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Editing your Explore listing

The Explore configurator lets you match your Explore page on Make a Rezzy to your restaurant's brand — primary colour, font, background image, and the styling of every section on the page. This article walks through every control, the draft and publish flow, and where to look for things that live elsewhere. For the difference between your Explore page and your detail page, see What is the Explore page?

Opening the configurator

  1. Sign in to manage.makearezzy.com and pick your business.
  2. Open Edit Explore Page under Marketing & Website in the left-hand menu.

The configurator has a live preview on the left and the controls on the right. Every change you make is reflected immediately in the preview — there is no "Apply" button — but nothing is live until you publish.

Brand

The two settings that shape the whole page:

  • Primary colour — your restaurant's main brand colour. Used for accents and highlights throughout the listing.
  • Font family — System (uses whatever the visiting browser already has), Inter, Lato, Playfair Display, Roboto, or Montserrat. Pick something close to the font on your own website so the two feel like the same restaurant.

Banner

The banner is the search bar that sits at the top of your listing — where guests pick a date and party size:

  • Background colour and text colour — keep the contrast strong so the inputs read well over your background image.
  • Text size (px) — The size of the text in the banner.
  • Corner radius (px) — Controls the roundedness of the banner's corners. 0 for square edges, higher for more rounded.

Instructions

A short prompt sits below the banner asking the guest to pick a date and time. The configurator lets you set its text colour and text size (px). Use a colour that stands out against the background so the prompt is easy to spot.

Menus

The menu section near the bottom of the listing shows your menu cards (each one a menu PDF or image you have uploaded under Business details). The configurator styles the cards:

  • Background colour and Background hover colour — the card's background colour at rest and when a guest hovers over it.
  • Heading colour and Heading size (px) — the menu's name.
  • Body colour and Body size (px) — the menu's description.

Background image

The background image sits behind all your content. Scroll down to Background image, then either pick an image you have already uploaded or upload a new one.

Alternatively, if you want to remove the background image, click on Clear selection.

Wide, dark photos of your dining room or food work well — the text in the banner and the instructions has to be readable against it. Avoid busy patterns or text-on-image graphics.

Reserve a table image

Sits on the "Book a table" card on the listing. A simple, inviting photo — a place setting, the bar, a signature dish — works well. Pick or upload it the same way as the background image.

Events

Any events that fall within the guest's chosen date and time appear as cards next to the "Book a table" card. Each card shows the event's cover image, name, short description, and price — all of which come from the event itself, not from the configurator.

Event cards share their layout with the Reserve a table card, and pick up your primary colour and font from the Brand section. There is no separate event styling control — to change how event cards look, change the event's cover image and copy on the Events page, or adjust the Brand colour and font here.

Advanced CSS

Below the structured controls is an Advanced CSS panel that accepts raw CSS. It is a power-user feature — most operators will never need it. Reach for it when:

  • You need a specific shadow, gradient, or hover state that the built-in controls do not expose.
  • Your designer has given you a stylesheet you want to apply verbatim.

Draft, preview, publish

The bar at the bottom of the configurator tracks where your edits are:

  • Saving draft… — appears while a recent edit is being autosaved to your draft. Edits never disappear if you close the tab mid-way.
  • Draft saved · not yet published — your draft has more recent edits than the live listing. The preview shows the draft, but the listing your guests see is unchanged.
  • Published — your draft matches what is live. No outstanding edits.

Two actions on the bar:

  • Publish — promotes your draft to the live listing. Guests see the change within seconds.
  • Discard — throws away every edit since the last publish, and reverts the configurator to the live version.

Mobile-friendly design

More and more guests are browsing and booking on their phones, so the Esplore page allows you to preview your listing in both a desktop and mobile layout. The configurator's live preview defaults to desktop, but you can toggle to mobile view at any time to see how your edits look on a smaller screen.

It is important to check your listing in both views as you edit, since the mobile layout stacks content vertically and may reveal issues with spacing, font sizes, or image cropping that are not apparent in the desktop preview. The configurator's responsive design ensures that your listing looks great on any device, but a quick check in mobile view can help you catch any adjustments needed to make the best impression on diners browsing on their phones.

Once you do publish, always check the live listing on a phone as well as a desktop browser to make sure everything looks right. If you spot an issue that only shows on mobile, the mobile preview is the place to test your fix before publishing again.

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