Timeline to build your website
- Sign up online for our 30 day free trial
- Pick a web design template (just pick any template if you want us to custom design a "look and feel" for you)
- Select the types of pages you want included in your website, e.g. home, links, news, shopping cart, gallery, etc
- Enter your contact details
- Check your email for login details, and other helpful information.
- Login to our user friendly content management system (CMS) to enter your text and upload your photos.
- Ask for help if you need it
- Register your domain name (web address). The address will not go live until you pay for hosting. Fees apply.
- You can request customised web design or other professional help with your website. Fees apply.
- Time goes by... eventually you get all your information together. You can email or post the information if you want us to do it for you, or just enter it yourself online.
- Let us know when you want your website live. Hosting fees for the first month are payable in advance.
- Once your website is live, you can use our free search engine submission tool. Under "my options" tab, then "search engines" link.
- Login to the CMS whenever you want to update your website.
- Statements are sent monthly. Payment can be made by credit card, cheque, direct debit or internet banking.
- Lastly, you will need to market your website by traditional means. In reality, websites receive very few hits from search engines, unless you have something very specific to sell. You should consider your website the same as a brochure or a communication medium, that you distribute by links in emails and other printed materials.
The above process can happen at your own pace. If you use work through these steps quickly you could have a live site in a matter of a few days. You make want to check this list before going live
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How long will this all take? Here you will find timeline guide for completing website projects
Use this checklist to review your website before going live.
How to change your website from a trial site to a live public site, payment etc
Your trial period is extended everytime you press publish, so you can keep your trial going as long as it takes for your site to be ready to go live.
There are various approaches available to allow you to style the template, content and system-generated pages.
The DESIGN menu provides options to change and backup/restore saved themes
Here is the procedure for having your website custom designed.
I have several websites. How do I access them under one login and password?
If you have added sitewide messages to the site they can be changed via the DESIGN > MESSAGES AND POPUPS section
Google doesnt automatically know that your website is live the minute you make it live. In fact it could take up to 6 months for Google to find it and index it.
You can help speed up this process up by submitting your site to Google for consideration
You can tell Google about the new page by setting file redirects in the system.
If youre images are rotated on your website unexpectedly, it could be due to hidden EXIF data stored on the image when taking the photo
If your template comes with some default content in the templates footer area, this is how you can edit it.
If you need to switch to HTML mode to add scripts or embed codes into your page there are two ways to do it.
You can access the area to put code before the body tag via the SEO area
Some templates come with promoted products on the homepage - here's how to remove them
The short answer is you do, however you can't take our easy to use content management system with you
If the domain name is connected to another webspace, then please create a new webspace (using the same login email address as your existing site), then transfer the domain over from your other webspace, there is a domain setup option for that.
You may like to go live with a single custom placeholder webpage with your own graphics, or downgrade to this if you are going offline for a while.
Many help guides talk about clicking the (Page) Options tab. This is where it is located
You can change the size of the text either when editing a page or in the template.
There are multiple editors in the CMS, including the Drag-drop and Contentbox editors - here's how you change editors.
FAQ Topics
Building your site
Advanced Page Types
E-Commerce
- Shopping Basics
- Category Management
- Products
- Product Options
- Layout and Formatting
- Payment Options
- Processing Orders
- Advanced Ecommerce
- Product Pricing, Currencies
- Plugins
- Wholesale
- Rental, Booking and Appointment Systems
- Freight - Couriers
- Stock & Quantities
- Vouchers, Discounts, Loyalty Points
- Selling Photos / Prints
- Shopping Cart Add-on Page types
- Advanced APIs / Add ons
- Point of Sale (POS)
- Reports
- Orders / Invoices
Email & Membership
- Member Management
- Members Pages / Template Customisations
- From Addresses and Reply To Email Notifications
- Global Enquiry form options
- Standard Field Names
- Webmail
- Bulk Email
- CRM Features
- Email Campaigns
- Forums & Blogs
- Pop3/Imap Email Services
- Scams and Hoaxes
- Lead Magnets / Growing Your Customer Database
- Form Spam Filtering
