Think of your mobile view as a condensed summary of desktop.
A. Expand the content tree to the left
B. Select the visibility icon beside the elements you’d like to show or hide.
Hide elements as needed
All page elements should sit inside the blue page guides. Anything outside is highlighted in red.
Layout Assistant helps you get inside the bounds fast.
Good Job!
A. Navigate to Page Properties
B. Under Layout Assistant, click “Entire Page”. Or select a page section, and apply to a section at a time.
Let’s publish (don’t worry it will only be visible to you).
A. Click ‘Save’,
B. Navigate back to the Page Overview screen
C. Click Publish
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Besides coaching aspiring authors, Bridget has worked as an editor, features writer (for major publications from Cosmopolitan to National Geographic Traveller) and blogger. Her novel Strange Nervous Laughter was published by Struik (SA) and Macmillan (US).
Alyssa holds an MA with honours in Writing for Young People from Bath Spa university. She is represented by Amber Caraveo at Skylark Literary and her novel The Eleventh Trade will be published in 2018 by Macmillan (US) and HotKey (UK).
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