Easy Website Builder New Features and Upgrades

The widget panel has undergone a significant overhaul to provide a more visually appealing and highly functional experience. These improvements are designed to make finding and utilizing essential tools quicker and more intuitive:

• Modern Visual Design: Enjoy a refreshed and contemporary aesthetic that enhances readability and reduces visual clutter. The new design puts your content front and center.
• Left-Hand Side Placement: The widget panel now conveniently opens on the left-hand side of the editor, aligning with common design software conventions and creating a more natural workflow. This placement keeps your primary workspace unobstructed.

Further enhancements ensure that managing and selecting widgets is more efficient than ever:

• Single-Column Display: Widgets are now elegantly displayed in a single column, simplifying navigation and making it easier to scan through available options. This clean layout significantly improves the user experience, especially on smaller screens.
• Hover-Over Functionality Details: Gain immediate insight into each widget’s capabilities. Simply hover your cursor over any widget to reveal a brief description of its functionality, helping you make informed choices without needing to click or search.

The toolbar has been completely redesigned to enhance clarity, usability, and accessibility, ensuring that your most important actions are always just a glance away:

• Clearly Labeled Buttons: Gone are the days of deciphering abstract icons. Actions previously represented by icons have been replaced with descriptive, clearly labeled buttons. This dramatically improves accessibility and reduces the learning curve for new users, making every function immediately understandable.

Further enhancements transform the toolbar into a more efficient and user-friendly command center:

• Revamped Visual Design & Usability: Experience a sleek, modern visual design that not only looks great but also significantly improves usability across both desktop and mobile devices. The cleaner interface minimizes distractions.
• Lighter Visual Style: The updated visual style features a lighter, more minimalist aesthetic. This intentional design choice removes unnecessary visual clutter from the editor, ensuring that your website itself remains the sole focus of your attention.
• Intelligent Control Grouping: Essential controls for adding content, toggling design mode, and switching between pages have been strategically relocated and grouped within consistent dropdown menus at the top left of the editor. This intelligent organization allows for quicker and more intuitive access to the functions you use most frequently, streamlining your workflow.

Recognizing the importance of mobile editing, the new toolbar excels on smaller screens:

On mobile devices, these critical actions are now ingeniously presented within a new floating actions bar positioned conveniently at the bottom of the screen. This thoughtful placement ensures that all essential controls are comfortably within thumb’s reach, making mobile editing a truly effortless and enjoyable experience. You can manage your site updates and content on the go with unparalleled ease.

Adding new content to your website has never been more straightforward or efficient. We’ve redesigned the process to be faster and more intuitive, removing any unnecessary steps:

• Reduced Clicks for Content Addition: We’ve significantly streamlined the “add section” process by eliminating superfluous clicks. This makes adding new content quicker and more direct, allowing you to focus on your design rather than navigating complex menus.
• Prominently Visible “Add Content Here” Button: The “Add content here” button is now more visible and strategically placed, guiding you naturally to where you can expand your website’s content. Its clear prominence ensures you’ll always know how to insert new sections.
• Hover-and-Click Interaction: The previous manual drag-and-drop method for adding content has been replaced with a more efficient “hover-and-click” interaction. Users now simply hover over any existing section on their page and click the intuitive “Add content here” button. This action instantly opens the comprehensive section library, from which they can effortlessly choose the desired section type, placing it precisely where they intend. This new flow dramatically speeds up page construction and ensures layout consistency.

The text editor is a cornerstone of content creation, and we’ve enhanced it to provide greater control, improved aesthetics, and more versatility for your written content:

• Expanded Options: The editor now boasts a richer set of formatting and styling options, empowering you to create more dynamic and visually engaging text.
• Refined Design: Experience an improved, sleeker design for the text editor itself, which makes editing a more pleasant and less distracting task.
• Inline Text Size Control: Gain precise control over your typography with the newly added inline text size option. This allows you to adjust font sizes directly within your content, enabling fine-tuned visual hierarchy and emphasis without leaving the editor.
• Integrated Divider Option: Easily break up large blocks of text and improve readability with the new divider option. Add horizontal lines to create clear visual separation between content elements.
• Enhanced Link Management: Our improved link management system makes inserting, editing, and managing hyperlinks more intuitive and robust. Connect your content with internal pages or external resources seamlessly.

