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The preview shows your newest saved version as visitors will see it once you publish. Until then, they see only what you’ve published.
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Open your website

On the Build board, press Edit under it. On a phone, the controls sit in a bar at the bottom: Back, Chat, More actions and Publish.
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Go through each page

Press the page name at the top, like Homepage, then pick a page from Pages. On a phone, press More actions, then Page. Or type a page’s name, or the end of its address like /menu, in Find page or enter path.
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Check it on a phone

Press the device button, left of the page name. Each press moves to the next size: desktop, tablet, then phone. The size stays with that website while you work.
The top of the preview: the clock, ⋮, the device button outlined, then Refresh preview, the page name Homepage and Open in new tab.
A website Ted made for phones opens on the phone screen. On a small window, a desktop page shrinks to fit instead of rearranging. On a phone-size screen, the device button doesn’t show.
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See how a page looks when shared

In Pages, hover over a page’s Social & search icon, or press it on a phone. It shows how the page looks when shared or found in a search, and whether it lacks a title or social image. Ask Ted to edit adds a request to your message, and nothing changes until you send it.
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See it signed in

If people can sign in to your website, open ⋮ (Website actions), or More actions on a phone, then Viewing as. It starts on Signed out, as visitors see it. Switch to Signed in as you, or to a test user: a made-up account for testing. Add test user makes one and signs the preview in as them. Only the owner and admins can do this.Build remembers your choice in Viewing as for each website, in this browser. Press your website’s Google sign-in button in the preview, and Build offers to sign you in as yourself: press Sign in as me or Stay signed out.
At the top, Refresh preview reloads the page, the website’s name switches websites, and Back returns to the board. ⋮ also holds Open full screen, and Tools holds Payments and more. In a narrow window, controls that don’t fit move into More actions.

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Check that it worked

The page name at the top shows the page you’re on, and the first row under ⋮ shows whom you’re viewing as.

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If something goes wrong

Ted is changing your website. Wait: the preview reloads by itself.
While you work on your website, like after you message Ted or press Edit text, it runs on its own server: the live preview. Opening Build alone never starts it. Wait: the preview reloads once it’s ready.
The page is opening: wait a moment. If it takes a while, the preview says it’s still loading.
For a preview that won’t load, see Preview and change your website.

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FAQ

Visitors can’t, but your team can, in Build. Open in new tab opens the preview at its own address, which anyone you give it to can view. See Publish your website.

Preview and change your website

Change words and photos.

Check who signed up and add test users

Add test users.

Publish your website

Put it online, and update it.