Getting started

Ohlow pages are documents made of elements. You arrange them on a canvas, give them motion and behaviour, and publish to ohlow.lol/yourname. Nothing on a page is mandatory: no avatar slot, no card, no layout.

Your first page in nine steps

1. Create an account and claim a username.
2. Start from a blank canvas or a template.
3. Press I (or the Insert tab) and add a Text element. Double-click it to type.
4. Add an Avatar and a Social icons element. Paste links; platforms are detected automatically.
5. Drag things around. Hold Shift to lock an axis; pink guides snap edges and centres.
6. Switch to the phone icon in the top bar to adjust the mobile layout. Changes there only affect mobile.
7. Open Preview to try it at real device widths.
8. Press Publish.
9. Open your live URL.

Core ideas

Experience modes

A page is a list of scenes. The mode decides how scenes are presented: Website stacks them as scrolling sections, Canvas shows one full-screen composition, Scenes shows one at a time with transitions, Desktop adds window behaviour. Change it any time in the Page tab.

Layout

Frames lay out their children in one of three ways: Free (absolute positions), Stack (rows or columns with gap and padding) or Grid. Free children use constraints: pin to the left, right, centre, stretch, or scale with the parent. That's how one design adapts from a 1280px laptop to a 2560px monitor.

Breakpoints

Desktop is the base design. Tablet overrides desktop, mobile overrides tablet. A green dot in the inspector marks values changed for the current breakpoint; click it to reset.

Theme tokens & moods

Colours can reference tokens like $accent. Moods are alternate token sets. Visitors switch with a Mood switch, or a mood activates on a schedule in the visitor's local time.

Signal

Your Signal is a short live status edited from the dashboard. Signal widgets show it immediately, no republish needed.

Limits on free accounts