This article will cover the Pages and Canvases in Showit, and how they differ. If you haven't already, you may want to see our glossary of terms to get a complete picture of terminology used inside the Showit platform.

A page can be defined as the sum of all of the content that you can see when scrolling up and down on a website. For example, if you visit our Home page here:

https://showit.com/

Everything that you can see from top to bottom as you scroll makes up our Home page. If you go to the menu and click the About link, you can see a whole new page, our About page:

https://showit.com/about/

In the Showit Design App, you can see a list of all of the pages in a design when you click on the Site Tab in the left side Site Panel. Some designs are a single-page scrolling design, while others (like this one) have multiple pages.

You can add as many pages as you want to a design. Whether you want to add a blank page or a page from another design the options are endless. You can create the site you want, exactly how you want with Showit.

A canvas is a section of content within a page. You can add as many canvases as you wish, which will act as the building blocks of your pages. You can see a list of all of the canvases within a page by clicking on one of your pages, then clicking on the Page tab in the left side Properties Panel.

For example, below you can see we are on the Home page:

Listed here you can see the canvases that make up the Home page.

Notice the canvas with stripes called "Email Pop-up." This one is a Site Canvas, which works like a canvas that you can update globally across your site.

At the top and bottom of the canvas list on this page is a Site Canvas Set. This works like a collection of Site Canvases that can be applied and updated across multiple pages.