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Manual
How to run a website on Cairn: building pages, keeping them tidy, and everything else in the admin, one screen at a time.
Start here: The admin at a glance
Your first page
Contents
27 pages in 10 chapters. Each one is about one part of the admin, in the order you are likely to need them.
Signing in, finding your way round the admin, and your first page.
Making pages, editing them, publishing them, and being found.
The pieces every page is made from, and how to reuse them.
The site menu, the theme, your logo, header and footer.
Pictures, documents and files.
Asking visitors things, and following up.
Lists of things, from ten to ten thousand.
Selling online: products, orders, shipping and payment.
Taking bookings, and pages only members can see.
Settings, people, emails, old addresses and the AI assistant.
Websites for businesses that need more than a brochure. Built, hosted and kept running by us.
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Build
Run
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