Writing your first page
From an empty screen to something live on your website, in about two minutes.
To add an item, choose its list under Content in the sidebar and press + New. To edit an existing website page, choose it under Pages; its editor opens directly.
- Give it a title. Type into the big box at the top. Underneath, a short version of the title appears in grey — that is the slug, the part that ends up in the web address. It is written for you and you can almost always leave it alone.
- Fill in the fields. What you see depends on what your site holds. A page might want a summary and a body; a product might want a price and a photo. A red dot beside a label means that one is required.
- Press Save draft. Your writing is kept in Inkling, but visitors cannot see it yet. Save again after making more changes.
- Publish when ready. After saving, use Publish page in the visual editor, or open All fields & publishing and press Publish now in the Publishing panel.
The writing box
The body field has a small row of buttons above it: paragraph and heading levels, bold, italic, bullet and numbered lists, a quote, a picture, and a horizontal rule. There are undo and redo arrows, and a box for pasting a link.
To make a link, select the words you want to be clickable first, then paste the address into the link box. Pasting from Word or a web page is safe — the formatting is cleaned up on the way in, so you will not accidentally import someone else's fonts.
The arrows at the far right expand the box to fill the screen, which is worth knowing about for anything long.