Is Sitebuilder really free

One thing makes it really good: to create fast and simple web sites for everyone, regardless of their technological backgrounds. While they don't give you a vast, complex set of maps, they do give you a website builder that anyone can use - and try for free. Yola, with headquarters in Cape Town, South Africa, has more than 12 million clients around the world.

There are about 60 Yola staff members who are fluent in a number of different language types including English, French, Germans and others. Yola's culmination is the Site Builder, an application that works in your web browsers without any need for installations or plug-ins. All you need to know to build a website with Yola is how to click and move your computer mousepad.

Website Builders support their web site offerings and this is really what you pay for. You do not need to enter a major payment method when you register to create your free website. However, a neat characteristic of Yola's free websites is that they are also ad-free. You' ll need to buy one of the more costly hosted services to get rid of Yola's own badge from your website.

Unless you want to buy a customized domainname (or deploy an existing one), you will get a Yola sub-directory, such as yoursite.yolasite.com. Yola's free page is a good option if you just need a fast, easy page for your event scheduling or your CVs. Even though you only get three web pages with a free website, Yola's chargeable schedules allow for a fairly complex menus layout, complete with sub-menus.

Yola's Website builder is designed for beginners, but it is also possible to optimize the HTML, JavaScript or JavaScript on your website with a chargeable web site hoster. Yola's Site builder is a "simple mode" for building web sites, but it offers an even simpler mode: the Site Creation Wizard.

Also, if the Site Builder site building dashboard (see below) is still too daunting, you can ask Yola to create your site for you. It is not clear, however, whether this function charges an extra charge or is only used with chargeable schemes. The Yola gives you 16 pretty general blogger-like template choices for your free website, but features hundred of other themes for your prepaid schemes.

Iola has only two kinds of website hosting schemes: normal sites and on-line shops. Sitebuilder is your normal website layout (we will talk about your shop in the following section). There are an amazing number of functions that are included with all Yola Sitebuilder maps, as well as the free website: WebsiteWit Stats is a site mapping application that links to your Yola affiliate accounts.

About Yola free maps, SiteWit provides a website visitor review, site traffic stats, and a measurement of your site's overall site traffic against various different metrics. SiteWit functions can be enhanced by buying one of their designs (separately from Yola). A reservation: According to Yola's on-line assistance data base, there is no way to back up and recover your site if anything goes awry.

There are several ways for Yola to update your free website whenever you want. Payed schemes are always good to look at, even if you want to try them out before you buy. Chargeable schedules contain infinite website pages and infinite bandwith. You will also receive a free user-defined domainname (or you can use a domainname you already own) and a free personal registry that will keep your name and your postal adress away from official data bases.

Remember that all but the most costly Yola' designs are branded in the bottom line of your website. Yola's top level Sitebuilder maps offer added benefits such as limitless space, premier template and optimized URL. Far and away the most cool thing about Yola's top action is the possibility to post your website on Facebook.

At a relatively low price per months, you can include an on-line shop with any Yola subscription you pay. In contrast to many other web hosting providers, Yola does not charge transactions charges on the purchases you make. Yola's full range of e-commerce utilities are available for one charge.

Each Yola Website Map (free or not) comes with an SSL Certificates enabled by standard. SSL Certificates are a must if you want to open an on-line shop, as they help your clients to have confidence in the secure encryption of their transaction information. Yola's on-line shop provides a rugged consumer value proposition.

Once they loose sight of what they have already added to their basket, your shop adapts and displays a banner on the item that informs the consumer that they have already added it. When they decide to set up an affiliate bankroll, clients can save their billing information and keep an eye on the progress of their purchase.

And your shop is also integrated into the Facebook page of your website, so your shoppers can review your inventory or order without ever having to leave Facebook. Yola's online shop allows you to resell up to 1,000 registered items or service so you always know exactly what you have in your inventory. Our shop comes with a metric so you can see how your turnover is developing from tag to tag.

There are a multitude of ways your business can pay, among them using your bank card, PayPal, off-line cheques, orders and even bank transfer. And if you plan to start selling worldwide, you know that more than 160 major international currency pairs are supported by them. You can even give your clients rebates and vouchers at your local shops. You will have a strong suite of order processing software in your business.

