Write a post. Press publish. It’s on your site.
Ask for a blog and your site ships with this editor. No developer, no ticket queue, no per-post fee. The one below is real. Try it.
This is the whole tool.
Two screens: the list of your posts, and one post open. There is no third one, no plugin marketplace, and nothing to keep updated. Both of these are photographs of the software, taken from the dashboard a client signs into.
Nothing is live until you say so.
Posts sit in a list with their state on the right. A draft is invisible to everyone but you, which is what lets you start something on Tuesday and finish it on Friday. Publish blog is the one button that changes your live site, and it sends the whole blog at once, so a week of writing goes out together.
- Drafts stay hidden from visitors and from search engines
- A built-in guide, in plain words, one click from the button
- Every post shows its date and reading time before you open it
Everything a post needs, labelled in English.
Title, date, author. A cover image for the listing and for the preview when someone shares the link. An excerpt, which is often the two lines Google shows under your headline. Then the article itself, with bold, italic, headings, lists, quotes and links, and pictures you drag straight in from your phone.
- Drag a picture straight in, or upload one off your camera roll
- Sections group related posts under their own heading on your blog
- Search title, description and web address are yours, with sane defaults
Try it. Nothing here is a mock-up.
Change the title, rewrite a line, add a photo, drop a bullet. Switch between the article and your blog index on the right, and press Publish when you’re happy. The real editor adds bold, italic and links on a selection, and uploads your own photos instead of ours. Everything else works the way it works here.
Your dashboard
Nothing is live until you press it.
yourbusiness.com
Draft preview. Only you can see this.
Recipes
Why our barbacoa takes twelve hours
Today · 1 min read
People ask us this every week, so here is the honest answer: the barbacoa goes in on Friday night and comes out Saturday morning. Nothing about it is quick, which is the whole point.
What actually goes in it
- Whole cheeks, never trimmings
- Twelve hours, low, wrapped in maguey
- Salt. That is the seasoning. That is all of it.
We sell out most Saturdays by eleven. If you want a full pound, call Friday and we will hold it for you.
This is a lightweight demo. Nothing you type here is saved, and it’s a simplified copy of the real editor: the one waiting on your website adds bold, italic and links, uploads your own photos, keeps drafts, and publishes to a live site on your own domain. Same shape, more of it.
A minute later, it’s on your website.
Below is Professional Images Photography, a client of ours, and their journal. They write it. We haven’t touched a word.
It looks like your site, because it’s your site
Same header, same type, same colors, same domain. Not a blog parked on a separate platform with another company branded across the bottom of it.
Every post is a real page
Its own web address, its own title and description. Not a tab on somebody else’s platform. That’s what lets an article turn up in a search at all.
It shows up properly when shared
The cover image and excerpt you filled in are what appear in the preview card when someone drops the link in a group chat or on social.
A five-page website can answer five questions.
Search is people typing questions. A site that answers five of them is in five races, and one of those pages is your contact form. Publishing is how a small site stops being small.
Google ranks pages, not businesses
Count the pages on your site. Home, Services, About, Contact, maybe one more. Nobody searches for "about us", so that’s a business competing for perhaps three real answers. Every article is another page in the race, for a question you had no page for at all.
Your customers ask the same things every week
What it costs. How long it takes. Whether they need a permit. You answer those on the phone for free, one caller at a time. Written down once, the answer works at two in the morning for everyone who was never going to call.
It keeps working after you stop paying
An ad works exactly as long as the card is being charged. An article published two years ago can still be bringing people in this morning. That is the one advantage a small business can actually afford against a bigger advertising budget.
The honest caveats belong here too: it’s slow, most posts do very little, and the ones that work answer a sentence somebody would really type into Google. We wrote all of that down, including how long it actually takes and the four posts worth writing first.
You want this on your site.
No add-on. No plugin to keep patched. Ask for a blog and it’s built in, on hosting we run for free. Same editor for a one-person shop and an eight-location business. Tell us what you’re building and we’ll send a real number.
Built on it.
SellTheDips is live and its owner runs it, not us. Open it and check the work.