Vistaprint Website Builder? Should they stick to business cards? !!!

hey this is Ryan with web eminence dot com thanks for checking out this video
I'm going to do review and this the Prince website builder
Vistaprint is a popular company probably heard oh they're known for doing in Vistaprint Website Builder? Should they stick to business cards? !!! print materials lot of people by business cards there and actually bought
business cards there myself Vistaprint
is a great example the company that offers website services even though it's
not a main part of their business
obviously preteen is their main business but probably because so many people who
buy Prandin
also may need a website they offer website services as a value and
get photos printed online I'm always skeptical of companies like this om and the quality of their service
because
they're typically just added on to make another sale
a lot of times the quality %uh the website
service are offering is not good and it has been sure this the print
in the past if you're just a goatee Yellowpages dot com start cooking around
some other web sites for the listings on their
he probably find a number of them are using Vista Print DICOM
so for that reason I wanted to do this review NC
how good the Vistaprint website builder is I should note that
Vistaprint just in the last year purchased: webs dot com which is a
popular
website builder company i'd never tested Vistaprint website builder in the past
but I believe
since purchasing webs dot com Dave can integrated the web's dot com
website builder in so I believe their service is much better
now than it has been in the past so let's get right into it I'm logged in to
my Vistaprint account where I could purchase all other printing services
but I did sign up for a free trial love their website service
so I spent an hour to playing with their website builder in creating a web sites
on the show you what I've done
and show you how their website builder works offer small note that they do give
you a domain name
and VP web dot com a sub-domain
so you'll get that with any account and you can link your own domain name to the
account but I have not done that yet
so the first step would be to click edit website
and that will bring you into the website builder dashboard
up at the top the dashboard link will take you back to your Vistaprint account
builder is what we're currently on
and that click on theme and you can't see the options they give you for your
the my very selected a theme in you see here I can customize
some other colors and you'll see them change
live on the screen and the theme color in a few accent colors
and I can also change title intact so they do
give you some options for customizing your theme once you've chosen it
and you can also select a brand new theme
so this is the theme gallery and you can see the different designs that they give
you this probably one of the downsides too many website builders including
investor print as you'll see some other the
designs are you know very template-based they don't look
very modern and once your site is published
people will probably be able to tell that it's a template and it looks a
little cheap
so it's a major downside to many website builders but there are some website
dollars out there
that provide very modern themes that will look much better than these
you can click any these themes too quickly apply the theme:
or you can click Preview just to view what your current site
would look like if you were to apply that theme so here's what this one would
look like if I were to apply and
though if you want to apply the theme you simply click the Apply
theme button and you can change teams at anytime
no go back to say biller I'm just going to keep this theme that I've been
working with
up at the top the last link is called pages in here's where you'll create
pages you can click
add a new page you can also drag these to reorder them
and you can rename the page in change some the Sedins
the page like meta tags you can password-protect
or hide it from the main navigation
so in the main area of the website builder you'll see
your website displayed live in all these teams have pre-populated content area so
you see here
I can click on this to change the image
and there's text entered already so you simply click on it
and you can select this taxed and edit the text
all these content elements are very easy to drag around
and change the arrangement to them if you see I just grab this one and
move it above their head and you can also click the red
delete I can to delete
a content area very easily so overall the website builders very easy to use
I'll show you how easy it is to customize this image at the top
let's say I want to add my logo to the top header area here
I would click in a la meet at the entire hatter cited select this taxed
could change the font in the color
very easily in there some other text options appear you could change
but then I would just click it says double-click to change the image
so they display images i re-uploaded they have free images from Flickr
Creative Commons
you can add an image from the URL I'm gonna go back to my images
and upload an image so I uploaded
my logo let's see how easy it is to resize look like just drag the handle
here
to resize that's pretty easy and they allow me to just grab the handle and
center it
so there you can see how easy it is to add your logo up to the header area I'm
gonna go ahead and click
done you'll see that displayed their
I already added this picture to this slider area
you can see they give you this June function to zoom into pictures
I can add more slides to this double click to add an image and not gonna do
that now
and there some other sentenced you automatically
scroll through these images at a different speed in there some different
transitions so it's kinda nice feature to
