Today, under the heading “How to make a website,” Lifehacker will talk about a completely unique web service called Webydo. This is an innovative thing, which already now changes the development industry of professional sites for serious companies. If you try to compress all the features of this service to a short definition, you will get something like “the code is no longer needed”. However, everything in order.
A little bit of history and statistics
The principles of developing professional serious sites have not changed since the nineties. The expensive and difficult process, available only to specialists, gave birth to a new class of services – visual site designers based on predefined templates that do not require design and programming skills. Such “do it yourself” for fans.
They had to help those who need a simple website without bells and whistles, but statistics only show that only 2% of sites on such designers survived to the stage of full-fledged work. On serious business, it does not go at all.
In the meantime, the development of professional sites has not fundamentally changed – only means change. New versions of Photoshop and other tools are coming out, but from the age-old “a good designer and a smart programmer” is needed, it was not possible to leave. Proof of this can be the percentage of sites on the Internet (data from the US market). 74% of all sites are done in the old-fashioned way, thus the tandem designer + programmer.
785 million sites, more than 20 billion dollars – and this is only in the American sector of the web design industry.
And half of the companies still do not have a website. In general, the scope for work is huge, that’s just the problem. 70% of the costs of developing a professional website go to the work of the programmer, and only 30% – for design.
It’s time to change everything
Actually, this is where the revolution begins. Imagine that a programmer is no longer needed to create a website. Only a designer is needed. A good designer who draws cool things.
What Webydo can do
Now all his work is in Webydo – this platform implements a professional design environment, almost in no way inferior to Adobe products and in the vast majority unified with popular tools for pros. This makes it possible without pain and very quickly to switch to it from the current software.
And then the magic begins. The work of the designer on the move turns into a working site. And this site is already equipped with CMS-koi, it is friendly with all the current browsers and perfectly adapts to mobile screens of smartphones and tablets.
A special charm here is that the working environment not only does not require retraining, but it is as intuitive as possible. To start working, you do not need to fill out long registration forms – there is enough email and name. Everything, you can start working.
What to do when designing? We choose ourselves. You can focus on the design, and you can and on the structure. If there is a complex ready-made idea, then it can be started from scratch.
About the appearance you do not need to say: for us it will make screenshots. Masters Photoshop, InDesign and similar workhorses of design business will immediately feel native and painfully familiar menus and tools. None of the existing amateur designers can provide such flexibility and opportunities now.
It is worth noting that when creating a site, the designer has full control and vision of the intermediate and final results. From a single interface to the site you can see both the eyes of the content manager, and from the perspective of an ordinary visitor.
For whom? For business!
When reading this material, the question may arise: so for whom is this platform created? The answer, in fact, is obvious. Webydo is made for business. It’s not just about a sufficiently high threshold of the entrance to the service. All internal service chips are sharpened to provide professional services in the business-to-business format.
- Obviously, there is not a serious company that will tolerate the presence of a brand on its website. Webydo allows you to completely remove your name from the finished product.
- If we are talking about the construction of a site for the customer, then we need the appropriate funds for invoicing. Here, the system is sewn into the system for issuing an invoice to the client.
- Designers often work with customers at a very close level – a joint brainstorming with two-way introduction of ideas and proposals. Webydo allows you to include in the work of the client, but at the same time to deprive it of the opportunity to get stuck or break the site. The designer himself determines the areas and elements available for editing by the client. With the focus on the creation of the site, Webydo simultaneously implements one of the most advanced CMS in our memory.
Price list
When using the phrase “professional design” and “code is not needed” in the review, you can involuntarily create in the mind of the reader the idea that the described product costs thousands of dollars. However, look at the rates themselves.
- The site, hosted on the subdomain Webydo, with 15 pages and a gigabyte under the repository – for free. No restrictions on traffic and the number of sites.
- A premium premium fee with the ability to attach a site to your domain, double the storage capacity and at the same time remove the page limit, will cost $ 9.90 / month if paid for half a year, and $ 7.90 for an annual subscription. The price has already included hosting the site in the cloud-based Webydo data center.
Cons pluses
The disadvantage of the platform follows from the previous section. Webydo does not give the created sites to the side, that is does not allow to place them on their own host. In some cases, this can be a problem, however, given the quality of “native” hosting, you can convince the client of the benefits of such a solution. Moreover, many customers will be only happy that they were relieved of the headache with the choice of the host provider.
If to judge in general, only one fact of having a web platform that is not inferior to the possibilities of professional design tools already puts Webydo much higher than existing services. The ability to get access to the code without qualitative, serious site that works in all browsers and on mobile devices is a pleasant fact for any designer, especially if you did not pay a penny for it.
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