Every long box in the editor has a row of buttons over it. Select some words and press one. There is nothing to learn and nothing to remember.
The buttons
- Heading and Sub-heading. Two sizes, and that is all there are. Press the same button again to take it off.
- Bold and Italic. For a word or two, not for a paragraph.
- Accent. Marks a word or a line in your club’s own colour.
- Link. Select the words first. The address is where your cursor lands, so you can paste straight over it.
- List. One line becomes one bullet.
- Quote. The sentence your club is proud of, set apart.
There is no colour picker, and that is on purpose. One colour runs through the whole site, so nothing on your website ends up in a colour nobody can read. A blank line starts a new paragraph.
The preview
The preview beside the boxes keeps up as you type. It is the real page rather than a picture of one, so you are looking at what a visitor would read rather than guessing.
On a phone there is no room for a list and a website side by side, so the preview is behind a Preview button instead.
It saves as you go
You do not save. Your words go in as you type them, and again when you leave the box. Nothing is public either way: it all sits in your draft until you press Publish.
Two of you can work on it the same evening. If somebody else saved while you had the screen open, what you are looking at is replaced with what is really there and the screen says so. Nobody loses a paragraph without being told.
How long a page can be
Every box has a limit and the editor stops you at it. About is a paragraph or two. A page of your own is a page, with headings and a quote in it. If you are running out of room on About, most of what you are writing probably wants a page of its own.
Pasting from a document
Paste from Word or from an email and you get the words, not the formatting. Mark it up again with the buttons over the box. Nothing you paste can bring its own fonts and colours in, which is why every page of your website looks like the same website.