easy to use

• No special software required – use any web connected PC (or Mac etc) - and you don't need to back up. easisites works entirely from our end – on the web server. That means you can build and amend your site from any web connected PC, anywhere in the world
• Online help. Not only is there a Help button to use when building your easisites website, but there’s stacks of information on easi-information that will answer most of your questions
• Because new customers may be unsure what to type into the boxes when creating or updating their website, there are Instant Help boxes that appear as you mouse over the entry areas.  This saves you opening the normal Help panel.  Experienced users can switch this feature off (you will find it irritating after a while) by clicking the Options button (see below).

• By clicking the Preview button on the gold menu bar at the top of the page when you are building or updating your easisites website you will see what your site will look like when online

• Once online sites can be altered/edited as often as required at no extra cost – ideal for daily updates. You can even change the site design - without changing your site content - by clicking on the Style button on the gold menu bar at the top of the page when you are building or updating your easisites website, as it says below...

choice of site designs

• Choose from a range of designs
• You can change your site design whenever you want - by clicking on the Style button on the gold menu bar at the top of the page when you are building or updating your easisites website
• Changing your site design does not affect the content of your easisites website, so there's no need to enter information again

standard six pages

• You can build a standard easisites website of up to six pages - with the option of increasing to as many as 24 pages (see options, below)

password controlled

• When you first build and publish your easisites website - whether you choose to make payment then or at a later date - you are allocated a password
• Use this to make changes to your site
• Just visit your site online, like anyone else would to view it, then click the special "update this page" link for entry to the password controlled facility that lets you make changes

picture library

• You can illustrate your easisites website using our picture library, covering a wide range of style categories, or...

upload your own pictures

• It's very easy to upload your own pictures or logos using a scanner, digital camera, drawing program or clipart disks
• You can upload any shape - square, wide rectangle or tall rectangle and the easisites system will present it properly

  *Also see extras below - the facility that enables you to upload additional pictures to display on your easisites website*

NB All pictures have to be web-compatible - ie. image types JPG, GIF or PNG.  Digital cameras normally produce JPG files

picture magnifier

• On your published web site, your uploaded images may look a bit small.  If the easisites system detects that the image carries more detail it automatically provides a magnified version when people move their mouse over the picture

clickable menu

• This is automatically generated by your page headings, either along the top or down the side of your easisites web page - depending on the site design you choose

online map

• all easisites websites are linked to Multimap - so long as you enter the post code of your address in the appropriate boxes when building your site
• Once online your customers can find a map of your location by clicking on your post code (UK sites only)
• Of course, if you don't want to be found, don't enter your post code!

enquiries form

• all easisites websites have a link to an enquiries form which your web visitors can use to send you an message, an order or, indeed, enquiry
• This is sent to your Contact email address, so long as the sender provides either a return email address or a phone number

website translator

• You can add a simple translation engine to your easisites website
• This will translate your web pages into French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Japanese, Korean and Chinese - and appears as an horizontal row of small flags which your web visitors can click

• Bear in mind that translation engines are very literal beasts. That said, however, most literal translations can be understood. Your foreign web visitors will at least get the gist.
• Click on the Help button when building or updating to find out how to add this facility to your easisites website. (It's very simple!)

extras

• To extend the scope of your easisites website, there is the facility - available by clicking the Extras button on the gold menu bar at the top of the page when you have published and paid for your site - for you to upload as many as six extra files - effectively six extra pages. These will appear as click-links for your visitors
• You can use this facility to provide order forms for customers to print out, a price list ... or anything else you can supply a file for - even a brochure
• You can provide the files in any format - such as MS Word documents, jpegs, gifs, MS Excel spreadsheets, Acrobat PDFs, html pages... any other file type that can be read on the web
• You can also use the Extras facility to upload additional pictures to display on your easisites website

NB You can increase the number of extras available to you by clicking on the Options button (see below)

online shop

• You can use the Extras facility to start building your own online shop.  For more on this, go to the Selling online page
• To set the number of items you wish to sell, use the Options button (see below) when building or updating your easisites website

password protected pages

• You can also use the Extras button to build password protected pages into your site.
• With this facility you can specify which pages are password protected. You create a list of allowed users and the system makes them login to view the protected content

  Use it for:
  -"Members Only" pages
  - Shop items at special prices

options

• You will find an Options button on the gold menu bar at the top of the page when you are building or updating your site.  You can use this facility to alter the behaviour of different easisites features: 
  - turn the Instant Help on or off
  - increase the number of site pages from the standard six - up to 24 pages - and/or the number of extras available to you (see extras above)
  - set the number of items you wish to sell from your online shop (see above)
  - choose your own domain name (see below)

search engineering

• Your easisites website is added to prominent search engines (as part of the service) to maximise web exposure
• Although we do this for you when you first build, publish and pay for your site, we recommend that do this for yourself on a fairly regular basis (say, every three months). Details of how to do this - with easy click-throughs - are given when you make changes to your site

local directory

• We will list all newly created sites in a local easisites directory - which any easisites web visitor can access via easi-Search

promotion assistance

• Immediately after publishing and paying for your site online you are taken to a page that allows you to type in the email addresses of people you know. Those people are automatically emailed with an invitation to view your new easisites website

fraud proof

• For extra security, once you have paid for your easisites website your credit card details are deleted from our files
• There is nothing to attract hackers.
• By not storing card details we can’t automatically bill when the next year is due. We’ll send you a reminder when it’s time

email encryption to stop spammers

• Spammers are becoming increasingly irritating so we at easisites are doing our bit to stop them from harvesting easisites website owners' emails
• All emails entered as Contact information (when building your site) is encrypted on your web pages
• While email addresses are visible to normal users (useful if they want to jot it down or write personally), they appear as a string of code to spam engines
• This method is reckoned to defeat the majority of harvester programs. Whilst the harvester could (in theory) decode the string, most won't because it isn't worth the hassle or the processing expense

domain names

• All web sites built using easisites are automatically assigned web addresses or domain names - eg. www.easisites.co.uk/yourcompany
• However, if you would like your own web address (or domain name) - e.g. www.yourcompany.co.uk or www.yourcompany.com - this can be done (subject to availability)
• To select a domain name, click on the options button on the gold menu bar at the top of the page when you are building or updating your site
• Our charge for a domain name is an additional £25+VAT per year
• If you already have a domain name that you want assigned to your easisites website, this can also be done. Simply publish your site and contact the easisites administator (admin@easisites.co.uk) who'll explain what needs to be done

NB For more on domain names, check out the item on easi-information

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