WYSIWYG Web Builder is a very complex and powerful website design tool suitable as well for complete beginners, as for experienced users or professional website developers. It’s applicable to professionals because it is very feature-rich, comprehensive and packed with a large number of functions, options and built-in tools, allowing the thorough customization of a website and the in-depth control over any aspect of a webpage. It’s good for beginners because it comes with a very intuitive interface and it provides a WYSIWYG (What-you-see-is-what-you-get) approach which simplifies the creation process a lot.
The deployment of the WYSIWYG concept is a remarkable aspect of this nice utility, as it enables the visual designing of a webpage and lessens the importance of coding and programming in the website making process. Basically, users with no HTML knowledge can still create webpages just by dragging-and-dropping elements into the working space. A lot of templates are also available, making the creation of a webpage even easier.
Anyway, as mentioned above, WYSIWYG Web Builder is not only easy-to-use, but also extremely powerful, comprehensive and feature-rich. It lets you enhance a webpage using any kind of elements, from simple ones like basic text and images, to CSS3 Animations and transitions. A lot of options and utilities are put at your disposal, making WYSIWYG Web Builder one of the few excellent applications that also come with a fair price.
v17.1 [Jan 4, 2022]
Lottie Animations
- Added support for Lottie animations. Display lightweight, scalable, and interactive Lottie animations on your websites.
Lottie Animations can be triggered automatically, on click, on hover or on scroll. It is also possible to animate frame by frame based on the scrollbar position (parallax).
Animations can be used as standalone element or as background / foreground in layers and layout grids.
SEO Assistant
- New feature: Added SEO Assistant. This new tool helps you make your web pages more search engine friendly. The SEO Assistant scans the page for missing image descriptions, keywords, sitemap.xml/robot.txt, header tags, broken linksmobile support and more. Double clicking one of the reported issues will either open the properties (meta tags, sitemap etc) to fix the issue or select the object in the workspace.
Robots.txt
- New feature: Added support for 'robots.txt'. Robots.txt is a text file with instructions for search engine crawlers. It defines which areas of a website crawlers are allowed to search.
You can configure whether to allow /disallow the entire website or configure the rules for each folder individually.
Table Of Contents
A Table Of Contents is a list of links that lead to different sections on a page. They're particularly useful for long pages, as they highlight the critical sections of a page in order to improve the reader experience.
You may know Table Of Content from websites like Wikipedia. Everytime you preview or publish the page, WYSIWYG Web builder will scan the page for heading objects (H1, H2 etc) and update the list. You can also configure the list manually.
Ecommerce
- New feature: Added third party shopping cart checkout integration for Ecwid, Stripe, Snipcart, Paddle, PayPal, Gumroad and Vibracart Pro. The new ecommerce options are available in the events section. So, basically this means that any image, button, text or menu item that supports events can be turned into a checkout button for the supported Payment gateways.
Tip: For Snipcart, Vibracart Pro and Ecwid, if you leave the 'Product ID' empty then the button will act as a checkout/show cart button.
There is also a shortcut button 'Ecommerce' on the Ribbon so you can quickly add ecommerce functionality to a button, image, shape, etc.
Vibracart Pro
Vibracart Pro is a third-party Ecommerce solution. It supports digital (downloads) and physical products. PayPal and / or Stripe are supported for checkout. It has support for coupons, discounts, multiple shipping plans, VAT and lot of other options.
Vibracart Pro is a self-hosted, which mean that the cart runs on your own website. So, you will need to install the product on hte server before you can use it.
Ecwid Shopping Cart
- New feature: With the Ecwid Shopping Cart object you can easily integrate the Ecwid Ecommerce platform into your WYSIWYG Web Builder website. Ecwid is an awesome e-commerce software platform that allows you to add shopping cart functionality to any current site and also get a mobile and Facebook store in one package.
Ecwid Shopping Cart is a hosted Ecommerce solution. This means that the cart runs on the Ecwid website. So, you do not have to install anything on your own server.
Creating a basic account is free. Upgrade options available for advanced functionality (discount coupons, product downloads, Enhanced SEO capabilities and much more).
All functionality is based on standard Ecwid scripts, so your web shop will run on the Ecwid servers. You can setup products (like name, description, categories pricing, styling) via the Ecwid dashboard.
The following Ecwid widgets are supported:
ECWID - Product Browser
This is the main container and it is mandatory; this will contain your products, categories, search results, the checkout options etc.
ECWID - Shopping Bag
This widget contains the Shopping Bag; when viewing products, you can Drag & Drop them to the shopping your basket.
ECWID - Category Browser
Display a list of categories. This controls the content of the Product Browser widget.
ECWID - Search Box
Search for products. The results will be displayed inside the Product Browser widget.
ECWID - Single Product
This makes it possible to display a single product. This can be used instead of the Product Browser widget.
Note: for performance and security reasons the workspace does not display a live preview of the webshop. The workspace will display a place holder. So, you will have to preview or publish the page to see the result.
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