If you’ve ever visited the website of a lesser known company, you may be pleasantly surprised, or very, very disappointed. (Government sites are not included. They have a tendency to be very frustrating, and this is only if they can work.) Much of this can be attributed to low budget web design, and in the case of government sites, inefficient servers. .

Impress.ly is a website builder that focuses on creating app-like websites across platforms like desktop, tablet and mobile. The best thing about this manufacturer is that it can be run on any platform. Now it is possible to create a website on your mobile phone in a few minutes. There are no more extensive coding or paid web developers to create your sites

Create beautiful websites in minutes

How:

All you have to do is enter the website and start creating your own website The moment you start building your website, the creator asks you to provide a Facebook link to your business. It then digs up the internet for any other social media that is active in your business and pulls it to a page. You can then choose which one to place on your website.

Once this is done, you need to select one of the ten templates (or skins) provided by the builder and the builder does the rest. Feel free to match all your business social media to the template you choose.
You can then edit it to your liking. Add or remove pages, create different pages and links, and even add a blog to it. It’s easy to do, but it’s limited to what you can actually do. There are many customization options, but if it’s not something the manufacturer says it can do, you probably won’t be able to do it.

Adding an online shopping cart to your website is equally easy. You just click on that option, and it gives you a variety of themes and ways you can create one, showing you sample products. It seems smooth, and you can supply all the products of your business for sale at any time you deem fit.

On the phone, creating a website is equally easy. Simply download the app, and use it as you would a desktop version of the manufacturer.

It adds details by dragging data from your Facebook page

Which is better:

Impress.ly is stupidly easy to use. All you have to do is enter the Facebook link of your business to the editor, and the creator “automatically” pulls all the social media details of your business and creates a mobile website like an app with ten different templates (or skins). To like

It also offers many customization options and even allows business owners to add an e-commerce aspect to their website. Builders have different templates that are suitable for different businesses, which makes it easy to create websites for specific businesses. The makers, so far, mostly target restaurant owners who want to have an app-like website.

Impress.ly is a quick and easy way to create a fully-fledged website from any platform. Small business owners now don’t have to pay a lot of money to website developers to create a site. They can easily buy a subscription to Impress.ly and go with a professional looking website suitable for their needs.

This is an amazing tool, for non-coders, because it picks up everything you put on your business Facebook page and puts it on a mobile site. Ensuring that every single line of code is perfect, one does not have to spend hours coding. Want to add a page to your site? Just drag it into your preview, and your website now has a new page

Adding an e-commerce module to your website is easy

Which is not good:

One of the major drawbacks of Impress.ly is that the proposed templates are simply not enough Even if you create a completely custom website, from any given template, you will not see a site created on the same template without Deja Vu’s crimping sense.

Some classifications make no sense. For example, a “blog” is listed under a business, and according to the manufacturer, Google+ is more appropriate under the “Basis” tab than the “Social” tab.

It’s very easy to do, yes. However, there is a limit to what you can do with it. If this is not something that is on the impress.ly menu, you cannot do this.

The site is a little buggy, and it still has some support issues The developers claim that it is “capable of running on any modern browser”. The manufacturer’s mobile version comes in the form of an app and is compatible with iOS and Android devices. Even so, owning one is still beyond the reach of the average person. It often crashes and is quite buggy.

Pricing:

Hiring a professional web design company to create your website can be quite a hole in your pocket. There are designers who offer SEO and hosting for one year for a growing package that costs around Rs 10,000. Impress.ly costs about $ 9 per month for the starter pack, which is roughly about 600 600 per month, which is about 7 7,200 per year. This includes hosting, some branding by impress.ly, basic analysis and social feeds.

Impress.ly also has a business package that costs around $ 14, monthly This pack provides everything Starter Pack does without branding and lets you add an e-commerce aspect to your site. It even lets you create a blog and allow sponsors to make reservations online, if the business needs it. However, around Rs 1,000 per month, web designers charge almost double that amount for a site that also has an e-commerce aspect.

There is also a free version of Impress.ly, which lets you play with the developer and build your website. It won’t let you publish it without paying, but they realize that sponsors don’t like to be asked to buy features every few minutes. It gently asks you to publish your website every time, but does not prevent you from adding any features.

However, once your subscription expires, your site will be pulled. It’s a push, but that’s how it is. However, hiring a web developer is cheaper in the long run, as you will have to pay hundreds of dollars for hosting after the initial year. Over a five-year period, a web developer will spend about 1, 1,200 a year after your first year, whereas impress.ly will continue to spend the same amount each year. It will bring a total of about Rs 14,800 for a web developer and around Rs 36,000 for impress.ly, in five years. Not so affordable now, is it?

By default, it gives you several templates to try

Conclusion:

Impress.ly is a nifty little tool for entrepreneurs on the go. You can launch a mobile website in minutes and it is cheaper than many web designers. It also helps you create HTML5 apps for your website in Google Playstore and Apple App Store.

Websites look clean and easy to create The internal builder does a good job of making the website building as simple as possible.

Manufacturers are made with many different businesses in mind. Includes food business, and music business. It has a lot of templates that have been created with these special businesses in mind. The e-commerce add-on is a really great feature, at the price it is offered, and it makes it even more attractive to entrepreneurs on a budget.

Although, it is still in its early days, and there are still many bugs and rough edges that need to be ironed, it is still quite a good tool. It offers what it says it can offer and most of the time delivers a satisfactory product.

This article was first published in the July 2016 issue of Magazine. To read Digit articles first, subscribe here or download the Digit e-Magazine app for Android and iOS. You can also buy pre-digit issues here.