Pointing at something to change it

The hardest part of changing a website is explaining which bit you mean. "The text under the second photo — no, the other one — a bit lower." The describing takes longer than the change.

So you do not describe it. You point at it.

How to do it

There is nothing to switch on. In the preview of your own site:

1. Move over the thing you want changed — a heading, a photo, a price, a button, a whole band across the page. It lights up, and a small pencil appears beside it.
2. Click the pencil. A box opens asking "What should change about this element?"
3. Type the change in your own words: "make this bigger", "wrong price, it is 15", "this photo, but the one of the counter". Send it.

The part you picked is attached to your message, so the change lands on exactly the thing you were pointing at and nothing else.

If the highlight grabs something smaller or larger than you meant — the word rather than the whole heading — there is a control beside the pencil to step through what is behind it until the right thing is lit.

Cancel closes the box without sending anything.

It knows what you were looking at

This is the part that matters and is easy to miss: Spanli gets the screen size you were looking at, as well as the thing you clicked.

So if you are on your phone, and the buttons are stacked awkwardly, and you point at them and say "these look cramped", the fix is made for the phone layout — not for a laptop where they already looked fine.

You can also switch the preview between a phone-shaped and a laptop-shaped view while you work, which is the fastest way to find the things that only go wrong on one of them.

When pointing is the wrong tool

Pointing is for precision — one thing, one change. For anything bigger, just say it in the chat instead:

• "Add a section about our guarantee."
• "Make the whole site warmer."
• "Rewrite the about page, it sounds stiff."

You can mix the two freely in the same conversation.

If it changes the wrong thing

Say so, in the same chat, and it gets fixed. And nothing you do here is permanent: your site keeps a history, so a change you regret can be put back in one click. See Putting things back.