Preview

You can preview your website live while you work. Clicking the “Preview” button on the toolbar runs the preview in the same window, or clicking on the disclosure triangle opens the preview popup, with the preview settings, where you can choose one or more browsers to view your site in an external browser window.

You can press CMD-R (File→Preview Website) to quickly switch back and forth the built-in preview, or click the “Open Live Preview” button to launch the preview service in the selected browsers. The built-in preview can be more useful on a laptop or single-screen scenarios, whereas the external browser can be more useful when you can put a preview browser side-by-side with the Sitely window, on a large screen or dual-screen setup. The preview content updates in real-time as you edit the site.

Sitely supports live preview in any browser, and can directly open Safari, Firefox, Chrome, Brave, and Edge. If you enable sharing the preview with other devices on the local network, you can also use live preview on iOS devices, for example. The QR Code provides a quick way to open the preview.

The preview feature even works while you are offline, except for elements sourced from the web (videos, social media, third-party code integrations, etc.).

If your document includes multiple device layouts, setting "Current device" displays the current layout regardless of the actual device or browser window width. Setting "All devices" in live preview will show the appropriate layout for each device, allowing you to see different layouts for different devices. However, this may lead to editing elements that are not visible in the preview browser.

If your document uses a dark color theme, selecting “Canvas Color Theme” will display the active color theme regardless of the system. Choosing “System Color Theme” will show a site that switches its theme according to the current system theme.

If the site includes a privacy page and banner, you can choose to display the cookie banner every time a preview page is shown or never show it.