Manage your site without the AI

How do I change the text, images or prices on my site myself?

Open it from the Manage site / app button in the sidebar. Colours & logo sets colours and fonts; Text and images changes headings, prices, pictures, the logo and the favicon; Business and look holds the address, hours, socials and announcement bar; Pages and blog writes pages and posts with no HTML. None of it costs a Token, and Go back to an earlier version restores any of the last twenty saves.

Who this guide is for

Let us assume you have never put a website online in your life. DNS, hosting, SEO: you have either not met these words or met them and not learned what they mean. That is fine. Every word is explained where it first appears, and every step shows you which button to press, with a picture.

One thing up front: nothing on this page costs a Token. No AI is involved, and mistakes can be undone. So do not be afraid of it.

A few words first

A handful of words keep coming up. Learn them once and the rest is easy.

No need to memorise these now. They are repeated where they matter.

Step 1: open the page

There are three ways in. Take whichever is nearest.

Way one, the easiest. Look down the long sidebar on the left. Just under the orange "Top up" button is a white one reading Manage site / app. Press it.

Way two. Press "Builder" on the left for the list of all your apps. The card of the site you want has a Manage button.

Way three. With an app open, the right-hand panel has a "Manage site / app" card with an Open button.

On a phone, if the sidebar is not showing, press the three-line button in the top left corner.

The page opens whether or not the site is published. Fixing the words before anyone sees them is the normal case, not the exception.

Step 2: learn the top of the screen

From top to bottom:

The first line has "Back to the builder", the page name, and a small label on the right (Basic, Business or Commerce) telling you which plan this site is on.

The second line holds the site's addresses:

• Live site, the black button. This is the address everyone uses. It opens in a new tab. It is absent until you publish.
• Preview link. An address only for looking, which works even mid-build.
• Domain. Where you add an address of your own, like aiinbangla.com.
• Take the site down. Explained below.

Beside the live site button are three small round buttons: Copy the link, Share the link (the phone's own share sheet, or WhatsApp on a computer) and QR code. The QR code is for hanging in the shop: press Download the QR and a picture with the site's name, the code and the address downloads, ready to print. A small line underneath says when the site was last made live.

Is your site ready?

Right under the addresses is a short list of what should be right before you give the link to customers: whether the site is live, the logo, your real phone number, your WhatsApp number, the shop's address, a name and description for Google, a picture for when it is shared, and your own domain (that one is optional).

Anything not done has a button beside it ("Add it", "Add one"), which takes you to exactly the place that fixes it. Once everything is done the list folds into one line.

With hosting on, the third line is a row of tabs. On a phone they stay in one line; drag left and right with your finger for the rest. How many tabs you see depends on the plan (the table below says which). Without hosting there is no row: the "Text and images" and "Business and look" sections sit one under the other.

Step 3: the Text & images tab, where the daily work happens

This is the tab you will open most. Press it.

The first thing you see is a row labelled "Jump to:" with round buttons beside it, one for every kind of thing your site has. Press one and the page goes straight to that section. The section you are currently in stays filled in dark, so you never lose your place.

On a long site this row is what saves you time. To change a picture you do not scroll to the bottom; you press "Pictures".

3a: Logo and icon

Two things here.

The favicon is the thumbnail-sized picture next to your site's name in a browser tab. Tiny, but with many tabs open it is how people find your site again.

To change it press Choose a picture. On a phone the gallery opens; on a computer, your folders. Pick one and you are done. The rest happens for you: it is cropped square and shrunk, because a browser draws it at just sixteen pixels.

What works: a logo. A wide photo loses its sides, and a picture with a lot of writing is unreadable at that size.

The logo at the top of your site is also in this section.

3b: Pictures

Every picture gets a card: the picture, a Choose a picture button underneath, and its address below that. The address is our bookkeeping; you never need to touch it.

To change a picture:

1. Find the card for the picture you want
2. Press Choose a picture
3. Pick the new one from your phone or computer
4. The card shows the new picture
5. Press Save and go live at the bottom

Beside each picture is another box: what the picture is, in one line. Many people leave it empty. Do not. Two reasons:

• People who cannot see have the page read aloud to them, and that line is what is read where the picture is
• Google cannot look inside a picture; it reads that line to know what the picture shows

So instead of "image 1", write "nolen gur sondesh arranged in a wooden box". The cards are named from that line too, which is how you tell your own pictures apart next time.

3c: Site colours

The colours your site is built from appear as small squares, each with a count of how many places use it.

That count is the useful part. A colour used in twenty places is almost certainly your buttons and headings. One used in three is some small corner.

Press a square and a colour picker opens. Choosing changes every place at once, so the site never comes out half changed and looking odd.

Black and white are deliberately left out. They are not a colour choice but the site's structure: body text, borders. Changing them would make the whole page hard to read.

