Creating a website with Sitebuilder
What makes Sitebuilder so Easy?
Sitebuilder is a browser-based application for creating and editing websites. Parallels Plesk SiteBuilder starts with an easy 5-step wizard to make it easy to build a website without needing any technical or HTML knowledge.
Everyone Loves the Easy 5-Step Sitebuilder Wizard
It's easy to see why everyone loves Sitebuilder when anyone can quickly create and publish a professional looking websites in just five simple steps.
Step 1 - Select a Site Type
First, you select the type of the site you would like to create. Business, personal, photo gallery, blog, etc..
Step 2 - Choose a Template Design
In the next step, you select a website design template from hundreds of quality templates available to you through Sitebuilder. Further customize the templates by specifying colors, headers, and logos.
Step 3 - Define your Page Structure
Next, you define the site structure and select various page sets. There are drag and drop capabilities for modules and pages so you can easily define your site hierarchy.
Step 4 - Edit your Pages
During the edit step, you simply type on the page and save what you type --it's that easy! The newly improved WYSIWYG editor makes it easier than using a word processing program. You can also drag and drop content elements directly on your pages to make them more functional than just a page of text --add forms, pictures, graphics and more all in a matter of minutes.
Step 5 - Publish your New Website to the Web
Finally, you can simly publish your site directly to your InfoQuest hosting account with a single click and your site is instantly available for all to see. Need to make changes, simply edit the page again. When you edit pages, you can save your work and re-publish it at a later time or save it immediately for instant visiability.
Innovative Features
- Easy to Use Five Step Wizard — Step-by-step wizard that allows you to 1) create the design, 2) structure the website, 3) edit the content, 4) define parameters and 5) publish the website.
- Drag & Drop Support — The Parallels Plesk SiteBuilder wizard supports drag and drop during multiple steps, advancing your flexibility by allowing you to drag and drop desired components.
- Intuitive WYSIWYG Editor — Allows you to easily edit website content without any HTML skills or knowledge.
- Hundreds of Quality Templates — Parallels Plesk SiteBuilder includes hundreds of high quality templates and tutorials on how to create and add custom templates and skins.
- Built-in Modules — Parallels Plesk SiteBuilder provides built-in modules making your website even more powerful and flexible. Modules include: Blog, Photogallery, Guestbook, eShop, Forum, Feeback Forms, RSS Reader, Voting, Custom Script, Area Map, and a Flash intro Page.
- Site Owner Admin Panel — Allows you to administer several websites by providing the capability to manage site statistics, create new sites, manage existing ones, configure profile, manage e-shop orders and more.
What's New
- Two new modules: Site Map and External Page - We’ve increased the flexibility of Sitebuilder adding two new modules to bring the total of modules available to 16. The Site Map module allows site owners to display a clickable hierarchical model of their site structure to visitors aiding in ease of navigation within the site. The External Page module allows site owners to link menu items to external web sites.
- Removing design template from pages - Site owners can now remove design template’s layout and graphics from selected pages increasing the amount of customization available.
- Save button - Site owners now have an easy access button to save their in-progress changes while building their website.
- Counter and site visitor management settings are moved to the Wizard - Site owners can save time by enabling a counter on their site or managing their registered visitors directly from the Wizard rather than going to the Administrator Panel.