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Edit Text Without a Developer

You do not need a developer to fix a typo, update your hours, or reword a headline. With the DCS portal's Visual Editor you change the words on your website yourself, on a live preview of your real site, and queue the update for your next release. No code, no ticket, no waiting on someone else's calendar.

This page is a quick orientation. For the full walkthrough, see the Visual Editor guide.

How it works

  1. Open a page. In the portal, go to your site's Content Pages and pick the page you want to change.
  2. Double-click the text. The editor shows a live preview of your site. Double-click the words you want to edit and type your new copy in place.
  3. Review what you changed. Every edit is held in a pending-changes tray in the toolbar, so you can see everything you have staged before committing.
  4. Save to queue it. Click Save, and your changes are queued for your next release.

Save queues your change — it doesn't publish instantly

When you Save, your text is queued for deployment. It goes live with your next release rather than the instant you click Save. This is deliberate: it lets you stage several edits, review them together, and ship them as one clean release. To follow a queued change all the way to a live site, see Releases & Version History.

What else you can do yourself

The same editor lets you do far more than swap words:

  • Replace images directly on the page — see Images & Media.
  • Write blog posts and events in a full rich-text editor.
  • Check every screen size with the built-in device and zoom controls.
  • Ask the AI assistant to draft a change, then review and Save it yourself.

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