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Website editor

Build and update your restaurant's website yourself — pages, texts, photos and colours — and publish it when you are happy.

23 articles 120 min read

With the website editor you change your website yourself, without a web designer. What you change in the editor is first kept in a draft that only you and your team can see. Guests see your changes only after you click Publish — and if something goes wrong, you can go back to an earlier version at any time.

New here? Start with What the website editor does, then follow Your first steps.

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  1. 1 What the website editor does Your website in one place — change it in a draft, check it in the preview, and publish it when you are happy. 4 min read
  2. 2 Your first steps Open the website editor, find your way around the screen, and publish your first change. 7 min read
  3. 3 Pages Add, rename, sort and delete the pages of your website, and learn what is special about the home page and a Booking page. On a party website: private pages and the login page. 7 min read
  4. 4 Who sees a page or a section On a party website, choose for every page and every section whether everyone, only signed-in guests, or only visitors who are not signed in see it. How the home page and the menu follow, and where guests land after signing in. 6 min read
  5. 5 Sections Build your pages from sections — add them, change texts and photos, pick a layout, and move, hide, copy or delete them. 8 min read
  6. 6 Places and directions The Places & directions section lists the venue, the church, parking, shuttle, restaurants and hotels of the day, with times, phone numbers, map links and booking links. 4 min read
  7. 7 Guest photo sharing Let your guests add the photos they take at your party and share the ones they like. Photos stay private until they are shared. The three things that have to be in place, and how to switch the Photos page on and off. 6 min read
  8. 8 Guestbook Let your guests write you a message on your party website. A message stays private until it is shared. How to add the Guestbook page, what you and your guests can do, and the printable book. 4 min read
  9. 9 Your table Show every guest which table they sit at. Add the Your table page, switch the table on in the Seating planner and decide whether guests also see who sits with them. 4 min read
  10. 10 How guests sign in How the sign-in link works for a household, how to send a personal link by WhatsApp, Viber, SMS or e-mail, what guests can do about their signed-in devices, and what to do when a link does not work. 5 min read
  11. 11 Events on your website Show your events on your website as teasers — one event or a list, each in four designs. Every event opens on its own event website, where guests read the details and book. 8 min read
  12. 12 Templates, colours and fonts Give your website its look — start from a ready-made template, or pick your own colours, fonts and background. 6 min read
  13. 13 What the template choices do One page or several, how your menus appear, how guests book and whether your other locations are listed — what each option does when you build a website from a template. 4 min read
  14. 14 Site name, menu and footer Set your website's name and logo, the links in the menu bar and footer, your social media, and the texts search engines show. 6 min read
  15. 15 Images Upload your own photos, crop them or add text, use them in your sections, and remove the ones you no longer need. 6 min read
  16. 16 Languages Show your website in several languages, fill in your texts for each one, and let the editor translate them for you. 5 min read
  17. 17 Preview your draft See exactly how your website will look — on a computer, a tablet and a phone — before your guests do. 3 min read
  18. 18 Privacy check and View as See your party website the way a stranger and a signed-in guest see it, and let the Privacy check list and fix everything a visitor can see that should be for your guests. 4 min read
  19. 19 Publish your changes Make your edits visible to guests with one click, undo a publish if you change your mind, and share your website address. 5 min read
  20. 20 Version history Every publish is kept as a version. Look at older versions, put one back online, or continue editing from one. 5 min read
  21. 21 Hide your website Take your website offline for a while — guests then see your standard booking page — and put it back online when you are ready. 3 min read
  22. 22 Several locations Run more than one restaurant? Switch between their websites, link them together, and copy your design to all of them at once. 5 min read
  23. 23 Troubleshooting Solutions for the messages and problems you may run into in the website editor. 5 min read