Visual content is key to engaging your audience, and our updated slideshow and gallery features offer superior control and visual appeal:

• Enhanced Visual Design and Usability: The settings for galleries and slideshows have been meticulously redesigned for improved visual clarity and ease of use. Managing your image collections is now more intuitive than ever.
• Brand New Image Management Panel: Introducing a powerful, dedicated image management panel that puts you in complete control of your visual assets:
  • Quick Add and Remove: Effortlessly add new images or remove existing ones from your galleries and slideshows with streamlined controls.
  • Reorder and Customize: Easily reorder your images to tell your story exactly how you want. Furthermore, you can now add specific image attributes such as titles, descriptions, and links directly within the panel, enriching your visual content with vital information and interactive elements.

Achieve visual harmony and professional-grade image presentation with our new Image Aspect Control. This feature simplifies image formatting dramatically:

• Effortless Image Display Control: The innovative Aspect setting grants you unprecedented control over how your images are displayed on your website. You no longer need to manually edit images in external software to achieve specific shapes or proportions, saving you valuable time and effort.
• Versatile Aspect Ratios: Seamlessly edit and display your photos in three widely used and aesthetically pleasing aspect ratios: Square (1:1), Landscape (e.g., 16:9, 4:3), and Portrait (e.g., 3:4, 9:16). This flexibility ensures your images always look their best, perfectly fitting your design without distortion or cropping issues.

Achieve perfect visual spacing and create impactful layouts with the new Height Settings for Sections, giving you granular control over your page structure:

• Flexible Section Height Adjustment: This brand-new feature empowers you to easily increase or reduce the height of any section on your webpage. This flexibility is crucial for achieving balanced layouts, emphasizing content, or creating dramatic visual breaks.
• Intuitive “Appearance” Menu Access: To utilize this feature, simply hover over the desired section to reveal the “Appearance” menu, then select “Height.” The process is quick, direct, and integrated seamlessly into your editing flow.
• Four Distinct Height Options: Choose from four thoughtfully designed options: Small, Medium, Large, or Full. These presets allow you to quickly apply common heights that contribute to a professional and consistent design aesthetic.
• Immersive Full-Height Sections: The “Full” height option is perfect for creating stunning hero sections or introductory banners that span the entire width and height of the user’s screen. This creates an immediate, immersive visual impact, capturing visitor attention from the moment they land on your page.

• Compact Small-Height Sections: Conversely, the “Small” height option is ideal for minimizing the vertical space between sections, creating a more compact and continuous flow of content. This is particularly useful for presenting related information closely together or for optimizing above-the-fold content.

For websites requiring persistent navigation or supplemental content, we’re excited to introduce the new Fixed Sidebar Template:

This dynamic layout is readily available as a template during the initial onboarding process, allowing you to kickstart your site with this professional structure. Furthermore, it’s accessible as a shared header layout via the “Change layout” menu within the Easy Website Builder editor, providing flexibility to apply it to existing projects.

The key innovation here is a new sidebar layout that is “fixed” in its position. This means the sidebar, typically housing navigation links, calls to action, or important announcements, remains visible on the screen as the user scrolls down the page. This ensures that crucial information or navigation options are always accessible, enhancing user experience and engagement. This is particularly beneficial for blogs, portfolios, or e-commerce sites where consistent access to categories or product filters is essential.

For our e-commerce users, managing your online store has become significantly more efficient and insightful with these store order page improvements:

• Advanced Management and Display Options: The order page now offers a comprehensive suite of tools to manage and display your sales data more effectively, providing a clearer overview of your business operations.
• Intuitive Search Functionality: Quickly locate specific orders or customer details with a robust search feature. You can now effortlessly search by order number or customer name, streamlining customer service and fulfillment processes.
• Flexible Filtering Capabilities: Gain deeper insights into your sales performance with powerful filtering options. Filter orders by their current status (e.g., pending, shipped, completed) and by order date, allowing you to analyze trends and prioritize tasks efficiently.
• Configurable Order Display: Customize how you view your orders. You can now display orders based on their date and age, enabling you to manage recent sales or review historical data with greater ease. These improvements are designed to make order fulfillment and customer relationship management more organized and less time-consuming.

Managing taxes for your online store just got a whole lot simpler and more versatile. Our new tax options provide the flexibility needed for diverse business models and international sales:

Easy Website Builder customers now have the power to set up and manage multiple tax rates, offering unparalleled flexibility in product pricing and legal compliance. You can easily choose which specific tax rate applies to each individual product in your inventory, ensuring accuracy for your customers and your accounting. Furthermore, to cater to global selling, you can effortlessly exclude destination countries where a particular tax rate does not apply. This feature simplifies complex tax calculations, reduces manual errors, and helps businesses comply with varying international tax regulations, making cross-border e-commerce more manageable and profitable.