3d: Page name and sharing

This section needs a word of explanation, because what you write here never appears on your site, and yet more people read it than anything else.

When someone searches Google, each result shows three lines: a blue name, the address, and two lines of description. That blue name is the "page name", and those two lines are the "one-line description". People read those and decide whether to open your site at all.

The same when someone sends your link on Facebook or WhatsApp: a card appears with a picture, a name and one line. That comes from here too.

So as you type, two previews update: one shaped like a Google result, one like a share card. You can see a name being cut off before it happens.

What to write:

• Page name: the shop and where it is, like "Rahim Sweets, the sweet shop of Mirpur 10". Around 60 characters stays uncut.
• One-line description: what you sell and why come to you, like "Pure chhana sweets since 1985, home delivery in Dhaka". Within 155 characters.
• The sharing picture: this is an image field too, so it has an upload button. Use the best photo of the shop.

3e: Text, products, buttons and links

The rest is straightforward.

Text holds the site's headings, paragraphs and bullet points, each in its own box, labelled with what it is. If the site has more than 12 pages, the first 12 come through; change the rest by asking the builder.

Products appears only on shop sites. Each product's name, price and picture is separate. To change a price, type over the number; no currency sign needed.

Buttons and links has two kinds of box: what a button says, and where it goes. Beside the second is a small button that opens the address in a new tab so you can check it.

Contact holds your mobile number. This box behaves differently: changing it changes every copy on the site, the visible number, the tap-to-call link and the WhatsApp button. If one moved and the other did not, customers would ring the wrong number. Write it as 01XXXXXXXXX.

3f: Saving

A white bar stays at the bottom of the page with one button and a count of your changes.

• If the site is published, the button says Save and go live. Pressing it puts the changes on the live site; there is nothing else to do.
• If it is not published, it just says Save. Your changes are kept and go live when you publish.

After saving, another phone may show the old text for up to a minute. That is normal; the internet keeps pages briefly so they open fast.

3g: Undoing a mistake

Below the boxes is Go back to an earlier version. Press it and a list opens: what changed and when, the last twenty.

Press Go back to this on any of them and the site returns to exactly that state. The current state joins the list too, so you can look and then come back.

There is no risk in trying, which is worth knowing before you experiment.

After restoring, publish once to put it live.

Step 4: the Business & look tab

For a small business this is the most valuable tab, and the least often opened.

Why it is needed separately

Your address is at the bottom of your site. The contact section has your phone number. The top says open 8am to 11pm.

Google still does not know.

You and I read those and understand they are the shop's address and hours. A computer does not; to it they are text like any other. It has to be told separately, in a specific shape: this is a business, here is its name, here is its address, it is open at these hours on Saturday.

Filling in this form does that for you. No code.

What you get from it

At nine in the evening, someone searching their phone for a sweet shop in Mirpur can be shown your shop's name with its address and an "open now" line. Seeing that line or not seeing it is the difference of one order.

The honest part: giving the information is not a guarantee that Google shows it, since that is their decision. But without it there is no chance at all.

The business boxes

• Name. It works best when the visiting card, the Facebook page and this box all say the same thing.
• Phone. The number that actually gets answered, because search leads to direct calls.
• Address and city. The way you would tell a rickshaw driver.
• Email. Optional.
• Price range. ৳ is cheap, ৳৳ mid, ৳৳৳ expensive. Search sometimes shows it.
• Google Maps link. Open Google Maps on your phone, find your shop, press Share, and paste the link here.
• bKash, Nagad and Rocket numbers. Right under the shop details. Save a number and the page where orders are taken gets a payment box: the number, a copy button and a place to write the TrxID. See bKash, Nagad and Rocket numbers.

Opening hours

Each of the seven days has a tick box.

• Ticked means open that day, and two boxes appear for the opening and closing time.
• Unticked means closed. That is published too, because "closed on Friday" is a fact, not an absence of one.

Do not give the wrong times. Someone arriving at half past ten because the site said eleven is worse off than if you had said nothing.

Social media

Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok. Give the full address, the one starting https://, not just the page name.

To get a Facebook page link: open the page and copy the whole address from the bar at the top of the browser.

The announcement bar

A one-line coloured strip across the very top of the site. Closed three days for Eid, free delivery in Dhaka today, our new number: whatever you need.

• Show it on the site brings the strip in; untick and it is gone
• What it says, up to 200 characters
• Where it goes when tapped, optional
• Two colours, the strip and the text, with a preview underneath

This one line used to mean asking the AI to rebuild the page, which cost Token. Now you type it and press save.

Fonts and colours

The font used to be on this tab and now has its own, Colours & logo. There you choose the heading font and the text font separately, with the site's two colours and its logo. Every face carries Bengali, and every change is live at once, with no AI.

Search engines

Keep this site out of Google. Tick it while the site is unfinished, or if it is only for people you send the link to. Remember to untick it when you are done, or nobody will find the site.

