Dear Entrepreneurs

I am Gijo Vijayan here, Today I want to teach you how to make a simple website fast and easy using STRIKINGLY.

You don’t need any coding skills to make a simple and god looking website.

The website builder’s focus is creating single page websites without any programming skills.

This makes it very interesting for marketers and small businesses. Typical examples are portfolios, product landing pages or events where you show all your information on one good-looking page. In addition to your showcase you can also add a small online store (300 products max.) and a blog.

The designs look very modern and will be displayed perfectly on smartphones and tablets. You can even enhance the mobile experience by adding a mobile action such as an easy access ‘call’ or ‘send email’ button. This will make browsing your website even easier on smartphones and tablets.

Their entry plan is free forever and will allow you to create a basic website and test Strikingly’s main features. But what if you need more than one page? You have to pick the Pro plan. It can handle up to 20 pages. That’s not a lot, but good enough for most small websites.

One cool capability is the ability to build a personal website instantly based on your LinkedIn account. The ADI feature in Wix is similar, though that scours the web for other services and sites with info on and images of you or your business. Jimdo and Simvoly now also include automatic site builders, though Wix’s remains the most potent. My automatic Strikingly site was not bad looking at all, and all the standard editing tools of free Strikingly accounts are available for customization.

Web Design Tools in Strikingly
Strikingly takes a fresh, perhaps even unique, approach to site design: It’s the only one of the dozen or so sitebuilders I’ve tested that uses a single-scrolling-page format. As mentioned above, Pro accounts can now add up to 20 of these scrolling multi-section pages per site, but that’s not really the point of Strikingly. The intention is clearly to make the process as easy as possible and to ensure that the design is attractive. This comes at the cost of customization and control. The Editor Panel along the left doesn’t offer page elements as most other site building services do. Wix and Duda, for example, let you choose the exact elements you want; for example, a button, image, text block. Instead, it lets you switch among and add sections, which show up as you scroll down a page. Within a section, you can only add elements dictated by the theme.

Strikingly has the commendable feature of letting you save images you upload to its online storage in case you want to use the pictures elsewhere on your site. By comparison, with Weebly, you have to upload the same photo for each place on your site you want to use it.

Strikingly includes a basic version of Adobe’s online photo editor, Aviary, which offers image adjustments and enhancements, including Instagram-like effect filters. Gallery layout options are limited to a few choices, like square thumbnails versus rectangular ones, or justified images versus spaced out ones. You switch among these with a button that changes from A to B to C as you click. A square button at the top right corner of the gallery does a similar thing for color, switching from a black background to gray to white.