Yola Free Website Builder

Yola enables small business owners and entrepreneurs build and publish their own websites quickly and very easily. Choose from unlimited design layouts, color schemes and take advantage of tons of free features.

Get online quickly & easily

Making your website is a snap with yola's easy to use interface. Your menu features drag on drop page elements making it super easy to add images, maps, forms and other media to website pages, without any code to worry about.

The Basic Menu

From the basic menu you can add text and images to web pages by simply draggig icons to where you want them on the page.

The image gallery and images can be uploaded from a computer and stored on your Yola site. You can insert columns, upload files and even add snippets of custom HTML code.

The HTML editor does not allow javascript or PHP.

Multimedia

Yola integrates well with popular image sharing system flickr and smugMug. You can search through online catalogs and add images to your site, you may have to pay for some images.

You can embed a music player which lets you upload MP3 files to the server or browse through youtube and metacafe video collections and easily embed videos into your web pages.

You may need to verify copyright permission on some images and videos.

Widget Collection

You can paste in code from a google widget or visit widgetbox and search through tons of popular and free widgets from digg  buttons and easy comments to amazon lists and games.

The widget collection is continually growing.

Communicate

The communication menu features a few tools to help communication on your website. They can also be used to market your website and grow your traffic.

The Google translate feature is great for websites that are viewd by an internation user base, Tumblr is great for promoting your website. You can share anything from texts, photos, quotes, links, music and video from your browser, phone, desktop or email and display the feed on your website.

Forms & Appointments

The form feature is great. You can create a standard contact us form or even build your own custom form by adding your own fields, radio buttons, checkboxes and more. You can also paste in code from a Wufoo form.

With the appointment scheduling you will get a free trial of fullslate up to 10 appointments. You can keep the feature for $30 per month.

The mailing list includes a free 60 trial with constant contact email marketing. Rates vary depending on the services you use.

Maps & Google

Add a Google map and your business location with a link to directions. This is a great way to integrate your website with your Google Places account and optimize your local business listing.

Ecommerce & Website Monetization

You can easily paste in PayPal buttons to accept credit card payments for single items or a catalog of items on your website.

The donation feature requires a premier or business PayPal account.

You will need to pay $15 per year to use the truste website security services.

With Google adsense you can monetize your website by placing code to pull in relevant ads from Google's display network.

You get paid a percentage anytime someone makes a legitimate click on an ad from your website.

Yola's free website builder offers many easy to use features and is a great overall solution to free or cost effective website design.