The first step to perform any changes to your Weebly website is to login to its dashboard. It’s where you can find useful information about your website and account in general. Here’s a full guide to the Weebly Site Dashboard or, simply, continue reading this article so you learn from scratch how to navigate the Weebly editor.
How to Access the Weebly Site Editor
Once loggin in to the Weebly Site Dashboard, hit ‘Edit Site’. If the site you want to edit is missing, try clicking the arrow to view a list of every website in your account. Choose the one you want, and then hit the edit site button.
Now you’re in, you should be seeing something similar to the below image
Well, the Weebly site editor has three main sections. You’ll be usually using the buttons at the very top.
The Build tab has all the things you need to create your website. Clicking on it will show all of the elements, organized into categories.
Now the Pages tab has all the pages already added to your website. This section allows to add, copy, delete and edit any web pages. Clicking on any page here will load that page on the right hand side of the screen so you can easily start editing.
From the themes tab, you can browse, preview, and choose a different theme. You can also, pick different fonts for the various text-based elements on your site.
The Store tab is a where you can start and manage an online store.
The Apps tab allows to search, browse, install and manage any kind of apps from the Weebly App Center.
The last tab we have is ‘Settings’,it’s where you can configure a number of global attributes for your website, including the site address, password, and more.
We hope this article helped you learn how to master the Weebly Site Editor. You may also want to see our guide on how to access and use the Weebly Site Dashboard.
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We are redesigning our website. How do we build a new site while keeping the old site published? How do we create a link so others can see the work being done on the site?
Hi Danine, not sure if I am getting the story right, you’d just need to work on the new website from the Weebly Site Editor without hitting the “Publish” button, this will leave the old website published.
I have added a PAGE on a Free Weebly account but I don’t see any way to build it our. What am I missing?