Configure e-mail alerts, keep track of orders, generate invoice printing, and set product prices based on product sizes, colors, versions, or other specification. Monitor your inbound and outbound orders in near-life via the store's own storefront, with the ability to communicate with your clients at any point in the supply lifecycle.

Iola is not like many web hosters who basically "Nickel and Time You to Death" with added charges (except her e-mail schedule, which is described in a later section of this review). Your on-line shops, for example, are packed with everything they sell, without add-ons. Your Sitebuilder schedules are similar because you can get added features by updating your month's schedule without the need for adds.

However, there are a few finite ways that you can improve your Yola Sitebuilder website for a little more money per months. Even though all of Yola's Sitebuilder subscription plan includes a free Sitebuilder subscription, you can still buy other Sitebuilder subscription plan names even if you don't plan to use them with Yola.

Contrary to most hosters, Yola does not give you e-mail accounts with any of their chargeable schemes even if you buy a domain from them. Instead, you need to include the Yola Mail schedule in your Sitebuilder or online store paycheck. Indeed, the addition of both the online store and the e-mail schedule will at least double the costs of your Sitebuilder schedule.

E-mail Schedule lets you browse your e-mail through your web browsers and your favourite e-mail applications such as Outlook, Apple Mail or via on-line Hosted Service such as Gmail and Yahoo Mail. Contains an upper limit for the entire mail store and the order of magnitude for sending and receiving emails. Yet another example of how Yola unlike most other web sites is her e-mail schedule gives you just a one inbox.

This means that you cannot give your staff or agents e-mail address because they cannot reach the primary inbox. Please note that you cannot take full benefit of the customer mailing list functionality (powered by Constant Contact) in any Sitebuilder package without purchasing the e-mail add-on subscription.

Though Yola doesn't go into the details of his own website structure, part of his quest is to make creating a website simple for everyone. So instead of enumerating servers specifications and data centers, Yola tries to solve your possible technological problems with generalisations like "we are willing to address... a blackout".

Yola also does not endorse its commitment to treating tonnes of users to your site except to the effect that it may. Yola, like most host companies, maintains 99.9% of the operating time for the 50 million websites it hosted. While Yola says there's "a great deal of technology" in her Sitebuilder, she doesn't explain what that means except for fuzzy hints about JavaScript and "advanced functionality".

" To make it easy for humans to build web sites, Yola has adopted a complex technique and translated it into its most fundamental, user-friendly format, Sitebuilder. Or in other words, Yola asks you to be confident that they know which technologies are best for their clients. Yola is not for you if you really want to get knee-deep into the minutia of transaction carriers and route logs.

The Yola description of its infrastructures is only general: Yola supports you in various ways, some of which are dependent on the rate you select. Everybody gets easy acces to the comprehensive job guides and other on-line information. There is a well referenced knowledge base available on-line. Guided tours offer step-by-step guidance and link to similar subjects.

Sitebuilder free maps can only be accessed by e-mail from your service team. Payed Schedules give you preferred e-mail and extra accessibility via our convenient Sitebuilder Help feature on your Sitebuilder dashboard. Yola employs all its own technical team. Though other web hosters allow you to connect to them through their online community account, Yola's Facebook and Twitter pages have not been refreshed for month.

The Yola company provides a 30-day cash back warranty on its premiums package. If you want to build a free and easy web site, Yola is a good option. Remunerated schemes will also work well for portfolio and larger small company locations. If you want to establish an on-line shop, Yola provides excellent value for your money. Yola is the right partner for you.

When you are afraid of HTML or simply don't have enough spare time to learn, Yola is a fast and simple way to get your first website up and running. Yola may not be right for you if you have extended hosted requirements-such as corporate computers, high-end SSL Certificate, back-up and recovery capabilities, either dedicate or VPS service, clamp hosted, or unique rugged networking and networking requirements.

When you need more than one user-defined domains e-mail address, you must contact another e-mail host instead of Yola. When you want to launch a blogs, Yola does not offer this feature in its Sitebuilder. It' a good suggestion to visit Yola when you need a fast, easy and free website - for example, to use it as a "virtual" calling point, to build a booklet, or to build an on-line CV.

Best of all, you don't have to tell if Yola is right for you because you can try it for free.