# The “Designer”: your whole site in one place

> The “Designer” is where your academy’s site is made: its pages, its identity (colours, fonts, shapes), its menu and footer, the campaigns that sell, and its blog. Everything you change stays a draft visitors don’t see until you publish — and the home tells you how many changes wait, how the site did this week and what it’s missing.

- Time: About 6 minutes
- Who can do it: Opening the Designer needs the permission to edit or publish showcases; publishing and “Settings” need the publish permission.
- Updated: 2026-10-27
- URL: https://www.dirassaplus.com/en/guide/designer-overview

## In short
1. Open the “Designer” from the section switcher: “Your site”, “Selling” and “Foundations”.
2. No site yet: your field, one template of three, three touches, then “Publish my site”.
3. Read the home: status, changes waiting, and “Site pulse”.
4. Fix what “Site readiness” lists, ask Noqta, open any page from the table.
5. If the site still runs on the old builder: publish the identity, then the home, then “Move my site now”.
6. Choose the identity: template, colours, type, shape, motion, voice and seasons, then “Publish identity”.
7. Set up “Menu and footer” and “Settings”.

## Before you start
- At least one course or product: templates fill in with your academy’s real data.
- Your logo, a photo of you and a WhatsApp number.
- The publish permission if you publish yourself; otherwise the team prepares the draft and the owner publishes.

## The steps

### 1. Where to find the Designer
In the section switcher, “Designer”, under the store. Its side menu has three groups: “Your site” — “Home”, “Pages”, “Blog”, “My sections”; “Selling” — “Campaigns”, “Offers”; “Foundations” — “Identity”, “Menu and footer”, “Settings”. In the academy menu, under growth, “Your site” opens the Designer’s home and “Campaigns” its campaigns.
On screen: «Designer»، «Your site»، «Home»، «Pages»، «Blog»، «My sections»، «Selling»، «Campaigns»، «Offers»، «Foundations»، «Identity»، «Menu and footer»، «Settings»
Tip: The old “Showcases” are now “Campaigns”; their old pages still open from their links, and the “Follow-up desk” opens from “Incoming” › “⋯” or the ⌘K search.

### 2. First site: field, template, publish
If your academy has no site yet, the Designer opens three steps: “Field · Template · Publish”. First “What do you teach?”: eight fields (languages, Islamic studies, baccalaureate, marketing, photo and editing…) then “Next: templates”. Then three templates filled with your data: preview each in full on desktop and phone, and pick one. Then “Your site is ready as a draft” and “Three touches make it yours”: “Your photo”, “An intro line” (Noqta can write it) and “WhatsApp number” — then “Publish my site” or “Later”. From the first step you can also “Start from a blank page”.
On screen: «Field»، «Template»، «Publish»، «What do you teach?»، «Next: templates»، «Your site is ready as a draft»، «Three touches make it yours»، «Your photo»، «An intro line»، «WhatsApp number»، «Publish my site»، «Later»، «Start from a blank page»
Tip: “Later” loses nothing: the site stays a draft in the Designer until you publish it.

### 3. The home: status, publishing and pulse
At the top of the home, your academy’s name and the site’s status: “Live” or “Building”, then “3 changes waiting to publish” or “Everything is published”. Beside it: “Copy your site’s address”, “Open the site”, “Edit the site” (opens the home in the editor) and the orange “Publish 3 changes”: a dialog lists what changed, checks readiness, then “Publish now” or “Not now”. Below, “Site pulse” over “7 days” or “30 days”: “Visits”, “Orders”, sales, “Purchase rate” and “Where your visitors come from”.
On screen: «Live»، «Building»، «Everything is published»، «Copy your site’s address»، «Open the site»، «Edit the site»، «Publish now»، «Not now»، «Site pulse»، «Visits»، «Orders»، «Purchase rate»، «Where your visitors come from»
Heads-up: What you change in the editor, identity or menu stays unseen until published: the number on the orange button counts what waits.

