Help & Documentation

Guides, references, and legal documents for the New Salon website builder.

Getting Started

Create and publish your first website with New Salon

Creating Your First Website — A step-by-step walkthrough from new site to published portfolio
Understanding the Editor — A tour of the editor — toolbar, sections, blocks, and preview
Understanding Layouts — How SalonEngine arranges your content, and when to use each layout
The Startpage — Your site's home page — its special role, and why it can't be deleted
Stop Editing — Leave edit mode to preview your site, publish your changes, and capture a social preview image

The Editor

How the visual editor works — text, images, video, sections, navigation, and more

Text & Headings — Add a text block, write and format your copy, and style typography, color, and alignment.
Images — Upload images, edit them in the image panel, and style image cards with captions, links, and themes.
Video — Add YouTube or Vimeo embeds and uploaded video to your pages, then fine-tune playback, thumbnails, and captions.
Sections & Layouts — Build pages from sections — pick a SalonEngine layout, set the background, and adjust height, spacing, and width.
Navigation & Footer — Build your site menu and footer in the Navi panel — links, logo, layout, colors, the burger menu, and footer.
Lightbox — Let visitors open your images in a full-screen viewer with captions, navigation, and matching styling.
Page Blocks — Link to another page as a clickable card with a cover image, title, and caption.
Mobile & Device Preview — Preview your site on mobile and fine-tune how each section looks on small screens — independently of desktop.

Design & Themes

Shape your site's look — themes, colors, fonts, and image captions

Choosing a Theme — Set the colors and fonts that brand your whole site with a theme, and learn how theme settings cascade from site to page to section.
Colors & Fonts — Customize your site's color palette and font pairing, and override the background color of individual sections.
Image Captions — Choose a caption style for your images, then fine-tune fonts, colors, and placement in the editor.

Layouts

A deep dive into each SalonEngine layout and how to get the most from it

Canvas — Master the default Canvas SalonEngine layout — free-form drag, resize, layering, snap modes, and Generate.
Fixed Width — The Fixed Width SalonEngine layout arranges your blocks in a responsive grid of equal-width columns.
Justified — A gallery layout that preserves each image's aspect ratio while filling every row edge-to-edge.
Square Grid — A uniform grid of equal squares — clean, ordered, and perfect for galleries where every item gets the same footprint.
Variable Grid — A column-based masonry layout where blocks span variable column widths, with a Generate panel for instant size and order variations.
Horizontal — Lay out a section as a horizontally scrolling strip of blocks, in either row or column grid mode.
Slideshow — Show one frame at a time with autoplay, navigation, transitions, and full video support using the Slideshow SalonEngine layout.

Publishing

Take your site live — preview, publish, and connect a custom domain

Preview & Publish — How to take your site live with site-level and page-level publishing, restrict access to individual pages, and how leaving edit mode pushes your changes.
Custom Domains — Connect your own domain to your published site, set up DNS, and get automatic SSL.

Your Account

Manage your profile, plan and billing, credits, invites, and security

Your Profile — Set your display name, avatar, header image, bio, website, and artistic practice — and see where your profile appears.
Plans & Billing — Understand New Salon's five plans, per-site pricing, and how to upgrade, cancel, reactivate, or manage billing.
SLN Credits — What SLN credits are, how you earn them, and how you can spend or cash them out.
Invites — How to invite fellow artists to New Salon and track the invites you've sent.
Social Links — Add your social media profiles so visitors can find you, and learn how usernames resolve to live links.
Account Security — Update your email address, change your password, and keep your sign-in secure.

Site Settings

Configure a site's general info, SEO, analytics, domain, and cache

General Settings — Set your site's title and description, control whether it's published, restrict access with a password or group, manage cache, and delete a site.
Appearance — Set your site's icons (app icon and favicon) and its social preview image.
SEO — Set your site's search title, description, keywords, and how it looks when shared on social media.
Analytics — See page views, unique visitors, and traffic sources for your site, plus connect Google Analytics and Search Console.
Cache — Why New Salon caches your published site, how to clear the cache, and why leaving the editor does it for you.

Migrating from Salon.io

Bring your existing Salon.io site to the new platform

Finding Your Account — Look up and verify your legacy Salon.io account
The Import Process — Selecting pages and running the import
Membership Carry-over — Your 90-day Pro trial and what happens to your plan after migration
After Migration — Reviewing, polishing, and publishing your imported site
Migration Troubleshooting — Common migration issues and how to fix them
Migration FAQ — Quick answers to common migration questions

Help & Documentation

Guides, references, and legal documents for the New Salon website builder.

