Dashboards intro page: update to reflect current software (#31677)

* Dashboards intro page: update to reflect current software

- Update demo video showing how to edit a dashboard
- Replace Edit procedure with reuse include to reduce redundancy
- add subtitles to add structure and improve readability
- add link to dashboard section in onboarding

* Rephrase

* Tweak
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description: "Powerful and configurable dashboards for Home Assistant."
---
Home Assistant dashboards are a fast, customizable and powerful way for users to manage their home using their mobiles and desktops.
Home Assistant dashboards allow you to display information about your smart home. Dashboards are customizable and provide a powerful way to manage your home from your mobile or desktop.
- 29 different cards to place and configure as you like.
- Dashboard Editor: Allows you to manage your dashboard by including a live preview when editing cards.
- Fast: Using a static configuration allows us to build up the dashboard once.
- Customizable:
- Cards have a number of options which help to configure your data as required.
- Themes (even at a per card basis).
- Ability to override names and icons of entities.
- Custom Cards from our amazing community are fully supported.
You can customize your dashboard using various options:
To start, go to the Home Assistant Overview page, click on the three dots at the top right of the screen and select 'Edit Dashboard'. Then click on the blue '+ Add Card' icon at the bottom right and select a card to add.
- Different cards types to visualize your data and control your smart home devices.
- [Themes](/integrations/frontend/#defining-themes) (even at a per card basis).
- Override names and icons of entities.
- Use custom cards from our amazing community.
<lite-youtube videoid="XY3R0xI45wA" videotitle="Editing the user interface" posterquality="maxresdefault"></lite-youtube>
<p class='img'>
<img src='/images/dashboards/edit-dashboard.webp' alt='Screencast showing how to edit a dashboard customize a vertical stack card'>
Screencast showing how to edit a dashboard and customize a vertical stack card.
</p>
To try it yourself, check out [the demo](https://demo.home-assistant.io).
## Explore the interactive demo dashboard
Try it yourself with [the interactive demo](https://demo.home-assistant.io).
## Get started with your own dashboard
{% include dashboard/edit_dashboard.md %}
For more detailed instructions, follow the step-by-step tutorial on [editing the **Overview** dashboard](/getting-started/onboarding_dashboard/).
## Discuss dashboard
- Suggestions are welcome in the [frontend repository](https://github.com/home-assistant/frontend/)
- For help with dashboards, join the `#frontend` channel on [our chat](/join-chat/) or [our forums](https://community.home-assistant.io/c/projects/frontend)
## Additional Resources
## Related topics
- [Community Custom Cards](https://github.com/custom-cards)
- [Home Assistant Cards](https://home-assistant-cards.bessarabov.com/)
- [Community custom cards](https://github.com/custom-cards)
- [Home Assistant cards](https://home-assistant-cards.bessarabov.com/)
- [Material Design Icons](https://pictogrammers.com/library/mdi/)
- [Dashboard themes](/integrations/frontend/#defining-themes)
- [Interactive dashboard demo](https://demo.home-assistant.io)
- [Editing the **Overview** dashboard](/getting-started/onboarding_dashboard/)

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