The site editor can be used for modifying every site, whether or not it's attached to a space. Spaces are like a database and visualization engine and are often not needed for making working sites. However, building sites from space pages brings additional functionality.

Sites can be added and organized alongside tables of data within the 'contents' directory. This makes sites useful for building interactive UI menus (powered by plugins added to various spaces), or to provide context to data as a knowledge atlas integrated with normalized data.

Space downloads include sites, making sites in spaces beneficial for providing a full experience in an integrated space experience.

A site made within a space is overlaid on top of the space data. Sites can be associated with specific places, tables and actions in order to provide more dynamic interactions between sites and the canvas.

The 'edit/view' tabs for a site toggle between just the site. The 'edit/view' tab at the bottom right corner shows the default for the entire space, which is manageable by creating distinct web portals (more info in later documents).