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When someone visits a URL that doesn't exist on your site, the system displays a 404 Not Found page — a message that simply means, “The page you're looking for doesn’t exist.” By default, Essepage provides a built-in 404 page that looks like this: It serves its purpose, but let’s be honest — it’s no...
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Parameter folders in Essepage allow you to create clean, dynamic URLs where parts of the URL are used directly in your page content. It’s a simple yet powerful way to build pages like /page/1 or /product/abcd-1234-5678 without any backend routing logic. What Are Parameter Folders? In your fi...
Essepage fully supports multibyte characters in file and folder names — including Korean, Chinese, Japanese, and many other languages that use characters beyond the basic Latin alphabet. This means you can name your files and folders naturally in your native language, with no need for additional enc...
Essepage uses a simple and intuitive routing system based on a file system structure, similar to traditional static site generators. This approach makes it easy to understand and manage how pages are accessed in your site. Default Page: +page.essepage In each folder, a file named +page.essepage acts...
How to Edit, Apply, and Publish in Essepage Essepage gives you control over how and when your web content goes live. Understanding the difference between Publish, Apply, and Apply All is essential to managing your pages effectively. The Typical Workflow In Essepage, creating and managing a page typi...
To understand how Essepage works, it helps to first compare it with a traditional HTML page. Most webpages follow a common structure. They usually start with the DOCTYPE declaration and include the <html>, <head>, and <body> tags. But Essepage is designed to minimize repeated work....
So far, you’ve added a navigation menu to both your homepage and About page. But if you ever want to update that menu, you’d need to open each file and edit it manually. That doesn’t scale—and that’s where components come in. A component is a separate file that contains a reusable chunk of code—like...
Now that you have both a Homepage and an About page, it’s time to make it easy for users to move between them. Previewing each page individually is useful while building—but for real navigation, we need proper links. In this section, we’ll add a simple navigation menu to your website so you can swit...
Let’s start by creating an About page—a common part of many websites for sharing introduction or background information. If your site is at cool.com, we’ll create a new page that lives at cool.com/about. Create the “about” folder and a “+page.essepage” file Just like your homepage lives at /public/+...
Saving your code doesn’t immediately make it visible to others. If every change you saved was instantly published, it could result in unfinished or unintended content appearing on your live site. That’s why Essepage gives you full control: once your edits are complete, you can explicitly apply them—...