# Editing a connected site

Open the editor from the site card in the dashboard. Your live site loads with an
editing overlay. Click a thing, change the thing, press **Save**. An element with
unsaved changes gets an orange frame. Saved changes are live immediately — no
rebuild, no publish queue.

Regular editing is unlimited and costs no money and no AI tokens.

## Text

Click any heading, paragraph or button label and type. Inline formatting is
available: bold, italic, headings, links, colours, alignment, inserting images.

## Images

Click an image to open the **Replace image** dialog. You can upload a file, paste an
image URL, pick a free stock photo, or generate one with AI. Uploads are converted to
optimized WebP automatically.

Every image has a size slider — small images such as logos resize by height, large
photos by width as a percentage of their container. Changes apply live.

Photos never change by themselves: uploaded, AI-generated and stock photos are all
copied into Qixoo's own storage and stay exactly as chosen until you replace them.

An AI-drawn SVG logo is clickable like any other image and can be swapped for your
own file.

## Photo galleries

Gallery grids are detected automatically on any site. Hovering a tile shows per-tile
controls: add, replace, delete.

## Sliders

Sliders are detected whether they were built with a popular library or hand-coded. A
small "Slider" badge appears on the block. Clicking a slide gives per-slide controls:
replace image, add a slide after, delete slide.

## Links and buttons

Click a link or a button to open a dialog with its text, its destination and, for
buttons, its colours. Clicking a link in the editor edits it rather than following
it. To move to the page a link points at, use **↗ Open & edit this page** in the same
dialog.

## Menus and navigation

Navigation menus are detected on any site, with per-item controls for renaming and
reordering.

## Whole sections

**+ Add** opens the block library — see [Blocks](https://qixoo.app/docs/blocks.md).

## AI assistant

Optional, and the only thing that spends tokens. On text: rewrite, improve, fix
grammar, change tone, translate. On blocks: AI-customize a block, or describe a
section and have it built. Tokens are charged only when you apply a result — a
suggestion you discard costs nothing. See [AI tokens](https://qixoo.app/docs/ai-tokens.md).

## Undo and limits

Undo and Redo are in the toolbar. The editor also shows how many saved edits the site
uses against your plan's block limit; at 100% a message explains the limit with an
upgrade link.

If a plan lapses, the site becomes read-only: visitors still see every past edit, but
new edits need an active plan again.

## What edits do to SEO

Your host keeps serving the HTML you wrote, so a crawler always receives a complete
page. Edited content is re-applied in the browser, which means an edit can be picked
up by crawlers later than a change to the source file would be. For copy that changes
occasionally this is a non-issue. If a page's whole content must be indexed the day
it changes, edit the source HTML as well.

Next: [Blocks](https://qixoo.app/docs/blocks.md) · [Client access](https://qixoo.app/docs/client-access.md)