Publishing and taking your site offline

Everything you change on your website goes to your draft. Publishing puts the draft live as a new version, so visitors see it. You can publish again whenever you change something.

Publish your website

1. Open Website. The Overview tab shows whether your site is Live, Offline or Draft — not published yet, and your site's address.
2. Press Preview to see your draft as visitors will, in a new tab. Only you can see it.
3. Press Publish. You can also press Publish in the website builder's top bar (see Edit your site on the page), or Save and publish on the Details tab.

If something is in the way, the page lists it under Before you can publish, with a link to put it right where there is one.

What has to be ready first

• STIL LAB has accepted your account.
• Your site has a title and a contact email.
• At least one photograph is on sale: a public photograph with a priced product.
• Stripe is set up and says your account is ready, because customers pay only by card.
• Every photograph your site shows is public.

If Studio asks you to add your card for your membership, that is the last step before your site can go live, and it is shown on the Website page.

Take your site offline

Press Take my site offline on the Overview tab. Your versions are kept, and publishing again puts your site back.

Publish an earlier version again

Under Published versions, press Publish this version again beside the one you want. It goes live as a new version, and your draft is replaced with it. If anything in it is no longer available, such as a photograph you have deleted or archived since, it goes live without it and the page tells you to look it over.

Good to know

• To change your site's address, type a new one under Address and press Change address. Use lower-case letters, numbers and hyphens. Links to the old address stop working. Once your site has been live, the old address stays yours for 90 days, so nobody else can take it.
• If your site is live but your Stripe account stops being ready, your site stays live and visitors are told you are not taking orders just now. Ordering opens again by itself once Stripe says your account is ready.