codanomiq · Canvas, the visual editor

The page itself is the workspace.

Click an outlined region and change it where it sits. Saving and publishing are separate ideas, so a draft can sit unfinished for a week without anything moving on the live site.

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PageSectionsPhotosThemeDesign
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Content · CanvasDemo data
Draft, then publish · Insert at every seam · Settings beside the page · Any width

What the tool does

In the admin as · Content › Canvas
01

Drafts are not publishes

Every change you save is saved to a draft. The live site does not move until you publish, and you can preview the draft at any width first.

02

Insert anywhere

Hover the page and a dashed insert line appears at every seam between sections. Sections and widgets drop in where the line is.

03

Everything has settings

Click a section and its inspector opens beside the page. A widget carries its own settings; so does anything the site builds for you, like a navigation menu.

04

Photos

The site’s pictures as pictures, filtered by folder, swapped in place without going to another screen.

05

Theme and Design

The whole look in one panel — colours and type set on their own, separately from the words.

06

Who can do what

Canvas appears for anyone granted Content › Canvas, and that grant is what decides it.

The tool itself

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A demonstration installation, with invented data.

01

Saving is not publishing, and that is the whole idea

Most visual editors make you brave: you edit the live thing and hope. Canvas separates the two. Save as often as you like; the draft is yours. Publish when it is right.

It also means someone can start a page on Monday, leave it, and come back on Thursday to exactly what they left, without a half-finished page having been public in between.

02

Settings live beside the page, not in another screen

Clicking something the site builds for you — a menu, a listing grid, a booking widget — opens its settings next to the page rather than sending you to a different tool. The change and the thing being changed stay in view together.

Edit what you can see.

Clients who would never open a page editor will happily click a headline and retype it. That is the difference between a site that gets updated and one that does not. Get in touch →

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