Features
Content categories
All the content (news, blog posts, products, projects and even FAQs) that you create on your website can be associated to categories. Using content categories allows your visitors to easily find related content or content that is related to the page they are looking at.
Content Management System
UGAL belongs to the family of Content Management Systems, commonly refered as "CMS". From its wikipedia definition, a CMS is a "computer application used to create, edit, manage, search and publish various kinds of digital media and electronic text". Using a CMS for managing your website has many advantage versus the traditionial approach of creating static HTML files and uploading them to a web server.
Free domain name
Your website comes with a free domain name and you can use as many domain names as you want for your website.
In: Getting Started
Dynamic content
Have your latest news listed on your home page, as soon as you create them. Browse to a product page and a list of similar products is displayed on the side of the page. Dynamic content helps your visitors find the latest and the most important information on your website.
Once you have a domain name for your website, your next step will be to use that domain name for sending and receiving emails. It simply gives a more professional image to your business. UGAL can help you with that as well.
In: Getting Started
Hosting
Your website with UGAL is securely hosted on our servers, and hosting is included with your monthly plan. We think that you should not have to worry about limitations such as the number of pages you can create, or the bandwidth available to you. That's why UGAL has no limitations and your only cost is your monthly subscription fee.
In: Getting Started
Intranet
Intranet is an option that allows to password protect your entire website or some of its pages. You can grant "members" additional access rights to edit the content of parts of your website.
The Intranet option is a powerful functionality that opens a lot of doors for your website, from password protected community websites to offering premium content to your members or communicating confidential content to your partners or customers.
In: Users Management
Onsite Editing
Onsite Editing allows you to update your website while you browse it. When you want to update a web page, simply navigate to it and click the "Edit This Page" blue button. You will then be taken right away to the edit template for this page.
Rich Text Editor
The Rich Text Editor allows to format the copy for your web pages very easily, without the need to know any HTML. Its "Word like" interface is very familiar to most computer users and the icons can be used to easily format your copy.
Search Engine Optimization
Because it has been build from the ground up to work perfectly with search engines, you know that with UGAL the technical challenges of Search Engine Optimization are taken care of, automatically. Your content does the rest.
In: Getting Started
Slideshows
Using the The Rich Text Editor, you can embed pictures inside the copy of your pages. To better illustrate your content with more (and larger) pictures, you can create slideshows from the "Photo" tab available when editing a page.
Web hosted software
Your website management tools are hosted on the web, with your website. It means that you can manage your website from anywhere, as soon as you have internet access. There is no software to install on your computer (all you need is a web browser) and you benefit from new features for free as soon as they are available.
In: Getting Started
Website Administrators
Available from the "My account" tab, the feature allows you, the website owner, to invite other people to become administrators of your website. No need to share your password!
In: Users Management
Website design
When you create a website with UGAL, the first step is to choose a design for your website. You can change your mind at any time and at the click of a button all the pages of your website are updated with the new design. Create and upload your own design for even more personalization.
In: Website Design
Website Layout
The layout of your website's pages is one of its most important aspect. It needs to be consistent throughout the site so that visitors feel at home when they navigate from page to page.
UGAL comes with a choice of 3 standard layouts, chosen for their compliance with web design best practices.
In: Website Design