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Building Your Website for Beginners

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Your .ws domain is a great opportunity to showcase your business and yourself by building your own website. Building your website doesn’t have to be hard and we offer two options to help you along. Find out which option works best for you and watch the tutorial video to help you get started.

Try SiteBuilder

If your .ws site is your first ever website, try using our SiteBuilder. The SiteBuilder has some very easy to use templates to get you started. SiteBuilder templates allow you to personalize them in a number of ways allowing you to add photos, contact forms and more. For a basic website or your very first site, SiteBuilder is the perfect choice.


Try WordPress

To be able to make an even more personalized website, try our WordPress offering. WordPress requires just a bit more website knowledge than SiteBuilder, but offers a ton of options. The benefits of our WordPress offering definitely make up for taking your time to learn a little more about creating a website. With WordPress you can use link your site with social media accounts, add plug-ins and widgets and have access to some great customizable themes. We have even more videos than the one below on WordPress. Check our tutorials section in the Members Area for more WordPress how-to’s.

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Tips for a “Clean” .ws Site

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Chances are you’ve got a lot to share on your website and the site tools and hosting that GDI offers you can do just that. But it’s easy to get so carried away with banners, text, and images that people visiting your site don’t know where to look or even what you’re offering. A site with a clean design and a clear message is best for converting visitors into customers, team members or just repeat traffic.

Avoid Competing Images and Text

Decide what you want your site visitors to focus and make that the center of your page. If you want to share video or a blog post, make that the center or close to center of your page. Then add in thing like banners, contact information and other links in smaller areas on your page. When there is too much competing content and images it’s easy for everything to get lost in the chaos.

Take Advantage of Pages

GDI’s SiteBuilder and our WordPress plugin make it easy for you to create and manage multiple pages. If you have a lot of information to share and can easily group it, pages are the way to go to make for a clean site. Pages can include testimonials, about, contact, videos and education. Multiple pages with great content also help to add credibility to your web page.

Stick to a Theme

SiteBuilder and WordPress offer some great themes that are customizable while creating a consistent look across your website. Choose a theme and stick to it across all of your pages. Themes are often designed to present a clean and professional website look so you can skip the extra work and work on creating great content. WordPress and SiteBuilder also allow you to customize themes as needed to make sure your site needs are met and presented in the best way possible, just don’t get carried away with too many widgets!

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Get to Know: SiteBuilder Tools

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GDI’s very own SiteBuilder allows you create and customize your own professional looking site easily, without needing any website creation knowledge. Aside from great templates and easy to manage images, text and layouts, SiteBuilder offers you GDI Tools. These tools include banners, buttons, movies and more. The GDI Tools can be accessed when editing a page in SiteBuilder by clicking on Gallery>GDI Tools in the left hand navigation. Each tool is already linked and designed and just needs to be dropped into your page to start working. Read on below about each of these tools and decide which ones you should add to your site.

Banners

The banners offered in the toolbox are a great addition to any website, whether your site is explicitly promoting the opportunity or not. The banners act as an advertisement for your GDI business. Each banner is customized to your account to ensure that when visitors click on a banner they will be redirected a to GDI promotional page with you as the sponsor, inviting them to learn more and submit their contact information.

Buttons

The buttons offered in the SiteBuilder tools can serve a variety of purposes. You can invite people to sign up right away with you as their sponsor, watch the movie or learn more with our different buttons offered. These buttons are powerful as they are bright and stand out from text, inviting people to click on learn more.

Movies

GDI’s most powerful marketing tool is the 7 minute movie. So why not add it to your page? In the tools you can find the movies and simply drop them in to one of your pages. We offer three movies to chose from, including the animated interactive movie, giving your page a professional feel as visitors enter their contact info before watching the movie and learning more about GDI and your opportunity.

More

If people need to be convinced to join GDI, why not give them a chance to find out how much they could make or read more about others who have made money with GDI? In the “More” section of the tools you will find our income calculator, allowing new visitors to crunch the numbers and see the possibilities of GDI right on your page. This section also allows you to add an image and link to our Testimonials page which showcases some of GDIs members.

GDI Tools in SiteBuilder are created to be simple and really help you, find which tools will work best for your site today!

Do you use GDI Tools for SiteBuilder? Which are your favorites?