Many clients touch their site with their fingertips, afraid of breaking everything. An intimidating back office, obscure fields, a preview that lies. I do not think they are wrong: on plenty of sites that fear is well founded, and one badly filled field is enough to bring a page down.
Editing on the site
With Sveltia, you edit the site on the site. Logged in, you click a title, you correct it, it saves. « Publish » writes a git commit, the build starts again, it is live. What you see while editing is exactly what will be published. No preview that lies, no mystery field, no parallel interface to learn. The first time, you look for the catch. There is none.
The content belongs to you too
Every change is a versioned text file. Nothing is lost, everything can be found again, you go back with one click. The content is not held prisoner in a proprietary database: it is Markdown, readable in ten years, exportable in a second. Owning your site also means owning your words.
One single truth
The CMS and the pages read the same files. No synchronisation coming loose, no preview version diverging from the live one. One source, versioned, for editing as much as for display. The solidity of static, without the rigidity: nothing moves without a reason, but everything can move with one click.
A site nobody dares change ends up frozen, then lying. Mine is edited without apprehension, because a wrong click breaks nothing. And a site you dare touch is a site that stays alive.
