Basic Package Features

Personal Edition Features Basic Package with 40 MB storage


BuildToUpdate is a unique, all-inclusive Web publishing service that combines everything you need to build and host your site - elegant designs, best-of-class features, and high-performance hosting. With BuildToupdate you can instantly publish text, images, video and photo galleries, add Web forms, blogs and forums, create members-only areas and more!

 

Professional and elegant designs

With BuildToupdate you can get a professionally designed site without the need to hire a design studio. BuildToupdate features over 50 upscale designs specifically created to provide a consistent look and feel to any content you post on your site. You can instantly change the design of the your entire site with a single click without impacting its content, functionality or integrity.

Intuitive Text and Image Editor

Editing rich text in BuildToupdate is as easy as editing a word document. The editor offers intuitive formatting controls, easy linking, tables,ability to insert flash and other rich media. BuildToupdate's smart style system helps keep formatting consistent throughout all pages on the site. Even if you copy-paste external content, it is instantly formatted in your site's current style. 

Page and navigation management

BuildToupdate allows you to add an unlimited number of pages to your site and easily edit, add, remove, and rearrange navigation items.  As content contributors update the site, all pages automatically maintain a unified appearance and consistent navigation structure. You can assign select pages to members-only areas as well as set automatic notification to registered users when new updates are published on a page. 

Image galleries and photo prints

With BuildToupdate's Image Galleries you can share your photos online and order prints. You can upload multiple images directly from a zip file, with thumbnails and gallery navigation getting automatically prepared. A variety of gallery views are available, including a slide-show with transition effects. You can also restrict access to the original images and photo prints ordering interface to a group of select persons.

Forum and Blog

BuildToupdate allows you to set up a blog or discussion forum within your website in minutes. You can create a discussion forum where site visitors can interact among themselves and with you or set up a weblog journal for posting news and opinions. The Forum and Blog module allows you to define different access rights for registered and anonymous users, to set moderators, make postings over email, enable RSS feeds or get email digests of new comments.

Mailing List

With BuildToupdate you can allow visitors to subscribe to one or many mailing lists on your site for receiving newsletter updates. You can easily send out messages to hundreds of subscribers, manage the list of subscribers or view the history of sent emails.

Members - only areas
By using mailing list subscription and password protection you can create members-only areas where visitors are encouraged to share information in exchange for access to additional layers of the site content. Members to specific mailing lists may be allowed to navigate to deeper content layers and get access to resources with more valuable information.

File Areas

With BuildToupdate you can store files for download in neatly organized file areas. You can set password protection per file or limit access to files only for members of a mailing list on your site.

Web Forms

BuildToupdate's intuitive Forms Editor will let you create feedback, subscription, or other Web forms without any coding . You can use any of the popular controls - text fields, radio buttons, checkboxes, drop downs; set appropriate validation or default values, add hidden fields. Your Web form can send the submitted information as an email or post it as an entry in a forum or blog. You may also seamlessly integrate your forms with third-party online database applications.

HTML Snippet

With the HTML Snippet element you can easily Integrate a piece of HTML code within the content area of your site. This allows you to add PayPal buttons or a PayPal shopping cart, integrate a Google Search, Ad Sense or Analytics or interface with other 3rd party systems.

Hits Counter

The Hits Counter is the easiest way to track and display the number of visitors to your site or a to specific page on it. 

Site Statistics

BuildToupdate features an integrated comprehensive site statistics module. You can monitor your site traffic, page hits, and referrers per day and month.

Search engine optimization 

BuildToupdate Web sites are search engine optimized and feature search engine-friendly page URLs. You can also add meta tag information such as keywords, site title, and site description.

 

To learn more about the key benefits from building your site with BuildToupdate, please review BuildToupdate's advantages. For more information on why BuildToupdate is the preferred tool of choice for building business-oriented websites, please review the features and designs available with the Business Edition