SiteBuilder Review

DESIGN

Recognized planning and design techniques:

As with all jobs, before developing a web page it is necessary to make some planning and preparations:

• It is necessary to determine the target audience. Namely, the web page with information about cooking will be probably significantly different from a web page with content for children.
• It is necessary to create a story framework draft; it is necessary to set the main guidelines of what the web page will contain.
• The page structure has to be well thought through, and it should be easy to navigate the page with useful links.
• A page layout template is connected to the general page layout. It includes all design information such as the table layout, background wallpaper, and the title’s color.
• The navigation scheme allows users to find quickly and easily what they’re searching for.
• Recognize a good font: Using fonts such as Arial, Courier, Helvetica.

Since, in most cases, a text takes up a large part of a web page, selecting a font can have a major impact on the design. There are two types of fonts like Serif and Sans-serif. Namely, serif fonts have additional ornaments on the letters. For the purpose of text legibility, serif fonts are not recommended for longer texts. Instead, they are recommended for titles and similar. Arial, Courier, and Helvetica are sans serif fonts representatives and as such, they are suitable for web page content. Their characteristic is that they look good in almost all sizes.

CUSTOMIZATION

Layout

Your site is created using pre-designed layouts. You can change the layout of your site or the layout of a section on your site.

Text

SiteBuilder allows rich text editing for most of the text in different sections and layouts. Customize the look and feel of the text on your site. You can add bullets or hyperlinks, make your text bold, change the text color, the font, the position of your text and more.

Images

SiteBuilder creates your site using a combination of layouts, images, text and more that relates to your business. You can change any of the images on your site, at any time.

Galleries

As a customer, you can add a gallery or create a slideshow to showcase images on your site. You can include your own images, free SiteBuilder images.

Your site’s colors

Choose a color palette you like for your site, customize it or create your own! You can even add a logo to your site to extract the main colors and create a special palette.

Site menu

Your site is constructed of sections, and your site menu is based on these sections. You are available to add a page to your site, It will appear your site menu that changes to reflect your pages. You can change the design of your menu, its color, and font and personalize the text.

Animation

Add animation to your entire site or just a section of your site. You can also customize your scrolling effect or page transitions.

ADDITIONAL FEATURES

Domain Name

They provide a professional domain (www.yourname.com) with all annual plans.

Customizable Templates

They also offering hundreds of stunning templates to create your perfect website.

Email address

Customers can easily create personal email addresses
(yourname@yourbusiness.com) using their domain name. They can buy it separately.

Analytics

We are providing analytic which is helping our customers to grow traffic and increase engagement.

eCommerce

Add a store to your website and sell your products online.

Starting a Blog

Add a blog to your website to attract visitors and keep them up to date.

eCommerce Solution

They offer a full-featured eCommerce solution with our eStore packages that allows you to sell your products online with our integrated shopping cart. All transactions are secure plus SiteBuilder can interface with the top online Credit Card Processing gateways for real-time transactions.

APP MARKET

One of the fastest growing and exciting features of your site builder accounts is the ability to use third-party apps, also known as “add-ons” from the App Market. AppMarket is a marketplace for developers to create apps and for customers to find, install and use add-ons with their Sitebuilder account. If you are familiar with “applications” then you know they are designed to give additional features or functionalities to something such as a website, smartphone or computer.

EXPRESS EDITOR

Design, Look and Feel

Changing Theme Design in the Express Editor

• The theme button at the top is the starting point to change the overall look of your website. This button will lead to changing the color, Light or Dark options, the accent color and also the option to change the Font in your site.
• To toggle through the different font options first select the theme tab at the top of the editor. Then on the right side, you will see the fonts option. You will have the option to change the font size between small, medium and large. You will also have the option to change the font style; you can either select presets or custom. If you choose presets, it will keep the site consistent and change all the fonts accordingly, if you choose custom you will have the option to change the title font and the paragraph font.
• When you change the theme of their website from Express Editor, the store’s theme is included!

Adding Links in the Express Editor

No Link

No linking feature.

Page

It will let you link to any page on the site you are currently working on. You can turn on if when clicked, the new page will load in the same tab or open a new tab.

Web Address

It will let you add a link to any site on the web.

