Publish your website

Do this

1. Open your website in the editor.
2. Press Publish at the top.
3. Read the quick check. Fix anything it stops you on; anything it only warns about, you can pass.
4. Press Publish in the sheet to send it live.

What happens next: within a few seconds your website is live at the address shown in the publish sheet, and it stays exactly as published until you publish again. Nothing else on your account changes.

What publishing means

While you work, your changes are private. The website other people see online does not change at all. When you're happy, you press Publish, and SnabbSajt makes a fresh public copy of your website. Until that moment, the live website stays exactly as it was.

So you can edit freely. Nothing you change reaches the world until you choose to publish it.

See what will happen before you publish

The publish sheet immediately shows whether the website is Not published, Published, or has Unpublished changes. If it is already live, you can review the changes before publishing again.

It also shows the address visitors should use. If you have connected a custom primary address, that address appears instead of the SnabbSajt address. From the same sheet you can copy the address, open address settings, or take the whole website offline.

Show it to someone first

Want a second pair of eyes before the website goes live? Press Share next to Publish and send a preview link. It shows what you're working on, needs no account from whoever looks, and none of it becomes public. How to do it.

The quick check before you publish

Each time you publish, SnabbSajt runs one complete server check of the final version that would go live. The publish sheet and the final Publish button use the same result, so a website cannot look ready and then be judged by a different set of checks.

A few things it will stop and ask you to fix first:

• Your home page is empty, with nothing on it to show.
• There's no way for visitors to reach you - no contact section, booking, or enquiry form.
• Contact details or proof still contain example values that are not yours.
• An owner-only placeholder, an unsupported trial font, or a website that is too large to publish is still present.

Other things are only a gentle warning you can pass - for example, a missing phone number on a call-focused website or generic template wording that is safe but not yet personal.

Two of the warnings are about visitors who do not see the screen the way you do:

• An image with no description. Write briefly what it shows. That is what someone using a screen reader hears instead of the picture, and Google reads it too.
• A button that does not say where it goes - "Click here" - or two buttons with the same words going to different places. Write what actually happens: "Book a time", "See our prices".

Neither one stops you publishing. Both are worth a minute anyway.

The check also points out text that is still word for word the standard text a section comes with - the sentence that was there before you wrote anything of your own. It is your website and your words, so you can press Publish anyway and it goes live. But it is worth a look: text that came with the template says nothing about your business, and visitors notice.

If it says some changes aren't saved

Sometimes the publish sheet tells you some of your changes aren't saved, and the button can't be pressed. That means something you wrote or changed never reached us - usually because the connection dropped for a moment.

The changes aren't lost. They're held in the browser you were working in, on that particular computer or phone. Publishing anyway would leave them off your live website, and we won't do that behind your back.

Here's how to fix it:

1. Check that you're online.
2. If you're in the editor, press Try again in the notice. If you're somewhere else, press Open the editor and try again from there.
3. When the message disappears, everything has arrived and you can publish as usual.

Open the same website in a different browser or on another device and you won't see these changes - they belong to the browser where you made them. Go back there and try again.

If your website has more than one language

Translation happens in the background, after your website is already live. It never holds up publishing. When it is done, the publish sheet tells you what happened for each language - translated, still working, or not translated because your AI credits ran out. A language that was not translated simply shows your main language to visitors, so nothing is broken or missing. More about languages.

Publish everything, or just one page

You can publish your whole website, or just a single page.

Watch out for one thing: if you change something that appears across the whole website - like your phone number, your colours, or your logo - and then publish only one page, that change will not go live. To push a website-wide change, publish the whole website, or choose to include your website settings when you publish.

Taking a news article offline

If you unpublish a news article, it leaves your live website straight away - there's no delay. So only do it when you're sure.

Next: connect your own web address.

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