Getting to know the TOWeb screen

The sidebar

On the left, the sidebar leads to each part of your site:

• Sites: the list of your sites;
• Project: the overview of the open site;
• Theme: the style, colours, fonts, shapes and effects;
• Pages: the editor, where you write directly on your pages;
• Blog: your posts;
• Shop: products, collections, payments, shipping, taxes and promotions;
• Booking: what your visitors book (rooms, appointments, classes…);
• Documentation: the help articles or user guide you publish on your site;
• Media: your images, videos, sounds and documents;
• Settings: the site’s settings (general, SEO, languages, i-Services, cookies…).

At the bottom of the bar are Support, TOWeb Settings (the settings of the application itself: appearance, language, backup, updates, AI) and your licence; with the free edition, this is the Upgrade to Premium badge. On Mac, ⌘, also opens TOWeb Settings.

The top bar

• On the left, the name of the open site, or one tab per site when you open several. The + button (New tab) opens another site. When space runs short, the tabs shrink and then scroll, and the tab of the site on screen stays visible; the arrow to their right (List all open sites) opens the Open sites menu, which lists them all and lets you switch from one to another.
• On the right, an icon shows the AI assistant in use: a cloud for the Lauyan cloud AI, a chip for the AI installed on your computer, a key for your own key. Hovering shows the engine and the model, and a click opens its settings. Next come the save status, the Undo / Redo buttons, then Preview (your site as your visitors will see it) and Publish (putting it online), present on every screen as soon as a site is open. On a small screen, Preview and Publish keep only their icon.

TOWeb saves your work as you go. The save status is an icon: a green tick when everything is Saved, with the time on hover; a click then opens the version history. A change is flagged at once, from the first keystroke in a heading or a block text; a click on the icon saves it straight away, like ⌘S (Ctrl+S on Windows), which also saves the text you are typing.

The Project screen

This is the overview of your site. Here you will find:

• Pick up where you left off: the most recently edited items, to get back to them in one click;
• the number of pages, products, posts and media, with what is not yet published;
• the items to check before going live (a missing site address, for example), with a Fix button;
• the Publishing status, the Open the site button and the Dashboard button, which opens your site’s online dashboard once the site is published;
• What changed: recent activity on the site.