---
title: "Visual editor"
slug: "product/visual-editor"
fullSlug: "product/visual-editor"
description: "The editor is the live site. Click any text and type over it, drag sections to rearrange, format a few words, and publish when it reads right."
status: "published"
visibility: "public"
site: "AWD CMS"
---

# Visual editor

> The editor is the live site. Click any text and type over it, drag sections to rearrange, format a few words, and publish when it reads right.

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# The editor is the page

Click the words and type. That is the one thing this editor asks anybody to learn.

[Try the editor](/sandbox)

## What clicking does

Every part of a page is a block, and every block answers a click.

### Type over any text

Headlines, paragraphs, button labels, the name in the menu — click, type, done. The look holds because words and styling are stored apart.

### Format a few words

Select some words and a bar floats over them: bold, italic, underline, colour, highlight, size, font, link. Colours are your site’s own colours first.

### Drag a section

Every section has a handle. Drag it up or down and the rest of the page moves out of the way as you go. Buttons, columns and cards move the same way.

### Add a part

A + between sections offers what belongs there: a banner, what you offer, a button that asks people to get in touch, questions people ask, a table, a picture.

### See it on a phone

One switch draws the page in a phone frame, in the editor, so you fix the mobile view where you can see it.

### Undo, revisions, publish

Every edit is undoable. Every publish is a revision you can go back to. Drafts stay private until you press Publish.

## Questions people ask

### Can I break the design?

Not by typing. The page is made of blocks with their own styling, so replacing the words in a heading leaves the heading a heading.

### Does it work on a phone?

Yes. Every control clears a thumb’s width, nothing depends on hovering, and the settings sheets rise above the keyboard.

### Where is the dashboard?

There is a small one for the things a page is not — pages, messages, domains, settings — and it slides in beside the site rather than replacing it.

## Try it on a throwaway site

The sandbox needs no account and forgets everything when you close it.

[Try the editor](/sandbox)

[Start free](/onboarding)

A website you change by clicking on it. Built by Armstrong Web Development.