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In focus · Design & UX

4 Important Steps To Take Before You Start Building Your Website

Save time and money in your website building process by considering these 4 steps first! In this guide, we'll go through some important things to consider before you start to build your website to ensure you're creating an effective website that fits your needs.

Robin Gandy · Mar 14, 2025

Stress-Free Website Prep: Start the New Year Ready for Success

Here's your guide to a stress-free end of year and start of 2025 for your website! Review your content, fix broken links, automate your content, and more. Stay on top of your website performance this holiday season with these easy tips.

Robin Gandy · Dec 10, 2024

Digital Marketing

How to Get Your Website Black Friday Ready: A Complete Guide

Get your website Black Friday ready with our comprehensive guide! Learn how to optimize performance, create a dedicated landing page, update metadata, and boost conversions for the biggest shopping day of the year.

Robin Gandy · Nov 26, 2024

Black Friday Spotlights: Save on Tools to Enhance Your Website

As Black Friday approaches, it's the perfect time to find tools that can elevate your website without breaking the bank. We've rounded up the top tools to compliment your Pagecloud website. Keep an eye out for upcoming Black Friday deals!

Robin Gandy · Nov 15, 2024

Digital Marketing

The Ultimate Website Copy Prep Guide: Craft Your Message Before You Build

Here's your ultimate guide to creating website content that represent your brand, speaks to your target audience, and turns that audience into loyal customers. This guide includes a template for creating a user persona, a worksheet for crafting your unique value proposition, and a template for structuring your homepage.

Robin Gandy · Oct 10, 2024

Insights & Interviews

Chats with Marketing Leaders: Zooming Out and Understanding What’s Valuable to Your Customers

Understand effective goal setting for your website, including mapping customer journeys, and launching successful marketing initiatives with insights from a VP of Marketing at a leading startup. Learn to avoid common mistakes, review and adjust goals regularly, and balance immediate revenue with long-term growth.

Robin Gandy · Jul 8, 2024

14 Super Clever 404 Pages that are Totally On-Brand

The best 404 pages meet all the criteria of great design, and tie in brand, products, services, and direct calls-to-action that re-engage visitors.

Philip Westfall · Jun 25, 2024

Digital Marketing

Exit Intent Popups: Guide to Creating an Effective Exit Popup that Converts

Learn how to create effective exit intent popups to lower bounce rates and boost conversions. Discover use cases, benefits for your business, engaging copy examples, and best practices for implementation on high-exit pages. Enhance your website's performance with strategic exit intent popups.

Robin Gandy · Jun 10, 2024

Get Your Website Summer Ready: 10 Tips for a Seasonal Website Refresh

Discover the importance of updating your website for summer with fresh content, a vibrant design, and optimized SEO. Boost user engagement and stay ahead of the competition with our seasonal update tips.

Robin Gandy · Jun 3, 2024

Product Updates

Introducing Pagecloud Popups: A Better Way to Increase Engagement and Conversions

Pagecloud Popups is the most flexible popup builder on the market. Easily design and launch custom popups on your website that not only look great, but bring you more business. Embed on any website. Get started today!

Robin Gandy · May 22, 2024

Designing Effective Popups: Best Practices and Tips

Popups are a great way to increase engagement and conversions on your website. But it's important to know how to effectively design popups that enhance your website and don't overwhelm your customers.

Kelsey Gilchrist · Apr 3, 2024

How Web Design Can Make or Break Your SEO

Bad design is bad for SEO. We break down design mistakes that lead to high bounce rate, low rankings, and more so you can fix your design and start ranking on Google.

Philip Westfall · Sep 5, 2023

The Best Link in Bio Tools [2023]

Need to set up a link in bio tool? Here's a look at the best apps for creating a link-in-bio tool to improve your social media presence and drive more traffic to your website.

Robin Gandy · Mar 9, 2023

Landing Page vs Website: What's the Difference?

Understand the difference between a website and a landing page and when it's appropriate to use which.

Robin Gandy · Feb 14, 2023

Top 20 One Page Websites and Templates [For Beginners & Pros]

One page websites and template inspiration for your next website! Build a one page website for your business or personal brand.

Philip Westfall · Jan 12, 2023

Top 50 Google Font Pairings [Handpicked by Pro Designers]

Stunning Google Font pairings sorted by style: Classic, Elegant, Modern, Creative, and more. Each pairing comes with matching colors to inspire your design.

Philip Westfall · Jan 10, 2023

What is Web Design? The Ultimate Guide to Designing a Website

Web design is the process of planning, conceptualizing, and arranging content online. Today, designing a website goes beyond aesthetics to include the website’s overall functionality. Web design encompasses everything from the overall look and feel of the website, the user interface (UI), the user experience (UX), and the site's performance including loading time and SEO. Learn about visual elements such as written copy and color palettes, and functional elements such as navigation and animations.

Robin Gandy · Jan 4, 2023

How to Find the Best Keywords for your Website

Keywords are and important part of your website's search engine marketing and content marketing. Here's 3 simple steps for beginning to conduct keyword research.

Robin Gandy · Oct 18, 2022

Choosing a Color Scheme for your Website that doesn't suck

Establishing a color scheme for your website can go wrong, fast. Use these tips on colour pairing to create a beautiful website.

