Click any piece of text on the page. It becomes editable and its settings appear in the left panel. Type something different.

Nothing has happened to your live site yet. Your change is saved as a draft.

5. Publish it

Click Publish. Confirm, and the change goes live within seconds.

Visit your site in another tab to see it. If the old version is still showing, reload the page. Your browser may have kept a copy.

What you just learned

That gap between step 4 and step 5 is the most important thing about BrightSite. You can change as much as you like and nothing reaches the public until you publish. If a change looks wrong, you can fix it or discard it with no consequence.

Where to go next

Read Touring the app for what every other menu does, or go straight to Using the visual editor if you would rather keep editing.