### 4. Readiness, Noqta and your site’s pages
“Site readiness” is a ring out of 100 with at most three gaps, each with “Fix” that opens it in the editor. Below, the “Ask Noqta” box: type what you want, like “prepare a page for back to school”. Then the “Your site’s pages” table in three tabs — menu pages, automatic designs, campaigns — each page with its status, 7-day visits, last edit and “Edit”, and above it “New page” and “New campaign”. At the bottom, four tiles: “Identity”, “Menu and footer”, “Campaigns”, “My sections”.
On screen: «Site readiness»، «Fix»، «Ask Noqta»، «Your site’s pages»، «Edit»، «New page»، «New campaign»
Tip: Start each week from “Site readiness”: three small fixes beat a redesign.

### 5. A site still on the old builder
If your site predates the Designer and hasn’t moved, the home shows: “Your site has not moved to the Designer yet — visitors see the old site”. Moving takes three steps, in order: “Publish identity” (colours, fonts, menu and footer), then “Publish home” (checked before it publishes), then “Move my site now”: visitors see the new site at once, at the same address, and nothing of the old site is deleted.
On screen: «Your site has not moved to the Designer yet — visitors see the old site»، «Publish identity»، «Publish home»، «Move my site now»
Heads-up: Publishing and moving need the publish permission. If your site has no home, create it from “Pages” first.

### 6. “Identity”: one decision the whole site wears
At the top of “Identity”, tabs: “Your identity”, “Templates”, “Seasons”. The steps: “Template”, “Colours”, “Type”, “Shape”, “Motion”, “Voice”, “Seasons”, with a live preview. A banner tells you if the identity isn’t published or your draft holds changes visitors haven’t seen. In “Templates”, eight templates shown with your data, then a screen to try one on your site — now, after, side by side — keeping your colour if you like; nothing of your content is deleted. Then “Publish identity”: the menu and footer go out with it.
On screen: «Identity»، «Your identity»، «Templates»، «Seasons»، «Template»، «Colours»، «Type»، «Shape»، «Motion»، «Voice»، «Publish identity»
Tip: Trying a template only touches the draft: try freely, visitors see nothing until “Publish identity”.

### 7. “Menu and footer” and “Settings”
“Menu and footer” has five parts: “Header”, “Menu”, “Footer”, “Announcement” and “WhatsApp” — add links with “Add an item”; it stays a draft until “Publish”. “Settings” (for those who can publish): under “The site”, “Site type”, “Languages”, “Search and sharing”, and the school if it is on; under “Elsewhere”, links to the domain, tracking, payment and delivery, and legal pages.
On screen: «Header»، «Menu»، «Footer»، «Announcement»، «WhatsApp»، «Add an item»، «Publish»، «Site type»، «Languages»، «Search and sharing»
Tip: The order of menu pages is also set from “Pages” → “In the menu” → “Reorder”.

## What comes next
- Build your pages: “Pages”: a page from your data, a template or Noqta, then the editor.
- Run a campaign: “Campaigns” → “New campaign”: goal, template, offer.
- Write on the blog: A post that answers a student’s question and leads to your course.
- Connect your domain: “Settings” → domain, so the site carries your name.

## Questions

**I edited my site and visitors don’t see it — why?**
Every Designer edit is a draft. Press “Publish N changes” on the home then “Publish now”, or “Publish” in the editor, or “Publish identity” and “Publish” for each part.

**Where did “Showcases” go?**
They are the Designer’s “Campaigns” now; a new campaign starts from a goal and a template. The old pages and their orders still work from their links; their new requests land in “Incoming”, under “Sales”, whose “⋯” button opens the “Follow-up desk”.

**Does changing the template delete my texts and images?**
No. The template only changes the look, and applies to the draft until you publish the identity. You can keep your colour.

**Why can’t I see “Settings” or the publish button?**
Publishing and “Settings” need the publish permission. You can prepare the draft; the owner or a permitted member publishes.

**My site still shows the old design**
If the home shows “Your site has not moved to the Designer yet”, publish the identity, then the home, then “Move my site now”. The address stays the same.