Publish a page Sam built

Webpages is where every page you and your team build lives, from first draft through to published.

Find it in the left navigation, just above My Media. Counts at the top show your total pages, how many are published, how many are still drafts, and how many are on your storefront, with the full list below.

Two ways to create a page

Both end up in the same place, so pick whichever suits what you are doing.

• Start from Webpages. Select New Page, describe what the page is for, and Sam builds the first version.
• Ask Sam. Describe the page you want in a chat. It lands in Webpages, and in the Workbench alongside everything else Sam has made for you.

The Workbench in Sam

Creating a page from Webpages

Select New Page and fill in three things.

• Name: what you will call the page inside Sam.
• Slug: the part of the web address that identifies this page, such as my-sales-page. Keep it short and readable.
• What is this page for? A sentence or two describing the page. This is what Sam builds from, so include the sections you know you want. "A landing page for my 6-week strength course launching in October, with a waitlist signup" is enough to work from.

Then select Create page. The first version takes around twenty seconds, and opens in the editor ready for you to change.

Each page carries a type, which you will see against it in the list.

Changing the page

The editor has your page on the right and a chat with Sam on the left. There is no separate preview, so what you are looking at is the page. The three icons at the top right switch between desktop, tablet and phone widths.

There are three ways to change something, and you can move between them freely.

Chat with Sam

Describe a change in the box at the bottom left, such as "make the hero shorter" or "add an FAQ section", and Sam edits the page. Every change is logged above the box, and the most recent one has an Undo.

Annotate

Select Annotate, then click the part of the page you want changed and leave a note, the way you would mark up a proof. Each note gets a Fix button to run that one change, and Fix all runs everything you have marked at once. The counter at the top steps through them.

Notes stay on the page until they are actioned or deleted, so they double as a way for the rest of your team to leave comments on a draft.

Clicking an element while Annotate is on gives you two tabs: Tell SAM to leave a note about it, or Edit to change it yourself.

Edit it yourself

Click a heading or a paragraph and type. Text is editable straight on the page.

Clicking an element also brings up its own controls.

• Section: vertical padding.
• Text: the words and their alignment.
• Image: alt text, and Replace image.

Replace image opens a picker.

Search Unsplash or Getty, use Your media for anything already in your account including images Sam has generated, or Upload a file of your own. Choose one and select Use image.

Select Apply changes to commit an edit.

Publishing and domains

Your page stays a Draft until you select Publish at the top right, so nothing is live while you are still working on it.

Published pages go live on a free domain that comes with your account, so you can publish and share a page without owning a domain or setting anything up.

If you have your own domain, you can connect it and publish your pages there instead.

Publish on your own domain

Make a page your homepage

Your main address, with nothing after the slash, shows your storefront. To show one of your pages there instead, open the three-dot menu at the end of its row and select Set as Homepage.

The page gets a Homepage badge in the list.

Visitors to your domain now land on that page.

• On your own domain, this is the page visitors see at the domain itself, such as yourbusiness.com, rather than only at an address like yourbusiness.com/offer.
• Only a published page can be your homepage. If you do not see Set as Homepage, publish the page first.
• One page at a time. Setting a different page replaces the current one.
• To go back to your storefront, select Remove as Homepage from the same menu. If you unpublish or delete the page, your main address shows your storefront again on its own.

Collecting sign-ups

Ask Sam to add a sign-up form and every person who fills it in lands in the Leads tab under Webpages. See Collect sign-ups with a form on your page.

Finding and managing your pages

Your pages are listed below the counts, each showing its name and slug, its type, whether it is published or still a draft, whether it is listed on your storefront, and when it was last updated.

Search by name, or narrow the list with the type and status filters.

Each row has controls at the end. The pencil opens the page in the editor, and published pages get a control to open the live page in a new tab. Drafts show a Publish button so you can take a page live without opening it first.

The three-dot menu holds the rest:

• Publish Changes: pushes your latest edits live.
• Settings: options for that page, including its SEO title, social image, favicon and tracking scripts. See Add a Meta Pixel or tracking code to your page.
• List on Storefront: adds the page to your storefront. Pages that are on it show as Listed.
• Archive: moves the page out of your active list.
• Delete: removes the page permanently.

Frequently Asked Questions

Where do the pages my team creates end up?
In Webpages in the left navigation, whether you built them there yourself or asked Sam to make one in a chat.

How long does Sam take to build a page?
Around twenty seconds for the first version. Changes after that are quick too.

Does building a page use credits?
It uses credits when Sam does the work, which means an instruction in the chat or an annotation you run. Editing the page yourself does not.

Can I undo something Sam changed?
Yes. The change log above the chat box has an Undo on the most recent change.

Do I need my own domain to publish a page?
No. Your account comes with a free domain, so you can publish straight away. Connecting your own domain is an option, not a requirement.

Will my page go live as soon as I create it?
No. Pages stay as drafts until you select Publish.

What is the slug for?
It is the part of the web address that identifies your page. Short and readable works best, since it is what people see and share.

Can I change a page after publishing it?
Yes. Open it from Webpages and edit it in the editor. Your edits do not go live until you select Publish Changes from the page's three-dot menu.

What is the difference between archiving and deleting a page?
Archive moves a page out of your active list. Delete removes it permanently, so use that one carefully.