Coming from Wix or Squarespace
On Wix or Squarespace, your site lives inside your account: the editor, the files, and the hosting are one thing you rent. Jx separates them. You still build in a visual editor, clicking and typing and dragging and styling, but the site itself is a folder of ordinary files that you own, and putting it on the web means handing those files to a hosting service. This page explains what that actually means day to day, including the parts you take on yourself.
You still get a visual editor
Jx Studio is a full visual builder: click any text and type right on the page, drag in headings, images, and sections, and style everything with panels for colors, spacing and fonts, while a live canvas shows the page at every screen size. Nothing in the Studio documentation assumes you can code.
One difference you'll notice immediately: Studio is an app you download , not a website you sign into. There's no account, because there's nothing to have an account on ; it opens your files directly.
Where your site lives
Instead of one company's servers, your site touches three places, each with one job:
Your computer holds the project folder. That folder is the site: pages, images, settings, all as ordinary files Studio edits.
A repository is an online copy of that folder, with its full history. It's your backup and your publishing channel.
A host is the service that shows the site to visitors. Every time you sync changes to the repository, the host rebuilds and the new version goes live.
The day-to-day loop is: edit in Studio, click Commit and sync , and a minute later the site is updated. All of it happens through Studio's buttons, and you never type commands.
A short glossary
| Term | What it means |
|---|---|
| Repository | The online copy of your project folder, with its full history. GitHub is the best-known place to keep one. |
| Commit | A saved snapshot of your changes, with a short note saying what you did. |
| Sync | Sending your commits to the repository. This is the moment the host notices and rebuilds. |
| Host | The service that serves your site to visitors. Cloudflare Pages, Netlify, and GitHub Pages all work, and their basic plans are free. |
| Build | The automatic step where your project files are turned into the finished pages the host serves. |
What you take on
Honestly: some one-time setup that Wix or Squarespace did for you.
Connecting the pieces. You'll create a GitHub account and connect a host. Studio walks you through the repository part in GitHub , has a built-in flow for Cloudflare Pages , and the other hosts guide covers the rest. The host setup is two fields, once.
Your domain. Domains come from a registrar or your host, not from the builder, and you connect one in the host's settings.
No single support desk. If something on the host's side misbehaves, it's their documentation you'll read, because no one company is renting you the whole stack.
Editing also happens on the machine where Studio and your files are, rather than from any browser anywhere. The repository lets you set up a second machine, but it's a copy you open, not a website you log into.
What you get back
The trade is real, and so is the payoff: nothing is locked in.
A lapsed subscription can never take your site down or hold your content, because the files are on your machine and in your repository either way.
You can switch hosts without rebuilding anything; the same files publish anywhere.
Your pages and writing are readable files today and in twenty years, openable without Jx at all.
Hosting a site like this is typically free, and the published site is plain, fast pages. Adding sign-ins or a database later gives your host one small program to run alongside them, and the build writes that program for you, and the pages themselves stay prebuilt either way. There's no server of yours to write or patch.
You don't have to set up publishing on day one. Create a project, build, and explore entirely on your own machine. The repository and host can come when you're ready to go live.
Start here
Install Jx Studio to download the app for macOS, Windows, or Linux.
Your first project goes from starter template to published site.
A tour of Jx Studio helps you find your way around the editor.
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