Creating A Website With Yola

Yola Website Builder

There are hundreds of different website builders out there, and they are all promising to create beautiful, streamlined websites for your blog, business, eCommerce store, etc. However, which ones actually deliver? A select few offer robust tools, modern features, customized templates and cheap pricing to make the choice easily.

A select few offer robust tools, modern features, customized templates and cheap pricing to make the choice easily.

Yola is one of those website builders that delivers an easy-to-use product that actually creates really intuitive websites for whatever you need. They make it simple to find a package and start building without bombarding you with coupons, discounts and upgrades.

These are just a few more things to love about creating a website with Yola.

Create a Site in 1-2-3

Yola actually allows you to create free websites, but their paid option is much better if you want to get all of the features. There is also a trial if you want to check out a package before committing fully. Once you sign up, you pick a category for your site.

There are all kinds of categories including spa and beauty or wedding or real estate. You can also forgo categories and start with a blank page. However, once you pick a category, you click on “Build it” and Yola automatically starts to put your site together. You don’t have to know any type of coding to be able to customize your site either.

Adding the Details

The builder uses a really intuitive interface. You enter in some details about your business, and the builder will load widgets and text that relates to your business category. You can change any of these and customize the text as you want.

You can easily add different third-party widgets as well like PayPal, SmugMug, YouTube, Metacafe, or Tumblr.

There’s even a way to add a Flickr widget if you’re an artist with a very active Flickr account. “Instant Help” provides all the support and tutorials that you need to get through setup if you run into any snags as well.

Some Themes Need a Boost

There are free and premium themes on Yola. This is standard for many website builders. However, Yola’s free themes are very simple and probably won’t do you any favors even if you try to customize them. However, you can customize all parts of the layout.

If you do happen to know some CSS coding, you can go through the CSS Overrides interface to enter in your own code. Style Designer is another tool on

Style Designer is another tool on Yola that can help you select different attributes and fonts without ever going into CSS. This is especially important for those who are less inclined to programming.

With eCommerce tools, you can also create vivid and organized online stores for your brand, and it’s just $10 a month. Yola makes it easy to create fully featured and rich websites with all types of tools including drag-and-drop, Style Designer, and widgets to create exactly the site that you want. There are also Google AdSense utilities and shopping cart add-ons for those who are looking for more eCommerce and monetization tools.

There are also Google AdSense utilities and shopping cart add-ons for those who are looking for more eCommerce and monetization tools.

Created And Published By Christopher Pontine And Cynthia Adams
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