Email address

It will open the user’s email client and automatically input the recipient email address. It will also allow you to enter the subject line that you would like pre-filled when they click the button.

Phone Number

When on a mobile device the phone link will open their phone app and add the entered
number into the dial-er.

Express Editor Page Overview

• To get a high-level view of your site you can use Page Overview to see color and font changes across the site, as well as move sections between pages.

Adding More of an Element in the Express Editor

• To begin, launch the site editor by choosing Edit Site from your account.
• Choose the section where you would like to add the new button.
• If no button exists in the section you are working in, simply add a button by clicking the ‘button’ slider in the right menu.

Adding and Deleting Pages in the Express Editor

• This is used for the purpose of modifying your site, depending on your business or hobby you can have as many pages in your site as you would like.
• You can name your pages anything that pertains to your site. If you have multiple locations for your business, you can make each page focused on the different locations, adding all the necessary sections in each page.

Adding a Video in Express Editor

• The saying goes that an image is worth a thousand words, and for telling your customers about your business images provide a valuable message to anyone who visits your site.
• For ease, we have three ways to add images to customize your site via Uploads, URL, and Linked Facebook.

Animations in Express Editor

• Animations within Express Editor give life to the theme you have chosen. As you search for a theme, you may find that it has “animations” or “effects” which effortlessly allow for a more dynamic and modern looking website.
• In this article, we will cover how to disable the animations altogether, should you decide you do not want them active.

Alignment in the Express Editor

• You can test the alignment tool with the various sections and designs to create the design that you like the best, to showcase your work for a clean and professional look.

Stock Images in the Express Editor

• They have integrated Unsplash directly into our image library. We provide over 550,000+ free high-resolution images to allow you to create a website that perfectly matches your business.

MEDIA AND SOCIAL

Adding Images in the Express Editor

• The saying goes that an image is worth a thousand words, and for telling your customers about your business images provide a valuable message to anyone who visits your site.
• For ease, they have three ways to add images to customize your site via Uploads, URL, and Linked Facebook.

Adjusting images in the Express Editor

• You will see a blue outline appear around the image area; clicking and dragging the image within the frame allows you to choose the positioning of the image.

How to Update Shared Social Image with Express Editor

• The purpose of this tool is to select which photo will display when you share your site on social media.
• This is an essential feature to be able to choose a photo that truly represents your business any time you post anything on social media; you can change this depending on certain events or specific things going on, incorporating your business into social media in this way is a great feature.

Favicon in the Express Editor

• The purpose of this tool is to select which photo will display when you share your site
  on social media.
• This is an essential feature to be able to choose a photo that truly represents your business any time you post anything on social media; you can change this depending on certain events or specific things going on, incorporating your business into social media in this way is a great feature.
• In the window that opens up, near the bottom of the page you will see an area labelled Favicon, and you will click on the area labeled Choose your file.

SITE DETAILS

Multi-location Sites in the Express Editor

• Adding Multiple locations is very helpful to display the information regarding each location of your business, whether its hours of operation, different menu options or pricing or a different map you would like to display for each of the business addresses.

Saving versus Publishing in Express Editor

• It is a good habit to save any changes you make in the editor as you go. You can save your progress as many times as you like as you edit your site. When you publish your site, this allows any saved changes to go live online.
• Saving without publishing will allow you to work on your site and make changes without actually reflecting on the live version. When you are satisfied with the changes in the editor, simply publish your site again.
• Publishing your site will also save any changes you have made in the site.

STORE

Integrated Shipping

• SiteBuilder customers with upgraded accounts will now be able to utilize Integrated Shipping within their stores using Shippo! This means you’ll save time, and make more money thanks to priority shipping options, print label creation, and updated order management processes.
• They provide best-integrated software company that boosts our e-commerce businesses platform to incorporate shipping with multiple carriers through an API and web application. SiteBuilder users will now be able to utilize weight based shipping with priorities like, “Next Day, 2 Day, or Standard Shipping.”

Store Checkout

• The checkout process for customers who come to your Store was intentionally designed to be simple and easy to navigate. Each slide of the purchase flow below is organized to quickly gather the necessary information needed for payment capture.

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