Getting Started

Create and publish your first website with New Salon

Creating Your First Website — A step-by-step walkthrough from new site to published portfolio
Understanding the Editor — A tour of the editor — toolbar, sections, blocks, and preview
Understanding Layouts — How SalonEngine arranges your content, and when to use each layout
The Startpage — Your site's home page — its special role, and why it can't be deleted
Stop Editing — Leave edit mode to preview your site, publish your changes, and capture a social preview image

The Editor

How the visual editor works — text, images, video, sections, navigation, and more

Text & Headings — Add a text block, write and format your copy, and style typography, color, and alignment.
Images — Upload images, edit them in the image panel, and style image cards with captions, links, and themes.
Video — Add YouTube or Vimeo embeds and uploaded video to your pages, then fine-tune playback, thumbnails, and captions.
Sections & Layouts — Build pages from sections — pick a SalonEngine layout, set the background, and adjust height, spacing, and width.
Navigation & Footer — Build your site menu and footer in the Navi panel — links, logo, layout, colors, the burger menu, and footer.
Lightbox — Let visitors open your images in a full-screen viewer with captions, navigation, and matching styling.
Page Blocks — Link to another page as a clickable card with a cover image, title, and caption.
Mobile & Device Preview — Preview your site on mobile and fine-tune how each section looks on small screens — independently of desktop.

Design & Themes

Shape your site's look — themes, colors, fonts, and image captions

Choosing a Theme — Set the colors and fonts that brand your whole site with a theme, and learn how theme settings cascade from site to page to section.
Colors & Fonts — Customize your site's color palette and font pairing, and override the background color of individual sections.
Image Captions — Choose a caption style for your images, then fine-tune fonts, colors, and placement in the editor.

Layouts

A deep dive into each SalonEngine layout and how to get the most from it

Canvas — Master the default Canvas SalonEngine layout — free-form drag, resize, layering, snap modes, and Generate.
Fixed Width — The Fixed Width SalonEngine layout arranges your blocks in a responsive grid of equal-width columns.
Justified — A gallery layout that preserves each image's aspect ratio while filling every row edge-to-edge.
Square Grid — A uniform grid of equal squares — clean, ordered, and perfect for galleries where every item gets the same footprint.
Variable Grid — A column-based masonry layout where blocks span variable column widths, with a Generate panel for instant size and order variations.
Horizontal — Lay out a section as a horizontally scrolling strip of blocks, in either row or column grid mode.
Slideshow — Show one frame at a time with autoplay, navigation, transitions, and full video support using the Slideshow SalonEngine layout.

Publishing

Take your site live — preview, publish, and connect a custom domain

Preview & Publish — How to take your site live with site-level and page-level publishing, restrict access to individual pages, and how leaving edit mode pushes your changes.
Custom Domains — Connect your own domain to your published site, set up DNS, and get automatic SSL.

Your Account

Manage your profile, plan and billing, credits, invites, and security

Your Profile — Set your display name, avatar, header image, bio, website, and artistic practice — and see where your profile appears.
Plans & Billing — Understand New Salon's five plans, per-site pricing, and how to upgrade, cancel, reactivate, or manage billing.
SLN Credits — What SLN credits are, how you earn them, and how you can spend or cash them out.
Invites — How to invite fellow artists to New Salon and track the invites you've sent.
Social Links — Add your social media profiles so visitors can find you, and learn how usernames resolve to live links.
Account Security — Update your email address, change your password, and keep your sign-in secure.

Site Settings

Configure a site's general info, SEO, analytics, domain, and cache

General Settings — Set your site's title and description, control whether it's published, restrict access with a password or group, manage cache, and delete a site.
Appearance — Set your site's icons (app icon and favicon) and its social preview image.
SEO — Set your site's search title, description, keywords, and how it looks when shared on social media.
Analytics — See page views, unique visitors, and traffic sources for your site, plus connect Google Analytics and Search Console.
Cache — Why New Salon caches your published site, how to clear the cache, and why leaving the editor does it for you.

Migrating from Salon.io

Bring your existing Salon.io site to the new platform

Finding Your Account — Look up and verify your legacy Salon.io account
The Import Process — Selecting pages and running the import
Membership Carry-over — Your 90-day Pro trial and what happens to your plan after migration
After Migration — Reviewing, polishing, and publishing your imported site
Migration Troubleshooting — Common migration issues and how to fix them
Migration FAQ — Quick answers to common migration questions