{"id":3607,"date":"2012-04-17T14:55:37","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T21:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yola.com\/blog\/?p=3607"},"modified":"2013-02-18T07:24:57","modified_gmt":"2013-02-18T14:24:57","slug":"the-future-of-the-sitebuilder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yola.com\/blog\/the-future-of-the-sitebuilder\/","title":{"rendered":"The Future of the Sitebuilder"},"content":{"rendered":"

At Yola, we are constantly looking for ways to improve our site building tools.\u00a0 We know that building and editing your website can be a daunting part of getting your business online, and we strive to make our Sitebuilder as intuitive and easy as possible.<\/p>\n

As great as we think our Sitebuilder already is, we know we can continue to make it even better.\u00a0 This year we are focusing on three main areas of improvement.\u00a0 First, we want to give you more control over your workspace.\u00a0 When our customers are editing their site, we know the most important thing is the page they\u2019re editing at that moment.\u00a0 We want to help the page stand out and reduce the clutter of controls you don\u2019t currently need.\u00a0 We will be adding a control bar to the bottom of the tool that will let you show and hide the widget sidebar.\u00a0 We will also add in a new style selector that will let you quickly preview your site in a new style without needing to open and close new dialog boxes.\u00a0 Style changes will happen seamlessly from within your page. You will be able to hide tools you don\u2019t need and free up more of the workspace to devote to the most important thing: your site.<\/p>\n

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The second area we are focusing on will be adding richer web tools into the Sitebuilder. We make it easy to add photos and text to your page, but now we want to provide more tools to support you after you have published your site. This year we added mobile optimized sites and Facebook publishing into the flow.\u00a0 The next step will be to add even more tools that will help your site get found on Google and boost your page ranking.\u00a0 The built-in tools will live within the bottom bar and will provide you real-time feedback about your website.\u00a0 The goal is to make the site building tool a resource for the entire lifetime of your website.<\/p>\n

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The third user interface area we wish to address is online help. We currently offer email, forum, social, and phone support as well as our help bubbles and guided tour, but we think we can take the concept even further.\u00a0\u00a0 We are considering adding an easily accessible toggle that will trigger a context sensitive help layer.\u00a0 Click on the layer, and the Sitebuilder will use arrows and text to explain everything on the screen. The idea would be to provide you an easy place to go whenever you have questions about the Sitebuilder.\u00a0 The system would know what you were currently looking at and provide you the help most relevant to the moment.<\/p>\n

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And this is just the beginning.\u00a0 We have a ton of other features in the works, including styles, widgets and new font choices.\u00a0 It is going to be an exciting year.<\/p>\n

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– <\/em>John-Mark, Director of UI & Design, Yola<\/p>\n

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At Yola, we are constantly looking for ways to improve our site building tools.\u00a0 We know that building and editing your website can be a daunting part of getting your business online, and we strive to make our Sitebuilder as intuitive and easy as possible. As great as we think our Sitebuilder already is, we… Read MoreThe Future of the Sitebuilder<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":400,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","neve_meta_reading_time":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\t\t\n