To update your Site Builder website, with new information, images, etc., all you need to do is: 1. Access the Site Builder (through your Domains.co.za Account). 2. Make the update or change to the applicable elements. 3. Click the Publish button. NOTE: Remember to Preview your site BEFORE publishing it to ensure that all the changes display correctly. […]
Any updates done to your Site Builder website will be displayed in a matter of moments once your re-publish the website. […]
There is a 30 – 60 minutes window between the registration of a NEW Domain and its information being ‘written’ to the Registry’s servers. During this time, the domain is not fully active and therefore it is not able to publish any information associated to it. Once this time period has passed, you should be able to view your website online through any Internet Browser. If it has been more than an hour since you activated your Site Builder plan and registered a NEW Domain and your website is still not displaying, then please contact our Support Team, so that they can investigate further. […]
In order to use your own images on your websites, you must first upload them into your Site Builder control panel. To do this, simply follow these steps in the Site Builder Window: 1. Click the Content Elements tab. (on the Top left of the Site Builder Window). 2. Select the Images and Videos tab, from the left menu 3. Click the File Manager button on the right 4. Select the Upload Files option in the bottom left (of the new window) and select the file that you would like to add to your Site Builder Note: As the Upload File function only allows you to upload 1 file at a time, should you have multiple files / images that you wish to add to your Site Builder, it would be better to use the “dropzone” functionality (found in th […]
While a variety of video and movie formats are supported by Site Builder, we suggest that you used either .avi, .mp4 or .mov formats as these provide better quality with smaller files sizes. […]
No, images and video files can be added directly to the pages of your website, however, please bear in mind that, the larger the image or video file, the more space it will take and the longer it will take to load when being viewed in your internet browser. We do suggest that if you are going to upload a number of images to be displayed on your website that you make use of one of the Image Gallery based widgets, as this will not only allow your website to be neater but also allow users to more easily navigate your images. Additionally, when a video file is added to the website, it is automatically converted to the Site Builder embedded video player format, depending on the size of the video file, this can take some time. […]
If you would like to stream or display a movie, or clip from another site (eg: YouTube) on your website, use the External Video widget. This widget can be found under the Widgets tab of the Content Elements Menu. It can be added multiple times to allow different movies to be streamed on the same page. NOTE: Should you decide to have more than one External Video widget on a single page, we suggest that you place a Separating Line widget between them, to ensure that they do not interfere with each other’s spacing. […]
To add a Widget to your website, all you need to do is: 1. Click the Content Elements Tab (at the top of the Site Builder page). 2. Select Widgets on the Left Menu. 3. Click and Drag the Widget on to your page. Note: Certain templates already have certain Widgets allocated to them. The widgets, however, can be removed by deleting them should you choose to do so. […]
Site Builder is built on a Drag & Drop framework. All you need to do is click on a Widget, hold down your Left Mouse Button and drag it to where you want it to be placed on the page. Once the widget is where you want it to be, simply release the Mouse button. […]
To view or change the settings on a Widget, you simply need to click the Wrench icon found at the top right of the Widget, when hovering or moving your mouse over the Widget itself. […]
