> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.stage.systems/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Quickstart

> Change a headline on your site and publish it. Five minutes, start to finish.

This walks through one complete edit so you can see the whole loop before reading anything else.

<Note>
  **Before you start** You need an invitation to your site's admin. If you do not have one, open `/admin` on the site and press **Request access**. See [Opening the admin](/getting-started/opening-the-admin).
</Note>

<Steps>
  <Step title="Open the admin">
    Go to your site's address and add `/admin`. Sign in.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Switch on Edit">
    Press **Edit** in the bottom-left bar. The page looks the same, but text and images are now clickable.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Change a headline">
    Click any headline and type. What you see is exactly what visitors will see.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Publish">
    Press **Publish**, then **Publish now?** to confirm. The button reads **Live** once the site has started rebuilding.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Check the site">
    Open the page in a new tab. A full rebuild takes a minute or two. Sites set up for instant refresh show the change in seconds.
  </Step>
</Steps>

That is the whole model. Everything else in these docs is a variation: images instead of text, lists instead of single fields, articles and forms instead of pages.

## Next steps

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Edit mode" href="/editing/edit-mode">
    Everything you can click on, and what happens when two people edit at once.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Adding, reordering and removing" href="/editing/structure">
    Lists on the page can grow, shrink and reorder.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Publishing" href="/editing/publishing">
    What Publish does for pages, articles and forms.
  </Card>

  <Card title="How Stage works" href="/getting-started/how-stage-works">
    The mental model in two minutes.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>