Business Website Builder
How to create a blog or marketing website in 3 steps.
Create a domain and choose a template
You can create as many as you like with no extra charge. Clone our example universal website and choose the pages and widgets you need to get started fast!
Create menus and update content
Creating menus is easy with a native application. SEO friendly URLs are created when you update content. Edit the menu titles, choose what widgets to display on which page and preview the result on your local computer in seconds.
Build site and deploy to cloud
Setup you cloud target of your choice. Build with the static site generator for local preview or live to deploy to the cloud of your choice.
How It Works?
YouDoCMS is a native Mac and Windows application for building websites and alternative to the most popular website builders such as WordPress.com, Wix, Squarespace, Weebly and 1&1 ionos. YouDoCMS is an offline website builder with templates for layout however that is where the similarity ends.
All of the above solutions focus on the design, pretty images, drag and drop etc. but they never mention the content, yet every SEO expert will tell you content is king.
Our focus at YouDoCMS is to help you create a website that is easy to navigate, fast to load and simple to manage. YouDoCMS includes a variety of prebuilt websites which are easy to edit and publish.
Sites built with YouDoCMS load twice as fast as a hosted CMS. Analysis of CMS performance for the 2022 edition the Web Almanac show WordPress, Wix and Joomla barely achieving a 40% core web vitals score. Static sites developed with YouDoCMS can achieve 100% and on mobile speed matters.
See Example
1. Domains and Templates
YouDoCMS includes a database, TinyMCE HTML editor, static site generator and webserver plus bootstrap templates. Create a website in a single application.
Create a new site by cloning an example site or import from Joomla! or WordPress. Select a local folder to store your site assets and build the preview.
Our library of templates is updated frequently on GitHub. Three templates are included in the default installation to demonstrate the ease of use of our website builder. Our static site builder generates pages locally for preview and then builds for your hosted domain for a single click deployment to the cloud in seconds.
- Import data from Joomla! or WordPress.
- Multiple sites and templates.
- Site backup included.
- Free version includes deployment to GitHub Pages.
2. Manage Content
YouDoCMS supports categories, articles, tags, menus and widgets to build a no code
Edit your content directly in YouDoCMS including the insertion of images and URLs. Create menus, pages and posts. Manage categories and tags. Use modules and widgets and allocate to individual pages to personalise content and improve SEO.
Optimise your site with responsive images to improve the page load speed. News and media manager to create for responsive sizes for every viewport from mobile to large desktop..
- Same HTML editor as Joomla and WordPress.
- Media manager for responsive images.
- Schema.org and Google JSON LD.
- Source code editor.
3. Build and Deploy
YouDoCMS integrates with Azure, Cloudflare, AWS, GitHub and Google Firebase. Each of these cloud providers offer a generous free tier for hosting a static site.
Hosted solutions incur server running costs and a typical basic plan for a personal site is around £100 per year. YouDoCMS includes a server running on your local computer and the features of our free version are comparable to a hosted basic plan.
If you are going to invest time and money designing a website, why would you want to pollute the user experience with adverts over which you have no control? Our free plan does exactly what it says on the tin. It is free to use, free to deploy and does not include adverts.
YouDoCMS integrates with node.js for single click install of each cloud API. A single domain can use any supported cloud so you can test which platform is best for your project.
AWS, Cloudflare, Google, GitHub Pages and Azure all include a free plan to host a static website for free. Details of the free hosting plans with the 5 cloud platforms can be here.
- Free SSL certificates.
- Free hosting with AWS, Cloudflare, Google, GitHub Pages and Azure.
- Single click build and deploy to cloud.
- Custom Domain CNAME setup.
Frequently Asked Questions
Choosing a CMS can be confusing please read the guide to headless vs WordPress.
Static sites are suitable for the most common website types which is blogs corporate portfolio landing pages and directories. YouDoCMS static sites include search but if you require forms or e-commerce then a hosted solution is currently the best option.
YouDoCMS integrates with the Algolia search engine. Algolia has a free plan so site search can be incorporated into any static site.
Yes it is. All of the cloud hosting providers offer a free tier which is suitable for the majority of low traffic websites. See our guide to static site web hosting to compare the features and benefits of five major cloud platforms.
YouDoCMS is a desktop application which pre-renders your pages before uploading to the cloud. Therefore the static sites built with YouDoCMS are 100% secure and cannot be hacked.