When a build finishes, your site is a draft. Nobody outside your organization can see it until it is published, and publishing is always something a person on your team does - a generated site never publishes itself. This article covers how to read the draft through, fix what needs fixing, and publish.
Looking at the draft
On your site’s overview, choose View your website. The draft opens in a new tab, marked as a draft only you and your team can see. Every member of your organization can open it.
Read it the way a customer would. Generated writing can sound sure of itself and still be wrong, so check the facts rather than the tone:
- Phone number, email address and location are the ones you use
- Opening hours and service areas are right
- Every service listed is one you actually offer
- No claim appears that you did not make - awards, years, guarantees
- Photographs suit the section they sit in
Fixing what is wrong
From the draft, choose Edit this page to open the editor. Click any piece of text to change it in the side panel. If you want help with the wording, the panel’s Ask Juno options rewrite the text to be shorter, friendlier, more professional, or spelled correctly, or you can tell Juno what to change in your own words. Juno’s version appears on the page for you to save or discard.
In the same panel you can change a picture, hide a section, or update a link. The editor saves as you go, has an Undo button, and lets you see the page at desktop, tablet and phone widths. Owners, Admins and Editors can edit; Viewers can look but not change anything.
If parts of the site could not be written, the overview lists them with a Write these again button - see What happens when a generation fails.
Publishing
When the draft is right, press Publish on the overview. Only Owners and Admins can publish; Editors see the button marked for Admins only. Publishing makes your site reachable at its address and records a numbered version, which you can see in the publish history on the Versions screen.
After your site is live
This is the part worth knowing before you publish: once a site is live, changes you save in the editor appear to visitors straight away. Saving is publishing, in effect. So once you are live, make an edit when you are sure of it, and check the page afterwards. Pressing Publish again records another version in your history.
Going back to an earlier version from the Versions screen is not switched on yet, so keep your own note of any wording you might want back.