The General Settings page is where you configure how your brand guide works. From your brand's identity and publication status to security, access, SEO, and team management, this page contains the settings that affect your entire guide.
Think of it as the control center for your brand.
From General Settings, you can:
All settings are organized into sections, making it easy to find what you need.
These settings define the overall identity and availability of your brand guide.
The name of your brand guide.
This title appears throughout the application and can also be used in your SEO settings.
Every brand can be saved as either a Draft or Published.
Draft brands remain private while you're building or reviewing your guide.
Owners and Managers can continue editing and previewing the guide, but it remains hidden from visitors and shared links until it is published.
Draft mode is ideal for:
Published brands are live and available to users with permission to access the guide.
Once published, visitors can view published pages according to your sharing, password protection, and Access Key settings.
You can change the publication status at any time without affecting your content.
Enable or disable public features for your guide.
Available options include:
These options control which actions are available to visitors viewing your published guide.
These settings control how visitors and search engines experience your guide.
Choose which published page visitors see first when they open your brand guide.
Automatically appends additional text to page titles.
For example:
Typography | Acme Brand Guide
This helps create consistent page titles across your guide.
Provide a short description of your brand guide.
This description may be used by search engines and when your guide is shared on social media.
Require visitors to accept your terms before viewing the guide.
Available options include:
This feature is useful for confidential brand guides, licensing agreements, or NDA-protected materials.
Display a banner at the top of your brand guide.
Configure:
Callouts are ideal for announcements, temporary notices, or important updates.
Protect your entire brand guide with a single password.
When enabled, visitors must enter the password before accessing any published content.
Access Keys can still provide customized access while the Master Password remains active.
Access Keys allow you to create secure, shareable links with customized permissions.
Each Access Key includes:
You can control whether a visitor can:
Access Keys make it easy to create personalized experiences for clients, partners, reviewers, or internal teams without creating separate brand guides.
Collaborate with other users by granting access to your brand.
Owners have complete control and can:
Managers can:
Managers cannot:
Managers may remove themselves from a brand at any time.
Enter the email address of an existing MyStyleGuide.io user to grant them Manager access to your brand.
Click Save Settings to apply your changes.
General Settings are saved together, including the brand's publication status, while team management actions—such as inviting or removing Managers—are applied immediately using their own controls.
Changing a brand from Draft to Published makes the guide available according to your sharing, password, and Access Key settings.
The General Settings page controls the overall behavior of your brand guide.
From here you can configure your brand's identity, manage its publication status, organize your site's structure, optimize SEO, create secure sharing experiences with Access Keys, configure security, and collaborate with your team—all from a single location.
