While you work on your site, nobody else sees it. Every change you make is a draft, saved only for you. When a page is ready, you publish it, and from that moment visitors see it at your site's address.

This guide explains drafts and publishing, how to preview a page, how to put your whole site online or take it offline, and how to use your own domain.

Draft and published

Each page has two versions:

The draft — what you see in the editor. The editor saves it as you work: the top bar says Draft saved. You can also press Save.
The published page — what visitors see. It changes only when you press Publish page.

So you can change a page calmly, over several days, and visitors keep seeing the old version until you publish. In the Pages panel, the small dot next to each page tells you where it stands: Published, Draft — unpublished changes or Never published.

Preview before you publish

The three icons in the middle of the top bar show the page as on a computer, a tablet and a phone. Check the phone view: most visitors arrive from a phone (see Your site on a phone).
Preview opens the page in a new tab with all your latest changes, even the ones you haven't published. Only you can see this preview.

Publish a page

Open the page in the editor.
Press Publish page at the top right. When the page has changes waiting, the button is highlighted.
The Page published window shows the page's address. Press Copy link to share it, or Open site to see it as a visitor.

The very first time you publish a page, your whole site goes online: the label next to your site's name changes from Offline to Online.

Each page is published on its own. If you changed three pages, publish all three. If the menu links to a page that is still a draft, the app warns you with Unpublished pages in the menu: that link stays hidden until you publish the page.

Publish theme, header and footer

Colours, fonts, the header (with its menu) and the footer are shared by every page. When you're editing them from Theme or Layout, the button in the top bar becomes Publish settings: press it to show the changes on every page at once.

Publishing any page also publishes your latest theme, header and footer changes.

Your site's address

Your site has a Mosaii.co address from day one, on every plan. It looks like mosaii.co/your-name/site/your-site. You find it in Settings (in the left bar), under Custom Domain, next to Your site is available at:, with buttons to copy it or open it.

To change its last part, go to Settings › Site Information › Subdomain, type the new name and press Save Changes.

Take your site offline

Need to hide the whole site for a while? You don't have to delete anything.

In the top bar, click the Online label next to your site's name.
Choose Take site offline and confirm.

Visitors can't see any page any more, your own domain included. Your pages stay ready: to bring them back, click the Offline label and choose Put site back online.

Use your own domain

If you own a domain, like www.yourstudio.com, you can show your site there instead of the Mosaii.co address. Custom domains are included in paid plans.

Open Settings from the left bar and go to Custom Domain.
Type your domain under Domain and press Add Domain.
The app shows the DNS Configuration Required records: a CNAME record (or an ALIAS record for a domain without www) and a TXT record that proves the domain is yours.
Sign in where you bought the domain (your registrar) and add those records exactly as shown. Delete any old A, AAAA or CNAME records with the same name.
Come back and press Verify DNS. When everything is right, the domain shows Active, and the secure connection (SSL) turns on by itself.

Be patient: DNS changes can take up to 48 hours to reach everyone. If Verify DNS says the domain is still pending, try again later.

Added more than one domain? Press Set as primary on the one you want visitors to see.

On the Free plan

Your site goes online on its Mosaii.co address. Your own domain needs a paid plan.
One website can be online at a time. If you put a second one online, the app asks first: the other site goes back to draft, and you lose nothing. You can switch them back whenever you want.

Good habits

Preview on a phone, then publish. It takes a minute and saves surprises.
Publish the page, then link it. A page that's in the menu but not published stays hidden.
Share the link from the Page published window. It's always the right address, with your domain when you have one.
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