Help for Non-technical people
Exponential in plain language: no command line, choosing hosting, the words you will meet and simple how-tos.
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- Non-technical people: start here The landing page for people who are not technical and want to use, run or pay for an Exponential site: plai...
- What static publishing is Static publishing in plain words - a copy of your site as ordinary files, served for free, while editing st...
- Is static right for my site? A short checklist to decide whether a static copy suits your site - good fits such as brochure sites, blogs...
- Static publishing FAQ Short answers to the questions people ask about static publishing - cost, hosting, editors, comments, going...
- Glossary for non-technical people Every word you meet in the Exponential administration and in conversations with a host or developer, explai...
- FAQ for non-technical people Short, plain answers to the questions non-technical people ask most about Exponential - whether they can br...
Good to know
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A website without hosting costs
In plain words - how Exponential can put your website online for free on GitHub Pages, what you do, what someone technical sets up once, and what such a site cannot do.
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Make a free website in 15 minutes
The tutorial - from an existing Exponential site to a live github.io address in about 15 minutes, with a free GitHub account, one token, the setup wizard, a build, a check and a publish.
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All pages for Non-technical people- Create a GitHub account and repository For people new to GitHub - make a free account, create the repository your static site goes to, and make the token Exponential pushes wit...
- Reading path for non-technical people Every page of the non-technical people section in a sensible order, in three tracks - for people who edit, for people who own or pay for...
- What Exponential is, in plain words A description of Exponential for people who are not technical - what it does, what it does not do, who makes it, what it costs and what y...
- What you never have to do The technical jobs around an Exponential site - installing, updating, backups, the domain, HTTPS, templates, extensions and the command l...
- Words explained The ideas behind the screens of Exponential, one idea per page and without jargon - content items and the tree, drafts and publishing, th...
- Content items and the tree Why everything on an Exponential site is a content item of some type, how items are arranged in a tree like folders on a computer, what f...
- Drafts, versions and publishing explained Why nothing you type reaches visitors until you publish, what a draft, a pending version and an archived version are, why the old text is...
- The site and the administration One Exponential installation with several doors - the public site, the administration, often a simpler Editor, sometimes a second languag...
- Roles and permissions explained Why what you can do in Exponential depends on your role and not on your skill, the four roles a standard installation starts with, what g...
- Caches explained Why a site keeps ready-made copies of its pages, why that sometimes shows an old page after you published, what you can safely do about i...
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