How to make a website? Parallels Presence Builder in InfoboxCloud!

Today Layfhaker returns to a favorite of our readers heading "How to make a website", in which we talk about simple website builder. For that it is necessary to love such services? Of course, for the fact that they allow you to quickly make a beautiful, working, professional-looking website without having to learn the theme of site building. At this time in front of us a visual designer Presence Builder sites from the company Parallels.

To start with a little about the creators. Parallels - this guys from top global development of industrial-scale software, by which providers create their own clouds (like Amazon or even stronger) and own cloud Services.

Parallels Presence Builder - a representative of our favorite visual designers, working for the most intuitive system for the person "what I see is what you get." No HTML, PHP and other useful, but not very clear to the user unfamiliar with the site building things. Only the mouse and menus simple editing, familiar to all of us on the text and image editors.

Now about the designer. Presence Builder - a shell, which is needed for the hosting. In this case, to provide a platform for start-up in the Presence Builder sites involved in the company InfoboxCloud. The user is given the test period to get acquainted with the designer, then you can select the appropriate tariff to buy hosting and domain name (if its still there) for the generated site. Everything in one place.

Hosting InfoboxCloud, which turns the designer, too, has its advantages. In fact, he is hosting a new generation on the basis of CloudLinux OS with support for LVE (Light Virtual Environment). The technology allows to isolate the hard-resources provided by each client. So that no load on the sites of your "neighbors" will not affect the speed of your site.

To register a test account on the go this link.

How to create

The process of creating the site is carried out in 5 steps and begins with the selection of subjects. In total, we counted 12 large categories, which include all the relevant business area, entertainment topics, social services, as well as personal sites. Each category includes several subcategories that define a particular type of site. For example, for personal blogs is the content subject, which the owner is going to be placed in it.

After selecting a template, we immediately find ourselves in the interface designer.

Design Panel - this is the main working tool that allows the user to manage your website and fills it with different content. All operations and activities are divided into 5 main tabs:

modules

We would like to add one of the elements on the page? So we in the "Modules". Just grab the desired object with the mouse and drag it to put it on the page. Drag-and-drop in pure form, any code.

Separately, it should be said about the types and functions of the embedded objects on the page. In the screenshot you can see an online store, and it's really a full-fledged platform for the sale of goods online with the possibility of screwing different payment systems and customization of the structure and appearance, depending on the range and personal preferences creator site.

Similarly, Google Maps, and other necessary items can be placed on the page. Presence Builder default support Flash, as well as the great and powerful HTML5. The latter fact can be a big plus for the hipsters.

Design

This is the first tab that you want to visit the user after entering the interface designer. At first, it seemed to us that there is provided only one template for each theme site. In fact, for each template constructor generates about twenty variants and dilutes this collection of the same amount of copyright templates created by professional designers. The color scheme matched fairly well, so something needs to be changed here.

Another sweet plus: the user's worries are completely removed to optimize the site for mobile devices - the designer adapts it all himself.

This tab specifies the page layout is determined by the color scheme and palette, fonts, borders and fillets. After experimenting with a few minutes of these parameters can be obtained at the output of a truly unique design.

Pages

Hence, navigating through the pages created by the site, as well as its structure is given. The user is free to set for each page of your personal description, and the name of the site in the browser tab, and limit access to it with a password, or make invisible to visitors.

Documentation

It is likely that you will want to place on the site documents and other files to your audiences. This may be price lists, manuals, and any other information. Tab "Documents" is used to download such files to the site, then we will only have to place a link to download it or to open directly in the browser.

settings

Here the user will find the expected site settings. In addition to the standard functions (edit the site name, description, icon) it is recommended to devote a list of keywords, reflecting the theme and content of the site - it is to make friends with search machines. Settings also allow you to connect to a site Google analytics tool.

There is a separate point representation of the created site on social networks. The relevant settings tab, the user can just a few clicks to create a copy of your site to Facebook. The benefits of such a presence for any commercial project to speak in general not necessary.

How to edit

Work with the content of the page - this is the most charming feature Parallels Presence Builder. Once the user has mastered the previous 5 tabs designer toolbar, site editing is actually no different than working with a text editor. We direct the mouse on the element - a menu appears "to move / edit / delete". The choice of editing options will open a panel, the contents of which depends on the type of the selected item and contains all relevant actions that the user might want to do with it. Simply it can not be.

On the pros and cons

As mentioned above, Parallels Presence Builder does not have its own hosting platform and is offered as an additional service when you purchase hosting from InfoboxCloud. This is both a plus and a minus. The disadvantage is that there is no option of free hosting. This can be a problem for those looking for completely free solution for completely unpretentious personal site. However, experience shows that the development of site transition to a paid hosting with own domain gets into the must have, but it is generally a prerequisite for a commercial project. The most budget fare on placement site will cost 129 rubles when buying web hosting for a year or 149 rubles for payment of one month.

Total

From a functional point of view Parallels Presence Builder copes with its task and is fully consistent with the status of the visual designer. Together with democratic InfoboxCloud host to get an affordable solution to create a professional website without specific skills. Worth to educate.

BONUS

We asked Presence Builder creators to do something nice for our beloved readers. In response InfoboxCloud agreed to provide free domain name for 1 year to all who demonstrate created in the designer's website for their business with the fields filled in the "main", "Company", "services / goods" and "contacts". In general, if the head soared plans to create a cool site for your business, the moment has arrived.

Free test Parallels Presence Builder

Links to sites ready to receive a free domain for a year, send to [email protected]