WebPlus Essentials – The fast, fun & easy website builder

Take the complication out of web design – WebPlus Essentials puts building a fun or sophisticated website within everyone’s reach. Its unique combination of impressive templates, drag and drop design simplicity, and online gadgets make WebPlus Essentials the ideal choice for tackling your first website.

Easy To Use

Drag and drop design simplicity, intuitive tools, and on-screen help make it easy to create your site.

Perfect Websites

Customise high quality template designs to get online fast – add photos, text, gadgets and more.

A Complete Package

The fully rounded designer that includes all the technology and tools you need to get online.

Incredibly Easy To Use

Web Design with No HTML Coding!

Designing a website is now within everyone’s reach using WebPlus Essentials. There’s no need to have any prior experience or programming knowledge – what you see is what you get, it’s that easy!

Stunning website templates
Drag and drop approach to design
No HTML or other programming required
Automatic site navigation bars
Add your own text, pictures and more
On-screen help if you need it

QuickBuilder Bar

With the QuickBuilder Bar, “drag and drop design simplicity” is exactly that – simply drag new web design elements like navbars, text, pictures, and photo galleries from the on-screen QuickBuilder Bar and drop them on your page. Flexible web design couldn’t get much easier!

‘How To’ Guides and Videos

Get a little help if you need it with on-screen guidance, tips and a range of video tutorials.

Publish Without Headaches

Get online quickly and easily; upload straight to our servers or your preferred host.

Overview

Perfect Websites – Fast

Ready-to-Use Websites for Quick Results

Fire up a professionally-designed template to get your site started quickly and looking fantastic. Simply add your own pictures and text for the fastest results then customise the look or add web gadgets to make exactly the site you want.

Easy as 1-2-3!
1. Create – start with a professional template
2. Edit – customise with your own content
3. Publish – upload straight to the web

Intelligent Navigation Bars

Give visitors a slick browsing experience with navigation bars that automatically adopt your site structure.

Cool Colour Schemes

Give templates a colour makeover with one click – even create your own designer colour schemes.

Totally Customisable Designs

Whether starting from scratch or using a template, you have full control over everything in your site – plus smart layout tools help your sites look neat.

Optimise Your Site

WebPlus Essentials can tell you about any slow download or compatibility issues with your site and optimise it for ranking in popular search engines.

Incredibly Easy To Use

A Complete Package

Free Web Hosting and Web Address*

On top of a unique range of design tools and ease-of-use features, you’ll be delighted with the free web hosting and web address that comes with WebPlus Essentials. It’s so easy to activate and get online!

- 12 months free web hosting
- Free web address – your own domain name*

YouTube^™ Videos and Photo Galleries

Show off your family photos, holiday snaps and more in impressive animated photo galleries. Choose the layout, controls, add background music and more! Plus you can include your favourite YouTube videos on your site, at any size – and as they’re hosted by YouTube they don’t eat into your webspace.

Blogs, Forms, Google Maps^™ and Web Gadgets

Add impressive diary blogs, discussion forums, polls, hit counters, page security with member accounts, forms for feedback, mailing lists and other cool web gadgets with ease – all provided, hosted and processed free by Serif. Plus you can incorporate an interactive Google Map using its familiar controls.