and some animation movement your site using an image slider
in this content area down here was pre-populated with images and tax so you
can easily
change these images at different ones by double clicking in
and change the text here down the bottom here you see widgets
and these are you going to use to create your website and to customize a
different pages
with these different content widgets so I'm gonna go ahead and click on
about to go to my About page
in Austin show you how some of these widgets work you can see I added an
image
and I added an image gallery here I'll show you that looks like when I go live
added a Twitter widget here and I added some buttons
so these are really easy to use you simply
drag and drop them to him gonna drag the button
widget to this box
and then I click to edit it
can change the color of the button
up
I can change the taxed collared button

I can change the link where the button goes when it clicked for Heroes is
tell it to go to the blog
and you can change the icon
for the bouncy can see how easy it is to add buttons and customize them
I N it YouTube video here using a widget
so in your these wages down here you can just drag-and-drop
onto the page where ever you want and then you customize them so there's
paragraph switches just taxed title what you just saw me drag to the screen
image is simply an image that you can customize your image in taxed
two columns allows you to you customize the layout on the page in here you see I
used a three column
widget to customize the buttons in UCI easy it is to drag
to align the columns here's a video widget which I used for this YouTube
video
the slideshow widget was used up above
here to create the slideshow the contact form widget which is used on the contact
page
you can easily and a map
using Google Maps and here's the button widget Harry showed you
down at the bottom they give you different categories of widgets
so I can click on structure its gonna give me a two column
a combo box which was used on the homepage to create
the three columns I love images untaxed
gonna go and delete that separate a nice feature that I don't see and too many
website builders at a table which it
so I can drag a table up here and easily add
columns and rows
neck and dragged the column to change their
alignment I can up
type in the text here can also change the Sedins
furrow border colors turn the border on an off
change the header so that's a pretty nice feature to easily add a table to
your website
and like I said I don't see that on too many website builders
divider widget here that simply adds a horizontal rule
with the style to it I noticed they don't give it to many different styles
are all kind of the is
elegant looking styles which people may or may not be able to use
there's also a spacer widget which is kinda nice because it allows you to just
and blank space and you can drag the handle to you
change them on MySpace go to the next category which its urs media
we've already seen these ones except for audio
you can easily add an audio file to your say
under the social category their social links Twitter feed which use on my home
page
and you can add some other Facebook lightbox comments
follow I can for Twitter and then some share buttons
for commerce they give you the ability to add Pay Pal
buttons and under the Other category they give you custom html which allow
you to just
and any HTML code into your website as a
element and then maps and photos which we've already seen
if you're done making all the changes to website you just hit publish
in operation corner and that's gonna make all your changes live on your site
now I'm gonna go over to my live side and web eminence dot VP web doc am just
to show you what the site looks like
you can see some the changes I made like the color to the header
and the logo added to the operating in corner
here's the slider image that show into images one of them i havent
set yet the rest to the home page
you click on the About page you'll see some %uh the edits and made on that page
there's the map I added with the table with the two columns
here you can see the space I was added in one of the um
spacers here's how the slideshow works
the Twitter Widget
and there's a three buttons and I created and the youtube link
the next page is a store and I don't have the items there but here you can
kinda see what that would look like
the blog also has no entries but here's where your blog post would show up
the next pages gallery in here you can see if you click on this album that
opens a nice
large slideshow people can click through your pictures
and then the last pages contact rant my contact form
so there's a complete their website as you can see it doesn't take too long to
get a website like this up and running in obviously I didn't take too much time
to customize the text or the pictures
so that would probably take more time for you if you create your own website
but overall it's pretty easy to use and it wouldn't take you more than a couple
hours to get
a website that looks something like this: the one downside like I mention is
probably the quality of the designs
I'd say they're okay but there nothin really special
they're not very modern in their design and they don't look like custom designs
they look like templates
so compared to some other website builders like we we for example
are Squarespace those ball offer a much more modern designs that are more
impressive
I or you can get a wordpress site using WordPress themes
and you're going to end up with a much more professional in custom looking
website
so thanks for watching this video I hope that it was helpful for those of you who
are you the investor print or considering using
the Vistaprint website service if you have any specific questions feel free to
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