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 — click, type, drag, style — 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 — colors, spacing, 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:

1. Your computer — the project folder. This is the site: pages, images, settings, all as ordinary files Studio edits.

2. A repository — an online copy of that folder, with its full history. It's your backup and your publishing channel.

3. A host — 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 — you never type commands.

A short glossary

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 with Publish to 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 — there's no one company renting you the whole stack.

Editing also happens where Studio and your files are — your computer — 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 — 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 — but 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.

Start here

• Install Jx Studio — download the app for macOS, Windows, or Linux

• Your first project — from starter template to published site

• A tour of Jx Studio — find your way around the editor