Lauren Olson · Feb 28, 2022

Composite Images: What Are They, and How Can You Make Your Own?

A full breakdown on composite images, including the classic types, how to shoot and edit your own, as well as how to apply them to your website.

Lauren Olson · Feb 28, 2022

Digital Marketing

How to Design a Website: Beginner's Guide

Get started designing your first website! This article has everything you need to know about website builders, design elements, and website optimization!

Robin Gandy · Aug 27, 2021

Product Updates

Starting an online store: 5 easy steps

Want to start selling your products online? Not sure how to get started with e-commerce? We've created a guide to getting set up with an e-commerce website.

Robin Gandy · Aug 10, 2021

Pagecloud got a lot more powerful in 2020

The most significant update from 2020 is the ability to build responsive Sections and content in Pagecloud using the same drag-and-drop ease you’ve come to expect. Create designs and content that resize and reflow across different screen sizes making mobile updates a breeze.

Mark Stephenson · Mar 2, 2021

How to build a professional website using Pagecloud

Step by step guide to designing a website using PageCloud! Let us guide you through the web design process from start to finish: everything from finding inspiration, to getting connected to a custom domain.

Robin Gandy · Dec 4, 2020

Product Updates

Get to know Pagecloud's Columns

PageCloud recently introduced Columns, which allow you to switch between freeform visual editing, and structured editing that align, arrange, and organize your content to act responsive. Get to know what you can achieve using Columns!

Robin Gandy · Nov 28, 2020

Speed, structure, and design flexibility: Meet the new Pagecloud

Get the structure and speed of responsive website building, and the flexibility of freeform and editing all on one platform. These features provide all the tools you need to create high performing, beautiful websites.

Robin Gandy · Nov 20, 2020

Top 10 Web Design Trends 2020

The most popular trends in web design: gradients 2.0, oversized visuals, dark designs, and more. Get inspired by 30+ designs showcasing this year's trends.

Alexandra Mercier · May 19, 2020

Web design inspiration: Top 5 sources used by pro designers

Our experts showcase the best sources for web design inspiration. These searchable databases filled with stunning designs are sure to spark your creativity.

Alexandra Mercier · Apr 22, 2020

Top 17 Free Stock Websites [For Images, Icons, and Mockups]

The best stock websites handpicked by professional designers. Each site comes with millions of beautiful images, powerful search, and unrestricted licenses.

Alexandra Mercier · Apr 13, 2020

Top 20 Small Business Websites & Templates [Made Without Code]

Get inspired by the most stunning small business websites and templates online today. We also discuss the tools you need to build your custom website without code.

Tanya Cull · Jun 27, 2019

Top 10 Web Design Trends 2019 [With 30+ Stunning Examples]

Explore the most popular website design trends from 2019. Fresh colors, layouts, animations, fonts, and more - Our expert designers handpicked some of the most stunning websites showcasing 2019 design trends.

Alexandra Mercier · Apr 5, 2019

12 Unique Artist Websites & Portfolios [Made Without Code]

We've handpicked the most stunning artist websites for your inspiration. We also discuss how the websites are built and how you can make your own, without code!

Philip Westfall · Feb 13, 2019

Top 20 Homepage Designs for 2019 + How To Build Your Own

Get inspired by the most stunning and high performing homepage designs. Loaded with actionable tips & tricks to help you build the perfect homepage.

Philip Westfall · Jan 8, 2019

11 Unique Nonprofit & Charity Website Designs [2018 Edition]

We've handpicked some of the most unique nonprofit websites to help inspire your next design. We discuss the pros and cons of each design while offering actionable tips to ensure your website performs at its best. Take a look.

Tanya Cull · Sep 19, 2018

11 Stunning Restaurant Websites & How To Make Your Own

We handpicked 11 of the most beautiful restaurant websites to inspire your next design. We share the key ingredients that help these attract more customers.

Philip Westfall · Aug 29, 2018

18+ Stunning App Landing Pages that Convert [How To Build Your Own]

We've handpicked the best app landing pages to inspire your next design. From big brands, to small startups, these landing pages are both visually stunning and high converting. We discuss what makes them great before walking you through a step-by-step process for building your own custom page.

Philip Westfall · Jul 12, 2018

Top 10 Church Website Designs [2018] + Most Popular Design Trends

Handpicked by our expert designers, these church websites are beautiful examples of how you don't have to be a megachurch to have a good looking site. With websites becoming more accessible, churches have started to build and manage their own sites, and the results are amazing!

Henry Brown · Jun 12, 2018

Written Content or Design, Which Comes First?

If you're letting design win out over your written content - or vice versa - you're doing it wrong. Design and written content are both critical online. (Updated May 29th, 2024)

Philip Westfall · May 22, 2018

How to Integrate Motion Into Your Website Design

Using motion graphics can enhance your website in many ways, from functionality to pure aesthetics. These are the best of many techniques to employ online.

Henry Brown · Sep 8, 2017

Why Graphics, Not Just Photos, Matter For Your Website

Graphics are versatile communications tools that you should be using to reach your audience and to help them better understand your business.

Henry Brown · Jul 6, 2017

Facing a Blank Canvas: Through the Eyes of an Artist

Artist Collin Chan shares the creative process behind his artwork and how he approaches a blank canvas.

Michaela Schreiter · Apr 14, 2016