# Find your way around Website: draft, preview and publish

> Website's three tabs, your free address, the draft and the live site, a preview link, Publish, and throwing a draft away.

Checked 10 November 2026 · https://docs.seascape.bz/website/find-your-way-around-website

Every shop can have a website with booking built in. You build it in **Website**, in the sidebar. Website has three tabs, and **Edit site** opens the editor full screen. The settings around your website (your brand, domains, search and sharing) are in **Settings**, and the Overview links to each one.

## Find your way around Website
1. In the sidebar, press [**Website**](https://app.seascape.bz/dashboard/website).
2. Use the three tabs at the top: **Overview**, **Pages** and **Design**.
3. Press **Edit site** to open the editor. [Edit a page](https://docs.seascape.bz/website/edit-a-page) explains it.

What each tab is for:

- **Overview** is the front page of your website. **Your website** shows whether it is **Live**, its address, your booking page, the theme, how many pages are live and who published last. **View live site** opens it.
- **Waiting in your draft** lists every change that isn't live yet: pages, brand changes and search details. **See** opens each one.
- **Domains** shows your addresses. **Quick links** has your booking link with a copy button, **Add a page**, **Change the menu**, **Try another theme** and **Ask the website assistant**.
- **Website settings** links to the website settings that live in **Settings**: Brand, Domains, Search and sharing and more.
- **Pages** lists your pages, your activity pages and your menu: see [Pages and the menu](https://docs.seascape.bz/website/pages-and-the-menu).
- **Design** is where you compare themes: see [Your website's look](https://docs.seascape.bz/website/your-websites-look).

![Website, Overview tab, with three changes waiting in the draft](https://docs.seascape.bz/img/website/web-1-overview.667a9c904e.webp)
*The Overview tab, with three changes waiting in the draft.*

On a phone, the three tabs stretch across the top of the screen, and **Overview** has **Edit site** and **Publish** under the picture of your site.

## Start your website
A shop with no website yet sees You don't have a website yet on **Overview**. Nothing goes live until you publish.

1. In the sidebar, press [**Website**](https://app.seascape.bz/dashboard/website).
2. Press **Set up your look** to start from your colours, fonts and logo: see [Set up your look](https://docs.seascape.bz/website/your-websites-look#set-up-your-look). Or press **Start with a simple site**.
3. In the editor, press **Set up my website**. Seascape builds a home page with your shop's name, your activities and your next departures, plus an About page and a Contact page.

Anything you chose before your website existed is kept: the tagline, locked logos and social links in **Settings** → **Brand**, a theme you picked, and the design system you use.

## Your free address
Every shop gets a free web address, like yourname.myseascape.site. It shows beside the **Live** badge at the top of Website. It always works, even after you connect a domain of your own. [Your own address](https://docs.seascape.bz/website/your-own-address) explains addresses.

## Your draft and your live site
Your website has two versions:

- **The draft** is what you are working on. Every change saves to it as you go, and the editor says **Saved to your draft**.
- **The live site** is what visitors see. It changes only when you press **Publish**.

The draft also holds page names, addresses and the menu, a new theme, and brand changes made in **Settings** → **Brand**.

## Show someone a preview before you publish
1. Press **Preview** at the top of Website, or at the top of the editor.
2. Seascape opens your draft in a new tab, on a link of its own. Send that link to someone to check.

> [!NOTE]
> A preview link works for an hour. Press **Preview** again for a fresh one.

## Publish your website
Publishing never changes prices, deposits, terms, waiver text or bookings already made.

1. Press **Publish** at the top of Website or the editor. **Review changes** on the Overview opens the same window.
2. Seascape lists what goes live, and asks once.
3. If your brand colour changed, the list also names every other place it shows: your booking pages, trip calendar, booking popup, emails and share cards.
4. If your draft still has a blank in double square brackets, Publish lists it first. See [Blanks to fill in](https://docs.seascape.bz/website/undo-history-and-two-people-editing#blanks).
5. Press **Publish now**.

## Throw away your draft
Discarding never changes your live site. Pages that were never published are removed from the draft.

1. On **Overview**, press **Discard draft**.
2. Seascape asks first. Press **Discard draft** again, or **Keep it**.
3. Every page, your theme, your brand and your menu go back to what is live now.
4. Changed your mind? **Undo discard** brings the draft back, until you change something else.

> [!NOTE]
> **Discard draft** shows while your site is live, and only on a computer.

> [!PERMISSION] See the website editor
> Seeing Website needs **See the website editor**, and changing anything needs **Edit the website**. Both start off for staff. Change them in **Settings** → **Users and permissions**.