Your first 15 minutes

Sign in, find your way around, change some text, and put it live.

Updated September 23, 2026
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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.

The home dashboard you land on after signing in, with a welcome message, quick buttons, visitor and page view counts, and a visitors chart.
Signing in drops you here, on the home dashboard. Pages is in the sidebar on the left.

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 sidebar on the left. 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. The editor has three parts: a tree of the page's elements on the left, your real page in the middle, and a settings panel on the right for whatever you select.

4. Change something

Click any piece of text on the page. Its settings appear in the panel on the right. Type something different there.

Click Save in the toolbar. Nothing has happened to your live site yet. Your change is saved as a draft.

5. Publish it

Click Publish. It is only available once your changes are saved. 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.

Still stuck? Ask Lumi inside the app, or send us a note and a person will answer.