Building a website doesn’t have to be difficult. You can now create your own website for free with our web hosting solution and advanced website builder software.
All-in-one website design tool
At Patrick Internet, we know that building a website doesn’t have to be as complicated as it sounds. To prove this, we are offering a website builder that works as an all-in-one tool that allows you to build stunning websites just by dragging and dropping elements and editing content.
Website Builder comes pre-installed and ready to go with your web hosting, so you can start building your website as soon as possible.
Responsive, mobile-first framework
Google now predominantly uses the mobile version of the content for indexing and ranking. This mobile-first indexing means you need to pay close attention to building responsive, mobile-first websites.
Website Builder is based on the Bootstrap framework and uses HTML, CSS and JavaScript. It is widely used across the world, for creating responsive, mobile-first websites, whilst still ensuring they will work seamlessly across tablets and desktops too.
How to use Website Builder
Choose one of our stunning templates
You might think building a website requires a lot of coding knowledge. However, this is not necessarily true. Fortunately, everyone can now build a powerful and beautiful website without knowing how to code, just by using the right tools.
Website Builder comes with a gallery with loads of pre-built templates to get you started. You will see templates for all sorts of businesses and industries. However, that doesn’t mean you need to choose one that is built for your industry type, as the text and images you will see are just for reference. You can change all this content once you’ve chosen the template you want to start with. So, at this stage, just focus on finding a theme that has the layout and design that you like.
Customise your theme
Once you’ve chosen your template, the second step is to replace all the images and text with your own content, to match your website’s subject.
But it’s not just the content that you can change. Each template has six different predefined theme layouts to choose from (with sidebars, different menus and different styles). You can choose from six menu styles, three menu/logo aligns, 60 colour schemes and more than 100 hand-picked premium fonts, provided by Google Fonts.
And the best part is that you can experiment by changing templates as much as you want because it just changes the design of the page, but it doesn’t alter the structure of the site or its contents.
Drag and drop
The web builder’s control panel allows you to manage all aspects of your website design, so build an amazing website, without the need for any coding skills. The tool has an extremely flexible drag and drop system that allows you to experiment with different layouts, colours and features.
You can take a look at this video to see how it all works.
There are also pre-built modules to enhance your website design and many pre-built apps that you can easily add to your website. It doesn’t matter if you are a first-time user — you will have all the tools and features you need to build a website that will compete with expensive, professionally-made creations.
Website builder allows you to add full e-commerce functionality to your site, as well as blogs, site search features, forums, maps, photo galleries, events, forms and more. These are just some of the elements you can add to your website:
- Built-in search
- Poll module
- Photo gallery and slider
- Files manager with 500,000 free photos library
- Contact forms
- Events calendar
- Newsletter
- FAQ sections
- YouTube videos
Add code (If you want)
As we said, you don’t need to have any coding skills to create your website with our website builder. However, if you know how to write HTML code and CSS, Website Builder gives you full flexibility, allowing you to add your own code to enhance and customise any template.
Add Google Analytics
Once your website is ready, it is time to start tracking the traffic it receives. You can add Google Analytics integration, with just one click.
Once linked to your Google Analytics account, you can start tracking performance trends such as the number of visitors your website receives, most popular pages and search terms, user engagement and so on.
Optimise for Search Engines
Of course, you will need to fully optimise your website to receive as much traffic as possible and so that you can be found by as many prospective customers as possible.
Our website builder allows you to improve your search engine rankings with integrated SEO friendly URLs, Google Analytics and XML Sitemap support, custom meta tags and more.
Build a WordPress website
Another great option for businesses of all sizes looking to create their website is WordPress.
WordPress is the award-winning Content Management System (CMS) behind millions of websites around the world. It is very popular because of its intuitive interface and the extensive customisation possibilities it provides.
Just like our website builder, WordPress has a huge library of themes, plug-ins and widgets, which makes it an incredibly powerful, flexible and easy to use solution that millions of web designers use.
Designing A Website Around The User
Many SMEs think they are saving money by building their own websites. However, they often fall into the trap of designing a site based on the business and not the user.
The most successful websites are built purely around the user. It’s always advised to carry out market research on competitors, user profiles and funnels to capture them and nurture them at the various stages of their journey to conversion.
Ensuring effective tracking is in place to understand how the website works or doesn’t is an important factor not to be overlooked. Interpreting the data and making actionable value adding improvements can be the difference between success and failure.
At Patrick Internet, we offer a 3-step package:
- An initial consultation and research / website structure marketing plan – Once our recommendations have been implemented, we will audit the website
- Next steps plan to market your business
- Ongoing monthly review, planning and consultancy support
Click here to learn more about this service.
WordPress hosting features
Our WordPress hosting is supported by these great features:
- WordPress staging
- WordPress management and maintenance tools
- Free SSL Certificate
- Fully PCI-DSS compliant for your Woocommerce WordPress website
- One-click install: So you can set up your WordPress website in minutes
- Affordable: Patrick Internet offers WordPress web hosting for only £2.30 per month — everything included!
- Auto-scaling: Our hosting gives your WordPress website room to grow
- UK Data Centre: Your WordPress website is secure in our state of the art UK data centre
A huge network of developers continuously create new functionality for all kinds of WordPress themes. So whether you are looking to create a business, e-commerce website, or even a forum, WordPress has endless templates available.
Patrick Internet’s WordPress web hosting is the perfect choice for websites of all sizes. Take advantage of all these features and our easy one-click install technology to get your WordPress website up and running in minutes.
How To Become A Web Designer
Once you have perfected the art of web design, you may want to look further at becoming a Web Designer. There is no easy route for this. Try starting searching for a job as a web designer, where you can learn your trade under the wing of a large company.
