AI page builder

The AI page builder designs your site’s pages for you. Describe what you want in your own words, such as “make the home page look more premium, with a darker hero and rounder cards” or “create an About page with our story and a FAQ”, and the AI designer builds it with your own listings, categories and sellers in it. You then edit every section yourself, preview it on a computer, tablet and phone, and publish it when you like it.

The page builder is included in the Starter, Professional and Marketplace plans, and you can try it on the free trial with 5 AI design edits (see Monthly allowance). It works with the Nova theme. Copying a design from a website link and custom code sections come with the Professional and Marketplace plans.

Open the page builder

Click AI page builder in the admin panel sidebar, at the top of the AI section. It opens the Studio, a full-screen editor with your site in the middle. Back to admin returns to the panel.

If your plan doesn’t include it, the same link opens the AI page, where the page builder card has a See plans link. See Compare plans.

Build with the AI designer

1. In AI designer, type what you’d like to change, or click one of the ideas.
2. Press Enter. The AI works on a draft and shows the result in the preview.
3. Ask for more changes in the same way, or change things yourself (below).

To talk about one part of the page, click it first. Each section also has Ask the AI about this section and a button that asks for three different versions of it, so you can pick the one you like.

Nothing you or the AI change is live until you publish. Your visitors keep seeing your current site.

Change things yourself

Tab	What you can do
Sections	Click any section of the page to change it. Type straight into texts, drag a section to move it, or use + on its edge to add one. Add section offers ready-made sections, and blocks you saved.
Style	Colours, fonts, corners and spacing for the whole site, or Start from a look: a ready-made style with a whole home page laid out for you (see them all on the Templates page at yclas.com). If the Yclas team has made a design just for your site, it’s at the top, under Made for your site (see below).
Pages	Your site pages: add a New page, change page texts, search titles and the social share image. You can also add, rename or remove categories and locations; their addresses stay the same.
History	Earlier versions of your design. Bring any of them back.

At the top, Undo and Redo step through your changes, and Desktop, Tablet and Phone switch the preview. Press Ctrl+K (⌘K on a Mac) to search for any action, page or section.

Changes you make by hand don’t use your AI allowance. Only requests to the AI do.

Sections worth knowing

Add section lists every section with a small preview. A few that are easy to miss:

Section	What it shows
Blog posts	Your newest blog posts, with picture, title, excerpt and date, 3 to 12 of them. It shows nothing while the blog is off or has no posts.
Image banner	A wide picture shown as it is, such as a printed banner or a masthead, with its own picture for phones and an optional link. Fill in Heading with the words on the picture so screen readers and search engines can read them.
Ribbon	A heading on a notched ribbon in your second colour, with a band in your accent colour below it for one or two lines, such as Business directory over Find local businesses.
Brand band	A closing band in your second colour: a picture, your logo and a tagline, and a short statement on the right.
Categories	Your categories as Tiles, a List, Chips or Icons. Icons is a directory-style list: each category’s round icon beside its name and description, in 1 to 4 columns, with an optional last item linking to every category. Switch on Subcategory links to show each category’s subcategories as links in place of its description. The icons are your category icons.

Made for your site

When the Yclas team designs a page just for your site (for example from your flyer or your old website), it appears in Style under Made for your site. Nobody else can use it.

1. In Style, click the design under Made for your site.
2. Read what it changes and click Use this design.
3. Look through the draft, change anything you like, and publish.

It sets your look, the sections of your pages, the page-wide code and the header and footer it was made with. It replaces those in your draft: Undo brings your draft back, and you can use the design again at any time.

If the design comes with categories, they are set up when you publish: categories are renamed, added or removed to match, with their picture icons, and your listings stay where they are. Their addresses don’t change. Check them under Categories in the Studio before you publish. Unpublishing the design puts your earlier categories and icons back, except where you’ve changed them by hand since.

Publish

1. Click Publish. The builder checks your draft first and lists anything to look at, such as placeholder text left in or a link with no address.
2. Fix what it finds, or confirm with I checked it: publish.

Your design goes live straight away. You can also Schedule it for a later date, or Share a preview: a link that shows your draft to anyone who has it, for 7 days, without logging in.

To go back to the standard Nova design, open History and click Unpublish on the live version. Your versions are kept, so you can publish one again later.

Once a design is published, the theme options and settings it controls (such as the home page texts, or your site name) show Managed in the page builder: change it there, or publishing the design again replaces it. Change them in the Studio. See Theme options.

Monthly allowance

Each request to the AI designer counts as one AI design edit:

Plan	AI design edits a month
Starter	30 in your first month, then 15
Professional	75
Marketplace	150

The page builder card on the AI page shows how much of this month’s AI you’ve used and when it resets on the first of the month.

On the free trial you get 5 AI design edits for the whole trial, not 5 a month. The Studio shows them as AI edits in your trial, for example 2 of 5 used, and warns you when one is left. Editing by hand, previewing and publishing have no limit. When you choose a plan, its monthly allowance takes over. If the trial ends without a plan, the Studio closes, but a design you published stays on your site.

When the edits run out, the AI designer pauses and says until when, for example AI design edits paused until [the 1st of next month]. Your draft and the code editor still work. Your draft is kept and you can carry on by hand and publish. On Starter and Professional it adds an Upgrade for more. link to the plans. On the free trial it says You have used the AI edits of your free trial. Choose a plan for more, with a Choose a plan link.

Get help

Stuck on a change? Get help in the Studio sends your question to our team with a link that shows them your draft and the section you have selected, for 7 days.

Good to know

• The page builder designs Nova. If your site uses another theme, the Studio says so, and visitors see your design only once you switch to Nova.
• Right-to-left languages such as Arabic work: sections lay out from right to left. See Right-to-left languages.
• Some sections fill themselves with your own data: your newest or featured listings, categories, places and sellers.
• The vehicles, property and jobs packs and directory mode add their own sections, such as a mortgage calculator or a vehicle search, when they’re on.

Related guides

• AI features and allowances — every AI feature in one place.
• Theme options — Nova’s settings without the page builder.
• Your home page — what’s on Nova’s home page.
• Compare plans — what each plan includes.