Google Analytics ID and Facebook Pixel ID. If these mean nothing to you, leave them empty and lose nothing; the visitor counts on the At a glance tab work anyway. The second one matters if you run Facebook ads.

The Google verification code. Google has a tool called Search Console; if you use it, it gives you a one-line code to paste here. Also fine to skip.

Saving

The Save button at the bottom. Nothing in this tab needs publishing; saving puts it on the live site.

Five minutes, once. After that, changing an address or an opening time means coming back here and typing over it.

Step 5: the At a glance tab

Four numbers and a chart.

• New visitors in the last 7 days and total new visitors. One person visiting ten times counts once, so this is how many people came, not how many times a page opened.
• Orders and messages from your forms.
• Extra pages you made.

The chart shows each of the last 30 days. An orange dot above a day means someone sent a form that day.

Below it, when an admin looked. If one of us opens this page of yours for support, it is written here with the time. If nobody has, it says so. It exists so that "every visit is logged" is something you can check rather than take on trust.

Step 6: publishing and taking the site down

What publishing means

A site you build is at first only yours. Putting it on the internet is called publishing. Once published, anyone with the link can see it.

If the site is not published, a yellow line appears at the top with a Publish it now button beside it. Pressing it is the whole job.

"Some changes have not reached the live site"

Sometimes a line appears saying you have saved changes that are not live yet, with a Publish again button.

This happens when you changed something with the AI in the builder and did not press publish. The button brings the live site up to date.

Taking the site down

Take the site down sits in the top row. You are asked once, and then the live link stops opening.

What stays: all your text, all your pictures, the orders in your inbox, and your domain. Nothing is deleted.

So publishing again brings the site straight back. For a seasonal shop, or something published too early, this is the easy path.

Step 7: your own domain

What a domain is

After publishing, your site's address looks like rahim-sweets.banglacodes.app. That works and it is free, but it is not something to print on a visiting card.

A domain is an address in your own name, like aiinbangla.com. You buy it, and you pay rent on it every year, usually ৳1,000 to ৳1,500.

What DNS is

Buying a domain does not by itself show your site, because the domain is only a name. Nobody has yet told browsers where to go when they hear it.

DNS is the internet's phone book. In it you write: "when you hear aiinbangla.com, go to this server." Writing that down is called adding a DNS record, and you do it on the website of the company you bought the domain from.

Nothing to fear: we show you exactly what to write, and you copy and paste it. The whole thing is in Adding your own domain, with pictures.

What this page does about domains

• The Domain button takes you to where a domain is added.
• If a domain is added but not verified yet, a line appears at the top with a Check it now button. If the DNS record is in place, that button finishes the job.
• It may not work immediately after you add the record. The internet's phone book takes a few hours to spread. Press "Check it now" again a little later.

Step 8: the remaining tabs

Inbox. If your site has a form, an order form or a contact form, what people send arrives here and an email tells you. Turn on "Order alerts on this phone" at the top of the inbox and your phone tells you too. It switches on with lifetime hosting or a plan; no domain of your own is needed. See Orders, messages and email.

Pages & blog. New pages and blog posts without knowing HTML. See New pages and blog posts.

Your own code and payment link. Header and footer code and your own gateway's payment link, both from Business up.

SMS to buyers and auto-reply. An SMS to the buyer when an order arrives, and the form auto-reply. These two are Commerce only.

Backup. Everything in one file on your own computer. Not downloading it loses you nothing, since we take a backup every six hours; this is your own copy to hold.

Step 9: the Android app and the showcase

This page has two more cards. Submitting to the showcase is free, and so is your first Android app.

Android app. A real Android app from your live site: an .apk to install on phones and an .aab for the Play Store. Press "Make the app" on the card; if the site is not live yet, the button puts it live first. The app name is filled in from the site name and the icon offers the site's own logo first; check them, then press "Start making the app". It usually takes 5 to 12 minutes, it keeps going if you close the page, and an email tells you when it is done. Send the .apk to customers on WhatsApp as a "Document", not as a photo or video. Your first app is free and each build after it is 10,000 Premium Token (the free daily AI Token does not cover it); the card says what this build takes before you press. After that, whatever you save on this page shows in the app at once, because the app opens your live site. The full method: the phone app guide.

Submit to showcase. If you are proud of the site, send it for the showcase from this card. We review it, and if it is picked it appears on banglacodes.com/showcase with your name. More in the showcase guide.

A short list to remember

When you are stuck

Every page has a Need help? button in the bottom right corner. Press it, ask in Bengali or English, and you get an answer straight away plus a link to the guide with the detail.

To reach a person, the Messenger and email links are in the same place.

Read next

• Changing text, prices, pictures and colours yourself
• Address, opening hours and the announcement bar
• After it is built: how to change it