Pages and sections
How a Spanli site is put together — a handful of pages, each made of bands you can add, remove and reorder by asking.
Your site is a small number of pages, and each page is a stack of sections — the bands you scroll past one after another.
That is the whole vocabulary. If you can say "the bit at the top of the home page with the big photo", you already know enough.
The pages
Most small sites need four or five: a home page, something about you, a list of what you do, and a way to get in touch. Spanli picks the right set for your kind of business when it builds the site, and you were shown that set while you were answering the first questions.
To change it, ask:
- "Add a page for frequently asked questions."
- "We do not need a separate about page — put it on the home page."
- "Rename Services to What we do."
The sections
A section is one band on a page: the big opening at the top, a row of services, some photographs, prices, opening hours, reviews from customers, the contact form. A page is these stacked in an order.
Ask for what you want in the same plain way:
- "Add a section with our opening hours under the photos."
- "Move the reviews above the prices."
- "Take the team section off — there is only me."
- "The bit at the top is too tall, it pushes everything down."
You can also point at the section instead of describing where it is. See Pointing at something.
Sections versus lists
These two get confused, and knowing the difference saves you time.
| What it is | How you change it | |
|---|---|---|
| A section | A band on a page — its layout and its words | Ask in chat |
| A list | The repeating things inside it — each dish, each project | Fill in a form |
So "put the menu on the home page as well" is a section change, and asking for it in chat is right. "The lasagne is 14 now" is a list change, and going to the list is faster than chatting. See The lists you keep.
The words on the page
Every line on your site was written for you as a first draft, from what you told Spanli about the business. It is meant to be argued with.
Any sentence you do not like, say which one and what is wrong: "the first line sounds stiff", "we are not a boutique, we are a barber", "say it in half as many words". You do not have to rewrite it yourself unless you want to — though if you paste in your own wording, that is what gets used.