Manual

The one-page orientation: a calm website for things you sell in person, run from your own iPhone, iPad or Mac

Putting a showcase on a new device with its recovery key, or creating a new one, and what it starts with

How a showcase is owned with no account, where its key lives, and how to back it up and restore it

Switching between showcases, managing the list on a device, and taking one off a device

The list of places on the iPhone, the sidebar and cards on the iPad, going back, Side by Side, and where Settings is

The magnifying glass beside the showcase's name (⌘F) finds listings, pages, settings and this manual

Starting a new listing, what its form holds from top to bottom, and how its name and web address are made

Adding, ordering and removing a listing's photos and video, and what the app does to them before they go up

What a listing's status does on the site and in the app, the quick ways to change it, and the private note beside it

Filling in a listing's fields by type, adding a new choice from a listing's form, and formatting the description

Private fields and the status note, sealed with your showcase's key so the site never shows them and the host can't read them

What Publish sends, seeing a listing on the web, taking one off the site for now, and deleting it for good

How the app keeps your iPhone, iPad and Mac from saving over each other, and what each question means

Giving a piece a real width and height, how the site uses it, and how visitors see it at its real size in their own room

Your site's name and subtitle, the phone at the top, the contact details visitors use, the About text and the footer

Adding the pages that become your site's tabs, writing them, putting photos on them, and ordering or deleting them

A photo across the top of your site's pages, under your name and tabs, and when a page shows a different one

Choosing how your site arranges its listings, each layout's options, and the name of the first tab

How the Gallery layout hangs every piece at its real size on a gallery wall, and what visitors can do there

Choosing a face for your site's name and tabs and another for its text, from a short list served by your own site

Choosing your site's colors from the ready-made themes in Site, Layout, and how the app wears them too

Making a theme from a few colors in Settings, Themes, importing one as JSON, and putting it on your site

Where your site lives on showcaser.app, how a new showcase gets its address, and changing it

Putting your site at a domain you already own, the one or two records to change where your domain is managed, and disconnecting

Your site's home page, a listing's page, the Contact page and the light and dark switch, as a visitor meets them

How visitors search your listings, the sorts they can use, and the category buttons above the list

What a listing schema is, the four built-in ones, how the first change makes one your own, and switching between them

Adding, renaming, reordering and retyping your schema's fields, and which types a field can be

Choosing which fields make a listing's name, which ones the site searches and sorts by, and what an empty field says

Adding and editing statuses, the home tab each falls under, and whether the site shows and marks it

Taking a field out of your schema with or without its values, hiding one, and removing a status by moving its listings first

The sidebar and the cards: your site's pages (the listings among them), the Site card and the foot, each a card

Putting two cards next to each other, closing a card, moving one to a window of its own, and keeping an arrangement

Bringing photos and video in from the Finder or Photos, starting a listing by dropping photos, and reordering by dragging

The keys the Mac app answers to, and where to find them in the menus

What your showcase's host keeps, what it can't read, what it never learns about you or your visitors, and who can change your site

What happens to every photo and video before it leaves your device, and what Showcaser will never do to a picture

What the app's messages mean and what to do, from a missing showcase to a video that's too long

Where to read what changed in each update, and the build you are on

Tell the people who make Showcaser about a problem or an idea, from the app or the website