psmith15

Thanks. These replies are helpful, and I think I do understand a bit better why things are like this. The system does make some sense to me now that I've read your responses, though I'm still stymied about why I had to come to a forum to get this information. I would have imagined that many users (like me) would have come to Squarespace from other systems that work the way I'm used to (and therefore would need this kind of explanation).

Well, it was events that I was editing. I suspect that matters, and I guess if you're asking then it must. So yes, events. Thanks, Paul

I have had no trouble at all editing pages in Squarespace, but I am completely befuddled about the system for publishing those changes once they're made. In other web design software I've used you make your edits, you save those edits, you preview them, and then you click a button to publish the results, so they go "live". As far as I can see there's nothing like that on Squarespace. I've never seen a "publish" button or anything that would be its equivalent. On top of that, I can find nothing in the help system covering that, and I haven't found anything helpful when I Google the question either. There's obviously some basic point I'm not understanding. I did today manage to publish some changes to some existing events that I made, but part of me suspects that I did it through some backdoor method. I would have thought that you'd edit the event (you know, using "edit"), save those changes, and work from there. But that's a dead end. I can make and save the changes, but nothing more than that. Eventually I clicked on the three dots to the right of the event name, clicked on "Settings", and then edited what showed up in the Content box. When I saved that, it did publish automatically. But that seems unlikely to be how the site is supposed to work (you edit through "settings", not through "edit"?). What am I missing here? This makes no sense to me at all. Paul