The Website:
The Flipdish website is the online ordering experience your customers use to place orders with your brand. It is mobile-first web experience; personalised, visually appealing and performant. It delivers a convenient and relevant journey, encouraging quicker and more frequent orders.
The Website Builder:
The Flipdish website builder is the platform you can use to manage and customise your website. An easy-to-use interface to manage content, images and site styling. Geared to be primarily non-technical and self-service. Also provides access to a more technical templating for html and css customisation.
All websites are made up of the following building blocks:
Theme - A theme controls the organisation, features, and style of your site. Different themes have different styles and layouts, and offer a different experience for our customers. Each theme is made up of a set of page templates. With each template made up of a set of sections and widgets. A theme can be customised using a set of available styling variables, such as colours and fonts.
Page Templates - Page templates are a collection of sections configured to give your site a consistent look and feel…just think of them as pages. Which sections are available in your template depends on the theme you've selected. You can edit templates applied to your theme; you can add or remove sections, edit content, add images etc. You can also add new page templates to your theme.
Sections - Themes use sections to create a layout. The sections that make up a template provide an interactive experience for your customers and provide flexibility in how you arrange your site. Each section is made up of specific elements to create the function of the section. For example, the Hero Image Section might include an image element, header element, body text element and a button element. The elements in sections are static, in that they don't update in real time.
Widgets - A widget is very similar to a section, in that it makes up a template to provide the interactive experience for your customers and provide flexibility in how you arrange your site. Each widget is made up of specific elements to create the function of the widget - except in the case of a widget, the elements are dynamic. These widgets are not specific to a single theme but exist across multiple themes. For example, Order Status. This widget will update in real-time based on the status of an order change. However, the amount to which they can be customised is limited, e.g. only basic styling such as colours and fonts, as they are designed for a specific and complex function.
Unpublished- your website is not live yet.
Live Website- your website is live, with no unpublished changes.
Unpublished Changes- your website is live, but you have changes not yet published.
Unsaved Changes - your website is live, but you have changes not yet saved.
For each status, there will be clear messaging in the experience to provide clarity on the current status.
The builder has 5 key actions:
Publish- publish all unpublished changes made to your live website.
Save & update- update your preview will all recent changes made since last save.
Discard Changes- discard all changes made since last save.
Exitto Portal - leave the website builder and return to the Website Sales Channel in the portal, if you have changes yet to be updated for the preview, you will be asked to update or publish them.
Across each theme, the content can easily be edited: for example the copy and images, in order to make the site relevant to your brand. Further, the styling can be customised to bring your brand to life and clearly differentiate it from any other customer using the same site and theme.
Preview & Publish:
When you make changes to your site, you can preview those changes before you publish them. Changes do not autosave, but viewing and updating your site preview in the website builder will ensure those changes are saved and not lost. You will also be notified if you leave the website builder with unsaved changes.
You can continue to then make more changes, update your preview and so on.
Saving - To save any changes you've made, simply select ‘Save & update' in the preview and the changes will be saved. If you choose to exit with unsaved changes, you will be asked if you want to save your changes.
Previewing - On the desktop, the preview of your site will display by default. You can also expand this view to preview your site in desktop mode. On mobile, simply select ‘Save & preview' your site and you will be shown a preview of your live site. If you have unsaved changes, the preview will also update to display those changes.
Publishing - To publish any changes, simply select ‘Publish'. Publishing will push all unpublished changes to your live website since your last publish. It will take between 5 to 10 minutes for your published changes to reflect on site.
Discarding - You can also choose to discard all unsaved changes. This will reset your site preview and website builder to its last saved state.
Your website can have four statuses:
Unpublished- your website is not live yet.
Live Website- your website is live, with no unpublished changes.
Unpublished Changes- your website is live, but you have changes not yet published.
Unsaved Changes - your website is live, but you have changes not yet saved.
For each status, there will be clear messaging in the experience to provide clarity on the current status.
The builder has 5 key actions:
Publish- publish all unpublished changes made to your live website.
Save & update- update your preview will all recent changes made since last save.
Discard Changes- discard all changes made since last save.
Exitto Portal - leave the website builder and return to the Website Sales Channel in the portal, if you have changes yet to be updated for the preview, you will be asked to update or publish them.
How do I access the website builder?
Follow the below steps:
1) Log in to your Flipdish Portal
2) Select "Sales Channels"
3) Select "Website"
4) Select "Customise your site".
Please note that you need to have Owner access to make changes.
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