Common questions about the builder
What people ask before building a site themselves.
Do I need to know how to code?
No. The work looks like this: you click a heading and type your own, drag blocks with the mouse, upload your own photos. Everything shows at once, exactly as a visitor will see the page.
All you need is text about your business and pictures. A business-card site or a page for an ad campaign usually goes together in an evening. A store takes longer, not because it is harder but because filling in product cards is the slow part.
Can I try it before paying?
Yes. The builder opens with no sign-up and no card: pick a template, change the text and see whether this way of working suits you. The AI assistant is switched off in the trial version; it works in the builder on the hosting.
What you build will not be lost: in the publish menu save a backup of the site, and after you order the hosting restore it in the builder from the panel. The same way is handy for saving a copy before a big rework of the site.
Do I need a domain?
To try the builder, no: the trial version opens straight away. For the site to work on the internet, yes: the domain is the address at which people and search engines find you. There is no temporary address to live at without a name of your own.
You will not have to buy it separately: with a hosting order of a year or more we give the first year of the domain on any plan. What the plan changes is not the right to the gift but the choice of zones: on the smallest plan it is .pl or .eu, on the larger ones there are more. You can check a name in advance, and if you already have a domain, leave it with your current registrar and simply point it at our hosting.
What happens to the site if I move to another provider?
The site stays with you. The finished work can be saved as a file to your computer and moved to another host. You do not lose the site if one day you change provider.
The domain is yours too, even if it came as a gift: the name is registered to you in the domain registry, and it can be transferred to another registrar.
Can I bring a site I already have into the builder?
Yes. Enter the address of the old site and the builder will try to carry over the pages, the text, the images and the design. You then edit the finished copy in the editor, like a new site.
How close it comes depends on the source site. A simple business-card site or a page from a free service can usually be reproduced almost in full; a complex site carries over only as far as it can be rebuilt in the builder. If the site has to be moved as it is, with its database and mail, that is a different job: we move up to three sites for free.
Is the builder good enough for an online store?
For a small store, yes: product cards with photos and a price, a choice of size or color, card payments and a letter to the buyer after the order. All of it is set up in the same place where the site is built.
The builder gets too small when there are thousands of products, the stock is kept in a separate program and has to exchange data with it. Then the store is built on a ready-made system (WordPress with WooCommerce or PrestaShop, say) and ordinary hosting is taken for it.
What else does the plan include besides the builder?
Everything a site needs to work: disk space, an SSL certificate (the padlock in the address bar and an https address), mailboxes on your own domain, nightly backups and an antivirus. Plus help from support in four languages.
What differs between the plans is size: the smallest one has one site, 5 GB of space and 10 mailboxes, the larger ones up to twenty sites and a hundred mailboxes. The builder and the number of templates are the same on all of them.
How is the builder different from WordPress?
The builder is for somebody who makes the site themselves and does not want to look after the technical side: there is nothing to update, no plugins to choose, and the design is hard to break. The price of that is limits: the site comes out the way the builder intends it.
WordPress gives more freedom and can grow: a blog, a large catalog, custom work, a contractor who adds something. In exchange the site has to be watched and updated. It is better to choose at the start: a site from the builder does not turn into a WordPress site by itself: there it is built again from scratch.